The PinchukArtCentre announced the International Jury for the 3rd edition of the
Future Generation Art Prize. The members of the Jury in 2014 are:
Francesco Bonami Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy) |
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Doris Salcedo Artist (Colombia) |
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Bisi Silva independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria) |
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Philip Tinari Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China) |
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Jan Fabre Artist (Belgium) |
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Adam Szymczyk Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland) |
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Eckhard Schneider General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine) |
All members of the International Jury will come to Kyiv, Ukraine to select and announce the Main and Special Prize winners at the Award Ceremony in December, 2014.
Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “We are proud to celebrate meanwhile the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The fundamental success of this first global art prize is based on a democratic application procedure and on a distinguished board and jury.”
Each member of the Jury will appoint a member of the Selection Committee who will choose 20 shortlisted artists. The nominees for the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize will be announced in June 2014. They will receive an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine from October 25, 2014 till January 4, 2015.
Traditionally supporting young artists from Ukraine where the PinchukArtCentre is located, the winner of the national prize for young artists in 2013 Zhanna Kadyrova will also be included into the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.
The winner receives a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 towards the production of new work. An additional $20,000 is allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for up to five Special prize-winners.
Young artists up to 35 wherever they live and work can apply the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize till April 12, 2014 at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org
To encourage the artists from all over the world to apply, starting from 2014 the Future Generation Art Prize will accept applications in 10 different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.