Young Belgium Painters Award
BOZAR
Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten

Award Ceremony:
24.06 2009 - 18h30

Exhibition:
25.06.2009 - 13.09.09

Projects by LAb[au]
framework f5x5x4 - interactive / generative installation
chrono_prints - generative artwork
SwarmDots - generative artwork

About :
Encouraging the emergence of young talents, supporting artistic approaches likely to become tomorrow's points of reference, providing a good platform for expression, these are just some of the commendable objectives pursued by the biennial Young Belgian Painters Award exhibition. A longstanding partner of the Centre for Fine Arts, the Young Belgian Painters is undertaking this exploratory work, which throws light on individual careers, artistic adventures, universes and occasionally even reveals future trends. (...)

As in the past, an international panel made up of professionals from the world of art was formed to select and reward the most promising works. This year, we have been able to count on the participation of Charlotte Laubard, Director of the CAPC muse d'Art contemporain in Bordeaux; Friedrich Meschede, Head of the Department of Visual Arts at the Deutscher Akademischer

Austausch Dienst (DAAD) in Berlin until October 2008 and now Head of exhibitions at the MACBA in Barcelona; Macha Roesink, Director of the De Paviljoens Museum in Almere and Yves Aupetitallot, Director of Le Magasin, the Centre national d'art contemporain in Grenoble. (...)

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Paul Dujardin, Director BOZAR