Evens Arts Prize 2019

tensions in Eastern, Central and Southeast Europe, external European relations through Eurasian lenses. The candidates’ works should offer a particular analysis of current challenges facing the region and new perspectives in geopolitical scenarios whilst probing the historical and cultural perspectives and operational conduct of the EU on both political and administrative levels.

For Education, the prize was open to all journalists and commentators reporting on education-related issues, including school, higher education and vocational education. The candidates should have produced outstanding coverage on pan-European, EU national, regional and/or local education matters, possibly defining the characteristics of specific educational policies and their effect on both the national and the broader community.

Due to the impact of the pandemic, the jury meetings and prize selections have been postponed until 2021. The Evens Art Prize is a biennial award established by the Evens Foundation to support artistic initiatives that engage with contemporary realities in Europe and envision perspectives for shaping our common world.

The 2019 edition of the Prize celebrated artist and choreographer Eszter Salamon as the laureate and composer Éliane Radigue who received the Special Mention of the Jury.

On 13 September 2020, a special event in homage to Radigue was organized at the Centre Pompidou, as a result of a partnership between the Musée National d’Art Moderne, IRCAM and the Evens Foundation. A one-day programme consisted of live concerts, an immersive sound installation, a film screening and a conversation with the artist, offering a rare opportunity to experience different periods of the work of this pioneer of electro-acoustic experimentations, who has created a unique and highly influential path in contemporary music. At the very beginning of the year, in January 2020, Kaaitheater in Brussels presented the premiere of our laureate Eszter Salamon’s new piece, MONUMENT 0.8: Manifestations, that addressed the marginalised history of the Eastern European feminism. This challenging year, made of cancellations due to the pandemic that brought our cultural lives to a standstill, was also the period where Salamon created and premiered another new piece, Still Dance for Nothing, and experimented with a new medium – film. Reappearance, dedicated to Valeska Gert, will be released in 2021.

Evens Foundation

Board of Directors

Corinne Evens, Honorary President Yolande Avontroodt Angélique Berès Monique Canto-Sperber Daniel Kropf Xavier Vidal

Executive Committee

Monique Canto-Sperber Corinne Evens Xavier Vidal

The Team

Antwerp Marjolein Delvou, Programme Curator Federica Mantoan, Programme Curator Caroline Coosemans, Office Administrator Maria Orejas, Operations Director

Paris Anne Davidian, Programme Curator, Head of Paris Office

Warsaw Hanna Zielińska, Programme Curator, Head of Warsaw Office Magdalena Braksator, Project Manager

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