Future Generation Art Prize announced the Selection Committee, who will nominate a final shortlist in 2014

The PinchukArtCentre announced the Selection Committee of the 3^rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize that will choose 20 shortlisted artists in 2014. The members of the Selection Committee have been appointed by the Jury of the Prize, internationally renowned professionals in contemporary art.

The members of the Selection Committee in 2014 are:

• Raphael Chikukwa – Chief curator of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe) Proposed by Bisi Silva;

• Sun Dongdong – independent curator (China) Proposed by Philip Tinari;

• Björn Geldhof – Deputy Artistic Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine) Proposed by Eckhard Schneider;

• Simon Castets – Director of Swiss Institute (USA) Proposed by Fransesco Bonami;

• Giacinto di Pietrantonio – Director of the GAMeC (Italy) Proposed by Jan Fabre;

• Taiyana Pimentel Paradoa – Director of Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros-La Tallera (Mexico) Proposed by Doris Salcedo;  

• David Riff – independent artist, writer and curator (Germany) Proposed by Adam Szymczyk. 

The Selection Committee will gather in Kyiv in the middle of June 2014 to select 20 nominees for the 3^rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The shortlisted artists 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 International Jury will come to Kyiv, Ukraine, to select and announce the Main and Special Prize winners at the Award Ceremony in December, 2014.

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 for the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize till April 30, 2014 at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org