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Candidate applications have been submitted by the institutions under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, sectoral advisory councils, and non-governmental organizations.
Applications submitted according to the award in the regulations the Latvian National Council of Culture, selecting three candidates to be submitted to the Minister of Culture for approval. The names of the winners will be revealed to the public at the Culture Excellence Award Ceremony, which will take place this year in a virtual ceremony.
The aim of awarding the Culture Excellence Award is to express the Latvian state’s recognition for outstanding international achievements in culture, which have made a significant contribution to popularizing Latvia’s cultural values, promoting a positive image of Latvia, raising Latvia’s prestige in the world and cultural value.
The Award of Excellence in Culture is eligible if the award has been obtained in international and professionally prestigious competitions, festivals and other professional evaluation events in the field of culture; if the performance of Latvian artists or collectives, such as guest performances, exhibitions and other events, has gained wide resonance abroad, promoted Latvia’s prestige in the world and awareness of cultural value in Latvian society, and if the performance has attracted wide international attention and resonated in cooperation and interaction of foreign cultural spaces.
The award, incl. 7,000 euros after taxes, each of the three outstanding recipients will receive a special, this year’s virtually organized Excellence in Culture presentation ceremony on December 7, which the Ministry of Culture is organizing in cooperation with the Latvian Academy of Culture.
Culture Excellence Award was established in 2014 at the invitation of the Minister of Culture Dace Melbārde, on the initiative of the Latvian Council of Creative Unions and with the support of the National Council of Culture. The first Culture Excellence Award Ceremony took place on 22 December 2014. In recent years, the award has been given to: Aleksandrs Antoņenko, Jānis Nords, Žanas Lipke Memorial, Signe Baumane, Iveta Apkalna, Andris Freibergs, Turaida Museum Reserve, Rasa and Raitis Šmiti and Andris Nelsons, design office H2E, Gidons Krēmers and chamber choir Hermanis, Latvian National Museum of Art, Rolands Kalniņš and Nora Ikstena, Imants Lancmanis, Elīna Garanča and Anna Laudere.
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