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Winners

Daniil Revkovskiy & Andriy Rachinskiy (collective), Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė (collective) and Zuzanna Czebatul — are the artists who impressed the jury with their works and won the third edition of the international competition for visual artists — Allegro Prize 2022. The Audience Choice Award won Yuriy Biley.

After the vigorous deliberations, the jury has chosen 12 honourable mentions instead of 10 — because 3 artists received equal amount of points.

MAIN AWARD — 25 000 PLN

Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy (collective)

Jury’s justification: Revkovskiy and Rachinskiy for many years have been observing and documenting their homeland — Ukraine with an eye on the political, giving a strong voice to a highly significant collective memory of a country traumatised by the war. By doing so, they are fusing different formats of artistic practices (installations, video, reenactment, archives), researching the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of their country. Artists process a large amount of information, creating new archives in the concept of Hal Foster's “archival impulse” and pulling unpopular topics and unnoticed historical and social processes to the surface of public thought.

Biography: Daniil Revkovskiy and Andriy Rachinskiy is a Kharkiv artists who are fusing different formats of artistic practices (installations, reenactment, video, archives), researching the contexts and landscapes of the industrial regions of Ukraine. Graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, majoring in Graphic design. Shortlisted for PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2018, 2020 and 2022 holders of the PinchukArtCentre Prize 2020 public choice award for “Hooligans” project.

‘We are very happy to have participated in the Allegro Prize and won. For us, it is a very important award and recognition for our long work together. These are very difficult times for us and all Ukrainians, due to the Russian aggression. But we don’t stop working and doing new art projects. Your support will allow us to continue with it. This prize will help us to implement new projects that will present Ukraine to the world. Thank you very much!' — say Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovski.

Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy
Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy
Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy
Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovskiy

MAIN AWARD — 25 000 PLN

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė (collective)

Jury’s justification: Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė’s processual works span performance, sculpture, photography, painting, and video. Their works reference Baltic-Slavic folklore, traditional Lithuanian folk songs, and literature mixed with ecofeminist criticism and anxieties related to ecological and social unease showing our contemporary angst. Real (past and current), dreamt and legendary fears mutate and take on new shapes in the present times — they create new horror narratives that map out our future coexistence. Their collaborative work impressively reflects our time, in which certainty is a matter of the past.

Biography: Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė are an artist duo living and working in Basel. Both graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. Their collaborative work spans performance, sculpture, photography, painting and video. They are the founders of the YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013–2021). They have exhibited internationally including at: Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2022); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg (2021); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo and Milan (2021); Kunstverein Leipzig (2021); Swiss Institute, New York (2020); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2020); FriArt — Kunsthalle Fribourg (2020); Futura, Prague (2019); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); Cell Project Space, London (2018); 6th Athens Biennale (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); ICA, London (2017); MOMA, Warsaw (2016); Berlin Biennale 9 (2016); MaM, Paris (2015) among others. They are the recipients of the CERN Collide Residency 2022 and laureates of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.

‘We were very happy to find out we were awarded the Prize amongst many great submissions. We are honoured and humbled, and it means a lot to have our practice acknowledged by a professional jury composed of cultural workers we admire so much. We are very grateful to the jury and also to the many collaborators we have been developing our work with throughout the years’.
‘We hope the Prize will contribute to the visibility of our practice internationally and, what is particularly important to us, within the Polish art context as well. Beyond the immediate exposure given by the prize, we look forward to presenting our work within the Contemporary Lynx feature. Financial support is very important, especially in the case of research-driven collaborative practices, and will help us sustain our way of working’ — say Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė

Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Amanda Wilkinson, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė
Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė

MAIN AWARD — 25 000 PLN

Zuzanna Czebatul

Jury’s justification: Zuzanna Czebatul in her works often addresses power structures, ideologies and politics in which she exposes fluidity or flexibility. She uses her own body as a trigger for an erotic fantasy of power. Her installations often appear in turns collapsed, destroyed, deflated, or fragmented, and question concepts such as monuments, public edifice and symbolic architecture — they are anti-monuments for an ideology-free society. She breaks through boundaries and systems of domination with mostly monumental installations that give space to important queer feminine perspectives in an often literally oversized way.

Biography: Zuzanna Czebatul completed her studies fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main and later attended the MFA program at Hunter College in New York on a Fulbright scholarship. She has had numerous international solo exhibitions, among them at Kunstpalais Erlangen, CAC Synagogue Delme in 2020, CCA Futura Prague in 2019 and MINI/Goethe Institute Ludlow 38, New York in 2015. Her work was included in group exhibitions like the Baltic Triennale BT 14 in Vilnius, the Athens Biennale AB7 and the Wroclaw Biennale in 2021, amongst others. Currently she is in New York City with a travel grant by the Hessische Kulturstiftung.

‘I am honoured and encouraged, especially since art feels arbitrary to some extent. Since I was born in Poland, my work relates to the country’s history and current state. So I am happy to present my work to a broader Polish audience.’ — says Zuzanna Czebatul.

