Iván Argote, shortlisted for Future Generation Art Prize 2017. Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ucraine. From February 27th - April 16th 2017.

 

PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) presents an exhibition of the 21 shortlisted artists for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, the first global art prize for artists up to 35, founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009. The show focuses on the presentation of newly produced works giving a remarkable view on the most actual artistic positions of a next generation of artists. Their work engages with the complexities of the contemporary world and investigates the possibilities of art within it. Balancing between personal and collective, imaginary and real, familiar and uncanny, the show invites the visitors to set off the captivating journey through wide range of ideas that absorb the artists today. The show, curated by anna Smolak, encompasses the diverse works developed in a variety of media and formats, such as site-specific interventions, sculptures, interactive installations, performative gestures, videos, text- and sound-based projects.

Iván Argote is one of the 20 shortlisted artists. He is one of the more than 4,400 participants coming from 138 countries that have participated in this year´s edition. The shortlisted artists were chosen by an international Selection Committee.

http://pinchukartcentre.org/en/exhibitions/vistavka-21-nominanta-mizhnarodnoyi-premiyi-future-generation-art-prize-2017