An international jury nominated four artists for the 13th edition of the leading Czech award for visual artists under 35. For the first time, the exhibition and the award ceremony were held at the Brno House of Arts.
Finalists
The finalists of the 13th edition of Jindřich Chalupecký Award in 2002 included Markéta Othová, Markéta Baňková, Federico Díaz and Lenka Klodová.
Award Holder
Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2002 went to Markéta Othová. “Othová uses her camera to constantly dissect life’s most mundane situations, arranging them in finely phased series. In Brno, she presents a dozen black-and-white photographs from her series Return (A Lady Walking a Dog) where she applies an almost voyeuristic gaze. As if she conveyed sadness, the emptiness of life, loneliness. Markéta Othová had already been nominated twice and finally made it the third time. She will turn 35 next year, so the Award really came at the eleventh hour,” Petr Volf wrote for Reflex in 2002. The award holder received CZK 100.000 for an exhibition, publication or a creative project of her choice and an international residency.
Jury
The head of the jury was art historian and curator Charlotta Kotik who has worked for New York’s MoMA and presided Jindřich Chalupecký Society. The jury further included art historian and teacher Vladimír Beskid, sculptor and photographer Magdalena Jetelová, multimedia artist and 1997 Award holder Jiří Příhoda, teacher and art historian Jiří Ševčík, German archeologist and art historian Christopher Tannert, and Australian curator Jonathan Watkins. The jury was international for the first time in the Award’s history.
Exhibition
The collective exhibition Jindřich Chalupecký Award – Final 2002 was held at the Brno House of Arts for the first time in the Award’s history.
Award Ceremony
The award ceremony of the 13th edition of Jindřich Chalupecký Award was held at the Brno House of Arts in 2002.