Celeste Prize 2017, 9th edition

Friday 6th October, six winners were awarded prizes following votes by this year's 53 finalist artists @Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, London SE1, 6-8 October 2017.

Winners:
Project Prize 4,000 € - Laura Kuch, 'Wunderkammer VI'
Painting & Drawing Prize 4,000 € - Jonathan Di Furia, 'Soft corners'
Photography & Digital Graphics 4,000 € - Kyu Sang Lee, 'The Festival of Insignificance'
Video & Animation Prize 4,000 € - Love Enqvist, 'Magellania'
Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize 4,000 € - Maria Luigia Gioffrè, 'Penelope's white wall'
Super-Young Prize 3,000 € - Meng Zhou, 'Mr Lei, Rain Rain Rain'

Finalists' full voting results:
Project Prize: 2nd Kalina; 3rd Linda De' Nobili
Painting & Drawing Prize: 2nd Alina Petre @theathev; 3rd Yaprak Akinci
Photography & Digital Graphics Prize: 2nd Hang Zhang; 3rd Ellie Davies
Video & Animation Prize: 2nd Dilara Koz; 3rd Miguel Angel Rego Robles
Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize: 2nd Izabela Maciejewska; 3rd Maria Rondeau
Super-Young Prize: 2nd Eda Sutunc; 3rd Jevon Chandra

Full details: https://www.celesteprize.com/celesteprize2017/

Celeste Prize is an international contemporary arts prize for emerging and mid-career artists, which helps builds artists' careers with critics, galleries and collectors.

The Jury
Fatoş Üstek, chief-juror of Celeste Prize 2017
George Clark, independent curator and filmmaker
Ovul O. Durmusoglu, independent curator
Rozsa Zita Farkas, Arcadia Missa
Attilia Fattori Franchini, independent curator
Anna Gritz, Kunst Werke Berlin
Nav Haq, Muhka, Antwerp
Harriet Loffler, Norwich Castle Museum
Louise O'Kelly, BlockUniverse
Ilaria Puri Pure, Contemporary Art Society
Filipa Ramos, Art Agenda, Vdrome
Emiliano Valdes, Museum of Modern Art, Medellin
Ben Vickers, Serpentine Gallery

23,000 € cash Prizes and 12 group shows with partner galleries.
Project Prize, 4,000 €
Painting & Drawing Prize, 4,000 €
Photography & Digital Graphics Prize, 4,000 €
Video & Animation Prize, 4,000 €
Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize, 4,000 €
Super-Young Prize, 3,000 €

Celeste Prize thanks its gallery partners for their offer to invite and exhibit in 2018 a selection of entrants and their works. Galleries include: Artisti Italiani, Catania; Artrooms, London; Burning Giraffe Art Gallery, Turin; C&C Studio, Turin; Cell63, Berlin; Die Mauer, Prato; La Macina di San Cresci, Greve in Chianti; Plenum Photography, Catania; Still Photography, Milan; Studio 38, Pistoia; White Noise Gallery, Rome; Widmertheodoridis, Zurich.

Celeste Prize 2017 is organized by Celeste Network.
www.celesteprize.com/celesteprize2017/
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