About the prize

Mission

PinchukArtCentre Prize is the first private nationwide art prize in Ukraine, which objective is to produce, support and develop a new generation of young Ukrainian artists working in contemporary art.

The prize set by the PinchukArtCentre is to be awarded to the best Ukrainian artists under 35 of every odd year starting from 2009.

Setting the prize we will enhance interest and understanding of the contemporary art by various social strata, primarily, future art generations. We seek to generate critical mass of the young artists, which will make modernization of Ukrainian art irreversible. We pursue opening of the new names in contemporary art both for Ukraine and for the whole world making contemporary art a domain where a young talent may obtain unique opportunities for self-improvement, development and recognition.

We want Kyiv to evolve into one of the largest cultural centres of the modern world where the best contemporary art works are not only exhibited but produced.

Award

The PinchukArtCentre Prize encompasses Main Prize, two Special Prizes and People's Choice Prize:

• Main Prize of the PinchukArtCentre is UAH 100 thousand and internship in the workshops of the leading artists of the world
• two Special Prizes of PinchukArtCentre are UAH 25 thousand each and internship in the workshops of the leading artists of the world
• People's Choice Prize is UAH 10 thousand.

Main Prize and Special Prize winners are selected by the International Jury.

People's Choice Prize winner is selected by voting of the visitors of the Prize exhibition project.

The Main Prize winner can not apply for the next competitions.

Expert Committee

Expert Committee carries out the pre-selection of works to compose short-list of 20 nominees. Depending on the number and professional level of the submitted works of art, the Expert Committee is entitled to either increase or decrease the number of the shortlisted nominees.

The Committee consists of Contemporary Art Centre PinchukArtCentre staff members and engaged experts.

The Commission may dismiss the applicant unless its application meet the competition requirements.

Members of PinchukArtCentre Prize Expert Committee in the competition year 2008-2009:

Eckhard Schneider - General Manager of PinchukArtCentre
Peter Doroshenko - Art Director of PinchukArtCentre
Alexander Solovyov - Curator of PinchukArtCentre

International Jury

International Jury of the PinchukArtCentre Prize is formed of the contemporary art world experts, including artists, museum directors, curators and critics. The international jury shall be announced at the opening of the exhibition of short-listed nominees' works. The jury will select Main Prize and Special Prize winners from 20 short-listed nominees.

PinchukArtCentre Prize Jurors

Francesco Bonami

Artistic director of the Fondazione Sandretto ReRebaudengo per l'Arte in Turin, Fondazione Pitti Discovery in Florence and the Centro di Arte Contemporanea Villa Manin. Up until 2008, Francesco Bonami was the Manilow Senior Curator at large at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He was the director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia of Visual Arts in 2003. He is a regular contributor to the Italian daily Il Riformista, La Gazzetta dello Sport and Vanity Fair Italia.

Serhiy Bratkov

Artist living and working in Moscow. Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1960. From 1969 through 1978 he attended the Repin Art College in Kharkiv. Bratkov's work is heavily influenced by his Kharkiv origin. In Kharkiv, a large industrial town, misery and poverty are omnipresent. In this setting, social realism is essential and the portrait, in its transcendent and stereotypical form, of special value. Whether portraying party members, workers, peasants, space travelers, scholars, or soldiers, every individual is presented as a hero.
In 2002 he took part in the 25th San Paolo Biennale, São Paolo. In 2007, he was represented in the Ukrainian pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale. His solo exhibitions include Faust and Margherita, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, 2003; S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2005; Part of my Life, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2006; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2007; Glory Days, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, 2008 and Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain, 2009.

Udo Kiddlemann

Museum director living in Berlin. Up until 2008, Kittlemann was the director of Frankfurt's Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK). As the director of Berlin's Nationalgalerie, Kittelmann's is in charge of the museum's three houses: the Alte Nationalgalerie (for nineteenth-century art), the Neue Nationalgalerie (for twentieth-century art), and the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum (for contemporary art).

Boris Michailov

Artist living and working in Berlin and Kharkiv. Born in Kharkiv in 1938. His photography covers issues concerning the social disintegration of the former Soviet Union.
Michailov's work has been exhibited at various international museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Camden Art Centre in London.

Jessica Morgan

Curator and writer based in London, where she is currently Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Modern. She has organized group exhibitions such as "Common Wealth" (2003) and "Time Zones" as well as a retrospective of the late, acclaimed German artist Martin Kippenberger (2006). In addition, she recently curated Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster's large scale science fiction inspired installation and Carsten Höller's much talked about Test Site commission for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, and organized the first UK retrospective of the work of John Baldessari. Morgan has published and lectured extensively on contemporary art. Her writing has appeared in numerous exhibition and museum catalogues as well as in art journals such as Parkett, Artforum, Art Review and The Art Newspaper.