The winners of the 10th Anniversary Kandinsky Prize are Andrei Kuzkin, Taus Makhacheva, Victor Misiano
On December 14, 2016 the winners of the 10th annual Kandinsky Prize were announced in The Udarnik. The event also featured an exhibition of the finalists’ works.
The judges selected the winners in three nomination categories, Project of the Year, Young Artist. Project of the Year, and Scholarly Work. History and Theory of Contemporary Art. The winners are:
«Project of the year» – Andrei Kuzkin. Right to life
«Young Artist. Project of the year» – Super Taus (Taus Makhacheva). Untitled 2
«Scholarly work. History and theory of contemporary art» – Viktor Misiano (Russia). Vinogradov and Dubosarsky
The 2016 prize money stays the same: 1,800,000 rubles for the winner of the Project of the Year nomination category and 450,000 rubles for the Young Artist. Project of the Year winner, the third prize entitling the winner to get his/her work published in Russian or English as part of the Breus Publishing project (the Scholarly Work. History and Theory of Contemporary Art nomination category).
Following is the roster for the judges’ panel for the 10th Kandinsky Prize:
Nomination categories Project of the Year and Young Artist. Project of the Year
Ekaterina Bobrinskaya, Doctor of Art Criticism, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Russian Art at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow, Russia).
Iara Boubnova, curator, critic, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Sofia), Deputy Director of the National Gallery (Sofia, Bulgaria).
Marina Loshak, Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia).
Olga Sviblova, Doctor of Philosophy, Director of the Multimedia Art Museum / the Moscow House of Photography Museum (Moscow, Russia).
Zelfira Tregulova, Director General of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia).
Maria Tsantsanoglou, Director of the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki, Greece).
Vasili Tsereteli, Executive Director of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia).
Nomination category Scholarly Work. History. Theory of Contemporary Art
Ekaterina Andreeva, Candidate of Art Criticism, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, expert officer at the Department of New Art at the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Ekaterina Bobrinskaya, Doctor of Art Criticism, Head of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Russian Art at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow, Russia).
Ekaterina Vyazova, Candidate of Art Criticism, senior researcher at the State Institute of Art Studies (Moscow, Russia).
Elena Petrovskaya, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, Head of the Department of Aesthetics at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).
Alexander Yakimovich, Doctor of Art Criticism, critic, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (academician), chief researcher at the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts (Moscow, Russia).
Finalists’ exhibition and award ceremony, Udarnik
