Ukrainian GOGOLFEST was in the top 5 festivals in Europe

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GOGOLFEST. Photo: facebook.com/dniprogogol.org

Multidisciplinary festival of contemporary art GOGOLFEST became one of the winners of the prestigious European prize EFFEAwards 2019-2020.

The award ceremony festivals-winners took place today, September 26, in Brussels. The international jury headed by sir Jonathan mills, former Director of the Edinburgh international festival, has chosen the 5 most influential in its field in Europe with 705 participants, was awarded the EFFE 2019-2020.

GOGOLFEST is an amazing platform for creative development: not just a festival in one city, but a full-fledged art movement, form different festival platforms and trends throughout the country – Ukraine. Strategic and artistic choices are extremely powerful: modern, innovative, energetic, successfully adopted in the conditions of limited financial resources and political shocks,” noted the international jury of the EFFE.

The awarding of the organizers of GOGOLFEST. Photo: press service

In turn, the President of the festival of contemporary art GOGOLFEST Vlad Troitsky while receiving the award said, “Art reveals to us the way of the future, which I hope will be beautiful.”

Ukraine at the ceremony, in addition to the, V. of the Trinity, represented by the initiators of the annual festival GogolFest StartUP (Mariupol) – the Deputy of the mayor Alexander Kachurin and AIRGogolFest (Vinnitsa) – mayor Sergey Morgunov, curator of the theatre programme GOGOLFEST Andrew Ward, Executive Director of ukf yuliia Fediv .

The winners EFFE 2019-2020:

  • Festival, Warsaw, Poland
  • Festival Deltebre Dansa, Deltebre, Spain
  • Førde Traditional and World Music Festival, Forde, Norway
  • GogolFEST – is a Multidisciplinary International Festival of Contemporary Art, Ukraine
  • Welcome to The Village, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

One festival received the prize of spectator sympathies – the audience most of his votes were given for the Summer international music festival of Varna in Bulgaria. In addition, two artists received the award EFFE for their achievements in the field of art, Frileuse (founder of the Belgian art festival Kunstenfestivaldesarts) and Peterkoski (former Director of the Berlinale).

2000 festivals on our search online FestivalFinder.1500 eu festivals, with a sign EFFE. We look forward to the further development of this continuously growing Alliance in the future, “ concluded the President of the EFA Yang Briers.

In addition, we wrote that in the river held the first festival of contemporary art

We will remind, earlier LeMonade reported, Lubov Uspenskaya will bring a solo show at the Kiev Palace of Sports.

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