The Kandinsky Prize nominees show opened last week in the Central House of the Artist. There are 45 nominees from 331 entries. Deutsche Bank's Friedhelm Hutte has left the jury; Alla Rosenfeld and Vasili Tsereteli have joined it (Open Space, in Russian). List of nominees below the cut. I see that Tanatos Banionis is nominated for media-project of the year. I mentioned this pseudonymous artist in my artnet column on the Biennale and ArtMoskva and also reported Dima Khankin's emphatic denial that he and co-gallerist Emelyan Zakharov were TB, despite widespread Moscow gossip (artnet). Taking Khankin at his word, and looking to see whose work that of TB resembles, one comes up with AES+F.
1. Konstantin Batynkov
2. Petr Bely
3. Vita Buivid
4. Lekha Garikovich
5. Dmitri Gretski
6. Alla Esipovich
7. Vadim Zakharov
8. Vladimir Kozin
9. Irina Korina
10. Rostislav Lebedev
11. Grigori Maiofis
12. Igor Muhin
13. Nikola Nasedkin
14. Arkadi Nasonov
15. Pavel Peppershtein
16. Nikolai Polisski
17. Roman Sakin
18. Semen Faibisovich
19. Natalia Khlebtysevich
20. Anastasia Khoroshilova
21. Dmitri Tsvetkov
22. Kirill Chelushkin
23. Dmitri Shorin
24. Sergei Shutov
Young artist of the year
1. 3ART
2. MAKE
3. Milk&Vodka
4. Evgeni Antufev
5. Andre Blokhin, Georgi Kuznetsov
6. Lekha Garikovich
7. Ivan Lungin
8. Stepan Subbotin
9. Dmitrij Teselkin
10. Aleksandra Frolova
Media-art project of the year
1. Tanatos Banionis
2. Aleksandra Dementeva
3. Yuliya Devlyashova, Aleksandra Toshchevikova
4. Vadim Zakharov
5. Marina Zvjyagintseva
6. Elena Kovylina
7. Aleksandr Lavrov
8. Aleksei Politov, Marina Belova
9. Provmyza
10. Dmitri Sokolenko, Olga Tobreluts
11. Aristarkh Chernyshev, Aleksei Shulgin
