Future Generation Art Prize 2012


27/06/2012

PRESS RELEASE

PinchukArtCentre today announced the 21 artists nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize 2012. The art prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a new international competition for artists up to 35 to discover and provide long-term support for a generation of emerging artists, wherever they may live and work.

Following the open, free and democratic application procedure via Internet the 7 members of the Selection Committee, competent and global art-professionals, selected 20 artists from about 4 200 applications coming from 134 countries and divided over all continents.

The shortlist includes:
Jonathas de Andrade, 30 (Brazil)
Meris Angioletti, 34 (Italy)
Marwa Arsanios, 33 (Lebanon)
Micol Assael, 33 (Italy)
Abigail DeVille, 30 (United States)
Aurelien Froment, 35 (France)
Mykyta Kadan,29 (Ukraine)
Meiro Koizumi, 35 (Japan)
Andre Komatsu, 33 (Brazil)
Eva Kotatkova, 29 (Czech Republic)
Tala Madani, 30 (Iran)
Basim Magdy, 34 (Egypt)
Ahmet Ö?üt, 30 (Turkey)
Amalia Pica, 33 (Argentina)
Agnieszka Polska, 27 (Poland)
Emily Roysdon, 34 (United States)
Rayyane Tabet, 28 (Lebanon)
Xing Yan, 26 (China)
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, 34 (United Kingdom)

and two groups:
Joao Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva, 33, 34 (Portugal)
R.E.P. (Ukraine) - Ksenia Gnylitska (28), Mykyta Kadan (29), Zhanna Kadyrova (30), Olesia Khomenko (31), Volodymyr Kuznetsov (35), and Lada Nakonechna (31).

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