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UNITED KINGDOM / London: Turner Prize 2013 shortlist announced
by Modem – Posted May 01 2013
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The artists are: Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal, David Shrigley and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.

The Prize, established in 1984, is awarded to a British artist under fifty for an outstanding exhibition. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most important and prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe.

This year the exhibition will be on show in at Ebrington in Derry-Londonderry as part of the UK City of Culture 2013 (23 October 2013-5 January 2014).

The members of the Turner Prize 2013 jury are:
-Annie Fletcher, Curator of Exhibitions, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
-Susanne Gaensheimer, Director of Frankfurt’s Museum of Modern Art
-Declan Long, writer and lecturer at National College of Art and Design, Dublin
-Ralph Rugoff, Director of Hayward Gallery, London
-Penelope Curtis, Director, Tate Britain

Photo: Laure Prouvost, Installation view, Max Mara Prize for Women, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2013, © Laure Prouvost, courtesy MOTInternational, London

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