PinchukArtCentre Announced the International Jury for the 3rd Edition of the Future Generation Art PrizeSource: . Author: April 2nd, 2014

The PinchukArtCentre announced the International Jury for the 3^rd edition of the
Future Generation Art Prize. The members of the Jury in 2014 are:

• Francesco Bonami – curator, Director of the 50^th Biennale di Venezia (Italy);
• Jan Fabre – Artist (Belgium);
• Doris Salcedo – Artist (Colombia);
• Eckhard Schneider – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine);
• Bisi Silva – independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria);
• Adam Szymczyk – Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland);
• Philip Tinari – Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China).

All members of the International Jury will come to Kyiv, Ukraine to select and announce the Main and Special Prize winners at the Award Ceremony in December, 2014.

Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “We are proud to celebrate meanwhile the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The fundamental success of this first global art prize is based on a democratic application procedure and on a distinguished board and jury.”

Each member of the Jury will appoint a member of the Selection Committee who will choose 20 shortlisted artists. The nominees for the 3^rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize will be announced in June 2014. They will receive an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine from October 25, 2014 till January 4, 2015.

Traditionally supporting young artists from Ukraine where the PinchukArtCentre is located, the winner of the national prize for young artists in 2013 Zhanna Kadyrova will also be included into the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.

The winner receives a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 towards the production of new work. An additional $20,000 is allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for up to five Special prize-winners.

Young artists up to 35 wherever they live and work can apply the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize till April 12, 2014 at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org

To encourage the artists from all over the world to apply, starting from 2014 the Future Generation Art Prize will accept applications in 10 different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

Launched by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Prize is open to all artists up to the age of 35 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists from all over the world. The Prize is unique because of its global reach and highly democratic form of application via the Internet.

From its launch the Future Generation Art Prize and its idea to develop a network of young artists worldwide has been supported by its Patron Artists including
Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andreas Gursky and Takashi Murakami. Besides providing advice and support for the winning artist, Patron Artists also present a solo show in the PinchukArtCentre parallel to the exhibition of shortlisted artists for the Prize. In 2010 and 2012 there were solo shows by Takashi Murakami and Damien Hirst.

A distinguished international Board oversees the Future Generation Art Prize.  In addition to chairman Victor Pinchuk and the four Patron Artists, the Board’s membership includes Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), and Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou).

Starting from the first edition the Future Generation Art Prize attracted more than 10 000 applicants from more than 134 countries from all five continents.

Winners of the 1st and 2nd editions of the Future Generation Art Prize:

Main Prize winners:

2010: Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil),

2012: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, UK.

Special Prizes winners:

2010: Nicolae Mircea (Romania),

2012: Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil), Micol Assael (Italy), Ahmet Ögüt (Turkey),
Rayyane Tabet (Lebanon), and Marwa Arsanios (Lebanon).

Public Choice Prize winners:

2010: Nicolae Mircea (Romania),

2012: Meiro Koizumi (Japan).

Timeline of the Prize 2014

Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from January 13 through April 12, 2014.

Selection Committee chosen by the jury will review all applications and decide on a shortlist of as many as twenty artists, whose names will be announced in June, 2014. These artists will participate in the Prize exhibition by showing the existing works they highlighted in their applications and may also create new works specifically for the PinchukArtCentre. The winner of the national PinchukArtCentre Prize also will participate, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.

The exhibition of the shortlisted artists will be on view from October 25, 2014 to January 4, 2015. The international jury will gather in Kiev in December 2014 to view and discuss the artists’ works. The jury will select one main Prize winner, who will receive a total of $100,000 ($60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 toward the production of new work).  An additional $20,000 will be allocated to fund artist-in-residency program to the special prize winners.

Almost 60 Partner Platforms representing more than 38 countries will support the application process and the Prize in 2014. It shows how successfully the Prize has extended its global network and range to involve artists from different regions around the world, especially reaching growing regions such as South America, Australia, Africa and Oceania.

Partner Platforms in 2014: www.futuregenerationartprize.org/en/partner-platforms