Kandinsky Prize 2009

[Евгений]

November 2 at 18:30 in the Central House of Artists (CHA) on the Crimean Val opens exhibition of works by Kandinsky Prize Nominees for the 2009 competition year.
Kandinsky Prize exhibition presents the nominees for the third time (since 2007). Over the last qualifying period in the organizational structure of the awards have been two changes: expanded from 6 to 7 people, the international jury and was established by the advisory council of 6 people.

Because the jury came Friedhelm Hütten, director of Deutsche Bank Art, new members of the jury began Alla Rosenfeld, curator, art historian, vice president of Russian paintings Sotheby's (2006-2008), and Vasily Tsereteli, executive director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

Application deadline in 2009 declined from 4.5 months to 3.5 months. During this time, was filed by 331 (the last year - 337), each party may submit multiple works in different nominations. The total number of nominees in 2009 was 45.

The exhibition in Central House of Artists, a total area of 3.5 thousand square meters. m, will feature the works of all 45 award nominees by Kandinsky in 2009 in three categories, with a total prize fund of 60 thousand euros, including:
• «Project of the Year" - 24 nominee (40 thousand euros);
• «Young Artist. Project of the Year "- 10 nominees (up to 30 years, 10 thousand euros);
• «media art. Project of the Year "- 11 nominees (10 thousand euros).

The exhibition will run until November 26. Exposure and design exhibitions - Andrei Erofeev, architecture - Boris Bernasconi.

Nominees in the category "Project of the Year"
1. Konstantin Batynkov
2. Peter White
3. Vita Buivid
4. Lech Garikovich
5. Dmitry Gretsky
6. Alla Esipovich
7. Vadim Zakharov
8. Vladimir Kozin
9. Irina Korina
10. Rostislav Lebedev
11. Gregory Maiofis
12. Igor Mukhin
13. Nicholas Nasedkin
14. Arkady Nasonov
15. Paul Pepperstein
16. Nicholas Polissky
17. Roman Sakin
18. Simon Faibisovich
19. Natalia Hlebtsevich
20. Anastasia Khoroshilova
21. Dmitry Tsvetkov
22. Cyril Chelushkin
23. Dmitry Shorin
24. Sergei Shutov
 
Nominees in the category "Young Artist"
1. 3ART
2. MAKE
3. Milk & Vodka
4. Eugene Antufiev
5. Andrei Blokhin, Georgy Kuznetsov
6. Lech Garikovich
7. Ivan Lungin
8. Stepan Subbotin
9. Dmitry Teselkin
10. Alexander Frolov

Nominees in the category "media art project of year"
1. Tanatos Banionis
2. Alexandra Dementieva
3. Julia Devlyashova, Alexandra Toschevikova
4. Vadim Zakharov
5. Marina Zvyagintsev
6. Elena Kovylina
7. Alexander Lavrov
8. Alex Politov, Marina Belova
9. Provmyza
10. Dmitry Sokolenko, Olga Tobreluts
11. Aristarchus Chernyshev, Alexei Shulgin