[Nettime-ro] StartPoint Prize 2012 / VICTORIA ART CENTER, 6 noiembrie, ora 18.00

[Matei Samihaian <matei.samihaian@gmail.com>]

*STARTPOINT: PRIZE FOR EMERGING ARTISTS 2012 // Bucharest edition*

*Victoria Art Center*
Calea Victoriei 12C, Bucharest

November 7 - 30, 2012*
Opening on Tuesday, November 6, at 6pm*
Open Tuesday-Friday 3-7 pm, Saturday 11 am-3 pm

*Cecilia Nygren (KKH Stockholm, main prize)
Noam Darom (VŠUP Praha)

Jon Derganc (ALU Ljubljana)
Artur Niestroj (KH Kassel)
Noële Ody (AdBK Wien)
Benjamin Orlow (Goldsmiths London)
Andrei Mateescu (UNA Bucharest)
*
www.artvictoria.ro
www.startpointprize.eu

The exhibition at Victoria Art Centre presents all the awarded artists
of *StartPoint
2012* with one local guest. During its ten years of existence, StartPoint
has evolved from Czech national exhibition of graduation works, founded at
Galerie Klatovy/Klenova, into an extensive European project that follows
emerging artistic talents, which is since 2010 organized by Arbor vitae
Foundation. This year, four curators with other cooperators explored *37
art schools from 18 European countries *in order to select the most
interesting graduation projects, which then pass through further rounds of
selection until the final exhibition, which features over 20 of the most
distinctive artists. All 37 artists can be seen on the project's website.

However, StartPoint is also about *encounters between artists and experts
across countries, traditions and genres* that can bring both them and the
audience new opportunities for comparison. There is also a residential
programme for the overall winner and other prizewinning finalists, which
aims to continue this process.

This year, the exhibition of StartPoint finalists took place in Prague at
DOX *Centre for Contemporary Art*, and it is followed by two selective
exhibition of the awarded artists at the *Victoria Art Center in
Bucharest*and in the
*Open Gallery, Bratislava*. All the *prize holders are awarded a month-long
residency* in Prague together with an exhibition in the following year; the
main winner can also have a solo exhibition in the Fine Art Gallery in Cheb
and a sponsored catalogue. There is another suplementary prize - the Award
of the Czech Centres for the selected participant from the Czech Republic
consisting of a two-weeks stay at one of the Czech Centres.

*Participating schools:* GRA Amsterdam, KASK Antwerp, ASFA Athens, FVU AU
Banská Bystrica, FHNW Basel, Weissensee KH Berlin, UdK Berlin, VŠVU
Bratislava, FaVU VUT Brno, FAP UNArte Bucharest, MKE Budapest, UAD
Cluj-Napoca, HfBK Dresden, KASK Gent, KABK The Hague, KUVA Helsinki, FAPDD
UA Iasi, Kh Kassel, FU TU Košice, ALUO UL Ljubljana, ASP Lodz, Goldsmiths
London, RCA London, NABA Milano, AdBK Munich, AdBK Nuremberg,
Kunstakademiet Oslo, FU OU Ostrava, BBAA UV Pontevedra, AVU Prague, VŠUP
Prague, KKH Stockholm, WSP UMK Toruń, HKU Utrecht, FBA UPV Valencia, AdBK
Vienna, ZHdK Zurich

*Curatorial team:* Pavel Vančát, main curator of the project / Marcel
Fišer, director of the Fine Art Gallery Cheb, project coordinator / Ondřej
Chrobák, curator, The Moravian Gallery in Brno / Lucia Gavulová, director
of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Bratislava // *International
jury:*Adam Mazur, curator, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski,Warsaw / Hemma
Schmutz, director
of Salzburger Kunstverein / Chris Sharp, writer, independent curator, and
editor at large of Kaleidoscope magazine. / Radek Váňa, curator, Amsterdam

STARTPOINT is organized by the Arbor vitae Foundation, Prague.

The project STARTPOINT was supported by the Culture Programme of the
European Union and by the Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic.
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