LOKART MAIN PRIZE
Ágnes Várnai&Tina Kult // T(N)C group //
CRITICS' PRIZE
Niloufar Basiri
MUSÉE D'ART CONTEMPORAIN DE LYON (MAC LYON) SPECIAL PRIZE
Neogrády Kiss Barnabás
CRITICIANS' CIRCLE AWARD - Best Young Creator
András Zalavári
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE ZSÖK VISUAL ARTS CENTRE
Erell
SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE PROFESSIONAL JURY
Ferenc Gróf & ZSófia Gyenes
SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THE VASARELY FONDATION
Veronika Romhányi
KOZMA ZSOLT
She is an art writer, artistic director of Inda Gallery and since 2017 founding director of Brussels-based Art of Care.
◉ LÁSZLÓ SZÁZADOS ◉
He graduated from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Humanities, with a degree in Art History and History. Since 1988, he has worked at the Hungarian National Gallery, serving until 2020 in the Department of Contemporary Collections and, from 2021, as Chief Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Archive and Documentation Centre. Since 2022, he has also been a curator at the Visual Arts Centre in Pécs. He has been an editor of Balkon, a contemporary art journal, since 1997 and a member of the Hungarian Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) since 1999. He has organized and contributed to numerous permanent, monographic, and thematic temporary exhibitions and has edited and collaborated on the related publications. His research focuses on Hungarian art and institutional history in the second half of the 20th century, as well as contemporary Hungarian visual art, with an outlook that extends to its interdisciplinary boundaries, such as dance and movement art.
THIERRY RASPAIL //PROFESSIONAL JURY//
Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon from its creation until 2018. Founder and artistic director of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art.
PINCZEHELYI SÁNDOR //PROFESSIONAL JURY//
The artist started his career in the Pécs Workshop, he is a graphic designer and exhibition director at the Janus Pannonius Museum. Between 1977-1999 he was director of the Pécs Galária.
PIERRE VASARELY //PROFESSIONAL JURY//
The grandson of Victor Vasarely, he is the heir of the most prominent exponent of op-art, or optical art. As president of the Vasarely Foundation, he is the guardian of the legacy of his grandfather, who was born in Pécs and later became world famous in Paris.
JENESES ÁDÁM //PROFESSIONAL JURY//
Media artist, graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2021
Intermedia, currently a PhD student at the MKE Doctoral School,
and a member of the board of the Studio of Young Artists Association
co-chair of the Young Artists of Young Artists in Young Artists' Artists' Studio.
DÉNES ANDREA //PROFESSIONAL JURY//
An art collector with a degree in economics. Her solo collection exhibition "Private and Public Spaces" took place at FUGA in 2021 and "Our Heritage" at Q Contemporary in 2022. Since 2014, she and her husband have been supporters of OFF-Biennale, and have supported Hungarian artists at dOCUMENTA(13) and (15) in 2012 and 2022.
ANDRÁSI GÁBOR //JURY OF CRITICS - PRESIDENT//
Art historian.
1979-2007: director of the Óbuda Cellar Gallery and the Óbuda Society Gallery; 2007--2010: director of the PIM Kassák Museum; 2010--2013: senior research fellow at the Institute of Art History, HAS BTK; 2013--2018: curator of the BTM Budapest Gallery. Specialized in 20th century and contemporary art.
BOJÁR IVÁN ANDRÁS //JURY OF CRITICS//
Art historian, founder of the Hungarian Narancs, former author, editor and expert of Café Bábel. Author of the book Great Pécs.
TAMÁS TÖRÖK //JURY OF CRITICS//
Between 1980-1982 the Sárospatak Picture Gallery, and from autumn 1982 the
curator of the Budapest Gallery from 1982, and from 1989
since 1989. Since 2012 he has been the director of the Budapest Gallery, the Kállai Ernő Circle
and member of AICA. He is mainly involved in contemporary art.
ADRIENN GÁLOSI //JURY OF CRITICS//