The Shevchenko Prize Committee Has Begun Accepting Works: Rules and Deadlines

This year the prize will be awarded in 14 nominee categories.

The Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine began accepting literary and artistic works. It will run from 16 September to 2 November. This year the prize gained a new nomination — “Architectural Art.” Within it, they will consider, among other things, architecture of buildings and structures, reconstruction and restoration projects and adaptive reimagining, as well as urban planning, environmental architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, and public spaces.

In the Committee’s press service, it was stated that the forthcoming competition campaign will continue the work on updating the Shevchenko Prize and expanding its presence in the modern cultural process. It is not only about increasing the number of nominations, but also about a more careful vision of how Ukrainian art is developing today. One of the important vectors of the Committee’s work was named openness to new artistic practices, enhanced professional dialogue with the cultural environment, and broader representation of Ukrainian art in Ukraine and abroad.

“Expanding the nominations is evidence of the aspiration to recognize the diversity and multifaceted nature of Ukrainian art, which reveals itself in different manifestations, unique synergies, in dialogue with global trends. This allows the Shevchenko Prize to more broadly cover the contemporary cultural process and recognize those who are shaping it today,” said Yevhen Nyshchuk, head of the Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.

Since last year, the prize has added nominations for “Photom art,” “Design,” “Creative curatorship of cultural and artistic projects,” and instead of a single literary prize, separate awards were introduced for poetry and prose. Overall, the prize is awarded in 14 nominations:

prose;

poetry;

literary studies and art studies;

publicistics and journalism;

musical art;

concert and performing arts;

theatrical art;

cinematic art;

visual arts;

architectural art;

photom art;

decorative-applied art;

design;

creative curatorship of cultural and artistic projects.

New original works published or released within the last five years may be submitted for the prize, but no later than six months before their nomination. For the nominations “Architectural Art” and “Creative curatorship of cultural and artistic projects,” direct authors of architectural works and of cultural and artistic projects created or realized as integral cultural phenomena within the last five years may be nominated.

Directions are also defined separately for the new nominations. In photom art, documentary, reportage, and artistic photography will be accepted as separate works, series, or photo projects; in design, works in the fields of graphic and communication design, product and industrial design, environmental and fashion design; in creative curatorship, exhibition, festival, and research projects, the results of which may be presented, including in the form of thematic websites or web archives.

To obtain consultation on preparing documents for the National Prize-2027, you can contact the Committee’s Secretariat at the phones 270-59-49, 278-11-93, 38 (099) 314-00-93 and by email: [email protected].

Works and documents should be sent by mail or left in the Committee’s mailbox on the first floor. The Committee’s address: 01601, Kyiv, Prorezna Street 2, room 404-405. The package can be personally submitted by arrangement by phone: 270-59-49, 278-11-93, +38 (099) 314-00-93.

More detailed information about the procedure for nominating works, the list of necessary documents, and requirements for their formatting is available on the Committee’s website.

The Shevchenko Prize is a prestigious state award in the field of culture and art. It honors creators for the most notable works of literature and art, publicistics and journalism, which are the “supreme spiritual legacy of the Ukrainian people, affirm high humanistic ideals, enrich the national memory of the people, its national consciousness and identity, aimed at state-building and democratization of Ukrainian society.”