Views 2011. Award ceremony in the Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw
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Dr Krzysztof Kalicki, CEO of Deutsche Bank Polska, Dr von Heydebreck, German Ambassador to Poland Ruediger Freiherr von Fritsch and Hanna Wroblewska, Director of Zacheta National Art Gallery
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Konrad Smolenski, FV04, video performance still, Sun Valley CA USA 2011. Courtesy Leto Gallery. © Konrad Smolenski
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Konrad Smolenski, FV04, video performance still, Sun Valley CA USA 2011. Courtesy Leto Gallery. © Konrad Smolenski
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Konrad Smoleński, BNNT, 2007, audio performance documentation. © Konrad Smolenski
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Konrad Smoleński, Guard, 2009, HD video installation. © Konrad Smolenski
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Konrad Smoleński, Boga nie ma / No God, 2009, sound installation. © Konrad Smolenski
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Honza Zamojski, Anarchia / Anarchy, 2010. Ready made installation, SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, 2010. Courtesy of the artist
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Honza Zamojski, Autoportret (dwulicowy kutas) / Autoportrait (two-faced dick), 2011, drawing on cardboard, print, reinforced glass, Galeria Leto, Warsaw, 2011. Courtesy of the artist
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Honza Zamojski, Wu, 2010, chalk on print, courtesy of the artist and LETO Gallery
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Konrad Smolenski is this year's winner of the Views Prize for Young Polish Art. The 15,000-Euro award is considered to be Poland's most important art prize. Konrad Smolenski works with video, installation, and performance. At the same time, the 1977-born artist plays with various bands and his project Pinkpunk in the experimental music scene. In their explanation, the international jury stressed the "subtle relationships Smolenski constructs between object, sound, and art" as well as the "sensitivity he brings to bear in his incorporation of sound in his videos." The three-month residency at the Villa Romana went to Honza Zamojski for his new and fresh forms of artistic investigation into the idiom of formalism.
Views was initiated jointly by the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Deutsche Bank Polska, and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw in 2003. The goal of the prize, which is awarded every two years, is to support young artists and to strengthen the artistic infrastructure in Poland. The exhibition at the Zacheta accompanying the prize presents a panorama of the current Polish scene and provides young artists with a publicity platform. In addition, "Views" helps to attract more international attention to the contemporary Polish scene. In 2006, Deutsche Bank received the Patron of Culture award in 2006 from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage for its commitment to Polish art.
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