Call for Artists: the 3rd Edition of the Future Generation Art Prize

Future Generation Art Prize
Mar 19, 2014 2:44PM

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre announced an Open Call for the third edition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014. Young artists up to 35 wherever they live and work can apply till April 12, 2014 at the competition’swebsite: futuregenerationartprize.org

To encourage the artists from all over the world to apply, starting from 2014 the Future Generation Art Prize will accept applications in 10 different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian.

20 shortlisted artists will be announced in June 2014 and will receive an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre in Kiev, Ukraine from October 2014 to January 2015. The winner will be announced in December 2014.

Launched by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009, the Prize is open to all artists up to the age of 35 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists from all over the world. The Prize is unique because of its global reach and highly democratic form of application via the Internet.

The winner receives a total of $100,000: $60,000 as a cash award, and $40,000 towards the production of new work. An additional $20,000 is allocated to fund artist-in-residency programmes for up to five Special prize-winners.

Traditionally supporting young artists from Ukraine where the PinchukArtCentre is located, Zhanna Kadyrova, the winner of the national prize for young artists in 2013 will also be included into the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2014, bringing the maximum number of artists in the exhibition to 21.

Jury consisting of prominent curators, directors of museums, artists and experts will be publically announced along with names of 20 artists shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in June 2014.  

Future Generation Art Prize