Young Painter Prize 2014 is again looking for new talents in the Baltic States and seeks to present the most perspective and significant painters of the young generation. The selective exhibition of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian painters’ art works will take place in Contemporary Art Centre, 24 September – 19 October 2014. The finalists will be presented in Lithuanian Artist’s Association Gallery in the end of October. Moreover, this year’s event will be enriched with the lecture of one of the most important art researchers Barry Schwabsky.
Barry Schwabsky is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the art critic for The Nation and his essays have appeared in Flash Art, Artforum, London Review of Books, and Art in America. His books include The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Words for Art: Criticism, History, Theory, Practice, and several volumes of poetry, the most recent being Book Left Open in the Rain.
The project “Young Painter Prize” welcomes the participation of young artists from three Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia). The main aim of the project – to present the brightest and most promising painters of the younger generation and to create an opportunity for public access to such dynamic new art. Moreover, this projects aims to help its target audience in both Lithuania and abroad – art collectors, managers, curators – discover new talent in Baltic States. This project is focused solely on artists under 30 years old from all disciplines who have acquired (or are in the process of acquiring) a diploma in art.
The project “Young Painter Prize” was initiated and carried out under the auspices of the painter Vilmantas Marcinkevičius and art critic Julija Dailidėnaitė-Petkevičienė. This project is a non-institutional independent project. Applications submitted will be considered by a competent commission, which, using the principle of anonymous assessment, will select fifteen works by the most talented artists. The works selected will be admitted to the final exhibition, from which a Grand Prize winner and three incentive prize winners will then be announced.
This year’s main prize – 2.500 EUR and two months’ residence in Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway, with a monthly grant of nom 8.000 nok.
Artists from Lithuania: Agnė Juodvalkytė, Akvilė Misevičiūtė, Dalia Juodakytė, Darius Jaruševičius, Donara Manukian, Dovilė Bilkštienė, Galintas Laurišas, Ieva Juršėnaitė, Joana Kairienė, Justė Svirskaitė, Kristina Ališauskaitė, Leonid Alekseiko, Eglė Butkutė, Rasa Vilčinskaitė, Rodion Petrov.
Artists from Latvia: Alise Medina, Dārta Hapanioneka, Einārs Timma, Ella Mežule, Krista Dzudzilo, Kristaps Priede, Raitis Hrolovičs, Zane Veldre.
Artists from Estonia: Diana Lõhmus, Igor Filjushin, Joakim Kuusemaa, Liisa Kruusmägi, Marie Kõljalg, Mart Vainre, Veiko Klemmer.
Winners of previous YPP: Andrius Zakarauskas / 2009, Jolanta Kyzikaitė / 2010, Jonas Jurcikas / 2011, Martynas Petreikis / 2012, Zane Tuča / 2013.
YPP’14 events:
October 24 – 31, 2014 – The exhibition of finalists of Young Painter Prize 2014 is going in Lithuanian Artist’s Association Gallery (Vokiečių str. 2, Vilnius)
October 24 at 18:00 – The award evening of Young Painters Prize in Lithuanian Artist’s Association Gallery (Vokiečių str. 2, Vilnius)
October 25 at 15:00 – “Morandi’s Window: The Place of the Contemporary Artist”. The lecture by writer and art critic Barry Schwabsky in National Gallery of Art (Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius)
Photographs by Marta Ivanova
