Artist Andrei Filippov wins Kandinsky Prize

Conceptual artist Andrei Filippov has won the Kandinsky Prize, one of the most important prizes in Russian contemporary art.

Filippov received the “Project of the Year” award for his installation The Wheel in the Head, featured in the Department of Eagles exhibition at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow. In this installation, Filippov explores the role of personality and his own place in history. One of the leaders of the 1980s and 90s Moscow Conceptualism, Filippov took home the award worth €40,000 (approx. US$44,000).

Olga Kroytor won the €10,000 (approx. US$11,000) “Project of the Year: Young Artist” prize for her performance entitled Fulcrum, during which she was stood on a tall pillar in the courtyard of the Moscow City Museum.

Writer and philosopher Valery Podoroga took home the award for “Scientific work: History and Theory of Contemporary Art”, for his two-volume edition Second screen: Sergei Eisenstein and the cinematography of violence. The prize for this section is having the winning work published.

Source: Lenta (in Russian).