guidelines for the artists
2023 Erarta Prize winners
The 10 winning artists of the 2023 Erarta Prize were determined at the close of the first voting round that lasted through 9 April. The second round ended on 8 June. Its outcome finalised the exact distribution of prize money: the final prize amount depended not on the ranking among the 10 winners, but on the exact number of viewer votes. The 2.5 million rubles of prize money was distributed among the artists in proportion to the number of votes received.
2023 Erarta Prize shortlist
In the course of the first voting round that lasted through 9 April, the viewers shortlisted the participants of the second round – the 10 artists whose works secured the majority of viewer votes over the span of two months. They are:
| Alexey Apish | Galina Kazarinova |
| Rinat Akhmetov | Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf |
| Maria Bogoraz | Tamerlane Tles |
| Elena Grishayeva (Dj Le Nochka) | Andrey Shatilov |
| Dmitry Kawarga | DASHA ART |
The 2.5 million rubles worth of prize money will be distributed among the 10 winning artists in proportion to the number of viewer votes received by their artworks.
In order to guarantee that all shortlisted artists compete on equal terms, we have updated the campaigning procedure. As of 11 May, shortlisted artists may personally encourage the exhibition visitors to vote for their artworks while inside the museum building only on their scheduled meet-the-artist event date. Should any artist attempt to personally encourage the visitors to support his or her work at any other time, any and all votes received by the respective artist on that day will be cancelled. At the same time, the shortlisted artists may still actively campaign online on any day and without limitation: only in this case will the artists based in St. Petersburg and other cities be able to compete equally.
2023 Erarta Prize nominees
Having reviewed all entries submitted by the artists working in the media of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, installation and multimedia art, as well as other contemporary art forms, the museum finalised the longlist of Prize nominees.
The special exhibition organised by Erarta to determine the winners through a public vote will showcase the works by the following 61 artists:
| Vladimir Abikh | Dinara Hörtnagl | Natalya Merkulyeva |
| Alexey Andreyev | Victoria Ivanova | Igor Mikhailenko |
| Alexey Apish | Aydar Ishemgulov | Olga Pavlova |
| Rinat Akhmetov | Galina Kazarinova | Andrey Sikorsky |
| Stas Bags | Katarina Kano | Sergey Sekirin |
| Olga Batyrshina | Olesya Kot | Maria Suvorova |
| Maria Bogoraz | Anastasia Kuznetsova-Ruf | Rustam Syunyakov |
| Anton Bratykin | Nadezhda Kosinskaya | Andrey Shatilov |
| Aristarkh Chernyshyov | Alexander Koryashkin | Yulia Sopina |
| Evgenia Davletshina | Vadim Komissarov | Nino Samadashvili |
| DASHA ART | Yustina Komissarova | Tamerlane Tles |
| Ksenia Efimova | Yaroslava Komissarova | Dmitry Trubin |
| Nikolai Endegor | Sergey Karev | Natalya Veneva |
| Nikita Evdokimov | Dmitry Kawarga | Alexey Vorobyov |
| Oleg Echo | Alexey Kessel | Timofey Volkov |
| Vyacheslav Ereschuk | Nikita Kulnev | Semyon Zhokhov |
| Georgy Frangulyan | Dmitry Kaminker | Alexander Zhernoklyuyev |
| Antonina Fathullina | Dmitry Loktionov | Dmitry Zhukov |
| Alexander Grigoryev | Vilgeniy Melnikov | Evgeniy Zaremba |
| Vadim Grigoryev-Bashun | Eduard Mkhoyan | |
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Elena Grishayeva (Dj Le Nochka) |
Olga Muravina |
The exhibition of works by the nominated artists will run at Erarta’s Grand Hall from 9 February through 11 June 2023.
Prize entries
Early submission of entries would ensure that any technical or organisational issues related to the staging of the exhibition would be handled by the artist together with Erarta Museum’s Curatorial Team in the most efficient way possible.
Only one artwork per artist will be featured in the exhibition. Up to three artworks could be submitted to improve the chances of being selected.
The 2023 Erarta Prize call for submissions has been closed on 1 November 2022.