The Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine has opened submissions for literary and artistic works. The submission period will run from 16 September to 2 November. This year, the prize has added a new category – “Architectural Art”. Within it, the Committee will consider, among other things, the architecture of buildings and structures, reconstruction, restoration and adaptive reimagining projects, as well as urban planning, environmental architecture, urban studies, landscape architecture and public spaces.
The Committee’s press office said the upcoming competition campaign would continue efforts to renew the Shevchenko Prize and expand its presence in today’s cultural process. This is not only about increasing the number of categories, but also about taking a closer look at how Ukrainian art is developing today. One of the Committee’s key priorities, they said, is openness to new artistic practices, strengthening professional dialogue with the cultural community, and broader representation of Ukrainian art in Ukraine and abroad.
“Expanding the categories is evidence of a desire to recognise the diversity and richness of Ukrainian art, which reveals itself in different forms, unique synergies, and in dialogue with global trends. This allows the Shevchenko Prize to embrace the contemporary cultural process more broadly and to honour those who are shaping it today,” said Yevhen Nyshchuk, Head of the Committee for the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine.
Last year, the prize added the categories “Photographic Art”, “Design”, and “Creative Curatorship of Cultural and Artistic Projects”, and replaced the single literature award with separate prizes for poetry and prose. Overall, the prize is awarded in 14 categories:
- prose;
- poetry;
- literary studies and art history;
- commentary and journalism;
- musical art;
- concert and performance art;
- theatre;
- cinema;
- visual arts;
- architectural art;
- photographic art;
- decorative and applied arts;
- design;
- creative curatorship of cultural and artistic projects.
New original works published or released within the past five years may be nominated for the prize, but no later than six months before their nomination. For the categories “Architectural Art” and “Creative Curatorship of Cultural and Artistic Projects”, nominees may be the direct authors of architectural works and cultural and artistic projects created or realised as integral cultural phenomena over the past five years.
Separate areas have also been defined for the new categories. In photographic art, documentary, reportage and fine-art photography will be accepted as individual works, series or photo projects; in design, works in graphic and communication design, product and industrial design, environmental and fashion design; and in creative curatorship, exhibition, festival and research projects, the results of which may be presented, among other formats, as themed websites or web archives.
You can obtain advice on preparing documents for the National Prize 2027 from the Committee Secretariat by calling 270-59-49, 278-11-93, 38 (099) 314-00-93, or by email: [email protected].
Works and documents should be sent by post or left in the Committee’s letterbox on the ground floor. Committee address: 01601, Kyiv, Prorizna Street, 2, rooms 404-405. You can submit the document package in person by prior arrangement by calling: 270-59-49, 278-11-93, +38 (099) 314-00-93.
More detailed information on the procedure for nominating works, the list of required documents and the requirements for their preparation is available on the Committee’s website.
- The Shevchenko Prize is a prestigious state award in the field of culture and the arts. It honours creators for the most outstanding works of literature and art, commentary and journalism, which are “a pinnacle spiritual heritage of the Ukrainian people, affirm high humanistic ideals, enrich the people’s historical memory, their national consciousness and identity, and are aimed at state-building and the democratisation of Ukrainian society”.