Curator Prof. Johan Swinnen acknowledges 12 ‘Young Ones Award’ laureates. The visitors elect one them as a winner. His gallery receives a financial incentive of 3,000 euro from the National Lottery.
At the new ‘Lineart Award Event’ on Saturday, 3 December 2011, the organisers present the new laureates and the awards of 2011 in the presence of the galleries and the artists.
After five events, this prize has grown into a coveted feature. The prize winners at the events in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were respectively Louis Decordier, Ellen De Meutter and Renato Nicolodi. Each artist on the shortlist can count on receiving plenty of attention. In 2008, the shortlist consisted of Pascal De Pauw (Galerie C De Vos), Johan Gelper (Gallery El), Hans Albrecht (Galerie Jan Dhaese), Pieter Vermeersch (Koraalberg) and Ward Denys (McBride Fine Art). In 2009, Tinka Pittoors (Margalef & Gipponi Gallery) landed the prize. Since then, her work has been catapulted into the public eye, with numerous exhibitions in Belgium as well as abroad.
Last year Curator commissioner Joost Declercq selected the artists.The winner was Marieke Pauwels.