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Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art is located at: 2, 29th line of Vasilievsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg
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voting procedure

 

The Erarta Prize was founded as the first ever contemporary art prize awarded through a public vote rather than by a closed board of experts.

The nominees’ exhibition will be held from 7 February through 8 June 2025 at Erarta’s Grand Hall and will showcase 40 creations by our contemporaries selected by the museum out of the entire pool of works submitted by the contesting artists. The voting will take place in two rounds:

  • At the close of the first voting round, scheduled to last from 7 February through 21 April, 15 artists ranked from 40th to 26th will receive a guaranteed reward of 50,000 rubles each. 15 more artists ranked from 25th to 11th will be awarded 75,000 rubles each. The top 10 artists securing the majority of votes in the first voting round will qualify for the second.

  • In the second voting round, from 22 April through 5 June, the 10 shortlisted artworks will compete for the following money prizes: the artists ultimately ranking from 10th to 6th are guaranteed to win 100,000 rubles each; the top five artists will receive 125,000 rubles for the 5th place, 150,000 rubles for the 4th, 175,000 rubles for the 3rd, 200,000 rubles for the 2nd, and the Grand Prix of 500,000 rubles for the 1st place respectively.

Every viewer will have one vote for each of the voting rounds. All active Erarta Members and Ticket holders from various parts of Russia who will not be able to travel to St. Petersburg during the period of the 2025 Erarta Prize exhibition will have the option to vote in absentia: for each of the voting rounds, every active Member and Ticket holder will have one vote that can be cast in favour of the artwork of their choice.

The artists’ exact ranking will be determined by the number of votes received by each particular artwork. In the second round, the number of votes will be reset to zero, and voting will start over. The voting procedure will be fair and transparent. The number of viewer votes given to each artwork will be displayed on a special screen installed in the exhibition space and can be tracked in real time. Erarta will have no power whatsoever to interfere with the voting results which can be verified by any questioning parties after the close of the exhibition.