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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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