PinchukArtCentre 2025 Award: announced nominees and preparation for the exhibition

Exciting news from the world of contemporary art! On September 24, 2024, PinchukArtCentre announced the names of 20 nominees for the PinchukArtCentre 2025 award. This prestigious national award in the field of contemporary art once again gives us the opportunity to see the most talented Ukrainian artists.

New exhibition in February 2025

Each participant of the award must create new works specifically for the exhibition, which will be presented in February 2025. The exhibition will be supervised by Olexandra Pogrebnyak, the curator of PinchukArtCentre, who has already gained recognition for her professionalism and fine understanding of contemporary art.

Selection committee and nominees

The selection committee included well-known figures: Zhanna Kadyrova, Bozhena Pelenska, Kateryna Semenyuk, Serhiy Klimko and Olexandra Pogrebnyak. This year's list of nominees is impressive with its diversity and geography:

- Mykhailo Alekseenko (Kyiv)

- Kateryna Aliynyk (Kyiv)

- Yuriy Bolsa (Chervonograd)

- Lesya Vasylchenko (Kyiv/Oslo)

- Vasyl Dmytryk (Ivano-Frankivsk/Odesa)

- Yuri Yefanov (Hurzuf)

- Yevhen Korshunov (Brovary/Kyiv)

- Kateryna Lysovenko (Kyiv/Vienna)

- Krystyna Melnyk (Kyiv/Melitopol)

- Darya Molokoedova (Kramatorsk/Kyiv)

- Vladyslav Plisetskyi (Kyiv)

- Andriy Rachynskyi (Kharkiv)

- Anton Sayenko (Sumi/Kyiv)

- Anton Shebetko (Kyiv/Amsterdam)

- Zhenya Stepanenko (Kyiv/Berlin)

- Ilya Todurkin (Mariupol/Kyiv)

- Vasyl Tkachenko (Mariupol)

- Tamara Turlyun (Dnipro/Kyiv)

- Maxim Khodak (Vienna/Kyiv/Bila Tserkva)

- Variable name collective (Valeria Karpan and Maryna Marinichenko).

Winner and nominee for Future Generation Art Prize 2026

A special feature of the PinchukArtCentre award is that the winner automatically becomes a nominee for the Future Generation Art Prize 2026 – an international award in the field of contemporary art. This opens up new opportunities for Ukrainian artists on the world stage.

"We are extremely happy to announce this year's nominees and look forward to their works. This will be an unforgettable event for all fans of contemporary art, " said curator Oleksandra Pogrebnyak.

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Editor: Emiliia Morozova