special event - The award of the 2012 Prize for the Young Art Critic

stedelijk|special event
The award of the 2012 Prize for the Young Art Critic
29 November 2012, 7.30 p.m.

Location: Teijin Auditorium, Stedelijk Museum
Language: Dutch
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The Prize for the Young Art Critic will be awarded for the third time on Thursday 29 November 2012. During the award ceremony Birgit Donker (director of the Mondrian Foundation) will announce the author who has been selected to write the jury report of the Prix de Rome. Peter Verhelst (chairman of the jury for the 2012 Prize for the Young Art Critic) will award the first and other prizes in the categories for an essay (€ 7,500), review (€ 5,000) and critical piece on the internet  (€ 1,500).

There were also be a mini-debate during the evening with three representatives from national newspapers:
Chris Buur (editor-in-chief, de Volkskrant)
Eric Rinckhout (art editor, de Morgen)
Sandra Smallenburg (art editor, NRC Handelsblad)
Moderator: Ann Demeester (director, de Appel arts centre)

Nominees for the 2012 Prize for the Young Art Critic

Essay
Roos van de Lint, born 1985
Floris Solleveld, born 1982
Lieke Wijnia, born 1985

Review
Bob Vandenbroeck, born 1988
Stefan Kuiper, born 1979
Joke de Wolf, born 1978

Critical piece on the internet
Marieke Ladru, born 1983
Suzanne van Rossenberg, born 1977
Eva de Valk, born 1984

The Prize for the Young Art Critic is an initiative of de Appel arts centre, Mondrian Foundation and Witte de With in collaboration with the Flemish-Dutch Huis deBuren. The prize serves to encourage a new generation of critics and essayists who are writing about the contemporary visual arts in the general press. Also see: jongekunstkritiek.net