 New
name and new logo for the
“Young Belgian
Art Prize”
By adopting a new name and a new logo, the three organising partners have opted for a more up-to-date image for Belgium's most important award for young artistic talent.
YOUNG – For artists under the age of
35.
BELGIAN –
The participants are Belgian or have been living in Belgium
for at least a year when they make their submission.
ART
– All disciplines of contemporary art
are accepted.
PRIZE
– The finalists compete for five prizes.
Since
1950, the
Jeune Peinture
Belge/Jonge Belgische Schilderkunst non-profit association, a group of art-lovers and collectors, has organised the biennial
Young Belgian Painters Award with a view to supporting young artistic talent in Belgium and offering it a platform. The first competition for contemporary
art in Belgium, it has achieved a historic status over the last 60 years and has launched the careers of many Belgian artists. Participants and laureates
have included renowned artists such as Orla Barry, Hans Op de Beeck, Pierre
Alechinsky, Ann Veronica Janssens, Raoul De Keyser, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, and Pieter Vermeersch.
However, the
contemporary art scene has changed greatly over recent decades: many new initiatives have been launched; the role and presence of galleries and
art fairs have become much greater; the establishment of Master's studies for artists means that they are better prepared for a professional career; and new prizes have been created, both by private institutions (including Art Contest and the BNP Paribas Fortis
Young Artistic Talent Award) and by Belgium's Communities and provinces (the Prix
Mediatine launched by Wolu-Culture, the
Prijs voor Beeldende
Kunsten of the provinces of East Flanders and Antwerp, etc.).
While bearing
in mind the historic status and merits of the Young Belgian Painters Award, it is important that the award be given an update and that it should
remain relevant in the future. So it has been decided to renew and reposition what is the most distinguished award for young artistic
talent in Belgium. The new logo and the new name –
YOUNG BELGIAN ART PRIZE – have been chosen to symbolise the award's rejuvenation. The design is the work of
Codefrisko.
The first change
to catch the eye is the choice of a single title
in English, with a view to
establishing the Prize internationally at the level of the Turner Prize in the United Kingdom, the Prix Marcel Duchamp in France, and the Vincent
Award in the Netherlands. Those prizes have one thing in common: each is its country's most important competition for the visual arts. The choice of English also helps to situate the Prize in the 21st century, when English is the medium of communication
on the contemporary art scene within today's world of global communication.
In the new name
the word "ART" has been chosen in order to emphasise that the Prize is
open to all disciplines of the visual arts. While the prize, in its early days, was indeed oriented to painters, it has followed developments
in the world of contemporary art and has gradually opened up to all disciplines of the visual arts. The reference to "Painters" in the original name had become outdated and caused confusion, both for young artists who, as non-painters, did not feel it was
for them and for members of the public who expected to see an exhibition of paintings. As a tribute to the Prize's history, one of the four prizes is being awarded to a painter.
Not only has
a fresher image been adopted, but there have been a number of innovations in terms of
content too.
First of all,
there is a new preselection
procedure: in order to facilitate the work of the international jury and to prepare better for it, a pre-jury has been established, made up of professionals from the Belgian contemporary art world, who know the Belgian scene well and whose expertise
makes it possible to pick out the best submissions (a maximum of 50). As a consequence, the international jury, which spends two days in Brussels, can concentrate on those submissions and devote itself to a thorough analysis and discussion of them.
In another new
development, starting in 2013, a new Public Prize has been added to the four existing prizes, at the suggestion and with the support of ING.
The aim is to involve the general public more closely with the Prize and to encourage more people to visit the exhibition and choose their favourite artist.
Via a voting page on the new website (www.youngbelgianartprize.be
– online from
June 2013), the public will be able to vote. The Public Prize will be awarded at the closing event (finissage) at the end
of the exhibition and will take the form of support for the mounting of a future exhibition or the publication of a book/catalogue; it is worth € 6,250.
The final innovation,
which will give the Prize greater prominence and visibility in the sector, is an
exhibition space organised by ING at
Art Brussels
(17 > 21 April 2013), containing works by the
nine finalists selected by the jury.
The
basic principles of the Young Belgian Art Prize
While a number of innovations are being introduced, it is important to stress that the
basic principles of the award have not changed. The YBAP remains a prize for artists under the age of 35, who are Belgian or have lived in Belgium
for at least one year. A maximum of nine finalists are selected, on the basis of their submissions, by an international jury of five curators and/or museum directors from major international institutions. The finalists exhibit their recent work in an exhibition
in the Centre for Fine Arts, at the opening of which four prizes are awarded.
The firm
partnership between the Prize's three key actors remains and has even been strengthened. The
Jeune
Peinture Belge/Jonge
Belgische Schilderkunst non-profit association continues under that name as the organisation behind the competition.
ING Bank is keen to support young talent and makes a substantial financial contribution in addition to the ING Prize and the Public Prize. The
Centre for Fine Arts, involved as a partner from the start, hosts the event, thereby offering a platform to emerging talent – a key element of the Centre's
mission.
Alongside the
new Public Prize, the four original prizes are still awarded:
-
Gillion-Crowet
Prize (€ 25,000): presented by the Chairman,
Baron Gillion Crowet
-
Emile
and Stephy Languy Prize
(€ 12,500):
-
BOZAR
Prize (€ 12,500)
-
ING
Prize (€ 12,500)
Jury and finalists: Young Belgian Art Prize 2013
The
members of the pre-jury for 2013
Devrim
Bayar – Wiels, curator
Florent
Bex – administrator of the Jeune
Peinture Belge/Jonge
Belgische Schilderkunst, honorary director of the
MuHKA.
Thomas Caron
– SMAK, curator
Sonia
Dermience – Komplot, curator
Luk Lambrecht
– CC Strombeek, curator contemporary art & dance, art critic
Pierre-Olivier
Rollin – BPS22 Charleroi – director
Sophie Lauwers,
BOZAR, director of exhibitions
Jean-Pierre Van
Tieghem, vice-chairman of the Jeune
Peinture Belge/Jonge
Belgische Schilderkunst and art critic
The
members of the international jury for
2013
Daria
de Beauvais (curator,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris)
Katerina
Gregos (independent
curator – Manifesta 9, Newtopia: The State of Human Rights,
Mechelen, Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011,
Göteborg biennale 2013, etc.)
Doris
Krystof (curator,
Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf)
Daniel F. Hermann
(Eisler Curator & Head of Curatorial Studies, Whitechapel Gallery, London)
Francesco
Stocchi (curator,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam)
The
finalists, Young Belgian Art Prize 2013:
Félicia
Atkinson, Jean-Baptiste Bernadet, Céline
Butaye, Shelly Nadashi, Fabrice
Pichat, Jasper Rigole, Helmut
Stallaerts, Adrien Tirtiaux, and Philippe Van
Wolputte.
Practical details
Young
Belgian Art Prize 2013
When
Public opening
and awards ceremony: 26 June 2013 – 6.45 pm
Closing event
(finissage) and presentation of the Public Prize: 15 September 2015 – 5 pm
Exhibition: 27
June > 15 September 2013
Where
Centre for Fine Arts
rue
Ravensteinstraat 23
1000 Brussels
Opening
hours
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm
Thursday, 10am to 9 pm
Closed on Mondays
Tickets
Admission free
Website
www.youngbelgianartprize.be
(online
from June 2013)
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