The gala award ceremony took place on April 5 in the Atrium of the General Staff Headquarters of the State Hermitage. The Sergey Kurekhin Award is one of the most important cultural events in St. Petersburg and all of Russia, defining trends in the modern arts world. The award is given to artists, curators and musicians developing revolutionary ideas, as formulated by Sergey Kurekhin in the 1990s, in their creative work.