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The PinchukArtCentre presents the exhibition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, 20 shortlisted artists
Parallel exhibitions of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, the Main Prize Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012, and “Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology”
The PinchukArtCentre presents the group exhibition of the 20 artists shortlisted of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, the third edition of the first private nationwide contemporary art prize in Ukraine for young Ukrainian artists up to 35. All artists supported by the PinchukArtCentre, produced new works for the show, performing their most advanced artistic position.
The 20 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013 were shortlisted by an independent Selection Committee from about 1000 applicants, and include Yevgenia Belorusets, Anatoly Belov, Daniil Galkin, Oleg Gryshchenko, Andriy Hir, Dobrinya Ivanov, Zhanna Kadyrova, Olesia Khomenko, Alina Kopitsya, Mariia Kulykivska, Oleksandr Kurmaz, Roman Minin, Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridnyi, Ivan Svitlychnyi, Volodymyr Vorotniov, Anna Zvyagintseva, and groups: Melnychuk-Burlaka Group, Open Group, and Synchrodogs.
The exhibition is shown on the 3rd, 4th and partially on the 5th floor. With a special outside project by Oleksandr Kurmaz the PinchukArtCentre continues to bring contemporary art into the public space by exhibiting the works inside and around the historical Bessarabskiy market.
Eckhard Schneider, General Director of the PinchukArtCentre: “The best young artists in our country could apply for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013, but at the same time, because it is an open competition, new discoveries have always being made. A new generation of Ukrainian artists is rapidly establishing itself, developing its own artistic language at the borders between national identity and international challenges. The PinchukArtCentre has meanwhile become the important partner for this young generation. We have developed a complex framework to provide them with support.”
The winners of the Main and the two Special prizes will be determined by the International Jury who will come to Kyiv. The winners will be announced during the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2013 Award Ceremony that will take place in December 2013 in Kyiv.
The winners of the Main and two Special Prizes will receive cash awards of UAH 100,000 and UAH 25,000 respectively. Additionally, all of them will have one month residence in studios of internationally renowned artists. The winner of the Main Prize will also be automatically included in the short list of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014 – the first global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artists.
The winner of the Public Choice Prize shall be determined by the vote of the exhibition visitors. The voting will last from October 31 to December 1, 2013 at the PinchukArtCentre. The winner of the Public Choice Prize will be awarded UAH 10,000.
Parallelly, the PinchukArtCentre presents the first solo exhibition in Eastern Europe by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (UK), the Main Prize Winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 and the nominee for the Turner Prize 2013. The show entitled Verses includes eight new paintings specially produced for the PinchukArtCentre.
Yiadom-Boakye bases her painting practice on specific rules of duration and activity. She creates one canvas per day and if not completed by the end of the day, the painting is discarded. Therefore, there is no nocturnal rethinking, no pentimenti[y1] possible in her activity. Her works are organized around groups of paintings that generally portray imaginary black characters in abstract landscapes. From the dark atmosphere, striking usages of white paint become present like piercing flashes of light from a striped t-shirt or from the eyes of a character.
Her paintings do not emerge from a photographic imaginary but from the memory of figuration in the history of painting including realism with social consciousness and expressionism. Her works thus do not focus on the unique artwork but provide a viewing experience based on a different temporality, and on the recognition of recurring motifs, figures and moods. Her work thus hovers between a suspended duration, on the one hand, and an acute sense of the painterly act embedded in the present, on the other interpretation.
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye was awarded the Main Prize of the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 for her extraordinary paintings and her complex artistic practice, which extends far beyond painting. Her art works were presented as a part of “The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013” exhibition - an official Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre. In summer 2013 she has been nominated for the Turner Prize.
Additionally, exhibition Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology is still on show at the art centre. The group exhibition includes 17 artists offering a selective view on two central and sometimes opposed notions in our lives: emotion and technology as they constantly define our perceptions of the world.
The exhibition presents the works by Ukrainian and international artists including Sergiy Bratkov, Gregory Crewdson, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Carsten Höller, Martin Kobe, Jeff Koons, Oleg Kulik, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, Marc Quinn, Thomas Ruff, Jürgen Teller and Carsten Nicolai.
More detailed information can be found in the attached Press Releases.
Photos of art objects presented within exhibition will be soon available at http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/photo_and_video/photo
PinchukArtCentre is the largest and most dynamic private contemporary art centre in Central and Eastern Europe. It is dedicated to fostering artistic education, creation and appreciation in Ukraine. The PinchukArtCentre is a leading international centre for contemporary 21st-century art. It provides a sustainable contribution to the cultural participation and emancipation of Ukrainian art and society. It also gives a significant contribution to the cultural dialogue between East and West, and between national identity and international challenge. Recent events have included personal exhibitions by Jeff Wall, Gary Hume, Olafur Eliasson, Candice Breitz, Damian Ortega, Sergey Bratkov, Subodh Gupta, Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor, and others. The art centre has founded Prizes to support national and international young artists up to 35. The PinchukArtCentre represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale on several occasions.
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PinchukArtCentre
1/3-2, "А" Block,
Velyka Vasylkivska/Baseyna str.,
Kyiv, Ukraine 01004
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Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00,
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