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Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA Host Multitude Art Prize and Discourse Series

Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA host Multitude Art Prize and Discourse Series on April 27–June 16, 2013.

Multitude Art Prize Design by DingDingDesign
Multitude Art Prize Design by DingDingDesign

The Multitude Foundation and Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.) present the inaugural edition of the Multitude Art Prize in collaboration with the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA). Grounded in the concept of the “multitude,” in which the extraordinary (re)emerges from a social group undergoing a geopolitical change, the Multitude Art Prize examines the role of art and its relevance in different regions of Asia. The exhibition, which will be held annually in a different Asian city, will feature five winning artists or artist groups representing the most creative, critical minds in a rising Asian contemporary art scene. In the accompanying programs, invited speakers, including leading Asian curators and scholars as well as Western museum directors involved in the institutional collaborative “L’Internationale” will provide an eclectic, academic analysis of the present and future of contemporary art in Asia.

Prizewinners: (Total prize money: 100,000 USD)
Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Philippines
Ha Za Vu Zu, Turkey
Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Korea
Raqs Media Collective, India
Yao Jui-chung, Taiwan

Conference:
Shifting Targets: Approaches to Art and Multitude in Asia
UCCA Auditorium, 28 April, 10–18:30h
The inaugural Multitude Art Prize Discourse Series examines how contemporary artists and institutions help to make culture relevant for society in different parts of Asia, whether they constitute a ‘multitude,’ and what meaning can be generated as their identities continuously evolve with their contexts.

Speakers:
Zdenka Badovinac: Director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Bart de Baere: Director, M HKA, Antwerp; Colin Chinnery: Director, Multitude Art Prize; Artistic Director, WH.A.T.; Charles Esche: Director, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kate Fowle: Chief Curator, Garage, Moscow; Director-at-Large of ICI, New York; Mami Kataoka: Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; November Paynter: Associate Director of Research and Programs, SALT, Istanbul; Jack Persekian: Director, Al Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem; Philippe Pirotte: Adjunct Senior Curator at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Art Museum; Programme Director, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing; Bartomeu Marí Ribas: Director, MACBA, Barcelona; Georg Schöllhammer: Director, Jœlius Koller Society, Bratislava; Gao Shiming: Executive Director of the School of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China; Patrick Flores: Curator of the Vargas Museum in Manila, and Adjunct Curator at the National Art Gallery, Singapore; Ravi Sundaram: Co-founder, Sarai, New Delhi; Philip Tinari: Director, UCCA, Beijing

The Multitude Foundation is a Hong Kong-registered charitable trust established in 2011 conceived out of the necessity for a genuine and sustainable cultural dialogue between the different regions of Asia. The Multitude Art Prize is the first major undertaking of the Multitude Foundation.
For more information: www.multitudefoundation.org, [email protected]

Wuhan Art Terminus (WH.A.T.) is a contemporary art institution currently being developed in Wuhan, China. By basing projects on international collaboration and the investigation of contemporary issues, WH.A.T. endeavors to create experimental projects both in Wuhan and around the world. WH.A.T. is a Wuhan Dingyun project, and is scheduled to open in 2014.
For more information: [email protected]

The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) is a comprehensive, not-for-profit art center serving a global Beijing public. As a platform for contemporary art linking China and the world, UCCA offers exhibitions and public programs which focus attention on the cultural situation in China, stimulate the development of the arts, and advance the public cultural sensibility.
www.ucca.org.cn