The winners of the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award 2023 are announced!

 

Grand Prix: Agata Orlovska

The Young Painter Award: Katrina Laura Biksone

Public Choice Award:  Andrea Margó Rotenberg 

Also special mentions were handed out

  • Invitation to attend  Viinistu Art Residency: Arvid Staafile 
  • Fotografiska Tallinn selected three outstanding artists from the competition participants, granting them a one-year pass to Fotografiska: Andrea Margó Rotenberg, Annemarija Gulbe ja Gabrielė Monginaitė

 

The Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Award is a one-of-a-kind international competition that showcases the works of the graduates of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Art Academy of Latvia, Vilnius Academy of Arts and Helsinki Uniarts. In 2023, 142 artists with 256 works took part in the competition.

The winners of the Nordic and Baltic Young Artist Awards are selected by an international jury, including Anne Klontz from Konstfack University of Art, Latvian Academy of Art professor Andris Vītoliņš, EKA gallerist Pire Sova, head of Pallas Art School Pallas painting department Margus Meinart, Vilnius Academy of Arts rector Ieva Skauronė, Uniarts Helsinki lecturer and artist Harri Monni, professor Per Nilsson of the Umeå Art Academy, Taina Erävaara from the Turku Art Academy, Maarja Loorents, co-founder of Fotografiska Tallinn and head of exhibitions, Marti Manen, curator and director of The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm, and Andra Orn, founder of the NOBA.ac art platform. The winner of the Public Choice award was determined through an online public vote, receiving over 1000 votes for favourite artworks.

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Paralyzing Thoughts  
 
 
Net  
 
 
The Luminarium  
 
 
Resemblance  
 
 
Painting series Mediated  
 
 
18:25  
 
 
Woman with Inflatable Beach Mattress  
 
 
Soul-atom  
 
 
Stuck  
 
 
Breakfast  
 
 
Stripe  
 
 
Sickles  
 
 
Tree 2  
 
 
a center of gravitation  
 
 
Orpheus  
 
 
Something holy and glowing  
 
 
untitled 1  
 
 
Swim in the lake  
 
 
Swirled together  
 
 
Wise direction or abandoned plan  
 
 
Rascal  
 
 
The wind blows wherever it pleases, you hear its sound but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.  
 
 
Spring Snow  
 
 
The not seeing One  
 
 
Palautuja (Returnee)  
 
 
Valkyrie  
 
 
How to remember that, which I didn't see? Kadri  
 
 
M.L.11  
 
 
Liminal Space  
 
 
Inflatable Palm Trees II  
 
 
Summer beach fantasy  
 
 
Fence  
 
 
Pieta. Affected  
 
 
CIRCLE OF LIFE  
 
 
The reverse museum  
 
 
What is real?  
 
 
M.L.91  
 
 
At the Mountains of Madness  
 
 
Kyrie eleison  
 
 
How to remember that, which I didn't see? Daria  
 
 
The reverse museum  
 
 
Bag of Desires  
 
 
Semantic Satiation  
 
 
Remote Matter  
 
 
Seat of the Soul  
 
 
Girl with a Ball  
 
 
Tree 1  
 
 
Colour out of space  
 
 
Nimeämätön (left without a title)  
 
 
Spatial Split  
 
 
You in the forest  
 
 
Divine barrel  
 
 
Non-Combativity Rule  
 
 
Volume knot  
 
 
00:00  
 
 
Intangible presence crossing borders  
 
 
Laying sinner  
 
 
I as us, us as I  
 
 
Dawn  
 
 
What the mermaid gave to me  
 
 
Fencer's Diary  
 
 
How to remember that, which I didn’t see? Adelina as a man)  
 
 
Käty (meaning: empty home)  
 
 
M.L.39  
 
 
Madonna and Child with Flowers  
 
 
Outskirt  
 
 
Porno Skewer  
 
 
World is born from beautiful armpit  
 
 
this is love  
 
 
Vital Anomaly  
 
 
we are strong of we are together  
 
 
Pool  
 
 
The freedom that lays in the room that the night opened  
 
 
Body in morass  
 
 
The hard forest  
 
 
Semantic Satiation, 16 paintings  
 
 
tomorrow  
 
 
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird  
 
 
yesterday today tomorrow  
 
 
Paint, My friend  
 
 
Three  
 
 
Infinity Repeating  
 
 
Love Goes Through the Stomach  
 
 
untitled 2  
 
 
In mortal customs  
 
 

CLOE a. k. a. Angel  
 
 
How to talk about a place where I have only lived for three years?  
 
 
Table  
 
 
Reflections based on The Song of Songs  
 
 
Second, New skin – First body  
 
 
YASMIN a. k. a. Pretty Princess  
 
 
Narcissus.  
 
 
Vytautas  
 
 
Blue Blanket  
 
 
Adam. The Last Judgement. Interpretation.  
 
 
Algirdas  
 
 
Pizza / pi  
 
 
Red Blanket  
 
 
How to talk about a place where I have only lived for three years?  
 
