History of the prize

An exhibition of 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize. The exhibition was on display from 31 October to 20 December 2009.

The 20 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists up to 35 years old, had been shortlisted by an Expert Committee from 1100 applicants.

The exhibition was held on the 3rd and 4th floors of the art centre and presented both the shortlisted works of art and the new works created by each artist especially for the exhibition. Olexander Soloviov curated the show.

The exhibition featured works by young artists including: 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 and also BLUEMOLOKO, Hat, SOSka and SYN groups.

Shortlist

Age

City Lviv/Costa Rica

Main Prize

Age

City Kharkiv

Public choice prize winner

Age

City

Age

City Kharkiv

Hat

Age

City

Age

City Kyiv/Germany

Age

City Kyiv

Speacial Prize

Age

City Kyiv

Age

City Odesa

Age

City Kyiv

Age

City Lviv

Age

City Lviv

Age

City Київ

Age

City Kyiv

Speacial Prize

Age

City Kyiv

Age

City Kyiv

Age

City

SYN

Age

City

Age

City Kyiv

Age

City Kyiv

Exhibited works

Main prize
"Katya" and "Maksim". From the series Teenagers

#3 From the Series Scene of Action

Berlin. From the series War Fashion

Dear Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Can We Ever Give Up the Sweet?

Special Prize
Eclipse – China

Enlightenment

Five Years of Winter

Fracture

From the Series Mushrooms

Main prize
Hero. From the Series Hero

I Have a Dream / I Do not Know

Special Prize
I am a visual explanation of sound

Life

Special Prize
Lights Out

Liquid Sky

Macys & Shooting red balloons. From the series War Fashion

Our Family Portrait

Photosynthesis

Pyramid, from the Series Wonderland

Ready to the picture. From the series War Fashion

Sphere of segmentation. Excel-art

Strings of the memory

Theory of Everything

Three viewpoints towards a common field and three opportunities to acquire it

Public choice prize winner
UKRLINE

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled. From the Series Gigants

Vinyl – Art

Zebra – Paris

Special Prize
Моя релігія. Фрагмент

Jury

Francesco Bonami

Art Director, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Italy)

Serhiy Bratkov

Photographer (Ukraine/Russia)

Udo Kittelmann

Director of Neue Nationalgalerie (Germany)

Boris Mykhailov

Photographer (Ukraine/Germany)

Jessica Morgan

Curator at Tate Modern (UK)

Selection Committee

Eckhard Schneider

General Manager of the PinchukArtCentre

Peter Doroshenko

Art Director of the PinchukArtCentre

Alexander Solovyov

Curator of the PinchukArtCentre