Zuzanna Czebatul, photo by Stini Roehrs
Zuzanna Czebatul
Zuzanna Czebatul, Their New Power, 2020
Zuzanna Czebatul

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD – 5 000 PLN

Yuriy Biley

Biography: Yuriy Biley is a visual artist and curator. He graduated from the National Academy of Arts in Lviv. The artist’s practice focuses on themes related to the experience of emigration. In 2011 together with Pavlo Kovach and Stanislav Turina he created an art gallery in Lviv named “Detenpyla gallery” which focuses on the work of Ukrainian and foreign contemporary artists. The artist’s individual works are in the collections of the Labirynt gallery, Lublin (Poland), Museum of Contemporary Art in Kherson (Ukraine) and in private collections.

Yuriy Biley, Photo by Michał Kaczyński, 2022
Yuriy Biley, KNOWLEDGE OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN THE WEALTH OF THE MOTHERLAND 2022, installation, steel, sheet metal, paint, size 400x300x20cm. Exhibition, “Raster Sculpture Garden”, Raster gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Photo by Michał Kaczyński
Yuriy Biley, PURPOSE OF STAY, 2019 – ongoing, іnstallation, audio 2h 3' 12", 151 objects
Yuriy Biley, OUR FATHERLAND IS THE MOTHER OF ALL POLES, 2021, from the project «The Value of These Words Also Depends on You», 2021– ongoing.

special mention

Yuriy Biley

special mention

Andreea Anghel

special mention

Filipka Rutkowska

special mention

Alicja Rogalska

special mention

SAGG Napoli

special mention

Yana Kononova

special mention

Akwasi Afrane

special mention

Monika Czyżyk

special mention

Rexy Tseng

special mention

Beatrice Schuett Moumdjian

special mention

Veronika Cherednychenko

special mention

Alexia Venot

About

Allegro and Contemporary Lynx Foundation are proud to announce
the third edition of the Allegro Prize competition with a
total prize pool of 80 000 PLN.

We aim to:

Give artists the chance to present their works to an extremely wide range of Polish and international recipients.
Through this financial support give artists the opportunity to fully devote themselves to artistic development.
Create a platform where art lovers and professionals from all over the world can meet artists selected by the prestigious jury panel.
Search for new talent and promote the visual arts.

Calling all:

Artists from any country, all ages

representing all forms of visual arts.
Students and graduates

of art schools and colleges.
Artists who haven’t graduated

but have documented artistic pathway.

No entry fee

All participation fees are waived.

Prizes

Main Award

3 x 25 000 PLN

Article in Contemporary Lynx Magazine 1(19)2022 or 2(20)2022.
Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).

AUDIENCE AWARD

5 000 pln

Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).

SPECIAL MENTIONS

10 x

Article with works published in Contemporary Lynx Weekly Online and on the Allegro Prize website.
Article posted on the social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Newsletter).
Annual subscription for the print edition of Contemporary Lynx Magazine (delivery cost included).

ADDITIONAL GIFTS

30 x

A copy of the latest Contemporary Lynx Magazine.

Jury

Joanna Kamm

Director of Liste Art Fair Basel

Born in Munich, Joanna Kamm studied philosophy and cultural studies in Munich and Berlin. From 1998 to 2001 she was the director of a Berlin project space before founding Galerie Kamm, which she ran until 2014. From 2001 to 2003 her gallery was part of Liste Art Fair Basel and took part at Art Basel from 2005 to 2013 at the sections Statements, Feature and Galleries respectively. As a gallerist, she was a member of the committee of Art Basel Miami Beach and of the boards of abc – art berlin contemporary as well as Gallery Weekend Berlin. As successor to Peter Bläuer, she is the director of Liste Art Fair Basel since September 2018.
Slavs and Tatars

Art collective

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective devoted to an area East of the former Berlin Wall and West of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Since its inception in 2006, the collective has shown a keen grasp of polemical issues in society, clearing new paths for contemporary discourse via a wholly idiosyncratic form of knowledge production: including popular culture, spiritual and esoteric traditions, oral histories, modern myths, as well as scholarly research. The collective’s practice is based on three activities: exhibitions, publications, and lecture-performances. The collective has published more than twelve books to date, including most recently The Contest of the Fruits (MIT Press, 2021) as well as a translation of the legendary Azerbaijani satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (currently in its 2nd edition with I.B Tauris, 2017). In addition to launching a residency and mentorship program for young professionals from their region, Slavs and Tatars recently opened Pickle Bar, a slavic aperitivo bar-cum-project space a few doors down from their studio in Moabit.
Ksenia Malykh

Head of the Research Platform of PinchukArtCentre

Art historian, curator, researcher, Head of the Research Platform of PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine. Co-founder of the OK Projects NGO and Closer Art Center, Kyiv. General manager of the Ukrainian National Pavilion on 58th Biennale in Venice.
Focused on research and education activities.
Born in Kyiv, 1985. Temporary based in Hannover, Germany as a resident of Kestner Gesellschaft.

