Over 50 Partner Platforms Worldwide will Communicate and Support the 2nd Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize in 2012
The Applications Procedure for the 2nd Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize begins on 6 February, 2012
Deadline: May 6, 2012.
Application Fee: None
Following its successful launch in 2009 with more than 6 000 submissions coming from all continents, the PinchukArtCentre established for the second edition of the Future Generation Art Prize new partnerships with more than 50 international non-profit art-organizations.
The Partner Platforms representing more than 38 countries will support the application process and the prize. It shows how successfully the Prize has extended its global network and range to involve artists from different regions around the world, especially reaching growing regions such as South America, Australia, Africa and Oceania.
Increasing the number of the Partner Platforms, the PinchukArtCentre makes the next step in globalizing the FGAP, reinforcing the democratic and worldwide character of the Prize. It ensures a network of institutions that will communicate with and urge artists from their regions to participate.
In addition, with a goal to involve 300 correspondents throughout the world, the FGAP intends to engage young artists under 35 from wherever they may live and work.
Eckhard Schneider, General Director, PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine): “50 partner platforms all over the world show the essential idea of the Future Generation Art Prize: Think and act global and local at the same time.”
The Future Generation Art Prize was established in 2009 by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists up to 35, 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.
Awarded through an open and democratic competition, judged by a distinguished international jury, the Prize is founded on the idea of generosity, a network of outstanding patron artists and institutional partners, and a highly democratic application procedure.
Applications for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012 will become available online on February 6 through May 6, 2012, at the competition’s website: futuregenerationartprize.org
The exhibition of shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) in October 2012. The respected international jury will announce the winner of the Main Prize who will receive a generous prize ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 toward production of new work) at the Award Ceremony in December, 2012 in Kyiv (Ukraine).
An additional $20,000 from the Foundation will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency programs to the special prize winner.
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, and one of the Mentor artists will have a parallel show at the same time as each shortlist exhibition. The Mentor Artists are Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami.
A distinguished international Board oversees the Future Generation Art Prize. In addition to chairman Victor Pinchuk and the four Mentor Artists, the Board’s membership includes Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou) and Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate).
The Future Generation Art Prize 2012 Partner Platforms
NORTH AMERICA
Grand Arts (Kansas City, US)
LAND (Los Angeles, US)
Ballroom (Marfa, US)
Artis Contemporary Israeli Art Fund (New York/Tel Aviv, US/Israel)
Art in General (New York, US)
SOUTH AMERICA
La Agencia (Bogota, Colombia)
Lugar a Dudas (Cali, Colombia)
Atelie 397 (Sao Paolo, Brazil)
La Ene (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Taller Bloc (Santiago, Chile)
Toxico Cultura (Mexico City, Mexico)
EUROPE
Center for Contemporary Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)
FRAC ile-de-France/Le Plateau (Ile-de-France, France)
La Galerie Centre d'art Contemporain (Noisy-le-Sec, France)
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany)
XYZ (Athens, Greece)
Kling & Bang (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Pallas Projects (Dublin, Ireland)
Via Farini (Milan, Italy)
OCA (Oslo, Norway)
Baibakov Art Projects (Moscow, Russia)
La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo (Ceuti, Spain)
Latitudes (Barcelona, Spain)
Delfina Foundation (London, UK)
Gasworks (London, UK)
Museum of Everything (London, UK)
MIDDLE EAST
ArtRole (Erbil City, Iraq)
Israeli Center for Digital Art (Holon, Israel)
Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Makan (Amman, Jordan)
AFRICA
Fondation Zinsou (Cotonou, Benin)
Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum (Alexandria, Egypt)
Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Egypt)
Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana)
Kuona Trust (Nairobi, Kenya)
L'Appartment 22 (Rabat, Morocco)
Bag Factory (Johannesburg, South Africa)
ASIA
CCA Afghanistan (Kabul, Afghanistan)
Britto Art Trust (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Javaarts (Bhnom Penh, Cambodia)
Vitamin Creative Space (Beijing, China)
VASL Artist's Collective (Beijing, China)
Green Papaya Art Project (Manila, Philippines)
P-10/Post Museum (Singapore, Singapore)
Gallery LOOP (Seoul, South Korea)
Alternative Space Pool (Seoul, South Korea)
San Art (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
OCEANIA
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne, Australia)
Gertrude Contemporary (Melbourne, Australia)
Artspace Visual Art Centre (Sydney, Australia)
Art Space (Auckland, New Zealand)
Timeline and Organization of the Future Generation Art Prize
Artists may submit applications at www.futuregenerationartprize.org from February 6 through May 6, 2012. Extending the reach of the Future Generation Art Prize, an invited group of approximately one hundred arts professionals from around the world will nominate artists for consideration. Following the close of applications, an expert Selection Committee comprised of members chosen by the jury will review all applications and decide on a shortlist of as many as twenty artists, whose names will be announced in June, 2012.
These artists will participate in a shortlist Prize exhibition, which will open at the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) in October 2012. The winner of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2012, a contemporary art prize awarded to young Ukrainian artists under the age of 35, will also be included to the FGAP 2012 shortlist.
The international jury will gather in Kiev in December 2012 to select one main Prize winner. An additional $20,000 from the Foundation will be allotted to fund artist-in-residency programs. Images of works by all the shortlisted artists will be posted on the website, and members of the public will be invited to vote via the Internet for People’s Choice Prize.
The international Board that oversees the Future Generation Art Prize includes chairman Victor Pinchuk, the four Mentor Artists, Eli Broad, Dakis Joannou, Elton John, Miuccia Prada, and art museum directors Richard Armstrong (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum), Glenn D. Lowry (The Museum of Modern Art), Alfred Pacquement (Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou) and Sir Nicholas Serota (Tate).
Official web-site: www.futuregenerationartprize.org
