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Exhibition of 21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017

Exhibition of 21 Artists Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017

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February 25, 2017 - April 16, 2017

On February 25, 2017 the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) will present exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, the first global art prize for artists up to 35, founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The show focuses on the presentation of newly produced works giving a remarkable view on the most actual artistic positions of a next generation of artists.

The exhibition engages with the complexities of the contemporary world and investigates the possibilities of art within it. Balancing between personal and collective, imaginary and real, familiar and uncanny, the show invites the visitors to set off the captivating journey through wide range of ideas that absorb the artists today.

The show will encompass the diverse works developed in a variety of media and formats, such as site-specific interventions, sculptures, interactive installations, performative gestures, videos, text- and sound-based projects.

20 shortlisted artists have been selected from more than 4400 coming from 138 countries, divided over all continents. The shortlisted artists were chosen by an international Selection Committee. The Open Group from Ukraine were automatically nominated to the shortlist as winners of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2015, a national contemporary art prize awarded to young Ukrainian artists up to the age of 35.

The shortlist of theFuture Generation Art Prize 2017includes: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 33 (Nigeria/ United States), Iván Argote, 32 (Colombia/ France), Firelei Báez, 35 (Dominican Republic/ United States), Dineo Seshee Bopape, 35 (South Africa), Phoebe Boswell, 34 (Kenya/ United Kingdom), Vivian Caccuri, 30 (Brazil), Sol Calero, 34 (Venezuela/ Germany), Asli Çavuşoğlu, 34 (Turkey), Vajiko Chachkhiani, 31 (Georgia/ Germany), Carla Chaim, 33 (Brazil), Christian Falsnaes, 35 (Denmark/ Germany), EJ Hill, 31 (United States), Andy Holden, 34 (United Kingdom), Li Ran, 30 (China), Ibrahim Mahama, 29 (Ghana), Rebecca Moss, 25 (United Kingdom), Sasha Pirogova, 29 (Russia), Kameelah Janan Rasheed, 31 (United States), Martine Syms, 28 (United States), Kemang Wa Lehulere, 32 (South Africa), Open Group (Ukraine).

The exhibition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 is curated by Anna Smolak.

EJ Hill (United States)

EJ Hill (United States) An Arrangement of Perpetuities, 2017. Wood, ice, soil, plants, inflatable vinyl pools, LEDs

Andy Holden (United Kingdom)

Andy Holden (United Kingdom) Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape, 2011-2016. Digital animation and collage, 2-channel film, 60’ 00’’

Asli Çavuşoğlu (Turkey)

Asli Çavuşoğlu (Turkey) Future Tense, 2017. Newspaper edition of 10000 16 pages, black and white

Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana)

Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana) Non Orientable Nkansa II. 1901-2030, 2016. Exchanged shoemaker boxes, construction boards, old train parts, mix media

Kemang Wa Lehulere (South Africa)

Kemang Wa Lehulere (South Africa) Time Remembers Another Time, 2017. Chalk drawing and wall-carving. Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre

Vivian Caccuri (Brazil)

Vivian Caccuri (Brazil) Oratorio (Tidal Wave), 2017. Subwoofers, tallow candles, microphone stands, sound amplifiers, iPod, mono audio, сomposed by the artist

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigeria). Harmattan Haze, 2014. Acrylic, color pencils, charcoal, transfers on paper. Private Collection

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (Nigeria). Cassava Garden, 2015. Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, charcoal, commemorative fabric on paper. Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery

Li Ran (China)

Li Ran (China) Retransformation of the Supporting Roles, 2017. 2-channel synchronization video, 12’ 00’’

Phoebe Boswell (Kenya)

Phoebe Boswell (Kenya). Mutumia, 2016. Interactive installation Handdrawn animation, looped projection, pressure sensors, arduino, Mac Mini, interactive code, voice recordings, 29’ 55’’

Sasha Pirogova (Russia)

Sasha Pirogova (Russia). MONO, 2016 Video installation, 2 channels, 15’ 32’’

Carla Chaim (Brazil)

Carla Chaim (Brazil) Rectangle Piece, 2017. Archival inkjet print Produced by PinchukArtCentre

Iván Argote (Colombia)

Iván Argote (Colombia). Ideologically Yours: on What We Feel, How We Feel It, and… the World, 2014-2017. Іnstallation, media variable

Workshop for children with artist Ivan Argote

Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic)

Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) Trust Memory Over History (Seeking counsel with the Rada Loa), 2017 Gouache, ink, gold foil, chine-colle on 140 deaccessioned book pages

Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) The Last One Who Remembers it (or the lucky meeting of a carpathian time traveler in Cap-Haїtien), 2017 Acrylic, sheet rock, steel