Dubai, UAE – March 2nd , 2024: SEE Institute will host the finals of Teen Art Awards 2024, a contemporary Art Award Ceremony that identifies creative talent. The ceremony includes activities that focus on supporting the growth of international teenagers, including education workshops and master classes. For the second season, teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 will be receiving professional orientation for their future careers. Subsequently, they will also be getting a motivational speech on “how to be focused on your aims.”
Teen Art Awards strives to shed light on the importance of sustainable development. It aims to instill into the minds of the youth that they can and should be able to contribute to the process of bettering the future. Their contribution is going to be for themselves and everyone else. The question “How do I want to see the world of the future?” was asked of these young individuals. Correspondingly, their perspective is what they honed into when they exhibited their artistry on an array of different and diverse creations. The UAE graciously hosted this year’s season. They are optimistic that this event will only create loyalty within the art community internationally. Plus it will encourage the world to view them as an ally to such socially significant projects.
The Art.Coordinate Foundation will present the second season of the First International Teen Art Awards, and the generous prize is a contribution from the SEE Institute.
Empowering Teenage Artists: A Vision for the Future
In particular, the event, taking place on March 2nd at the SEE Institute located in Dubai Sustainable City. The event will showcase an exciting exhibition featuring the accomplished teenage finalists. These finalists have also proudly secured the highest honors in their adolescence. Attendees will get a chance to spectate all the creations of these talented young intellectuals. Moreover, the attendees can view 100 digital projects selected from an impressive collection of about 320 competition submissions. Most importantly, exhibition highlights to the audience that teenagers can create a vision. In addition, teenagers dream for the future through the renditions of their very own innovative capabilities.
“With our project, we aim to support young people in their desire to become artists. We provide them with their first international exhibition, their first catalogue, and grant opportunities for education,” shared Daria Kalinina. She is founder and president of The Art.Coordinate Fund. “We believe that the younger generation of creators will shape the visual landscape of our world, and it is they who will bring beauty, meaning, and big dreams into our world, which will surely come true.”
Global Teen Artists Unite for Sustainable World Vision
Notably, teenagers from 38 different countries demonstrated their ideas. As a matter of fact, their ideas ranged from painting to video art and then also performance. Teenagers presented these ideas as a response to this year’s theme, “Sustainable World: a society of the future through the prism of art”. These countries include UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, South Africa, Congo, Malaysia, Singapore, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, etc.
Awards will be presented in six categories: “Painting,” “Graphics”, “Digital Art”, “Video Art“, “Performance“ and “Art storytelling”. The objective of this Award Ceremony is to offer an engrossing peek into the minds of these young artists. They are striving to express their ambitions through different methods of artistic expression. These methods stem from their vision of a sustainable world in the future.
Diverse Artistic Talents Shine in Teen Art Awards 2024 Exhibition
The exhibition will present laureates and special prizewinners, 30 of them. As well as finalists awarded by the jury and organisers, also included in the digital show – more than 100 in total.
1. Painting: Keanu Jian Tavana (UAE), Ruslana Slivina (Georgia), LAU V-SHANE (Malaysia), Evelina Vlasova (Russia), Kristina Ontensone (Russia), Alexandra Chernousova (Russia) and Ekaterina Burykina (Russia).
2. Graphics: Ayan Mehra (Singapore), Cathrine Nagel (South Africa), Tumar Galymzhankyzy (Kazakhstan), Margarita Astaturyan (Russia), Anna Bazhutina (Russia) and Camilla Kireeva (Russia).
3. Digital Art: Fatema Ezzy (UAE), Maria Kim (Russia), Maria Zykovа (Russia), Andrey Maslov (Russia) and Anna Vladimirova (Russia).
4. Video Art: Mitrah Shahani (India) and Maxim Znamenshchikov (Russia).
5. Performance: Theater and Theatrical Technologies Studio of the School of Creative Industries (Russia) and Varvara Zakharova (Russia).
6. Art storytelling:: Marina Artyomenko (Russia) and Polina Ostrovskaya (Russia), Bukho Nomatye (South Africa), Artem Volkov (Russia), Fairy Prokhorova (Russia), Anastasia Ivanenko (Russia).
Encouraging Artistic Growth: Insights from Esteemed Jurors
“We create the future not tomorrow, but today, and that includes the arts,” stated Yaroslav Markov, Art Director of The Art.Coordinate Fund. “Therefore, helping teenagers to discover their talents is the right decision.”
The jury panel for the competition comprises esteemed individuals. It includes the winners of the 2017 Kandinsky Prize, Recycle Group. Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, both of whom hold a place in the Top Ten of the Top 100 young artists of Russia. “Guys, we are very happy that you are close and interested in contemporary art! Many of you are trying to find your own style and concept in your art. We would like to wish you to keep improving yourselves and make more new projects. Practice your observation skills, develop your skills and add new ones! All this together will lead you to new discoveries and interesting projects,” stated Recycle Group.
Elizaveta Shirinyan, an Art Critic and the Director of Education at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, joins the esteemed jury panel. Azza Al Qubaisi, a renowned jewellery designer and sculptor, as well as a recipient of the Emirates Woman of the Year Awards, also contributes her expertise. Maisoon Al Saleh, an artist, writer, and CEO of The Paintly Store Maysoun, brings her insights to the panel. By the same token, Ghada Kunash, the Founder of The Workshop and the Fann A Porter art gallery, is another distinguished member of the jury. Finally, architect Lilia Grebneva serves as the ambassador for the second season of the award in the UAE.
In a celebration of art and innovation, the VIP Press reception event found its perfect backdrop at Doors. Doors is an iconic venue renowned for its dynamic artistic ambiance and culinary creativity. Doors graciously opened its space to host the pre-event reception.