The annual Young Painter’s Prize has been awarded for the fifteenth time. On Friday 10 November 2023, the Young Painter’s Prize art competition (YPP) has marked its fifteenth anniversary and held the award ceremony which was followed by the opening of the YPP finalists’ group show in the Museum of Applied Art and Design. This year, the main prize went to the Lithuanian artist Agata Orlovska . In his address to the participants of the competition, the YPP jury member Mr. Laurent Le Bon – art historian, the President..
This year – for the fifteenth time already – the Young Painter Prize (YPP) competition invites the young artists from around the Baltic States to showcase their work. This year, as last year, as an exception, young Ukrainian artists who currently reside in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia can apply for the competition. Young artists from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine (residing in Baltic countries) are invited to apply to the competition..
.. / ReadYPP Announces This Year's Best Young Painter in the Baltic States. This year’s winner of the Young Painter Prize competition was announced in Vilnius Picture Gallery on 18 November. For fourteen years now, YPP is continuing to be one of the key events for the young artists from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and, exceptionally this year, Ukraine. The YPP’s international jury announced Linas Kaziulionis as this year’s best young painter in the Baltic states.
Conditions for participation:
1. Only artists with degree level education in art (or are in the process of attaining such a qualification) may participate in “Young Painter Prize 2010”.
2. Applications can only be submitted by artists under 30 years old.
3. Works submitted must have been executed between 2009/2010 (only one work is to be presented for submission at the artist’s own discretion).
4. All applicants must supply the following by the 1st September 2010: a completed application form, photographs of five separate works (1 photograph of the competition entry in A4 format and 4 photographs of other supplemental works in A5 format), an artistic biography and a description of the conception behind the work submitted to the competition. Address: VDA dizaino inovacijų centras „Titanikas“, II a., 222 kab., Maironio g. 3, Vilnius.
5. All artists who submit work for the competition agree with the condition that the winning artists’ (the first three prize and Public prize winners’) works will become the property of the event organisers.
6. All artists who submit works for the competition agree that the project’s organisers have a right to use their work for the purposes of publicity without the artist’s consent and without payment of royalties.
The prizes for the winners of “Young Painter Prize 2010”:
The prize fond consists of the support provided by private art patrons.
1. 1st prize: 7 000Lt and a three month residence in Laudon, Austria.
2. 2nd prize: 4 000 Lt.
3. 3rd prize : 2 000 Lt.
4. Public prize - Delfi.lt prize.
