Today Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Victor Pinchuk launch Future Generation Art Prize 2012

On Monday, February 6, 2012, at 3:45 pm (GMT), the Victor Pinchuk Foundation will conduct a live streamed press conference to launch the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. The press-conference, bringing together three continents, will be live streamed at theFuture Generation Art Prize official website www.futuregenerationartprize.org and the website of one of the leading British art media www.theartnewspaper.com

The press conference will feature Victor Pinchuk, Chairman of the Board of the Future Generation Art Prize; Eckhard Schneider, General Director, PinchukArtCentre; Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate; Damien Hirst, Mentor Artist, Future Generation Art Prize; Jeff Koons, Mentor Artist, Future Generation Art Prize; Cinthia Marcelle, Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2010.

Moderator of the discussion is Anna Somers Cocks, Founding Editor of The Art Newspaper.

London, UK at 3:45 pm
Kyiv, 

Ukraine at 5:45 pm

New York (US) at 10:45 am 

Sao Paulo (Brazil) at 1:45 pm

Los Angeles (US) 7:45 am 

Beijing (China) 11:45 pm

Tokyo (Japan) 12:45 am

Sydney (Australia) 2:45 am

Future Generation Art Prize - is a major new international competition for artists up to 35. Established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in December 2009 this unique biannual artist-focused prize aims to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work as well as to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists. It is an important contribution to the participation of younger artists in the dynamic cultural development of societies in global transition.