PinchukArtCentre is a private
contemporary art
Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...
centre, located in
Kyiv
Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...
with a collection of works by Ukrainian and international artists. The museum was opened on 16 September 2006 by the steel billionaire
Victor Pinchuk
Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пінчук, ''Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk''; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, ''Forbes'' ranked him as 1,250th on the list o ...
.
The mission of the PinchukArtCentre mission is to exhibit new artistic production and collect national and international contemporary art. The centre's structure and focus consists of an international collection, temporary exhibitions, education programmes, publications, and scholarly research.
In 2007 and 2009, the PinchukArtCentre officially represented
Ukraine
Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
at the
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
. Admission to the museum is free.
History
The PinchukArtCentre opened in 2006, founded by Victor Pinchuk, an industrialist originally from Dnipro.
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In 2007 and 2009, PinchukArtCentre officially organized the Ukrainian Pavilion at the 52nd and 53rd Biennale in Venice. In 2011, the art centre presented the exhibition ''Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice - Ukrainian Collateral Event on the 54th Venice Biennale''.
In late 2008, the centre announced the biennial PinchukArtCentre Prize, the first national prize for young artists up to 35 years old. 20 shortlisted artists were selected among more than 1100 applications and an international jury chose the winners of the Main Prize and two Special Prizes. Artem Volokitin from Kharkiv won the Main Prize, and Masha Shubina and Oleksii Salmanov got two Special Prizes. The PinchukArtCentre Prize award ceremony was held on December 4, 2009.
In 2011, the PinchukArtCentre Prize Expert Committee reviewed more than 1,000 applications received from young artists from Ukraine and abroad, and formed a shortlist of the Prize nominees. As part of a group exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists, 20 new artists’ statements, produced with the support of the PinchukArtCentre for the show, were presented at the art centre.
Laureates of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2011 were announced at the award ceremony that took place on December 9, 2011, in Kyiv. The winner of the Main Prize was Mykyta Kadan; Zhanna Kadyrova and Serhiy Radkevych won two Special Prizes, and the Public Choice Prize went to Mykyta Shalennyi.
In October 2011 PinchukArtCentre opened an application call for the new Curatorial Platform, a two-year full-time program combining a theoretical and practical training in curatorial and exhibition work. The programme is open for all Ukrainians up to 30.
Based on the decision of the selection committee, the first Curatorial Platform participants, chosen from more than 130 applicants, were Lizaveta German (23 years, Kyiv), Tatiana Kochubynska (26 years, Kyiv), Oleksandr Mykhed (23 years, Kyiv), Maria Lanko (25 years, Kyiv) and Kateryna Radchenko (27 years, Odesa). These selected applicants started their two-year residency program in January 2012.
As of February 2012, the total number of PinchukArtCentre visitors since its opening reached over 1,475,000 people.
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Future Generation Art Prize
On December 1, 2009, the Victor Pinchuk Foundation established Future Generation Art Prize, an online art competition for artists 35 and under, with PinchukArtCentre organizing.
The first jury of the prize included Daniel Birnbaum
Daniel Birnbaum is a Swedish art curator and an art critic. Since 2019, he has been director and curator of Acute Art in London, UK.
Education
Birnbaum studied at Stockholm University, Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and Columbia Unive ...
, Robert Storr, Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor (23 October 1963 – 15 March 2019) was a Nigerian curator, art critic, writer, poet, and educator, specializing in art history. He lived in New York City and Munich. In 2014, he was ranked 24 in the ''ArtReview'' list of the 100 m ...
, and Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly c ...
. On June 29, 2010, seven members of the Selection Committee featuring competent and global art-professionals, selected 20 artists from more than 6,000 applications coming from 125 countries and divided over all continents.
The biennial award consists of a $100,000 prize, $40,000 of which is required to go towards producing art to ensure that the winner continues working. Every two years (with an edition skipping a year in 2016), the PinchukArtCentre holds an exhibition of artists under 35 from around the globe and awards a grand prize. In 2019, they awarded additional special prizes of $20,000. Alongside the central exhibition held at the PinhukArtCentre, the show travels to Venice, Italy as an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...
.
Past Winners
2010
* Main Prize: Cinthia Marcelle
Cinthia Marcelle was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1974. She is a Brazilian multimedia artist focusing in photography, video and installation work. She studied at the Universitadad Federal de Minas Gerais.
She lives and works in Belo Horizo ...
. Special and Public Choice Award: Nicolae Mircea
2012
* Main Prize: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (born 1977) is a British painter and writer. She is best known for her portraits of imaginary subjects, or ones derived from found objects, who are painted in muted colours. Her work has contributed to the renaissance in pai ...
. Special Prize: Jonathas de Andrade, Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, researcher and filmmaker from Beirut.
Biography
Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher from Beirut. She reconsiders politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective, with a partic ...
, Micol Assael, Ahmet Öğüt
Ahmet Öğüt (born 1981 in Diyarbakır, Turkey) is a conceptual artist living and working in Amsterdam, Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. He works with a broad range of media including video, photography, installation, drawing and printed media.
...
, Rayyane Tabet
Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, he is known for his sculpture. He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco.
Early life and education
Rayyane Tabet was born in 1983 in Ashqout, Lebanon. He has training as an a ...
. People's Choice Award: Meiro Koizumi
2014
* Main Prize: Nástio Mosquito, Carlos Motta. Special Prize: Aslan Gaisumov, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova
2017
* Main Prize: Dineo Seshee Bopape
Dineo Seshee Bopape is a South African multimedia artist. Using experimental video montages, sound, found objects, photographs and dense sculptural installations, her artwork "engages with powerful socio-political notions of memory, narration a ...
. Special Prize: Phoebe Boswell
Phoebe Boswell (born 2 January 1982), is a multi-media artist and film maker based in London, UK. She has won awards in the UK and Ukraine, and has been described as "a very distinct voice that is full of power and energy", "one of the most exci ...
2019
* Main Prize: Emilija Škarnulytė
Emilija Škarnulytė (born 1987 in Vilnius) is a visual artist and filmmaker. Existing between the fictive and the documentary, "she works primarily with deep time, from the cosmic and geologic to the ecological and political."
Biography
Škar ...
. Special Prize: Cooking Sections, Gabriel Goliath
References
External links
Official site
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Arts centers in Ukraine
Museums in Kyiv
Contemporary art galleries in Ukraine
Modern art museums
Ukrainian art
Art museums and galleries in Ukraine
Art museums established in 2006
2006 establishments in Ukraine