The Gulag History Museum has been awarded the 2021 Council of Europe Museum Prize. The reward, which has been awarded given that 1977, is offered annual to a gallery that has made a considerable contribution to recognizing the European social heritage and has actually advertised respect for civils rights and also democracy.
Talking in behalf of the Culture Committee that picked the reward, Roberto Rampi claimed in part that the Gulag History Museum “can work as a version to other museums in Europe to develop a well-documented and also moving memory of the past and also stimulate reflection on democratic citizenship, especially for younger generations.”
The Gulag History Museum was developed in 2001 by Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, a noticeable chronicler and also writer that had actually been sent to prison in the camps as a kid of an “adversary of individuals.” Its goal is to research, evaluate and also talk about honestly the background of mass suppressions in the Soviet Union via short-lived as well as permanent exhibitions, occasions, publishing and also other tasks.
Gallery director Roman Romanov stated, in approving the award, that it was “a great honor and also duty. We more than happy that our gallery’s projects were so very evaluated by an international jury of professionals. This is only the 2nd time the award has actually been provided to a museum in Russia. The very first time it was provided to the Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk World Square.”
Zverev Art Prize In honor of the 90th wedding anniversary of the birthday of musician Anatoly Zverev, the AZ Museum has actually announced the Zverev Art Prize. 3 prizes will be awarded for art works that “reverberate with the spirit of Zverev’s art,” enveloped by the epigraph to Zverev’s autobiography: “Life is constricted, art is cost-free.”
Anatoly Zverev was among the leading lights of the team of non-conformist musicians operating in the post-war period in the Soviet Union. He generated hundreds of paintings, drawings, and also pictures that now make up a large of the AZ Museum collection.
The award was announced by Natalia Opaleva, the CEO of the Museum, and also its art supervisor, Polina Lobachevskaya. Candidates must be at least 18 years old, of any kind of sex, citizenship or race. Works might remain in a large range of media: paint, sculpture, visuals art; road art, conceptual writings, animation, or video art. The jury will certainly additionally take into consideration tasks that need financing to be applied, such as screenplays or setups.
The only problems are that the jobs have to be developed particularly for the Prize as well as have actually never ever been presented prior to.
A panel of popular numbers in the modern art globe will pick a short list for an event, and then a court will select the laureates. Reward is 1 million rubles ($ 13,530), 2nd reward is 500,000 rubles ($ 6765), as well as 3rd reward is 250,000 rubles ($ 3383).