Anja Rubik

Supermodel, philanthropist and Founder of sexed.pl

Polish born supermodel Anja Rubik has been at the pinnacle of her industry for 20 years. She has featured in ad campaigns for the most notable houses that included Saint Laurent, Chloe, Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, Estee Lauder, Versace and Fendi just to name a few. She has become one of Karl Lagerfeld’s most recognizable muses and supported the career of Saint Laurent Creative Director Anthony Vaccarello where she continues to be the face of his designs. Rubik’s time during the past two decades has been shared between dozens of Vogue covers and other top fashion magazines, television series and catwalk through to consulting and designing for brands. Vogue Paris named her one of its Top 30 models of the decade, and she has ranked third on the US edition of the publication’s list of Top 10 models.
In 2017 Rubik accepted the role of Creative Consultant and Ambassador for Parley. In the same year she founded a sexuality education foundation, #SEXEDpl, in her country of origin Poland citing a void in the current curriculum that could not be responsibly ignored. #SEXEDpl quickly became the the most successful educational platform in the Poland while being recognized by the most influential global institutions such as the United Nations and UNFPA. Anja Rubik is also the author of the #SEXEDpl book for teenagers that became a nation-wide bestseller, selling over 220K copies. Over the years Anja Rubik has been a figure that has transcended the fashion world into social and environmental issues in many forums and many different platforms and her consistent clarity of thought and moral courage has become universally respected.
photo: Karim Sadli
Dorian Batycka

Curator and art writer

Dorian Batycka is a curator and art writer based in between Europe, Canada and Dubai. His writing can be found in Hyperallergic, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Artnet News, The Art Newspaper, Contemporary Lynx and others, where he covers everything from the trials and tribulations of the art market, cultural politics and issues ranging from censorship to restoration, heritage and technology.
Karolina Miszczak

Owner of the Collectibles and Art category, allegro.pl

A graduate of art history and cultural studies at the University of Warsaw and graphic design at the Warsaw School of Photography and Graphic Design. She has been connected to the art market for over 10 years. From 2014 to 2017, she was an advisor to collectors associated with the art tank collection project, and she was also a co-curator of the collection with the same name – based on Polish artists’ works of the young and middle generation. From 2018 to 2019, she was the director of the Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw. Since 2020, she has been associated with Allegro as a Key Account Manager in the art, collectables and investment segments. Since October 2021, she has been the Senior Category Owner of the Collectibles and Art category and is also responsible for activities involving contemporary art in the platform's communication area.

Dobromiła Błaszczyk Sylwia Krasoń

Editors-in-Chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine

Dobromiła Błaszczyk — art historian, curator and author of texts about art. She’s the co-founder of the Contemporary Lynx organisation and press outlet established in London (2013), as well as the editor-in-chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine and President of the Contemporary Lynx Foundation in Warsaw. She obtained her MA degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. At Starmach Gallery, where she worked in the years 2009–2016, she organised and coordinated exhibitions, art fairs and projects in close collaboration with institutions and art collectors from Poland and abroad. Previously she worked with, among others, Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art in Stuttgart, lokal_30 in Warsaw, Kraków Photomonth Festival, Art Agenda NOVA and East of Art Foundation (2007–2008). She was involved in organising the 7th edition of Biennale Jeune Création Européenne in Montrouge, France. Member of competition juries, lecturer, moderator and participant of panel discussions held in Poland and the UK.

Sylwia Krasoń — art historian, co-founder of Contemporary Lynx organisation and independent press outlet established in London (2013), editor-in-chief of Contemporary Lynx Magazine and Vice-President of the Contemporary Lynx Foundation in Warsaw (since 2018). She obtained her MA degree in art history from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, as well as an MA degree in arts policy & management with a specialisation in curating contemporary art from the Birkbeck College of the University of London. She worked at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Phillips de Pury Auction House and Barbican Art Gallery, where she joined the curators’ team as an intern and contributed to the creation of the exhibition ‘Bauhaus. Art of Life.’ She run her own London-based art gallery Wrong Door in 2012. Author of texts about art and culture, member of competition juries, conference speaker, guest and moderator of discussion panels held in Poland and the UK.

Deadlines

Start

May

Deadline

September

Shortlist

November

Winners

December

What are the basic portfolio criteria?

The portfolio shall be submitted in English with a short biography of the artist. It should include at least 3 works (but not more than 30) in one pdf, and the file should not exceed 10MB.

Organisers

Initiators:

One of the largest Polish e-commerce platform, which since 2018 has been promoting antique and contemporary art through the Collector's Zone programme.

allegro.pl

The Contemporary Lynx Foundation supports widely understood artistic and educational activities, especially in promoting and popularising Polish and international art in the world.

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