Drum roll, please: The Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev has released its list of nominees for the first Future Generation Art Prize, a new $100,000 award that Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk has created to recognize international artists under the age of 35. The 21 artists selected range from across the globe, with the 27-year-old British artist Simon Fujiwara as the youngest and including such acclaimed artists as Guido van der Werve, Keren Cytter, and Nathalie Djurberg along with a healthy number of lesser-known names.
One of the one of world's most lucrative art awards, along with the newly-created $250,000 ArtPrize and the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize, the Future Generation Art Prize is overseen by a board that includes MoMA director Glenn Lowry, Tate director Nicholas Serota, and Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong, along with weather-making Los Angeles collector Eli Broad. In addition, Pinchuk has assembled an all-star team of glittering artist mentors (all of whom he collects) to mentor the finalists: Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Jeff Koons, and Andreas Gursky.
The nominees, first posted on Lindsay Pollock's Art Market Views blog, are:
Artem Volokytin, 29 — Ukraine
Cao Fei, 32 — China
Cinthia Marcelle, 35 — Brazil
Clemens Hollerer, 34 — Austria
Emily Wardill, 32 — United Kingdom
Fikret Atay, 34 — Turkey
Gareth Moore, 35 — Canada
Guido van der Werve, 33 — Netherlands
Hector Zamora, 35 — Mexico
Jorinde Voigt, 33 — Germany
Katerina Seda, 32 — Czech Republic
Keren Cytter, 32 — Israel
Mircea Nicolae, 30 — Romania
Nathalie Djurberg, 32 — Sweden
Nicholas Hlobo, 34 — South Africa
Nico Vascellari, 33 — Italy
Ruben Ochoa, 35 — United States
Runo Lagomarsino, 32 — Sweden
Simon Fujiwara, 27 — United Kingdom
Wilfredo Prieto Garcia, 32 — Cuba
Ziad Antar, 32 — Lebanon
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