Han Nefkens Foundation – BACC Asian Art Award 2016:
Nguyen Phuong Linh
© Nguyen Phuong Linh
The Han Nefkens – BACC Award, founded to encourage contemporary artistic creation, is aimed at visual artists under the age of 40 of any nationality (but must living in Asia), or gender that have established a solid trajectory but have not yet been given recognition by important international art institutions. One of the objectives pursued by the organisers of this award is to create networks between different Asian countries and to establish a new vision on the contemporary art scene of this continent.
Jury members:
Dinh Q. Lê, Artist Vietnam
Eugene Tan, Director National Gallery Singapore
Erin Gleeson, Director Sasa Bassac Cambodia
Scouts & Experts:
Aime Pichaya, Head of Exhibitions, BACC, Thailand
Wong Hoy Cheong, Artist and Curator, Malaysia.
Silke Schmickl, Curator National Gallery, Singapore
Nathalie Boseul Shin, Chief Curator of Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Xiaoyu Weng, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Vera Mey, Independent Curator
Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of Documenta 14, Kassel / Athens, 2017