Prague Quadrennial 2015 Announces International Jury Members

The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space has a long tradition of competitive exhibition sections judged by professional international jury. PQ is honored to announce that this year's jury is composed of directors Kirsten Dehlholm, Antônio Araújo, and Dmitry Krymov; set designers and artists Eloise Kazan, Kamila Polívková, Katrina Neiburga, and Dominic Huber; theoretician Joslin McKinney and architect Radivoje Dinulovic.

As in previous years, PQ 2015's jury will judge a variety of categories ranging from best exhibition design (which will be awarded by PQ's main award Golden Triga PQ 2015 for the Best Exposition), through promising student talent (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Promising Student Talent) and innovative approach to performance design (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Innovative Approach to Performance Design) to expositions that provoke dialog (Gold Medal PQ 2015 for Provoking a Dialogue).

PQ 2015 complete list of international jury members:

Kirsten Dehlholm, creator of new concepts, exhibitions, and artistic director of Hotel Pro Forma;

Eloise Kazan, award-winning Mexican designer in theatre, dance, opera, interior architecture, and film;

Joslin McKinney, originally a theatre designer, is associate professor in Scenography at the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds;

Katrina Neiburga, Latvian artists who works in visual arts and theatre;

Kamila Polívková, award-winning Czech scenographer and director, who works both in the Czech Republic and internationally;

Antônio Araújo, artistic director of Teatro da Vertigem, professor at the Department of Performing Arts of ECA-USP and Golden Medal winner in the category of Best Realization of a Production at PQ 2011;

Dmitry Krymov, Russian director and designer who fuses art, prose, poetry, and popular culture, winner of Golden Triga at PQ 2007;

Radivoje Dinulovic, Serbian architect, set designer and theorist, author of over one hundred projects in the field of theatrical architecture and set design, author of The Architecture of the Theater of the Twentieth Century (2009);

Dominic Huber, stage designer and theatre maker, co-founder of Blendwerk GMBH, collaboration with Rimini Protokoll, among others.

See short biographies of jury members on PQ's new website, http://www.pq.cz/en/program/international-competitive-exhibition/jury.

The The Award ceremony will take place on June 22, 2015 at 8pm at the Archa Theatre in Prague.

For further information, contact PR Manager Eva Riebová at eva.riebova@pq.cz.