PinchukArtCentre Announced International Jury for the Future Generation Art Prize

On 18 January the PinchukArtCentre announced the names of the art professionals who will form an international jury for the Prize. The jurors are:

• Daniel Birnbaum (Sweden) – Director of the Städelschule Art Academy, Frankfurt am Main; Director of the Venice Biennale 2009
• Okwui Enwezor (Nigeria) – Director of Documenta XI; Former Dean of Academic Affairs and Senior Vice President at San Francisco Art Institute
• Yuko Hasegawa (Japan) – Chief Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT); former Chief Curator of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
• Ivo Mesquita (Brazil) – Chief Curator at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Curator of the 2008 São Paolo Biennial
• Eckhard Schneider (Germany) – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre
• Robert Storr (USA) – Dean of the Yale University School of Art; Director of the Venice Biennale 2007
• Ai Weiwei (China) – artist

The international jury will gather in Kiev and announce the Prize winner in December 2010.

Young artists throughout the world are invited to compete for the $100,000 Future Generation Art Prize. Applications can be uploaded for free on the competition’s globally accessible website: www.futuregenerationartprize.org from January 18 through April 18, 2010.