Carnegie Art Award
Kristján Guðmundsson Takes First Place
The Carnegie Art Award, founded some ten years ago in Sweden, is not only highly renowned but also carries one of the biggest monetary prizes in the art world: 1,000,000 Swedish Kronor or more than 130,000 USD for first place. The candidates are selected from all the Nordic countries and take part in an exhibition that tours the Nordic capitals and which this year will also go to London, Nice and Beijing.
Only once before has an Icelandic artist been among the finalists, in 2006 when Eggert Pétursson took the second prize. Now Kristján Guðmundsson (born 1941), veteran of the SÚM-movement in the 1960s and long among the country‘s leading artists, has taken the coveted first prize. The second prize goes to the Swedish artist Kristina Jansson (born 1967) and the third to Swedish Felix Gmelin (born 1962).
HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark will award the prizes at an official ceremony at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen on 17 September 2009. This will also see the opening of the travelling exhibition, comprising the 23 Nordic artists in the Carnegie Art Award 2010 that the jury handpicked from a total of 148 nominees.
Only once before has an Icelandic artist been among the finalists, in 2006 when Eggert Pétursson took the second prize. Now Kristján Guðmundsson (born 1941), veteran of the SÚM-movement in the 1960s and long among the country‘s leading artists, has taken the coveted first prize. The second prize goes to the Swedish artist Kristina Jansson (born 1967) and the third to Swedish Felix Gmelin (born 1962).
HM Queen Margrethe of Denmark will award the prizes at an official ceremony at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen on 17 September 2009. This will also see the opening of the travelling exhibition, comprising the 23 Nordic artists in the Carnegie Art Award 2010 that the jury handpicked from a total of 148 nominees.
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