Annual Regional Final Exhibition-Competition for the Prize named after Afanasy Kulikova-2021

On November 19, the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (103 Lenina St.) will host the Annual Regional Final Exhibition-Competition for the Prize named after V.I. Afanasy Kulikova-2021.

The solemn ceremony of summing up the results of the exhibition-competition and awarding the winners will take place on December 10, 2021 at 16:00.

This year, the jury presented about 200 works from more than 90 authors.

Information about the competition. In 1993, in order to preserve and develop the creative process in the Kaluga region, the community of workers of the Kaluga Art Museum and artists - members of the Kaluga branch of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation put forward the idea of creating an exhibition project-competition of regional scale, which would cover the various creative searches of artists from different regions Kaluga region.

The idea immediately found support in the Regional Department of Culture, which helped to put this project into practice in January 1994. It was then that the Regional Final Exhibition-Competition named after Afanasy Kulikov for prizes in the field of fine arts was held for the first time in the Regional Art Gallery "Obraz".

The main goals that the organizers of the competition adhered to were: motivating contemporary participants in the regional artistic process to create iconic works of art of a high level and the development and preservation of the artistic features of the Kaluga region, including through the purchase of works by the prize winners in the gallery funds.

Today, according to the results of the Regional final exhibition-competition named after Afanasy Kulikov, ten prizes in the field of fine arts are awarded for the most talented, novel and original work of fine or decorative applied art in the following nominations: painting, graphics, sculpture, arts and crafts, created over the past three years. This allows not only to creatively stimulate artists and craftsmen of the Kaluga region, but also to support them financially.

Since 2014, the Regional Final Exhibition-Competition named after Afanasy Kulikov continues to live within the walls of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts, which every year at the end of autumn and early winter opens its doors to everyone, both to take part in the exhibition and to evaluate the presented works as a spectator…

Dates of the exhibition-competition:
November 19 - December 12, 2021