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Names of 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize have been announced

On 25 February 2009 the names of the 20 shortlisted nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists, have been announced. The shortlist has been formed according to the results of the primary selection conducted by the Expert Committee.

The PinchukArtCentre Prize short list includes: 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.

The exhibition of the works by the shortlisted young artists is to be opened in the PinchukArtCentre in October 2009. The curators of the show will be Peter Doroshenko and Aleksandr Soloviov. The International Jury will nominate the Prize winners in the course of the exhibition.

Eckhard Schneider, General Manager of the PinchukArtCentre: "The result of the application process is overwhelming. The positive feed-back of the national art scene together with quality of the works show the great success of this vision. More than 1100 applications from all regions of Ukraine and some other countries — is a treasure for future. This is why we have shortlisted 20 artists instead of 12 for the dedicated PinchukArtCentre Prize exhibition. Considering the importance of the project and its scale, we have decided to offer more space for each artist and their works and in total for the whole show, and also we have changed the schedule so that the artists have more time to develop new works for the show."

The innovative form of the application process via Internet is an important progress for all our upcoming activities on the national art scene. Another positive and essential outcome is a newly formed database to communicate, inform and collaborate with artists, institutions, curators and mass media nationally and internationally.