December 22, 2021 – March 20, 2022
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Artworks of the Kandinsky Prize 2007-2021 winners in the Project of the Year category. On the Nizhny Novgorod 800th Anniversary
The Kandinsky Prize celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2021 presents a unique exhibition project in Nizhny Novgorod. The exposition will feature 14 art works of the winners in the Project of the Year category selected by competent experts of the independent Russian contemporary art award.
The exhibition will reverse the history of the Kandinsky Prize winners from 2021 to 2007 thus giving the possibility to estimate longevity and relevance of the works, which became Projects of the Year in completely different times. Within the exposition renowned contemporary art classics will meet artists with just a decade-long creative career. The 15-year history of the Kandinsky Prize has actually become the history of Russian contemporary art.
In the one and a half decade of the Kandinsky Prize its main Projects of the Year have revealed not only the most important names of contemporary Russian art but also the mechanisms of selecting, rating and detecting phenomena making their way into the history of art. This is basically our time crystallized in the form of art.
Anna Gor
Head of the Volga-and-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin Arts Museum (the Arsenal)
The Kandinsky Prize has been meticulously recording the history of contemporary art through 15 years and has casually became part of this history. It is our exhibitions, published books, nominees and winners, and most importantly art works, which we are helping to show to our country and the world.
Shalva Breus
Founder of the Kandinsky Prize
It is not by accident that the Kandinsky Prize exhibition takes place in Nizhny Novgorod. In the last few years the city has become a major contemporary art centre along with Moscow and Saint Petersburg. This stimulates cultural institutions such as Breus Foundation to expand their geography and run projects in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.
The exhibition includes all the Project of the Year winners from 2007 to 2021:
2007 – Anatoly Osmolovskiy. Goods
2008 – Aleksey Beliayev Guintovt. Motherland – Daughter
2009 – Vadim Zakharov. The Saint Sebastian suite
2010 – Alexander Brodsky. The Road
2011 – Yury Albert. Moscow Poll
2012 – AES+F. Allegoria Sacra; Grisha Bruskin. H-Hour
2013 – Irina Nakhova. Untitled
2014 – Pavel Pepperstein. Holy Politics
2015 – Andrey Filippov. The Wheel in the Head
2016 – Andrey Kuzkin. Right to Life
2017 – ZIP Group. ZIP Workers’ Club Station
2019 – Evgeny Antufiev. When art became part of the landscape
2021 – Andrej Kuzkin. Prayers and Heroes
The Nizhny Novgorod Region has long become home to those pursuing contemporary art. It hosts major events in the field. The 800th anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod prompted creation of new opportunities. Transformations implemented in the city are themselves a serious impulse to draw high point events. The Kandinsky Prize celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Many remarkable artists have won the prize over the years. Now the citizens and guests of Nizhny Novgorod can enjoy the unique opportunity to see the retrospective of this lively journey. I would like to say thank you to the exhibition organizers and invite everyone who loves art to visit it.
Gleb Nikitin
Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region
With the support by:
Title sponsor – JSC Volga
