NORDIC & BALTIC YOUNG ARTIST AWARD 2018


Altogether 95 artists from Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with around 200 pieces of art participated the contest in 2018.
Watch the flashback video from the award ceremony “Breaking the Walls”
Check out the photo gallery from the award ceremony.

Grand Prix: Elina Vitola Common Issues in Painting and Every-Day Life 5
Public Choice: Laima Antonova Transformation of everyday life

The winner of NBYAA and Public Choice Award winner was rewarded with monetary price of 2000€. She is also invited to participate in ArtVilnius 2019 and Tallinn Art Week in 2020. A Public Choice award winner, revieled based on public online voting received monetary reward of 500€ .
Watch an interview with Elina from the award ceremony


International jury of Nordic & Baltic Young Artist in 2018 included Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger (Uniarts Helsinki), Jurij Dobriakov (Vilnius Academy of Arts), Andris Vitolinš (Art Academy of Latvia), Keiu Krikmann (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Andra Orn (NOAR.eu contemporary art platform). Nordic & Baltic Young Artist 2018 was supported by Captalia Latvia, Loze & Partners and Gateway & Partners.

ARTWORKS PARTICIPATING IN NBYAA 2018

 

 

Painting

Digital gesture - Micro  
 
There is no Time for Melancholy  
 
Lakanat (Sheets)  
 
Grass  
 
Lonely Boys  
 
The Sigil of Mesee Towards the Mission 93  
 
Huone (Room)  
 
Victory of Heart over Unfrozen Memories  
 
From cycle Distant Proximity  
 
memories should not have a name  
 
I still feel past  
 
Reflections  
 
Linking the Past nad the Present  
 
Space Stations: Noon  
 
Past projects II  
 
To place in  
 
Day off  
 
After the show I  
 
Observation Nr.144  
 
Childhood ladder  
 
Stillness III  
 
I Saw Eternity and it Was Bizarre  
 
The dead bird  
 
Sand and stones under the water  
 
Autonomous institution 3  
 
I don’t remember her name.  
 
in a landscape VII  
 
Camera obscura  
 
SAVAGE (6)  
 
After the show  
 
Yellow Lump II  
 
Anything, who wants to be  
 
in a landscape V  
 
From cycle Distant Proximity  
 
Stillness II  
 
Perfect Love  
 
Insatiable  
 
Moral Degradation  
 
Not quite nothing no.2  
 
Glow  
 
Non-Humans in Non-Places  
 
After the show  
 
Autonomous institution 2  
 
The beginning- in the End.  
 
Free your inner disco princess  
 
Mossy tree trunk  
 
Spirit Locked up in the Space of mind. Yellow  
 
Digital Gesture - Oil  
 
Spruce  
 
Colt  
 
Space Stations: Verses under  
 
Space Stations: Steel/Universe  
 
Illusion Is Easier Than Flesh  
 
landscape: 6 zero without 6 is not a million  
 
Observation Nr.102  
 
Digital gesture - Water  
 
Connection with Inner Goddess  
 
Bad imitator 2  
 
The plan  
 
From cycle Distant Proximity  
 
Ju 87  
 
in a landcape VI  
 
Yellow Lump I  
 
Slow Rota  
 
A shadow on the snow  
 
Past projects  
 
Autonomous institution  
 
Autonomous institution 2  
 
Real estate II  
 
Space Stations: Wood  
 
Landscape-abstraction  
 
without illusions  
 
From cycle Distant Proximity  
 
Distant Proximity  
 
After the show II  
 
Replications  
 
without title  
 
Autoportrait (1998)  
 
Rehabilitation  
 
No door without me  
 
Humble evolution  
 
Bad imitator 1  
 
Bad imitator 3  
 
Not quite nothing no.3  
 
Portrait No 7  
 
There's No Name For a Man Who Doesn't Come Back  
 
The Vase  
 
Not quite nothing no.1  
 
Observation Nr.163  
 
Architectural Improvisation  
 
Mtskheta  
 
Space Stations: Moss  
 
From a Human  
 
Code PULE  
 
Pine trees and the sky  
 
Three Wise Monkeys  
 
I am, and only am, when not just lurking, but hunting  
 
Stillness I  
 

Drawing

Self-criticism  
 
Before the Show. Vorkuta  
 
A Portrait  
 
The Scenography of a Small Town  
 
Hen  
 
Going back  
 
Transformation  
 
A Map  
 
Holy Image  
 

Printmaking

Book Of Objects  
 
Collages  
 
Book Of Objects  
 
Doll Shelf  
 
Book Of Objects  
 
Book Of Objects  
 

Sculpture

Blue Blouse  
 
Segments I  
 
The memorial board for the first elevator in Klaipėda  
 
Niche 1 & Niche 2  
 
Segments II  
 
Transformation of everyday life  
 
In this room  
 
Vox  
 
An observer  
 
Subject and object relation  
 
Who's the lucky one  
 
Communication - message  
 
Who Covers the Aspen Leaves  
 
Blood oath in the garden  
 
Segments III  
 

Photography

Kristjan  
 
Anastassia  
 
Aleksei  
 
Marta  
 
Siiri  
 
Helen  
 
Fire Project III  
 
SAVAGE (8)  
 
SAVAGE (2)  
 

Installation

Future fossils  
 
Periculum  
 
Please do not come again  
 
Earsteam  
 
Forensic Excercise  
 
Street Language, Strolling Texts, Fragmented Communication. Tallinn  
 
Silgupull  
 
Lingering in Rapalaakso  
 
What Is It Like To Be A Windscreen  
 
White Darkness  
 
Nju Šunparkis  
 
Fears, frailties, beauties, knots and almost nothing  
 
Point Nemo  
 
Earstream  
 
Red  
 
Intermediate State  
 
The Swamp Depths  
 
Under The Popcorn Volcano  
 
Nest  
 
Implements  
 
Developed Manuals  
 
Tissues of Being  
 
Fire engulfs Rakvere's historic barrelhouse  
 
Sand, my old enemy  
 
Artificial spring  
 
Digital Bubble  
 
Unshape Of Light  
 
Can we receive the Tree of life? The way to eternal life?  
 
Sculptor  
 
Places and Things  
 
When Gravity Fails  
 

Other

Centrosome  
 
Categories of a vessel  
 
Ad Terram  
 
The Surface Beneath  
 
Guerilla Gardening Video  
 
Proposal for A Future  
 
The Touch. Echoes of Silence  
 
Common issues of painting and everyday life 2 - legs of a chair  
 
Dunno on the Moon  
 
how to _______ alone  
 
Common Issues in Painting and Every-Day Life 4 - Portrait (What Do You Represent)  
 
Amnesia. From Darkness to Light  
 
Common Issues in Painting and Every-Day Life 5  
 
If you do this I will call you by your first name instead of mom  
 
Elevator  
 
An act of violence in one act  
 
Dumpster Diving Rabbit  
 
The Cookbook  
 
Half Integer Spin  
 
Vegetarians Interview  
 
Youkali  
 
Die Revolution bin ich (The Revolution am I)  
 
Day in an island  
 
The Pants Guy on Fabric  
 
Secrets of the attic  
 
Ad Terram I  
 
Signal Conjugation  
 
Common issues in painting and everyday life  
 
Wonderland  
 
Erdmodell (Earth Model)  
 
Razzle Dazzle