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

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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