THE EXHIBITION OF THE KANDINSKY PRIZE NOMINEES

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The short list of the Kandinsky Prize will be announced late in October, whereas the names of the winners will be out at the official award ceremony to be held at MMOMA (25, Petrovka Str.) on November 13, 2019.

After two rounds of voting of the Expert Committee the long list of the Prize contains 30 nominees. 15 art projects are nominated for «Project of the Year», 10 art projects are nominated for «Young Artist. Project of the Year», 5 research works are nominated for «Scholar Research. History and Theory of Contemporary Art».

Here are the nominees (in alphabetical order)

«PROJECT OF THE YEAR» NOMINATION

1. Evgeny Antufiev When Art Became Part of Landscape. Part I, II and III.

2. Alexander Brodsky Red Carpet.

3.Dmitry Venkov Hymns of Muscovy

4. Pavel Otdelnov Psychozoic Era

5. Polina Kanis Procedure

6. Irina Korina Not Only about You

7. Taus Makhacheva BaidÀ

8. Taus Makhacheva Dear R., R., K., S., M., A., S., S., K., I., G., L., A., A., L., P., G., I., D., D., M., S., B., O., F., F., R., D., M., E., L., I., F., L., A., M., T., K., K., L., L.

9. Taus Makhacheva ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) Spa

10. MishMash art group SuperJew. Rumours of Hideoism

11. Alexander Morozov Akchim. Coordinates 60°28 ′35′ N 58°02′53 E

12. Alexandra Paperno Self-Love Among Ruins

13. Sasha Pirogova Garden

14. PROVMYSA art group Post-Mortem Chronography

15. Haim Sokol Paper Memory

«YOUNG ARTIST. PROJECT OF THE YEAR» NOMINATION

1. Evgeny Antufiev Immortality Forever: Leo Tolstoy’s Rooms

2. Ian Ginsburg Mechanical Beetle

3. Kirill Gluschenko Crown

4. Gorod Ustinov art group Particles

5. Egor Kraft Ákkta

6. Asya Marakulina Room to Rest

7. Dmitry Morozov ::vtol:: 12262

8. Albina Mokhryakova Kaegkha

9. Timofey Radya All This is Not a Dream

10. Kirill Savchenkoo Ch(K)ris(tin). Close Air Support

SCHOLAR RESEARCH NOMINATION. HISTORY AND THEORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

1. Joseph Bakshtein Articles and Dialogues

2. Evgeny Barabanov Metageometry of the Artist Steinberg

3. Igor Ponosov Art and City

4. Margarita Tupitsyna Moscow Vanguard Art: 1922 —1992

5. Andrey Khlobystin Schizorevolution. Essays on St.-Petersburg Culture of the Second Half of the 20th Century

Expert Committee of the nominations PROJECT OF THE YEAR and YOUNG ARTIST. PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Naila Allahverdiyeva

Art critic, curator, art director of the Museum of Modern Art PERMM, winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize in the Best curator’s project nomination (2013) and of the Perm Region Prize in Culture and Art (2018), Perm

Alisa Bagdonaite

Head curator of the Zaria Centre for Modern Art (Vladivostok); co-founder of the Modern Young Art Gallery Triangle, Vladivostok—Moscow

Sergey Balandin

Artist, curator, art critic, Samara-based actionist, research fellow of the Victoria Gallery, Samara

Irina Gorlova

Art historian, Head of Contemporary Art Department of the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Antonio Geusa

Ph D independent curator and art critic, field of study — media art and Russian video art, Moscow

Andrey Erofeev

Art historian, curator, art critic, co-chair of the Russian Section of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), Moscow

Anna Zaitseva

Curator, Deputy Director in charge of Exhibitions of the Мultimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Anastasia Kuryokhina

President of Sergey Kuryokhin Charity Foundation and Prize, Saint-Petersburg

Maria Nasimova

Chief curator of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

Aleksey Novoselov

Deputy director in charge of Permanent Collections and Exhibitions of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Anatoly Osmolovsky

Artist, art theorist, curator, winner of the Kandinsky Prize 2007 as the Artist of the Year, founder and rector of the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art , Moscow

Nikolay Palazhchenko

Art historian, curator, art critic, art manager, curator of the Art Management and Gallery Business faculty of the RMA Business School, representative of the Art Basel International Art Fair in Russia, Moscow

Sergey Popov

rt historian, curator, founder of the pop/off/art gallery, Moscow

Kirill Preobrazhensky

Artist, curator, professor, in charge of the Video Art workshop at the Rodchenko School, Moscow

Kirill Svetlyakov

Ph D in Art history, curator, art critic, senior specialist in Contemporary Art in the Management Department of the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Elena Selina

Curator, founder of the XL and XL Projects gallery, Moscow

Olga Turchina

Art historian, curator, senior research fellow of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Svetlana Usoltseva

Curator, Head of the Art Programmes Department of the NCCA Ural Branch, Ekaterinburg

Sabina Chagina

Curator, co-founder of the Atmosphere Biennale of Street Wave Art and the eponymous art group, Moscow

Evgenia Chaika

Curator, Deputy Director of the NCCA Ural Branch, Ekaterinburg

Olga Shishko

Art historian, curator, head of the Cinematic and Media Arts Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, director of the MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Moscow

EXPERT BOARD OF THE 12TH KANDINSKY PRIZE. NOMINATION ACADEMIC RESEARCH. HISTORY AND THEORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Nikolay Molok

Ph D in Art History, chief editor of the «Art History» journal, Moscow

Alexandra Obukhova

Art historian, Head of Research Department of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Daria Pyrkina

Ph D in Art History, art critic, curator, head of the Education Programmes Department of the State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

Alla Rosenfeld

Ph D and Habilitation in Art History, curator of Russian and European art, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, New-York

Andrey Fomenko

Ph D and Habilitation in Art History, critic of contemporary art and film critic, professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of the Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg

The Organizing Committee of the Prize received in 2019 636 applications from 73 cities and towns of Russia including Nizhniy Tagil, Irkutsk, Nakhodka, Gelendzhik, Anapa, Gudermes and many others. Among them were 294 applications for the Project of the year nomination, 330 applications for the Young artist. Project of the year nomination, and 12 applications for the Scholar research. History and theory of contemporary art nominations. The scholar nomination which allows participation not only from Russian but also from foreign nationals received applications also from USA and the Czech Republic.

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