In addition to the jury chairwoman Karola Kraus who serves as Director of MUMOK, the international jury of experts included Lukasz Ronduda, author and curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland and Zdenka Badovinac, Director of the gallery “Moderna Galerija“, Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia, recently convened in Vienna. They selected five nominees as the finalists to win the Henkel Art.Award. 2011 from the 870 entries which were submitted “On balance, this year’s entries for the Henkel Art.Award. reached a very high artistic level due to the concentrated pre-selection process in the countries. The depth of interdisciplinary approaches and works of art with a socio-political and institutional-analytical orientation conveying a lively picture of the motives and interests of the young scene in Eastern Europe were very impressive. The works of the five nominated finalists reflect these current developments, but each featuring the content-related aspects of their particular countries”, says Karola Kraus, Director of MUMOK und jury chairwoman for the Henkel Art.Award.