Future Generation Art Prize 2017

On February 25, 2017 the PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) will present exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, the first global art prize for artists up to 35, founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The show focuses on the presentation of newly produced works giving a remarkable view on the most actual artistic positions of a next generation of artists.

The exhibition engages with the complexities of the contemporary world and investigates the possibilities of art within it. Balancing between personal and collective, imaginary and real, familiar and uncanny, the show invites the visitors to set off the captivating journey through wide range of ideas that absorb the artists today.

The show will encompass the diverse works developed in a variety of media and formats, such as site-specific interventions, sculptures, interactive installations, performative gestures, videos, text- and sound-based projects.

20 shortlisted artists have been selected from more than 4400 coming from 138 countries, divided over all continents. The shortlisted artists were chosen by an international Selection Committee. The Open Group from Ukraine were automatically nominated to the shortlist as winners of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2015, a national contemporary art prize awarded to young Ukrainian artists up to the age of 35.

The shortlist of theFuture Generation Art Prize 2017includes: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 33 (Nigeria/ United States), Iván Argote, 32 (Colombia/ France), Firelei Báez, 35 (Dominican Republic/ United States), Dineo Seshee Bopape, 35 (South Africa), Phoebe Boswell, 34 (Kenya/ United Kingdom), Vivian Caccuri, 30 (Brazil), Sol Calero, 34 (Venezuela/ Germany), Asli Çavuşoğlu, 34 (Turkey), Vajiko Chachkhiani, 31 (Georgia/ Germany), Carla Chaim, 33 (Brazil), Christian Falsnaes, 35 (Denmark/ Germany), EJ Hill, 31 (United States), Andy Holden, 34 (United Kingdom), Li Ran, 30 (China), Ibrahim Mahama, 29 (Ghana), Rebecca Moss, 25 (United Kingdom), Sasha Pirogova, 29 (Russia), Kameelah Janan Rasheed, 31 (United States), Martine Syms, 28 (United States), Kemang Wa Lehulere, 32 (South Africa), Open Group (Ukraine).

The exhibition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017 is curated by Anna Smolak.

Exhibited works

(stammer, stammer; they jam) / but, a remedy: a set of exercises
Archival inkjet prints and xeroxes. Produced by PinchukArtCentre
An Arrangement of Perpetuities
Wood, ice, soil, plants, inflatable vinyl pools, LEDs
An Arrangement of Perpetuities
Animated Shorts and related works from Cartoon Landscape
Another Homeless Song (for RRR Dhlomo) 1, 2015
Salvaged school desks (wood and steel), music stands, gumboots, paint, porcelain dogs
Are We There Yet? (and other questions of proximity,destination, and relative comfort)
Screen print on fabric Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Casa de Cambio
Counter, paintings, office chairs, plants, vitrine, TVs, bill edition, jewelry, posters
Cassava Garden
Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, charcoal, commemorative fabric on paper. Courtesy of Victoria Miro Gallery
Cassava Garden
Acrylic, transfers, colored pencils, charcoal, commemorative fabric on paper
DREAMer (a demand for opacity that weaves no boundaries)
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Diorama
Video, 42’ 03’’
Feed
Mirrors, curtain, lighting, live-stream on HD screen, camera-person, instructor, visitors.
Feed 2
Curtains, live-stream HD projection, camera-person, instructor, visitors Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Future Tense
Newspaper edition of 10000 16 pages, black and white
Future Tense
Newspaper edition of 10000 16 pages, black and white. Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Given the ground ( the fact that it amazes me does not mean I relinquish it)
An irreducible singularity (speaking to the space you fill and you keep), Acrylic and oil on canvas
Harmattan Haze
Acrylic, color pencils, charcoal, transfers on paper. Private Collection
Ideologically Yours: on What We Feel, How We Feel It, and... the World
Іnstallation, media variable
Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape
Digital animation and collage, 2-channel film, 60’ 00’’
Lessons I-LXXV, 2014-2017
Series of 0’ 30’’ videos. Courtesy of the artist and Bridget Donahue Gallery
Low Tide (Fountain)
Video, 6’ 16’’
MONO
Video installation, 2 channels, 15’ 32’’
Mutumia
Interactive installation Handdrawn animation, looped projection, pressure sensors, arduino, Mac Mini, interactive code, voice recordings, 29’ 55’’
Mutumia
Interactive installation
Non Orientable Nkansa II. 1901-2030
Exchanged shoemaker boxes, construction boards, old train parts, mix media
Non Orientable Nkansa II. 1901-2030
Exchanged shoemaker boxes, construction boards, old train parts, mix media
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Salvaged school desks, dentures, gold-leaf-covered books, steel
Oratorio (Tidal Wave)
Subwoofers, tallow candles, microphone stands, sound amplifiers, iPod, mono audio, сomposed by the artist
Oratorio (Tidal Wave)
Subwoofers, tallow candles, microphone stands, sound amplifiers, iPod, mono audio, сomposed by the artist
Pillar
Wood and rubber Dimensions Variable Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Rectangle Piece
Archival inkjet print Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Retransformation of the Supporting Roles
2-channel synchronization video, 12’ 00’’
Retransformation of the Supporting Roles
, Four-channel HD video installation, black metal and wood screening board & table
Section Piece
Archival inkjet print Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Sweet Potato
Aluminium, gold leaf Courtesy of the Artist and Perrotin Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Teacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense
Brick, Chalk on Blackboard paint, dimensions variable
The Last One Who Remembers it (or the lucky meeting of a carpathian time traveler in Cap-Haїtien)
Acrylic, sheet rock, steel
Time Remembers Another Time
Chalk drawing and wall-carving. Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Trust Memory Over History (Seeking counsel with the Rada Loa)
Gouache, ink, gold foil, chine-colle on 140 deaccessioned book pages
Untitled
Ongoing Table, printer, internet interface, paper Produced by PinchukArtCentre
Unto Itself
Monoprints, photographs, xerox copies, archival inkjet prints, text
Winter Which Was Not There
Video, 9’ 00’’ Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
Winter Which Was Not There
Video, 9’ 00’’ Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
mabu/mubu/mmu
Soil, ceramics, herbs, crystals, coal, ash, sound. Co-produced by PinchukArtCentre
mabu/mubu/mmu
Soil, ceramics, herbs, crystals, coal, ash, soun

Jury

Nicholas Baume
Nicholas Baume
Director and Chief Curator, Public Art Fund, New York
Iwona Blazwick
Iwona Blazwick
Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Björn Geldhof
Björn Geldhof
Artistic Director, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv and YARAT, Baku
Mami Kataoka
Mami Kataoka
Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Curator, 21st Biennale of Sydney 2018
Koyo Kouoh
Koyo Kouoh
Founding Artistic Director, Raw Material Company, Dakar
Jérôme Sans
Jérôme Sans
Co-Founder, Palais de Tokyo Paris and Artistic Director, Perfect Crossovers, Paris-Beijing
Jochen Volz
Jochen Volz
curator of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil