Garage Museum of Contemporary Art announces the winners of Garage grant program in support of emerging Russian artists

Date

4 OCT 2016

On October 3, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art announced the winners of Garage grant programs for emerging artists in 2016/2017.

The announcement of the results took place during the round table discussion, Museum Experiments or Experimenting in a Museum. How Science Art Has Changed Cultural Institutions.

Garage founded the first grant program for emerging artists in 2012. This program is still the only one of its kind in the country. As part of its collaboration with SDV Arts & Science Foundation, in 2016 Garage expanded its grant program to include an Art and Technology section, which supports emerging artists and artist groups working with information and engineering technologies and in the field of science art.

During the application period for both programs Garage received 482 applications and named just ten winners.

The expert committee for the program in support of emerging Russian artists picked the following artists:

  • Antonina Baever
  • Artem Filatov
  • Olga Kroytor
  • Taus Makhacheva
  • Ivan Novikov
  • Sasha Pirogova
  • Mikhail Zaikanov

The winners will receive a monthly fellowship of 30,000 rubles.

The winners of Art and Technology section are:

  • Natalya Egorova
  • Sergey Kasich
  • Ippolit Markelov and 18 Apples crew

Apart from a monthly fellowship of 30,000 rubles, grant recipients will also be awarded a two-week residency at the SDVentures office in Riga.

  • The 2016/2017 Grant program for emerging Russian artists expert committee:
  • Alexandra Kharitonova, Art Director at Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
  • Andrey Misiano, Assistant Curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Alexey Novoselov, Head of Exhibitions at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
  • Anastasia Mityushina, Curator of Public Programs at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Ilya Shipilovskikh, Head of Exhibitions at Yeltsin Presidential Center, Yekaterinburg
  • Elena Yaichnikova, independent curator
  • Anna Zaytseva, Deputy Director in charge of Exhibitions at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

The expert committee for Art and Technology:

  • Anton Belov, Director at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Katya Inozemtseva, Curator of International Programs at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
  • Olga Shishko, Director and Curator at MediaArtLab Center for Art and Culture, Moscow
  • Dmitry Volkov, Co-Founder of SDVentures and SDV Arts & Science Foundation, Riga

Image:
Sasha Pirogova
Agon, 2016
Snapshots from the video
Courtesy of the artist

 

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