The Young Visual Artists Awards program (YVAA) is an international award program for young visual artists in Central and South Eastern Europe.
The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS) founded program in 1990 with the President Vaclav Havel and the Jindrich Chalupecky Award in Czechoslovakia and for 25 years led the expansion and vitality of this program through partnerships with affiliate organizations in the region. As of 2016, the YVAA program is managed by Residency Unlimited, which also provides the winning artists with a two-month residency in NY.
As of 2016, the YVAA program is managed by Residency Unlimited, which also provides the winning artists with a two-month residency in NY. For more information, visit the YVAA website and residencyunlimited.org
Awards and their organizers:
ARDHJE AWARD
Zeta Gallery, Tirana, Albania
ZVONO AWARD
SKLOP (Association for research, documentation and artists’ representation), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
BAZA AWARD
Institute of Contemporary Art and Edmond Demirdjian Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria
RADOSLAV PUTAR AWARD
Institute for Contemporary Art, SCCA Zagreb, Croatia
JINDRICH CHALUPECKY AWARD
Jindrich Chalupecky Society, Prague, Czech Republic
ARTIST OF TOMORROW AWARD
Stacion Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo
DENES AWARD
CCA, Skopje and FRU – Faculty of things that can’t be learned Bitola/ Skopje , Macedonia
DIMITRIJE BASICEVIC MANGELOS AWARD
Remont Gallery, Belgrade and Ilija & Mangelos Foundation, Novi Sad, Serbia
OSKAR CEPAN AWARD
Foundation -Centre for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
OHO AWARD
Zavod P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Gallery in Center P47, Ljubljana, Slovenia
LEOPOLD BLOOM ART AWARD
The Ludwig Museum, ACAX, Budapest, Hungary