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09 December 2011
Mykyta Kadan becomes the winner of the Main Prize of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011
Zhanna Kadyrova and Serhiy Radkevych are awarded Special Prizes PinchukArtCentre 2011, and Public Choice Prize goes to Mykyta Shalennyi
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2009
The prize set by the PinchukArtCentre is to be awarded to the best Ukrainian artists under 35 of every odd year starting from 2009.
The submission of the applications for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2009 started on November 10th 2008. It lasted online till January 15th 2009.
The primary selection was performed by the Expert Committee consisting of art centre curators and contemporary art experts: Eckhard Schneider (General Manager of the PinchukArtCentre), Peter Doroshenko (Art Director of the PinchukArtCentre) and Alexander Solovyov (Curator of the PinchukArtCentre)
On February 25th 2009 the Expert Committee members announced the names of the 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2009.
The exhibition of the 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize opened on October 31st 2009 and lasted until December 20th 2009. The exhibition included the works by young artists, who represented the sortlist:
- Myroslav Vayda
- Artem Volokitin
- Andrii Galashyn
- Hamlet Zinkovskyi
- Mykyta Kadan
- Zhanna Kadyrova
- Mayya Kolesnik
- Volodymyr Kuznetsov
- Lada Nakonechna
- Oksana Protsenko
- Oleksii Saj
- Oleksii Salmanov
- Olesia Khomenko
- Oleksii Khoroshko
- Ivan Chubukov
- Masha Shubina
- BLUEMOLOKO, Hat, SOSka and SYN groups.
Members of the international jury including Francesco Bonami (Italy), Udo Kittelmann (Germany), Jessica Morgan (UK), as well as Ukrainian artists Serhiy Bratkov and Boris Mikhailov, had to decide on the winners of the Main Prize and two special Prizes choosing from twenty contenders.
The Main Prize of UAH 100 000 was awarded to Artem Volokitin from Kharkiv for his works from the Teenagers and Hero series. The Patron of the Prize, British artist Damien Hirst, has presented the top award to the winner.
Two Special Prizes of UAH 25 000 each were awarded to Oleksiy Salmanov and Masha Shubina.
In addition to the cash prizes, the winners of the Main and two Special prizes had an opportunity to enter one month apprenticeship at studios of internationally renowned artists: Andreas Serrano in New York, Olafur Eliasson in Berlin and Antony Gormley in London.
The People’s Choice Prize of UAH 10 000 was awarded to the group BLUEMOLOKO for their Ukrline and Islands works. The group was chosen as a result of voting by the PinchukArtCentre visitors held during the exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists from 29 October to 29 November 2009. Volodymyr Klichko was invited as a special guest of the ceremony to award this prize.
