Awarding of winners INNOVATION

April 7, 2011 at the Centre of Contemporary Culture "Garage" took place the sixth solemn ceremony of awarding the All-Russian competition in the field of contemporary visual art INNOVATION. Traditionally, co-organizer of the ceremony came out the cultural and charitable fund U-Art, sponsor - a group of companies UNIDENT.
Each time the awards ceremony of the contest turns into an audiovisual performance under the direction of Andrei Silvestrov, and this year the ceremony was held in collaboration with the unique Finnish band «Mieskuoro Huutajat (Chorus Krikunov)" and the famous composer Iraida Yusupova.

Decorations of Ceremony started on sketches Stepan Lukyanov stressed feature, the solemnity, the uniqueness of what he saw. But the main heroes of the ceremony - are its members - beginners and recognized artists, curators, art historians.

Award "Innovation" - one of the major national awards scheme in the field of contemporary art. Award presentation took place in the presence of all the main characters of the Russian art scene: the curators, gallery owners, artists, collectors, critics, and a large gathering of media representatives. This year's innovation has caused serious resonance in the cultural community that the shortlist of nominees included art-group "War" with its notorious action, it is worth noting that this "War" and won the top prize.

Annual special prize and a cash prize of cultural and charitable fund U-Art, shared between Alice Prudnikova for I Urals industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art and Irina Korina for installation "show trial". The Founders Award was given stock - Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovy.
In the State Center of Contemporary Art at the Zoological street 13, anyone can visit the exhibition of the nominees and winners of the INNOVATION. This is a vivid and memorable installations, curatorial projects, sculpture, visual canvas, art collages, photographs by contemporary authors. We are confident that the exposure will resonate in the hearts of art lovers and unsophisticated public, as a reflection of our times and modern life.

Awards Fund UArt received Irina Korina and Alice Prudnikova

Company UNIDENT and co-organizer Prize Foundation U-Art invite everyone to visit the exhibition, which runs until May 8.

Speech by Michael Mindlin, director of the NCCA	Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovy. The awards ceremony Innovation
With the President of the Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli	Iveta Manasherova and Stella Kesayeva (Stella Art Foundation)
Alexander Lyubimov (Mediasoyuz), financier Marc Garber	Elena Lisin, Alexander Saprykin and Iveta Manasherova
Collector Victor Bondarenko, Stella Kesayeva (Stella Art foundation), Nicholas Ilyin (Von Guggenheim), Zurab Tsereteli	With Alexander Kibovsky (Department of Cultural Heritage in Moscow)
With the art director of the Victor Teresa Mavikoy	Dean, Iveta and Tamaz Manasherovy
With the prize winner U-Art Alice Prudnikova	With the honored artist of Russia Sergei Chonishvili
Olga Gerasimova, Tatiana Nikitina, Lali Manasherova	Yana Klevtsova, Konstantin Platitsin, Olga Onuprienko, Vladimir Zvyagin, Anna Leonova
Dean Manasherova Igor Gavasheli (Yunident-Dentistry)	Olga Gerasimova (UNIDENT)
Spectators could watch the ceremony, the ceremony 3D	Garage could not accommodate all who wanted to attend the ce remony