Jury Statement

On the recommendation of the jury, the ExtraVALUE Art Recognition Award will be presented to Julia Gaisbacher and her exhibition proposal "One Day You Will Miss Me" which is part of an ongoing project which critically engages with a current city development project in Belgrade. The artist documents the different construction phases in her photographs and refers with further works to the neoliberal application and marketing logic of this so called “Waterfront Project”.

Above all, the well-founded research, which is based on critical media reports and discussions with supporters of the protest movement, was particularly impressive. The project uses Belgrade as an example to deal with the corrupt real estate business, in which quite often – and all over the world –members of the government are involved. Moreover, it points to prevailing asymmetries when such large-scale projects occur for an emerging middle class and investors from abroad, while socially disadvantaged urban residents are forcibly pushed out to the fringes.

Jury Members

Viktor Bucher (Galerist)
Axel Köhne (Curator Belvedere 21)
Gabriele Schor (Chief-Curator Sammlung Verbund)
Margot Pilz (Artist)
 

Moderation

Ruth Goubran (director of Erste Bank Sponsoring Programme)
Katja Stecher (project coordinator for studio das weisse haus)