The Victor Pinchuk Foundation today announced that it has inaugurated the Future Generation Art Prize, a major new international competition for artists up to 35. Established to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work, this unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.
futuregenerationartprize.org
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.
www.prize.pinchukartcentre.org/
The focus of the exhibition – installations at the Palazzo Papadopoli and the large billboard at Academic Bridge – is based on a fictional story created by artists Illya Chichkan and Mihara Yasuhiro and influenced by the surreal cinema work of Kira Muratova. In their story, Nicolo Papadopoli – the mid-19th Century owner of the palazzo - travels to Ukraine, Mongolia and China, finally reaching the Sea of Japan, retracing Marco Polo's journey. The exhibition is in essence a film set, containing all of the components of a film – script, props, lights and music. But, there will be no film.
ukrainianpavilion2009.org
Project including artists from Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States demonstrates the artists' cohesive vision and their commitment to exploring new and active roles for the artists in society. The exhibition plans on raising questions such as the important Ukrainian film director Alexander Dovzhenko did in the script for "Poem about an Inland Sea" and throughout his career - what is it to be Ukrainian? Who are the Ukrainian people? Where are the Ukrainian people?
www.ukrainianpavilion2007.org
