Young painter prize
The Patrons of "Young Painter Prize" :Dali Van Rooij Rakutyte, Mindaugas Raila and the family of Nicolas Ortiz.
In 2011 the project “Young Painter Prize” is expanding. This year the project welcomes the participation of young artists from three Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia). The main aim of the project stays unaltered - 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 Lithuania and 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 age limit has been imposed deliberately as the organisers wish to concentrate only on those very young artists who have just graduated (or are graduating) universities and have not yet had the opportunity to appear in public. This category of young artists is most vulnerable and has the largest need for support.
The project “Young Painter Prize” was initiated and carried out under the auspices of the painter Vilmantas Marcinkevičius and art critic Julija Petkevičienė. This project is a non-institutional independent project. The exhibition is of selective nature and welcomes the participation of young artists from all over Lithuania. Applications submitted will be considered by a competent commission, which, using the principle of anonymous assessment, will select ten 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.
Aiming to introduce the young artists’ works to as wide an audience as possible we are collaborating with online portals: the arts portal www.artnews.lt and the general public portal www.delfi.lt. As it is our intention to provide our young artists with as much assistance as is possible towards securing a niche in the Lithuanian market and maintaining their creative potential in their home country, art critics, artists of older generation, gallery owners, private art patrons and art collectors from Lithuania and abroad are welcomed to participate in the project’s events (an exhibition, press conference and Awards’ evening).
“Young Painter Prize 2010” is supported not only by private art patrons but also by the Nida’s Art Colony, a subdivision of Vilnius Academy of Arts, grants the main prize winner with a two months’ residence in Nida, Lithuania; Austrian Ministry for Arts and Culture (BMUKK), which is providing the young winner with an opportunity to live and create in the Laudon artist’s residence for three months in 2011.
Special thanks to Lithuanian Cultural Attaché in Croatia and Austria Valiukonytė Rita for mediation with BMUKK.
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