The fourth ceremony of Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the field of the modern art has taken place in Petersburg.  

      This year the list of the nominations has been supplemented with a new one - The Prize of Honour, which has been conferred on the artist Vladlen Gavrilchik.  The Grand Prix goes to Vladimir Rannev for his opera Two Acts. The libretto for the staging was written in due time by Dmitry Prigov, one of the chief representatives of Moscow conceptualism.

      Nailia Allakhverdiyeva's exhibition Face of the Bride. Modern Art of Kazakhstan has been acknowledged the best curator’s project. ARHSTOYANIE 2012. SUMMER by Anton Kochurkin has become the best project in the field of art in public space.

      HERE project by artist Victor Alimpiyev has won in the nomination "The Best Media Object (videoart / cinema / animation), and the Red Shift by Elena Gubanova and Ivan Govorkov has become the best among the objects of visual art. A special prize of the French Institute (three-months training in Paris) has been awarded to Dmitry Morozov for his DNA_SA project under the nickname :: vtol::

      The prize Ethno Mechanics in the field of musical experimental art goes to Buryat ethno band Namgar from Ulan-Ude for the album Dawn of Foremothers, and St. Petersburg musician Vlad Kudryavtsev with his Monocle project and the album Saints has taken the Electro Mechanics Prize.