Para/Site Art Space is honored to announce its partnership with Future Generation Art Prize. The Future Generation Art Prize is a world-wide art prize of 100,000 USD. It is open to all artists up to the age of 35. The prize is established to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work. This unique artist-focused prize aims to make a major contribution toward the production of new work by young artists.
The biennial Prize is distinguished by:
- its global dimension;
- its focus on a young generation of artists;
- its open and democratic online application process;
- the long-term commitment of leading artists of our time;
- a distinguished Board, Jury and Selection Committee;
- an exhibition of shortlisted artists at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, one of the largest and most active new contemporary art institutions in Europe;
- and an award of 100,000 USD, to be conferred by a respected international jury.
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 application procedure has been open since January 18 and will last until April 18, 2010. 20 shortlisted artists will show their work in an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre. The jury will select one main Prize winner who will receive a total of 100,000 USD (60,000 USD as a cash award, and 40,000 USD toward the production of new work). An additional 20,000 USD will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency programs for up to five other special prize winners. Images of works by all the shortlisted artists will be posted on the PAC website, and the public will be invited to vote via the Internet for People's Choice Prize.
To encourage the assistance of one generation of artists to the next, a group of renowned Mentor Artists has committed its long-term participation in the Prize and will provide in-person counsel and support to the Prize winners. The Mentor Artists are Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami.
Partner platforms:
ArtHub, China arthubasia.org
Capacete, Brazil www.capacete.net
Via Farini, Milan www.viafarini.org
Laxart, Los Angeles www.laxart.org
L'apartement 22, Maroc www.appartement22.com
ARTIS, Israel www.artisrael.org
BAIBAKOV, Moscow baibakovartprojects.com/en/
Loop, Seoul www.galleryloop.com
KHOJ, India www.khojworkshop.org
San Art, Vietnam www.san-art.org
Para/Site, Hong Kong www.para-site.org.hk
Latitudes, Barcelona www.lttds.org
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