For the 2015 edition of the Absolut Art Award, the Jury members have invited 10 nominators to select a total of 47 artists and art writers, across both the ‘Art Work’ and ‘Art Writing’ categories. Among the 37 artists nominated for ‘Art Work’, are artists from 24 countries, and which include established names like Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), Yto Barrada (France), Rivane Neuenchwander (Brazil), Lee Kit (Hong Kong), John Akomfrah (USA) and Mark Leckey (UK), and younger artists including Köken Ergun (Turkey), and Simon Denny (New Zealand). For ‘Art Writing’, ten writers have been selected representing a broad range of research backgrounds and theoretical interests, including Quinn Latimer (USA), Tirdad Zolghadr (Ireland, Switzerland, USA) and Dieter Roelstraete (Belgium).
The winner of ‘Art Work’ will receive a €20,000 cash prize, plus up to €100,000 to develop and produce a new art work; the winning writer will also be awarded a cash prize of €20,000, alongside a budget of €25,000 towards the publication and distribution of a new book. A shortlist of five artists selected by the Jury will first be revealed during Art Basel Miami Beach 2014, before the winning artist and writer actual announcement during the opening of the next Venice Biennale in May 2015, and followed by an award an award ceremony in September 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.
This year’s Jury is presided over by Massimiliano Gioni (Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions at the New Museum in New York and Artistic Director at the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Milan) and includes Magali Arriola (art critic and curator at Fundacion Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico), Negar Azimi (writer and senior editor of Bidoun Magazine), Doryun Chong (chief curator at M+, Hong Kong) and Jessica Morgan (Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art at Tate Modern, incoming Director of the Dia Art Foundation, New York).
See here for more information on the prize.
And the nominees are:
Art Work Category
John Akomfrah b. 1957 Ghana
José Antonio Suárez Londoño b.1955 Columbia
Leonor Antunes b. 1972 Portugal
Nairy Baghramian b.1971 Iran
Yto Barrada b.1971 France
Yael Bartana b.1970 Israel
Eric Baudelaire b.1973 USA
Mariana Castillo Deball b.1975 Mexico
Simon Denny b.1982 New Zealand
Trisha Donnelly b.1974 USA
Köken Ergun b.1976 Turkey
Geoffrey Farmer b.1967 Canada
Richard Hawkins b.1961 USA
Camille Henrot b.1978 France / USA
Federico Herrero b.1978 Costa Rica
Karl Holmqvist b.1964 Sweden
Iman Issa b.1979 Egypt
Jesse Jones b.1978 Ireland
Lee Kit b.1978 Hong Kong
Ragnar Kjartansson b.1976 Iceland
Mark Leckey b.1964 UK
Minouk Lim b.1968 Korea
Jean Luc Moulène b.1955 France
Maha Maamoun b.1972 Egypt
Rodney McMillian b.1969 USA
Nicole Miller b.1982 USA
Nástio Mosquito b.1981 Angola
Shahryar Nashat b.1975 Switzerland
Rivane Neuenschwander b.1967 Brazil
Amalia Pica b.1978 Argentina
Michael Portnoy b.1971 USA
Laure Prouvost b.1978 France
Frances Stark b.1967 USA
Zhou Tao b.1976 China
Kaari Upson b.1972 USA
Andra Ursuta b.1979 Romania
Arseniy Zhilyaev b.1984 Russia
Art Writing Category
Julia Bryan-Wilson USA
Santiago García Navarro Argentina
Mark Godfrey UK
Alex Kitnick USA
Adam Kleinman USA
Quinn Latimer USA
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer USA
Helen Molesworth USA
Dieter Roelstraete Belgium
Tirdad Zolghadr Iran/Switzerland/USA
30 October 2014.
