Exhibition of PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022 shortlisted artists

The PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presents an exhibition of the 18 artists shortlisted for the 7th edition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize in contemporary art for young Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. Featuring new and recent works, the show brings together a representative selection of artists and artist collectives from all over Ukraine including artists living currently abroad. 

During the exhibition preparation, the shared feelings among the participants embodied in the title of the exhibition—UNITED. This unity is present in the Art centre’s halls, and will remain in new relationships, overcoming distances and challenges. Making art during the war is not only an opportunity to reflect on a traumatic historical experience but also a powerful form of resistance.

The 18 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022 were shortlisted by an independent selection committee from more than 1000 applicants. The shortlist includes: Mykhailo Alekseenko (32, Kyiv), Yana Bachynska (31, Lviv), Yuriy Biley (34, Uzhhorod/Wroclaw/Berlin), Artem Humilevskyi (36, Mykolaiv), Viktoriia Dovhadze (30, Lviv), Dana Kavelina (27, Melitopol/Lviv/Berlin), Nikolay Karabinovych (34, Kyiv/Antwerp), Maksym Khodak (21, Bila Tserkva/Kyiv), Dariia Kuzmych (31, Kyiv), Kateryna Lysovenko (33, Odesa/Kyiv), Krystyna Melnyk (29, Kyiv), Pavla Nikitina (25, Brno), Anton Saenko (33, Sumy/Kyiv), Oleksandr Sirous (26, Kharkiv/Kyiv), Yuri Yefanov (32, Kyiv), Petro Vladimirov (29, Luhansk/Warsaw) and Oleksandra Maiboroda (26, Kyiv/Warsaw), Daniil Revkovskiy (29, Kharkiv) and Andriy Rachinskiy (32, Kharkiv), commercial public art (30, Kyiv/36, Odesa).

This exhibition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2022 is curated by Ksenia Malykh, Head of the Research Platform of the PinchukArtCentre and Oleksandra Pogrebnyak, Junior Curator. 

The winners of the Prize will be announced at an award ceremony in April 2023. A distinguished international jury will award the Main Prize of 370,000 UAH and two Special Prizes of 90,000 UAH each. A Public Choice winner will be chosen online by the visitors attending the exhibition of the shortlisted artists and awarded 37,000 UAH. 

The winner of the Main Prize will be automatically included in the shortlist of the Future Generation Art Prize 2023—an international art prize for young artists, established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. Also his/her artwork will be presented in PinchukArtCentre and as a part of The Future Generation Art Prize 2023 @ Venice exhibition at the 60th International Venice Biennale.

The exhibition will be open from December 7, 2022 to April 2023 in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Opening hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 12–8pm. Admission is free.

Established by the PinchukArtCentre in 2009, the PinchukArtCentre Prize is a biannual nationwide contemporary art prize to Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. This is the first private art prize in Ukraine to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a new generation of emerging Ukrainian artists.

By setting up the Prize, the PinchukArtCentre strives to raise interest in contemporary art among the Ukrainians and to form, by providing support for creation of new art works, a critical mass of new generation artists who would be successful on both national and international art scenes.

Winners of the previous editions of the PinchukArtCentre Prize
Main Prize winners
2020: Group Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei (Kolomiya/Kyiv),
2018: Anna Zvyagintseva (Kyiv),
2015: Open Group (Lviv),
2013: Zhanna Kadyrova (Kyiv),
2011: Nikita Kadan (Kyiv),
2009: Artem Volokitin (Kharkiv).

Special Prizes winners 
2020: Nikolay Karabinovych (Odesa/Ghent) and Uli Golub (Kharkiv/Wroclaw),
2018: Nikolay Karabinovych (Odesa), Yarema Malashchuk and Roman Khimei(Kolomiya),
2015: Anna Zvyagintseva (Kyiv), Alina Kleitman (Kharkiv),
2013: Open Group (Lviv), Lada Nakonechna (Kyiv), Daniil Galkin (Dnipro),
2011: Zhanna Kadyrova (Kyiv), Serhiy Radkevych (Lutsk),
2009: Oleksii Salmanov (Kyiv), Masha Shubina (Kyiv).

Public Choice Prize winners
2020: Group Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy (Kharkiv), 
2018: Alina Kleitman (Kharkiv),
2015: Anna Zvyagintseva (Kyiv),
2013: Anatoly Belov (Kyiv),  
2011: Mykyta Shalennyi (Dnipro), 
2009: BLUMOLOKO.