There will be a museum. Finals ceremony. Photo courtesy of the press service of the award / Vladislav Tarnopolsky
Russia’s largest privately owned award for contemporary artists conceived as a year-round process: spring Submissions (this year there were 418), by the summer of the advisory council determines the 35 nominees whose works are exhibited throughout the autumn, with the onset of winter become known names of the winners.
The final jury meeting ends in a few minutes before the start of the ceremony: in the lobby “Drummer” welcomes guests soundless online broadcast of the deliberation room, where this year the director sat Pushkin Museum of Fine Marina mules, director of the Multimedia Art Museum Olga Sviblova, director of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Vasily Tsereteli, director of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki Maria Tsantsanoglu, art critic Catherine Bobrinskaya, writer and curator Boris Manner.
Another video showed already in the cinema” Drummer “- footage of key events in the world of contemporary art. In particular, the cuts included laying of the foundation stone of the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, art forum “Philosophy of Art Today” at the Pushkin Museum, the largest exhibition projects of the year – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art “Manifesto” at the Hermitage, “The Golden Age of Russian avant-garde “Peter Greenaway and Saskia Boddeke in Central Arena et al.
Another event – the final of an international Competition architectural firms for the reconstruction of “Drummer” and turning it into a museum of contemporary art – is reflected in the theme of the ceremony: “Museum of the Future.” Mini-lecture on what should be a museum, read applicants established in the current year the nomination of art Victor Miziano, Igor Chubarov and The winner Mikhail Yampolsky, whose essay “Scenic gnosis” will now be published in English ( the author analyzes the tapestry winner before last Kandinsky, the artist Grisha Bruskin).
Selection of finalists in the youth category outlined the important trends of contemporary art. For the sake of presentation of the work of Timothy genre of street art is gradually gaining recognition in Russia – in the past year at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art held the first exhibition of street artist “Pasha 183! Our business feat “, which became also a chronicle of notable events of the year.
The expansion of the boundaries of the genre, is usually associated with the direction of science art, this time held in collaboration of visual art and music, and the finalists got composer Elena Rykov, not previously participated in any exhibition. The victory won in this category Albert soldier with video “Balthus” combining a replica on painting by French artist and meditation dedicated users of social networks.
Street art, video art, conceptual photo, installation … not so much among the favorites of the Prize is painting work, but at this ceremony, the grand prize for the” Project of the Year “was expected Paul Pepperstein, bypassed school graduate Rodchenko Lily Li-mi YANG and recently stepped formal boundaries of the youth category Irina Korina.
The most “age” of the applicants, it is most fit in line with the winners of the previous years – the same Bruskin, Irina Nakhova representing Russia at nearest Venice Biennale, or Vadim Zakharov, who prepared the Russian pavilion in Venice last year. In addition, the name “Holy policy” along with the selected genre Pepperstein “naive” sketches could not attract the jury exact hit in context.
year-round art process continues in January rose collection of applications for state prize for contemporary art “Innovation”, and a month after its delivery come the deadline for candidates following the Kandinsky Prize.
Vladislav Tarnopolsky 
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