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We are pleased to announce Indian artist Anup Mathew Thomas as the winner of the second Han Nefkens Foundation
- BACC Statement from the Jury The international jury has unanimously chosen the Indian artist Anup Mathew Thomas because of his creative inquiry, which |
Anup Mathew Thomas |
Anup Mathew Thomas works primarily with the medium of photography and his work often engages ostensibly local narratives. Over the last decade he has produced a series of projects that engage with and make referenceto
the cultural history of his native Kerala. Thomas’s
works introduce audiences to stories that mayhave gone missingfrom the archive. In exploring the slippages betweendocumentary
and artistic practice, Thomas employs both anecdotal and factual narrative styles, and his work often culminates in carefully
staged portraiture. His practice explores the immediacy of the photograph, and its potential for ambiguity, as a medium for storytelling. |
The jury members are: Luckana Kunavichayanont, Director of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bangkok)
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Luckana Kunavichayanont |
Luckana Kunavichayanont received a BA in English from the Faculty of Archaeology, Silpakorn University, in Bangkok in 1989, and an MLitt in Asian Studies from the University of New England, Australia in 1993. She went on to join the assistant curatorial team of the Rama IX Art project and the associated exhibition held at the Queen Sirikit National ConventionCentre in 1995 - 1996. The project and exhibition led to the formation of the current Rama IX Art website, comprising a comprehensive art database and a virtual museum showcasing the work of hundreds of prolific Thai artists, as well as theestablishment of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration in 2008. Luckana Kunavichayanont is known forher innovative directorship of Tadu Contemporary Art, a private art centre dedicated to the promotion of young, up-and-coming artists in Thailand. She previously served as Tadu’s Artistic Director from 1997 to 2003, before working independently as a curator and advisor to the Queen’s Gallery from 2004. In 2004, Luckana Kunavichayanont co-curated Trinity, an exhibition of recent work by Thawan Duchanee at the Queen’s Gallery in Bangkok. In June 2005, together with Sutee Kunavichayanont and Panya Vijinthanasarn, she curated the Thai Pavilion for the 51st Venice Biennale. From 2008 to 2009 she co-curated, with Apisak Sonjod, a major show entitled "Krungthep 226: The Art from Early Days Bangkok to the Imagined Future", commemorating the opening of thenew Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. The exhibition, featuring over 200 seminal works by Thai artists from different generations, told the story of Bangkok from the past to the future. Luckana Kunavichayanont has been a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Thammasat University, Bangkok, and the Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts at Silpakorn University, Bangkok. On 5 November 2014, Luckana Kunavichayanont was decorated the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government. |
Prof. Ute Meta Bauer |
Ute Meta Bauer is a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, |
Dr. Yongwoo Lee |
Yongwoo Lee is a writer, curator and art historian based in Seoul. He was professor of art |
Bose Krishnamachari |
Bose Krishnamachari is an internationally acclaimed Malayali painter and curator based in
Mumbai, India. He was born in 1963 in the village of Magattukara near Angamaly, Kerala.
His early schooling was at GHSS Puliyanam. He went on to obtain a BFA from Sir JJ School
of Art in Mumbai in 1991, following which he completed an MFA at Goldsmiths College,
University of London in 2000. He is the recipient of a Kerala Lalithakala Akademi Award
(1985), a British Council Travel Award (1993), a Mid - America Arts Alliance Award (1996),
a Charles Wallace India Trust Award (1999 - 2000), and an Akademi Fellowship from Kerala Lalithakala Academy, and was first runner-up for the Bose Pacia Prize for Contemporary Art
in New York in 2001. His work comprises vivid abstract paintings, figurative drawings, sculpture, photography, multimedia installationsand architecture. Since 1985, he lives and
works in Mumbai. Bose is a founder member and President of the Kochi Biennale
Foundation, and Biennale Director of the Kochi - Muziris Biennale, an international exhibition of contemporary art.
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Han Nefkens |
The Dutch writer and art activist Han Nefkens has made his home in Barcelona. In 2000
he began collecting international contemporary art, and his Han Nefkens H+F Collection is
now housed in a number of European museums. In addition to collectingand donating art,
Nefkens is considered an art activist in that he regularly ืinitiates projects and actively develops works together with artists and museums. Han Nefkens also encourages and promotes young artists, writers and curators through commissions, prizes and stipends:
in Spain with the Han Nefkens Foundation MACBA Award and the Creative Writing Grant,
and in Thailand with the BACC Award for Contemporary Art. For many years now, Han
Nefkens Fashion on the Edge has organised highly distinctive exhibitions at Museum
Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with work by established and
up-and-coming fashion talents. Nefkens also set up ArtAids, a successful initiative which
employs art in the fight against AIDS. ArtAids not only sponsors artists who make art
about the AIDS stigma, but also supports scientific and medical research. In 2011 Han
Nefkens received the prestigious Silver Carnation award from Her Majesty
Queen Beatrix
of the Netherlands for his role as a modern patron of the arts.
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The Han Nefkens Foundation - BACC Award for Contemporary Art is a collaboration between the Han Nefkens Foundation and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. |
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