IX KANDINSKY AWARD 2015 Automatic translate

In December 2015, the IX annual independent Russian Prize in the field of contemporary art - the Kandinsky Prize will be awarded.

A new record has been set in the current competition year: the number of applications for the Kandinsky Prize amounted to 502, among them 216 for the nomination “Project of the Year”, for the nomination “Young Artist. Project of the Year ”- 286 (in previous years their number did not exceed 400). Any Russian artist can become an applicant for the Kandinsky Prize. A distinctive feature of the Prize is the possibility of self-nomination.

This year, the Prize’s regulation has undergone several important changes.

From this year in the nomination “Scientific work. History and Theory of Contemporary Art ”can be attended not only by citizens of the Russian Federation, but also participants from other countries. Accepted work, both in Russian and in foreign languages. A prerequisite remains unchanged - the subject of research should be Russian contemporary art.

This innovation is due to the need to support the scientific process in the field of Russian contemporary art, to draw attention to it not only domestic but also the international academic environment.

The composition of the expert council and the jury in this nomination remained the same.

The changes affected the main composition of the jury and expert council in the nominations “Project of the Year” and “Young Artist”. According to the rules of the Periodic Rotation Award in the 2015 competition year, Zelfira Tregulova, general director of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Russian art critic, curator of museum exhibition projects, entered the jury.

The expert council included:

Andrei Erofeev - Russian art critic and curator of exhibitions,

Elena Selina - art critic, director and curator of XL Gallery,

Alisa Prudnikova - art critic, director of the Yekaterinburg branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art,

Anna Gor - Director of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation,

Naila Allahverdilova - head of the public art program of the PERMM museum, Russian art manager, curator, artist,

Irina Bobyleva - former executive director of the VINZAVOD Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art, Russian art manager, curator, artist,

Tatyana Sahokiya - ex-director of the Kandinsky Prize 2008-2014, Ph.D.

In 2015, an additional round appeared in the procedure of the 1st stage of voting. Now, the members of the expert council will vote in two stages: the first round - an anonymous yes / no, the second - with the names of the authors and a rating system from 0 to 10. Such a mechanism will allow for a more thorough selection of nominees for the long list. The appearance of an additional stage of voting will also reduce the possibility of missing important names and projects from the general list of contestants.

The exhibition of nominees for the Prize in its usual format will be replaced by a show of the works of the finalists, which will open a few days before the Award Ceremony.

The traditional paper catalog of the Prize will replace the electronic format of the catalog, which will include an expanded list of projects and nominees. It will be available on the Foundation website.

A collection of essays by the winner of last year - Mikhail Yampolsky, "Picturesque Gnosis" (dedicated to the work of the artist Grisha Bruskin), is being prepared for publication in August 2015.

This year the Kandinsky Prize will be awarded for the 9th time. The award was created in 2007 on the initiative of the president of the BREUS Foundation (formerly “Art Chronicle”) Shalva Breus. Her mission is to support Russian contemporary art and its promotion in Russia and abroad. In different years, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Alexey Belyaev-Gintovt, Vadim Zakharov, Alexander Brodsky, Yuri Albert, AES + F, Grisha Bruskin, Irina Nakhova and Pavel Pepperstein became laureates of the prize.

Also, in September this year, as part of the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale, projects of the previous Kandinsky Prize nominees will be presented in the special project “Reality and +” on the site of the Ural branch of the NCCA in Yekaterinburg.

The curator and exhibitor of the special project is Antonio Geusa.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The BREUS Foundation International Cultural Foundation (formerly the ArtHronika Cultural Foundation) is an art institution whose mission is to support and promote Russian contemporary art in Russia and abroad. The main projects of the fund are the Kandinsky Prize (created in 2007), the BREUS Publishing program (launched in 2013), which includes a series of fundamental monographs and an economical series of books in the popular science format about late Soviet and contemporary Russian artists. This program is scheduled for 10 years.

Kandinsky Prize is an independent Russian Prize in the field of contemporary art. One of the distinguishing features of the Prize is the possibility of self-nomination of nominees. Along with members of the jury and expert council, museums, galleries and other institutions, the artist himself can apply for participation in the Prize. Such an opportunity makes the application process as democratic as possible.

At all stages of the competition, artists are selected by an international jury and an expert council. They include the most authoritative representatives of different poles of the expert art community. The Board of Trustees does not vote.

The Kandinsky Prize is named after an outstanding Russian artist, one of the founders of abstract art, Vasily Kandinsky. She reveals new art trends, opens up new names and supports the projects of already famous artists. The Kandinsky Prize is conceived as a year-round process. Its stages are: three rounds of selection of nominees, an exhibition of works by finalists, an award ceremony.

Composition of the international jury and expert council of the 2014 Prize in the nominations "Project of the Year" and "Young Artist":

Jury members

1. Ekaterina Bobrinskaya
2. Marina Loshak
3. Olga Sviblova
4. Vasily Tsereteli
5. Maria Tsantsanoglou
6. David Thorpe
7. Boris Maner

Expert Council

1. Joseph Backstein
2. Antonio Geusa
3. Vladimir Levashov
4. Alexander Obukhov
5. Kirill Svetlyakov
6. Olesya Turkina
7. Alexander the Gospels
8. Natalya Tamruchi
9. Irina Kulik
10. Cyril Preobrazhensky
11. Anna Zaitseva

Composition of the jury and expert council of the 2014 Prize in the nomination “Scientific work. History and theory of contemporary art ":

Jury members

Ekaterina Andreeva
Ekaterina Bobrinskaya
Ekaterina Vyazova
Elena Petrovskaya
Andrey Tolstoy

Expert Council

1. Alexander Borovsky
2. Andrey Kovalev
3. Krasimira Lukicheva
4. Alexander Obukhov
5. Alla Rosenfeld
6. Kirill Svetlyakov
7. Olesya Turkina

The new members of the international jury and expert council can be found on the official website of the Prize: www.kandinsky-prize.ru