 
Steponas  
 
 

Fraying  
 
 
Bils Laguns: from the series The Fluid Gender (Beyond the Binary)  
 
 
Davids: from the series The Fluid Gender (Beyond the Binary)  
 
 
Drawing Breath (2)  
 
 
Forever, forever  
 
 
Kalvis: from the series The Fluid Gender (Beyond the Binary)  
 
 
Flax flowers in Blue  
 
 
Drawing Breath (1)  
 
 

exile and pride  
 
 
Toy  
 
 
CORE  
 
 
Nimeämätön (left without a title)  
 
 
I Carry Swimming Pools with Me  
 
 
Feast II  
 
 
Selfportrait as Medusa  
 
 
Tavern  
 
 
Dzogchen  
 
 
Pretzel  
 
 
Feast III  
 
 

You We're Meant To IV  
 
 
AI&I  
 
 
Techno-Spectre  
 
 
Mer/Mur  
 
 
Heart Connection II  
 
 
Eda  
 
 
Sea Songs I  
 
 
Personal exhibition "Fragments of Vulnerability"  
 
 
Eva  
 
 
I Sleep Alone  
 
 

Injured  
 
 
as rhizomes whisper  
 
 
It’s all good at the compost heap  
 
 
TRICHOTOMY  
 
 
Bird Eye View  
 
 
I Was Someone Before  
 
 
Forgotten in the Box 3  
 
 
limen  
 
 
ækt  
 
 
Feast  
 
 
Unerasable traces of you  
 
 
Museum of 20th Century archeology  
 
 
Arborescent  
 
 
Mask effect / Mask phenomenom  
 
 
State of being  
 
 
Pharmacie M.D. 2038  
 
 
The Dreamy Fish(Le poisson rêveur)  
 
 
Antechamber  
 
 
opus phase iii  
 
 
Strangers at the Abyss  
 
 
Forgotten in the Box 2  
 
 
Säde Huussissa (Säde in the Finnish outdoor dry toilet))  
 
 
Installation: Blankets  
 
 
Semantic Satiation, exposition in the mirror box  
 
 
The Cloud Of Unknowing 101–112  
 
 
Object barks  
 
 
Deep Hanging Out  
 
 
The Walk  
 
 
Ydilė  
 
 
3719  
 
 
Ginger rise and other things hanging from the ceiling  
 
 
Isn’t it romantic?  
 
 
Shifting baselines  
 
 
Panacea officinalis  
 
 
Forgotten in the Box 1  
 
 
Paatti (Aquatic deluxe remix escape vehicle)  
 
 
Quartet  
 
 
Atomic Banquet  
 
 
Left things (and grate 1 & 2)  
 
 
Enabled in form  
 
 
Pardon-me not  
 
 
Six Boats of Unearthed Memories  
 
 
plants  
 
 

Social Portrait - Women Only  
 
 
ALLUSIONS  
 
 
Masterclass  
 
 
Lost & Found  
 
 
Mint green plastic cat in the night  
 
 
Hyperplane  
 
 
Unemployment Simulator 2018  
 
 
Silent Dialogue  
 
 
Do, Hold, Dear  
 
 
ALLUSIONS  
 
 
Silence Chamber  
 
 

518 Days  
 
 
Matilda and the bad Mr. Sunny  
 
 
"100 Latvian letters", a book  
 
 
Poetry and photobook ''lumm ja Lumi''  
 
 

Bab-ilo  
 
 
Sea coast  
 
 
Forget-Me-Not 2  
 
 
Aukeama - Opening space  
 
 
Parade of Flying episodes  
 
 
Forget-Me-Not 3  
 
 
do not touch me  
 
 
All Shapes  
 
 
Forget-Me-Not  
 
 
Untitled (Semantic Bounds Violation)  
 
 
Digital illustration series "The Path we Trod"  
 
 
Pöytä(Table)  
 
 
Hear(t)stones  
 
 
THE HOUSE OF HIGH FASHION AND LOW SELF ESTEEM  
 
 
Collect  
 
 
Holes III  
 
 
BECAUSE IT'S WORSE WHEN YOU GET HOME  
 
 
Hear(t)stones  
 
 
DEMO VERSIO  
 
 
Holes  
 
 
PRESERVE MY LANGUAGE FOREVER  
 
 
Second, New skin – First body  
 
 
Command_Expo Variations_2  
 
 
Lilith  
 
 
Command_Expo  
 
 
Waves  
 
 
The Trap  
 
 
Postcards from the blue screen 3  
 
 
2021 freesounds & all their 5 beat rhythms (1.406704e+12)  
 
 
Parade of Flying episodes  
 
 
Nulla Dies Sine Linea  
 
 
In Saecola Saeculorum  
 
 
Inverted Profile  
 
 
Holes II  
 
 
BUTTERFLY EFFECT + LAPIS LAZULI  
 
 
Postcards from the blue screen 1  
 
 
The Pet Shop  
 
 
Postcards from the blue screen 2  
 
 
The Line of Memory  
 
 
Dauka. Journey to the Moon  
 
 

Learn to survive  
 
 
Venera Genetrix Nr. 1  
 
 
Venera Genetrix Nr. 3  
 
 
Imprints  
 
 
A room of one's own  
 
 
Venera Genetrix Nr. 2  
 
 
Virtual Court  
 
 

cherry on pie  
 
 
Set Nr.3  
 
 
Here, be the water  
 
 
Anastasis  
 
 
set.97  
 
 
Second, New skin – First body  
 
 
Anthology of Eastern European poetry  
 
 

Caeruleum Bulla  
 
 
My mind is somewhere else  
 
 
She Around Him  
 
 
Me, My aunt and Granddad  
 
 
Jungle Kids  
 
 
Nothing  
 
 
AFTERLOVE  
 
 
Experiment No. 1 - "Johannes Vermeer. Girl with a pearl earring"  
 
 
÷  
 
 
Mind the Gap  
 
 
The Dreamy Fish(Le poisson rêveur)  
 
 
Drawing Breath (3)  
 
 
YOU TOO CAN BE THERE