guidelines for the artists
2025 Erarta Prize shortlist
In the course of the first voting round that lasted through 21 April, the viewers shortlisted the participants of the second round – the 10 artists whose works secured the majority of viewer votes over the span of ten weeks. They are:
| Ilya Gurko — 10.60% | Aleksey Golovin — 3.87% |
| Olga Petrova — 9.90% | Aleksey Vorobyov & Ekaterina Stoycheva — 3.13% |
| Sergey Kozhara — 9.39% | Ivan Pokidyshev — 3.13% |
| Konstantin Alekseyev — 8.73% | Matvey Körn — 2.97% |
| Yulia Trubina — 6.65% | Sofia Yalalova — 2.74% |
These artists continue to compete for the viewers’ support. The second voting round of the 2025 Erarta Prize will last from 22 April through 5 June and ultimately determine the exact distribution of the remaining prize money and the winner of the Grand Prix of 500,000 rubles. The number of votes received by the artists in the first round was reset to zero, and voting has started over.
The following artists ranking from 11th to 25th after the first voting round will receive 75,000 rubles each:
| Konstantin Khudyakov — 2.65% | Anastasia Slavnova — 1.53% |
| Rust2D — 2.21% | Sergey Sekirin — 1.53% |
| Ksenia Shinkovskaya — 2.13% | Victor Sirenko — 1.48% |
| Vadim Grigoryev-Bashun — 2.02% | Victoria Iva — 1.47% |
| Alexander Grekov — 1.84% | Alan Khatagty — 1.39% |
| Svetlana Guzhva — 1.74% | Stakan Psof — 1.37% |
| Anastasia Nesterova — 1.74% | Alexander Brashkin — 1.32% |
| Irek Shamanayev — 1.58% |
The following artists ranking from 26th to 40th after the first voting round will receive 50,000 rubles each:
| Varvara Balashova — 1.27% | Evgeniy Kravtsov — 0.87% |
| AnyaManya — 1.27% | Olga Arkadyeva — 0.81% |
| Ksenia Vlasova — 1.26% | Sergey Kiyanitsa — 0.61% |
| Katerina Borodavchenko — 1.19% | Denis Saunin — 0.39% |
| Gabibulla Magomedov — 1.19% | Liza Dandy — 0.35% |
| Aleksey Yusupov — 1.15% | Anna Kuznetsova-Smertina — 0.32% |
| Irina Kuvshinova — 1.08% | Anna Kevrel — 0.15% |
| Dmitry Trubin — 0.97% |
Although these artists will no longer compete for the Grand Prix, their works will still be on display until the close of the Prize nominees’ exhibition.
Stay tuned for more news: the second voting round results will be announced on 5 June. Visit this page to find out more about the 3.5 million ruble prize money distribution and voting procedure.
Good luck to all the participants!
2025 Erarta Prize nominees
The longlist is the result of the museum’s review of the entire pool of entries submitted by artists representing all genres and forms of contemporary art, including painting, graphic arts, sculpture, photography, installation, video and multimedia art.
The works by the following 40 artists will be displayed at the special exhibition staged by Erarta to determine the winners through a public vote:
| Konstantin Alekseyev | Matvey Körn | Dmitry Trubin |
| Olga Arkadyeva | Sergey Kiyanitsa | Yulia Trubina |
| Varvara Balashova | Sergey Kozhara | Alan Khatagty |
| Katerina Borodavchenko | Evgeniy Kravtsov | Konstantin Khudyakov |
| Alexander Brashkin | Irina Kuvshinova | Irek Shamanayev |
| Ksenia Vlasova | Anna Kuznetsova-Smertina | Ksenia Shinkovskaya |
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Aleksey Vorobyov & Ekaterina Stoycheva |
Gabibulla Magomedov | Aleksey Yusupov |
| Aleksey Golovin | Anastasia Nesterova | Sofia Yalalova |
| Alexander Grekov | Olga Petrova | AnyaManya |
| Vadim Grigoryev-Bashun | Ivan Pokidyshev | Liza Dandy |
| Svetlana Guzhva | Denis Saunin | Rust2D |
| Ilya Gurko | Sergey Sekirin | Stakan Psof |
| Victoria Iva | Victor Sirenko | |
| Anna Kevrel | Anastasia Slavnova |
The 3.5 million rubles worth of prize money will be distributed among the 40 nominees. At the close of the first voting round, scheduled to last from 7 February through 21 April, 15 artists ranked from 40th to 26th will receive a guaranteed reward of 50,000 rubles each. 15 more artists ranked from 25th to 11th will be awarded 75,000 rubles each. The top 10 artists securing the majority of votes in the first voting round will qualify for the second.
The second voting round will last from 22 April through 5 June. The 10 shortlisted artworks will compete for the following money prizes: the artists ultimately ranking from 10th to 6th are guaranteed to win 100,000 rubles each; the top five artists will receive 125,000 rubles for the 5th place, 150,000 rubles for the 4th, 175,000 rubles for the 3rd, 200,000 rubles for the 2nd, and the Grand Prix of 500,000 rubles for the 1st place respectively.
Good luck to all the participants!
Prize submission guidelines
Early submission of entries ensures that any technical or organisational issues related to the staging of the nominees’ exhibition are handled by the artist together with Erarta Museum’s Curatorial Team in the most efficient way possible.
Only one artwork per artist will be featured in the exhibition. To improve the chances of being selected, every artist could submit up to three artworks. All artists that had been nominated for the 2023 Erarta Prize and the 2024 Erarta Prize could also submit their entries for the 2025 Erarta Prize without including previously submitted artworks.
The call for entries for the 2025 Erarta Prize was closed on 20 October 2024.
