View source for OHO Group Award

{{Article
| status       = NEEDSUPDATE WRITING TOPROOFREAD NIFERTIK!
| maintainer   = Simon Žlahtič
}}

{{Infobox
| name         = OHO Group Award
| local name   = Nagrada skupine OHO
| street       = Prušnikova 74
| town         = SI-1000 Ljubljana
| telephone    = 386 40 370 199
| website      = http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/program/oho-award
| email        = p74info@zavod-parasite.si
| managed by   = P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute
| contacts = {{Contact
| name         = Tadej Pogačar
| role         = Director
| telephone    = 386 (0) 1 542 5685
| email        = tpogacar@yahoo.com
}}
| accounts = 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/YOUNG-VISUAL-ARTISTS-AWARDS/337980048175
}}

{{Teaser|
The [[OHO Group Award]] is given annually to an individual Slovene artists or a group of Slovene artists up to 35 years of age, for works of art in the field of painting, photography, video, new media and performance. The prize was established in [[established::2006]] by the [[P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute]] (Ljubljana) in cooperation with the Foundation for a Civil Society (New York). It is based on an open call, followed by the selection of the nominees and then bestowed in a ceremony at the [[P74 Centre and Gallery]].

{{Image|Ljudmila & Atol 2014 Dorojevic Stupica Neur-O-Matic 03.jpg}}
}}

==The award and its international context==
The aim of the OHO Group Award is to provide support to young artists and facilitate the continuation of their activities by shifting them from the marginal to a central role in the society. The award comprises a 6-week residency in the studio of the ISCP in New York (possibilities for networking and establishing contacts with curators linked up with the host institution); a solo exhibition in the [[P74 Centre and Gallery]] and the purchase of the artwork by the investment company KD Group. Other funders include the Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York), the ISCP (New York), the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), the [[Municipality of Ljubljana]], and the Slovenian [[Ministry of Culture]]. 

The OHO Group Award has been a part of the Young Visual Artists Awards international residency award programme since [[established::2006]]. The YVAA was established by The Foundation for a Civil Society (FCS) in 1990 in the Czech Republic and now affiliating ten countries in Central Europe and South East Europe. It plays an important role in shaping the emerging artists' international careers.

==Nominees and prize winners==
The prize winners of the OHO Group Award have included [[Sašo Sedlaček]] for the artwork ''Žicar/The Beggar Robot'' (2006) selected from among the nominees [[Nika Oblak and Primož Novak]], [[Lada Cerar]], [[Aleksandra Vajd]]; [[Miha Presker]] and [[Luiza Margan]] (2007) selected from [[son:DA]], [[Jaša Mrevlje]], [[Matjaž Wenzel]]; [[Mladen Stropnik]] (2008) selected from [[Aleksandra Domanović]], [[Sebastjan Leban]] and [[Staš Kleindienst]], [[Small but Dangers]] (Mateja Rojc and Simon Hudolin-Salci); and [[Ana Čigon]] (2009) selected from among [[Vesna Bukovec]], [[Sašo Vrabič]], Tanja Vujasinović. In 2010 [[Maja Hodošček]] was bestowed, other nominees were [[Veli Silver]], [[Matija Brumen]], and [[Mito Gegič]]. 

The recent prize winners were [[Beli Sladoled]] (2011), [[Tomaž Furlan]] (2012), [[Veli Silver]] (2013), [[Staš Kleindienst]] (2014), [[Lenka Đorojević]] and [[Matej Stupica]] (2015); and [[Mark Požlep]] (2016).

==The OHO Group==
The award was named by the influential Slovene avant-garde artist [[Group OHO|group OHO]], active in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s. The members of the group wanted to develop a radically different relationship towards the world: instead of a humanistic position, which implies a world of objects dominated by the subject, they wanted to achieve a world of things, where there would be no hierarchical difference between people and things; the correct relationship towards such a world is not action, but observing. OHO used a number of media (and their in-between forms), drawings, photographs, film, video, music, texts, but also a way of dressing, living and behaving, to redirect the awareness of people into Reistic observing.

{{Image|Museum of Modern Art - 16.jpg}}

==See also==
* [[P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute]]
* [[P74 Centre and Gallery]]

==External links==
* [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/eng/program/oho-award/award-archive OHO Group Award web page] 
* [http://www.zavod-parasite.si/ P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Institute website]
* [http://www.fcsny.org/ Foundation for a Civil Society (New York) website]
* [http://www.iscp-nyc.org/ ISCP (New York) website]
* [http://www.tmuny.org/wp-index.php/ Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York) website]
* [http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OHO The OHO Group on Wikipedia] (in Slovenian)

{{gallery}}

[[Category:Visual arts]]
[[Category:New media art]]
[[Category:Visual arts awards]]
[[Category:Awards]]
[[Category:New media art awards]]
[[Category:Awards_and_competitions]]
[[Category:New_media_awards_and_competitions]]
[[Category:Visual_arts_awards_and_competitions]]