On 18 January the PinchukArtCentre announced the names of the art professionals who will form an international jury for the Prize. The jurors are:
- Daniel Birnbaum (Sweden) – Director of the Städelschule Art Academy, Frankfurt am Main; Director of the Venice Biennale 2009
- Okwui Enwezor (Nigeria) – Director of Documenta XI; Former Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute
- Yuko Hasegawa (Japan) – Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT); former Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
- Ivo Mesquita (Brazil) – Chief Curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Curator of the 2008 São Paolo Biennial
- Eckhard Schneider (Germany) – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre
- Robert Storr (USA) – Dean of the Yale University School of Art; Director of the Venice Biennale 2007
- Ai Weiwei (China) – artist
The international jury will gather in Kiev and announce the Prize winner in December 2010.
Young artists throughout the world are invited to compete for the $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize. Applications can be uploaded for free on the competition’s globally accessible website: www.futuregenerationartprize.org from January 18 through April 18, 2010.
