The awarding ceremony of “‘The Realm of Advaita’—2014 Caissa Rising Artists: Exhibition for Nominated Students from Art Academies” took place at Today Art Museum on 20st July 2014. The organizer is Today Art Museum and the sponsor is CAISSA Touristic. The “Exhibition for Nominated Students” of Today Art Museum was started from 2006. This exhibition is the first public art award held by non-governmental non-profit art museum in China and it is dedicated to college students. Since the founding of the ‘Exhibition for Nominated Students’, with mature running system, authoritative academy standard and impartial selection, it attracts attention from art world widely. It is the 9th edition this year.

As one of the best travel agencies in China, CAISSA Touristic is active in travel production creation with its unique cultural perspective. It hopes using its influence to bring more people's attention to the enjoyment of art and life, and involves itself in the development of art. CAISSA Touristic joins itself into this ‘Exhibition for Nominated Students’. It aims to support Chinese native rising artists. Through this commitment to public cultural programme, the company wishes to give more opportunities to young artists with potentials and help them achieve more in their art career.

On topic of “‘The Realm of Advaita’—Annual Nomination Exhibition for Students of Contemporary Art Academies” encourages younger artists abandon the secular-minded motivation of “For entertainment” or “Be standard” during their creation. We hope that they could reflect their own experience with a pure soul, which also generates new modes of vision, perception and evaluation. "Learning moderately, thinking boundless, traveling everywhere", young artists need to use the mind of basic model and value mode to explore the unlimited landscape of art world.

Having spent many months for candidate works recruitment, the Organizer Committee collected more than 6,000 works by 5,000 students from all over the world. 190 works are admitted to the exhibition, including 35 traditional Chinese paintings, 46 oil paintings, 14 prints, 51 photography works and videos, 27 installations and other artworks. These works are open to visitors starting from 19th July at the exhibition hall of Today Art Museum. The judges are to visit the exhibition, review and make appraisal of the works directly on site before 17st July. In this way the organizer assures impartial and fair judgment of the works. 

On the afternoon of 20st July 2014, “2014 Caissa Rising Artists: Exhibition for Nominated Students from Art Academies” winners are announced.

Winner of the Special Award is Zhu Jian; winner of the Leng Jun Award is Jiang Tong; winner of the Jiang Hongwei Award is Chen Xuan; winner of the Shang Yang Award is Zhang Ruiying; winner of the Jiang Jian Award is Qian Ye. Other prizes include Winners of 3 gold prizes, 6 silver prizes, 12 bronze prizes and one team of outstanding curators prizes.

The exhibition is taking place from 18th July to 11th August 2014 at Building 1 and Building 3 of Today Art Museum. We look forward to more attention on the art students and the unlimited potentials they are bringing to future contemporary art in China.