Winners were voted by the finalist artists on 1 December during exhibition at the City of Rome's Centrale Montemartini, the culmination of an 11 month-long prize call which saw over 1,400 works submitted to a selection panel of curators headed up by Katia Garcia-Anton.
Painting & Graphics Prize
Winner
Antoinette Von Saurma - Sendai in the snow
Second equal:
Catarina Rosa - Seven Steps
Mira Sanders - Itineraria #1
Photography & Digital Graphics Prize
Winner
David Birkin - Pietà
Second equal:
Emil Bermudez - Scape
Oscar Hugal - As Orange As An Orange
Video & Animation Prize
Winner
Cristina Nunez - Someone to love
Second:
Marit Liesbeth - One way of going
Third:
Mario Pfeifer - A formal film in nine episodes. Prologue & Epilogue
Live Media, Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize
Winner
Jaime de la Jara - Curtains
Second:
Martin Romeo - Built in
Third:
Pii Anttila - Situations Wanted - Applying for a job in the underground economy
Curator's Choice Prize
Dina Danish - Type Sonata
Visitors Choice Prize Giovanni Guadagnoli -
Landscape, Ipotesi 35 Location: Centrale Montemartini, Via Ostiense 106, Rome, Italy
Exhibition dates: 1 - 9 December 2012
Exhibition opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday: 9am to 7pm.
Take a look at the
40 Celeste Prize finalists and their works chosen by the selection panel and the curator Katya Garcia-Anton.
€ 20,000 prizes:
Painting & Graphics Prize € 4,000
Photography & Digital Graphics Prize € 4,000
Video & Animation Prize € 4,000
Live Media, Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize € 4,000
Curator's Choice Prize € 3,500
Public's Choice Prize € 500
As organizers, we would like to thank curators and critics of the selection panel for giving up their time to view all works and publish their choices. And last but not least, a big thank you to all participating artists, whose enormous creative output of works, energies and thought, have created another unique resource of works for everyone to take note of!
Read catalogue texts Finalists Painting & Graphics PrizeKatarina Blazova – Beckets and Godots Jessie Brennan – The Cut Valentina Cirami – senza titolo Jessica Dreyfus – Machine of the Body Sanders Mira – Itineraria #1 Catarina Rosa – Seven Steps Hubard Severine – antistatic Amruta Shah - Detergents/Cleaners Antoinette Von Saurma – Sendai in the snow Boedi Widjaja – Ian, Rem, Kal
Finalists Photography & Digital Graphics PrizeEmili Bermùdez – Scape David Birkin – Pietà Giovanni Guadagnoli – Landscape – Ipotesi 35 Oscar Hugal – As Orange As An Orange Lorenzo Mini – “Paesaggio italiano” Gabriele Rossi – Elf SHILO – The Night Erin Solomons – “For Cindi and Ralph (the act)” Timotheus Tomicek – look and see Jacqueline Tune – What mother ses 2, England Oct 2011
Finalists Video & Animation Prize
Daniel Cerrejòn – 5min Smile Sophie Clements – There, After Dina Danish – Type Sonata Kara Hearn – One thing After Another Marit Liesbeth – One Way of Going Trish Morrissey – Ave Maria Karaoke Cristina Nunez – Someone to Love Sabrina Osborne – Look Both Ways Mario Pfeifer – A FORMAL FILM IN NINE EPISODES, PROLOGUE & EPILOGUE Swoon – Disintegration Nation
Finalists Live Media, Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize
Pii Anttila - Situations Wanted – Applying for a Job in the Underground Economy ASYNTHOME – Asynthome (Transforma/Yro) Viktor Jan – BEATOVEN Martin Romeo – Built it Nico Varchausky – SPEAKER PERFOMING KIOSK Jaime De la Jara – Curtains Mikhail Karikis - SeaWomen Bharti Parmar – SHAG Saad Qureshi – Quicken See-Saw Performance Group - Rodin Reflections (in 4 actions)
What’s new in 2012° Katya Garcia-Anton, curator of the Spanish Pavilion at 54th Venice Biennial 2011, is curator of 4th Celeste Prize 2012
° New team of international art critics and curators in the Selection Panel
° 40 finalist artists will vote € 16,000 prizes
° Two new prizes: Curator's Choice and Visitors' Choice
° Two artist residencies and one course offered free to 3 finalists, by:
The Invisible Dog, New York, USA - Jaime de la Jara
Ondarte Residency, Cancun, Mexico - Mikhail Karikis
Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy - Amruta Shah
Video Art Events° 15 September-26 December,
'Digital Performances', 15 video works by Celeste artists organised by
FonladFestival° 1-31 October on
Visualcontainer.TV the
10 Video & Animation finalist works.
Curator: Katya Garcia-Anton
Selection Panel Irina Chmyreva
Michael Connor
Micol Di Veroli
Maymanah Farhat
Lara Khaldi
Eva Gonzalez-Sancho
Jack Persekian
Lydia Pribisova
Nigel Prince
Maria Inés Rodriguez
Risa Shoup
Live Media Panel: Fonlad Festival - José Vieira
Forward Motion Theater - Eric Dunlap
Otolab-Orgone - Bertram Niessen
Claudio Sinatti – IED
Alessandro Ludovico – Neural Magazine.
Entry fee: € 40 / 1 work
Each work submitted to Celeste Prize:° is seen and properly considered by members of the Selection Panel
° is part of a clear and open selection process which is visibile in a special online section –
each selector will publish his or her choices for all to see.
° is immediately viewable throughout Celeste Network’s community of 40,000+ members
° benefits from top web indexing, which means it can be found instantly in the web
Celeste Prize 2012 is working in collaboration with
City of Rome's
Musei Capitolini - Centrale Montemartini,
Zetema,
Glocal Project and
ZeL Edizioni
See what happened in 2011The winners The finalists Shortlisted works The event Curators2012 in Rome – Katya Garcia-Anton, Spain 2011 in New York - Eugene Tan, Singapore; Sara Reisman, USA 2010 in New York - Julia Draganovic, Germany; Mark Gisbourne, UK 2009 in Berlin -
Mark Gisbourne, UK ;
Adrienne Goehler, Germany ;
Victoria Lu, China
