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  • THE KURYOKHIN AWARD LONG-LIST IS ANNOUNCED

26.03–26.03

The annual Ceremony of the XI Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award will take place on March 26. The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award is given each year to artists, curators and musicians who use art to develop progressive ideas formulated by Sergey Kuryokhin in the 90s.

This year Alexey Luka’s art work "Stayka-2607" was longlisted for the XI award and won the all-Russian ARCHIWOOD Award in the Art Object nomination in 2019.

This time, the format of the event and its objectives will be considerably redefined. The building of the Maltsevsky Market will be the venue of the Ceremony, and its employees will act along with invited performers and musicians as participants and contributors of the Ceremony. This year, the Award Ceremony will be directed by Nikolay Komyagin, the bandleader of Shortparis who will engage the market employees along with performers and musicians in the participation.

The director intends to push together elitist and mass, sacred and profaned art, as well as to upgrade the artistic language through colliding with the mundaneness. During preparation of the Ceremony, a socio-anthropological study will be conducted in order to collect personal stories of the market salesmen through interviews and “field work”. It is also planned to create art objects by efforts of representatives of the market community and the artists nominated for the Sergey Kuryokhin Award of 2019.

Vladimir Varnava, choreographer and dancer, musicians of the Shortparis band, the Saint-Petersbourg combined choir, actors and workers of the Maltsevsky Market will participate in the Ceremony. The musical menu of the show will include works of Sergey Kuryokhin, as well as both compositions specially created for the Award and ready-made hits of mass culture. 

The Award was founded in 2009 by the Fund and Contemporary Art Center named after Sergey Kuryokhin. Each year the Ceremony takes place in a new location and invites a new director. For example, it was directed by Andrey Bartenev in 2017,and last year by Fyodor Kuryokhin, Sergey Kuryokhin’s son.

The photo is taken from the Sobaka.ru site