Future Generation Art Prize 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.
Shortlist
Exhibited works
Archival inkjet prints and xeroxes. Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Salvaged school desks (wood and steel), music stands, gumboots, paint, porcelain dogs
Screen print on fabric Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Counter, paintings, office chairs, plants, vitrine, TVs, bill edition, jewelry, posters
Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, charcoal, commemorative fabric on paper. Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery
Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, charcoal, commemorative fabric on paper
Mirrors, curtain, lighting, live-stream on HD screen, camera-person, instructor, visitors.
Curtains, live-stream HD projection, camera-person, instructor, visitors Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Newspaper edition of 10000 16 pages, black and white. Produced by PinchukArtCentre
An irreducible singularity (speaking to the space you fill and you keep), Acrylic and oil on canvas
Acrylic, color pencils, charcoal, transfers on paper. Private Collection
Іnstallation, media variable
Digital animation and collage, 2-channel film, 60’ 00’’
Series of 0’ 30’’ videos. Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery
Interactive installation Handdrawn animation, looped projection, pressure sensors, arduino, Mac Mini, interactive code, voice recordings, 29’ 55’’
Exchanged shoemaker boxes, construction boards, old train parts, mix media
Exchanged shoemaker boxes, construction boards, old train parts, mix media
Salvaged school desks, dentures, gold-leaf-covered books, steel
Subwoofers, tallow candles, microphone stands, sound amplifiers, iPod, mono audio, сomposed by the artist
Subwoofers, tallow candles, microphone stands, sound amplifiers, iPod, mono audio, сomposed by the artist
, Four-channel HD video installation, black metal and wood screening board & table
Aluminium, gold leaf Courtesy of the Artist and Perrotin Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Brick, Chalk on Blackboard paint, dimensions variable
Acrylic, sheet rock, steel
Chalk drawing and wall-carving. Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Gouache, ink, gold foil, chine-colle on 140 deaccessioned book pages
Monoprints, photographs, xerox copies, archival inkjet prints, text
Soil, ceramics, herbs, crystals, coal, ash, sound. Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Jury
