Rebecca Russo, Art Collector, Philanthropist, Maecenas, President of Videoinsight® Foundation, is Member of the Panel of Judges for the Purvītis Prize 2017 in Riga, Lettonia. At a press conference held at the Latvian National Museum of Art on 12 December 2016 the eight finalists for the 2017 Purvītis Prize were announced. The winner of the 2017 Purvītis Prize will be announced on 17 February 2017, at which time an exhibition featuring the works of all eight finalists will be opened in the Great Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art. The Purvītis Award is the highest and most prestigious visual art award in Latvia. It was established in 2008 with the goal of regularly and systematically following current events in visual art in Latvia, promoting the intensity of Latvian art processes, encouraging new projects and the development of original ideas, and popularising the creative accomplishments of Latvia’s artists both in Latvia and beyond its borders. According to the Statute of the Purvitis Prize, after evaluating the works selected for The Prize exhibition, the Jury will select the winner of The Prize. The Prize Jury shall take its decisions after discussion by open, simple majority vote on February 16, 2017.
Here the eight finalists:
KRISTAPS EPNERS / Nominated for Solo Exhibition ‘Exercises’
IVARS DRULLE / Nominated for Solo Exhibition ‘To My Homeland’
ARTURS BĒRZIŅŠ / Nominated for Solo Exhibitions Works of Images and Works of Images II
ATIS JĀKOBSONS / Nominated for Solo exhibition ‘Dark Matter’
VOLDEMĀRS JOHANSONS / Nominated for Video installation ‘Thirst’
ANDA LĀCE / Nominated for Performance ‘Decontamination’ at the exhibition ‘Miervaldis Polis. Illusion as Reality’
MAIJA KURŠEVA / Nominated for Art work ‘Joviality’ at the exhibition ‘Bigger Peace, Smaller Peace’
KRIŠS SALMANIS, ANNA SALMANE, KRISTAPS PĒTERSONS / Nominated for Exhibition ‘Song’
Description of nomination and artist, CV, photos of works about all candidates.
