Tujuh Bintang Art Award 2009 is a competition offered as a form of award that marks the journey of young artists in their highest achievement. The competition is very tight and it is involving a team of judges consists of curator, art writers, art critics, and scholars with the best qualification in their own fields. These judges are Suwarno Wisetrotomo (Curator, Fine art critics writer and lecturer and Master degree program in ISI Yogyakarta), Kuss Indarto (Independent Curator), Sujud Dartanto (Independent Curator), Mikke Susanto (Independent curator and Lecturer at ISI Yogyakarta), and Netok Sawiji_Rusnoto Susanto (Independent curator and Lecturer at Fine Art Jakarta Public University/UNJ)

One of the important things we have to know is that this award consists of two stages of selection. First stage is the close selections where judges select works good enough to qualify for the next round based on portfolio of works consist of photo of art work and concept of the work. This stage was held in the meeting room of Santika Hotel Jogjakarta, July 7th 2009. There are 623 artists with the total number of 1508 works participating in the competition. All of the participants come from different cities all around Indonesia and some of them are also students at several art university around Indonesia. The large number of participants and art works participated in the event clearly indicates the maximum effort of the committee of this award to prepare this award within the period of one month since the awards was published. It is indeed the best work of Tujuh Bintang Art Awards 2009 team in cooperation with Tean Organizer (Hanif ZR cs) with their extra ordinary devotion towards the event. The organizer is also very proud of the response and the competitive spirit of our young artist.

The first process of the selection chose 170 art works out of 1508 entries. Then, it was narrowed down to 62 nominees and finally 20 final nominees. These final nominees then were obligated to do public presentation in the second stage of the competition. All of the nominators will also have the chance to join the Art Award exhibition. The second stage of the competition was held on July 21st 2009 in seminar room of Taman Budaya Yogyakarta where all 20 final nominees presented their works which they have already sent to Tujuh Bintang art space earlier, in front of the judges and audience of press, artists, and art critics.

The presentation also invited audience participation to express their view and opinion towards the work and also to do some confirmation on the connection between the work and the concept. This process is designed to show wider public how the procedure and process of this competition conducted so that more people will see that this competition is not only held to collect the best works of our young artist but also to pick their thoughts during their creative process. This pattern of competition would at least force all artists to do some preparation and reflection seriously in order to join this competition or other competition later on. This system also helps the artist to always be aware of their creative process. Here, in this competition, we can do some confirmation on the philosophical based of the work and its intellectual articulation. This process is of course very important because basically every art work is made by involving emotional and intellectual aspects.