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PinchukArtCentre has announced the names of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 International Jury members

The PinchukArtCentre has announced the names of the International Jury members who will decide on the winners of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 - the first privately funded nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists. The Jury member will come to Kyiv and select laureates of the Main and Special Prizes among 20 nominees showcased in the art centre from October 29, 2011 to January 8, 2012.   

Members of the International Jury include the world leading contemporary artists, curators and gallerists, such as:

• Kate Bush, Head of Art Galleries Barbican (United Kingdom);
• Marc Olivier Wahler, director Palais de Tokyo (France);
• Ekaterina Degot, professor at Moscow Alexander Rodchenko school of photography and new media (Russia);
• Pavel Makov, artist (Ukraine);
• Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director Serpentine Gallery (United Kingdom);
• Eckhard Schneider, General Director PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine);
• Olafur Eliasson, artist, participant of the 50^th Venice Biennale in 2003 and founder of Institut für Raumexperimente (Denmark).

Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “Following our success with the Future Generation Art Prize, we have increased the number of the PinchukArtCentre Prize International Jury members from 5 to 7 persons. This will definitely turn selection process into a more fascinating, impartial and, at the same time, unpredictable act, since we have managed to achieve a balanced representation of the leading artists, gallerists, art critics and museum directors of national and international level.”

Bjorn Geldhof, artistic manager of the PinchukArtCentre, curator of the exhibition: “The body of our International Jury is unique, having Hans Ulrich Obrist, Marc Olivier Wahler and Kate Bush who are top influential curators and directors working worldwide and representing leading international institutions. Ekaterina Degot from Russia is one of the best experts in young Ukrainian art, curating an exhibition of young Ukrainian artists in the PERMM museum this year. With Olafur Eliasson and Pavel Makov we are proud to involve strong critical position on one hand and an international and national point of view on the other hand.”   

The members of the International Jury will arrive to Kyiv to decide upon the winners of the Main and Special Prizes. The winners of the Main and two Special Prizes, besides cash awards of UAH 100 000 and UAH 25 000 respectively, will have one month residence in studios of internationally renowned artists. Additionally, the winner of the Main Prize will be automatically included in the short list of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 - international prize for young artists.

The winner of the Public Choice Prize shall be determined by the vote of the Prize exhibition visitors taking place from October 27 to December 4, 2011 at the PinchukArtCentre. The winner in the "Public Choice Prize” nomination will be awarded UAH 10 000.

The names of all PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 laureates shall be announced at the Award Ceremony on December 9, 2011, in Kyiv. Live internet broadcast of the Ceremony will be available on the PinchukArtCentre website www.pinchukartcentre.org

Voting procedure for the Public Choice Prize nomination:

One may get a voting form at the PinchukArtCentre reception. The filled in form should be put into the box installed next to the reception on the 2^nd floor or on the 4^th floor in the hall, next to the elevator. Only one vote per person and for one candidate is permitted.

Samsung Smart TV – Technical Partner of the exhibition of the 20 artists shortlisted for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011.

The short list of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 includes:

Daniil Galkin (26, Dnipropetrovsk),
Andriy Halashyn (31, Ternopil),
Dobrynia Ivanov (23, Kyiv),
Mykyta Kadan (28, Kyiv),
Zhanna Kadyrova (30, Kyiv),
Taras Kamennoy (26, village of Vysoky, Kharkiv Region),
Olesia Khomenko (30, Kyiv),
Alina Kleytman (20, Kharkiv),
Volodymyr Kuznetsov (35, Kyiv),
Lada Nakonechna (30, Kyiv),
Serhiy Petlyuk (30, Lviv),
Serhiy Radkevych (23, Lutsk),
Mykola Ridnyi (26, Kharkiv),
Stepan Riabchenko (24, Odesa),
Mykyta Shalennyi (29, Dnipropetrovsk),
Masha Shubina (31, Kyiv),
Natasha Shulte (36, Odesa),
Ivan Svitlychnyi (22, Kharkiv),
Hamlet Zinkovskyi (25, Kharkiv),
Salmanov-Kornienko group (Oleksiy Salmanov, 35, Kyiv; Dmytro Kornienko, 28, Kyiv).