BEAUTY IS EVERYWHERE A WELCOME GUEST: Prix Fernand Baudin 2010

Prix Fernand Baudin 2010

Award for Manifest Nooawangardy. Sztuka w Dobie Kapitalizmu Kognitywnego, Posthumanizmu i Nauk o Złożoności* for Centre of Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2010; Nominations for We are not ducks on a pond but ships at sea, independent art initiatives, Budapest 1989–2009 by Katarina Šević and Rita Kálmán, published by Impex, 2010 and Love Me, Love Me Not: Changed Names* by Slavs and Tatars, published by Onestar Press, 2010. Prix Fernand Baudin 2010: Wiels, Brussels, photo by Thomas Vanden Driessche.

Kasia Korczak has been interested in design primarily as a vehicle for producing and distributing content, in particular within publishing. She completed a BA in Fine Arts at London Metropolitan University and an MA residency program at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem and works primarily with printed matter and specialises in artist books. She received the Grand Prix of the Brno Biennial in 2008 and Prix Fernand Baudin in 2008, 2009 and 2010.

In 2005, Korczak co-founded Slavs and Tatars, an artist collective whose work has been exhibited widely and acquired by the MoMA in NY. S&T works across several media, disciplines, and, particularly, registers of culture, both high and low, with a common thread the stories – both political and personal – of Eurasia.