START POINT PRIZE – Prize for emerging artists
- Marta Antoniak (POL)
- Nicky Assmann (NLD)
- Anna Błachno (PL)
- Daniel Djamo (ROU)
- Kevin Gaffney (GBR)
- Alicja Gaskon (PL)
- Armin Lorenz Gerold (AT)
- Marcel Groβe (DEU)
- Daniela Hoferer (DEU)
- Tommy Høvik (NOR)
- Lefteris Kiourtsoglou (GRC)
- Izabela Koniarz (POL)
- Patrik Kriššák (CZE)
- Radim Langer (CZE)
- Tala Lumbar (SVN)
- Carlos Azeredo Mesquita (PRT)
- Daniella Isamit Morales (ITA)
- Oldřich Morys (CZE)
- Wanda Nay (CHE)
- Paul Paillet (FRA)
- Claire Perret (FRA)
- Aleksandar Pertemov (DE)
- Márk Radics (HUN)
- Richard Roháč (SVK)
- Javier Navarro Romero (ESP)
- Igor Ruf (HRV)
- Sarah Rutschman (CHE)
- Lucia Sceranková (CZE)
- Pia Sirén (FIN)
- Malthe Stigaard (NLD)
- Chooc Ly Tan (GBR)
- Milou van der Maaden (NLD)
- Michal Šimonfy (SVK)
- Tomáš Šoltys (SVK)
Pia Sirén
The installation is made up of materials that can easily be bought in every hobby-market: from ropes, construction drop cloths and scaffolding. It is not about the perfection of illusion by any means. The artist straddles the border where the artificial changes into a product of nature, transparent plastic into a mountain brook, hanged up sheets into a rocky massif. An elementary gesture triggers a stream of the imagination. The important part is the reversibility of the whole process. Removing the used materials, they are given back their primary function while the simulation of a mountain landscape only remains as a latent unlikely possibility, as a dream. (och) Special Thanks: SCAFFOLD, s.r.o.
- Mountain Landscape, 2011, mixed media installation, (tarpaulin, plastic, scaffolding, rope, wood), 8 x 8 x 5 m (installation at KUVA, Helsinki)
- Mountain Landscape, 2011, mixed media installation, (tarpaulin, plastic, scaffolding, rope, wood), 8 x 8 x 5 m (installation at KUVA, Helsinki)
- Mountain Landscape, 2011, mixed media installation, (tarpaulin, plastic, scaffolding, rope, wood), 8 x 8 x 5 m (installation at KUVA, Helsinki)
- Mountain Landscape, 2011, mixed media installation, (tarpaulin, plastic, scaffolding, rope, wood), 6 x 5 x 4 m (STARTPOINT exhibition, Brno, Special Thanks: SCAFFOLD, s.r.o.)