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.
Young Painter Prize 2010 finalists exhibition No 10
Maironio st. 3/ Vilnius
2010.10.14 - 2010.11.20
Linas Jusionis.On the beach, 100x150cm, acrylic on canvas, 2010
We can be happy for the interest in this project is growing. In 2009, 28 applications of artists have been received, while in the project of 2010, already 46 creators have applied for the contest. Only ten artists have been selected for the final. They could be already happy, that they have been noticed. It is a pleasure that the “extent” of the project is increasing as well. The YPP sponsors were joined by a few more people – a businesswoman Dali Van Rooij Rakutyte and the Ministry of Education, Art and Culture of Austrian Federal Republic (BMUKK). The latter institution provides a winner with an opportunity to live and create in Laudon residence for three months, in 2011. This year the competitive exposition taking place in „Pamėnkalnio“ gallery is accompanied by two additional expositions in exposition halls of DIC “Titanikas“ of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. One of them is a personal exposition of Andrius Zakarauskas, who is the winner of „Young Painter Prize 2009“ - "Painting by Scenery Painting Methods” (“Peizažo nutapymo būdų tapyba“); another exposition is formed of artworks of finalists of YPP’10 „No. 10“. More comprehensive information on YPP project and participant artists could be found on internet site www.ypp.lt .
