Future Generation Art Prize 2021
The PinchukArtCentre presents an exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the 6th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. Running from September 25, 2021 to February 27, 2022, the show gives a remarkable view on the artistic vision from the next generation of artists. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists all over the world.
Featuring new works from all artists, the exhibition explores the world we live in today and how past experiences compel us to face a more inclusive future. Geopolitics is a recurring theme, with an emphasis on the global flows of labour, capital, and technology; the works reflect upon the unhealed scars of colonisation, ongoing conflicts, and the gradual exhaustion of natural resources. This close relationship to the natural world introduces a line of spiritualism within the exhibition that suggests the artist’s intangible or physical practice as a tool to care for each other’s communities. The interhuman relations become a crucial point for a whole number of projects, including the fragile intimacy and tension of queer identity.
The shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2021 includes: Alex Baczynski-Jenkins (UK), Wendimagegn Belete (Ethiopia), Minia Biabiany (Guadeloupe), Aziz Hazara (Afghanistan), Ho Rui An (Singapore), Agata Ingarden (Poland), Rindon Johnson (USA), Bronwyn Katz (South Africa), Lap-See Lam (Sweden), Mire Lee (South Korea), Paul Maheke (France), Lindsey Mendick (UK), Henrike Naumann (Germany), Pedro Neves Marques (Portugal), Frida Orupabo (Norway), Andres Pereira Paz (Bolivia), Teresa Solar (Spain), Trevor Yeung (China), and artist collectives Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff (USA), Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei (Ukraine), and Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings (UK).
Curator: Björn Geldhof, artistic director of the PinchukArtCentre. Assistant curators: Oleksandra Pogrebnyak and Daria Shevtsova.
Shortlist
Exhibited works
/xabi, 2021 Hoerikwaggo and river stones, iron ore, jasper, coal, rose quartz, mild steel, copper coated carbon steel, hemp twine, sound. Courtesy of the artist
Bow Echo, 2019 5-channel digital video, colour, sound, 4’17’’. Courtesy of the artist
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, 2021 Installation with 16 ceramic sculptures, playground, furniture, wallpapers, video 10’. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
Clattering, 2021 Xeroxed sci-fi novel, stained glass panels, animation, shellrock benches. Novel is written by Rindon Johnson in collaboration with Diana Hamilton. The animation for the video game is created by Pariah Interactive. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
House of Harlequins, 2021 Used formworks, concrete, peristaltic pumps, children’s stockings, glycerin, plaster. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
How It’s Made, 2021 Video 33’. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
Middle Ages, 2021 Super 16mm transferred to video, sound, 21’37’’. Commissioned by Galleria Umberto di Marino
Phantom Banquet, 2019-2021 Lacquered 3D-printed PLA, metal reinforcement, polyester
Rescue Dummies, 2021 Found windows from an office building, videos of various lengths, sound, wooden sculptures, bronze sculptures, californian blinds costumes, clothes, fabrics, shoes, harnesses, lights. Commissioned by Lafayette Anticipations, Berthold Pott Gallery, Cite International des Arts, and PinchukArtCentre
Taypi, 2020 Installation with 15 soft pastel drawings on handmade paper, wind harp recordings Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
The length of my gaze at night, 2021 Drawing in soil, sculptures in wood, structure in burnt wood, thread, video. Co-commissioned by PinchukArtCentre
Two Women, 2021 Installation with 12 collages. Digital prints on primed anodized aluminium, stainless steel, velour foil. Commissioned by Galerie Nordenhake Berlin/Stockholm/Mexico City and PinchukArtCentre
When the bodies dissolved into the ether, orbs sang notes of the heavens, 2021 2-channel video loop projected on two screens made of HoloGauze
Your Gaze Makes Me, 2021 Digital print, objects. Commissioned by PinchukArtCentre. Courtesy of the artist
