Berlin/Venice. Supported by BMW as long-term partner
the Preis der Nationalgalerie will be awarded for the ninth time in
autumn this year. The Nationalgalerie appointed the second
international jury that will select the winner out of the four
nominated artists for the prize in 2017. The second jury consists of:
Zdenka Badovinac, Director der Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Sven Beckstette, Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Hou Hanru, Artistic Curator of MAXXI Museo nazionale
delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Udo Kittelmann, Director of the Nationalgalerie –
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin
Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman for
Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
In February this year a first jury nominated the following four
artists for the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2017:
Sol Calero (born 1982 in Caracas, lives in Berlin)
Iman Issa (born 1979 in Cairo, lives in New York City
and Berlin)
Jumana Manna (born 1987 in Princeton, lives in Berlin)
Agnieszka Polska (born 1985 in Lublin, lives in
Berlin)
A group exhibition featuring the artists will be on view from
September 29, 2017 to January 14, 2018 at Hamburger
Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. The second jury will announce
the winner on October 20, 2017. The award consists of
a solo exhibition and an accompanying publication in one of the
Nationalgalerie’s venues during the year 2018.
Since 2000, the Preis der Nationalgalerie honours important
young positions in the international art field. The award winners and
nominees have since been among the defining protagonists of
contemporary art. Eligible for the Preis der Nationalgalerie are
artists of all nationalities who presently live and work in Germany
and who are not older than the age of 40.
For further information please visit the BMW Press Club
www.press.bmwgroup.com and www.preisdernationalgalerie.de.
For further questions please contact:
Dr Thomas
Girst
BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental Affairs
Head
of Cultural Engagement
Telephone: +49-89-382-24753
www.press.bmwgroup.com
E-mail:
presse@bmw.de
About BMW Group’s Cultural
Commitment
For almost 50 years now, the BMW Group has
initiated and engaged in over 100 cultural cooperations worldwide. The
company places the main focus of its long-term commitment on
contemporary and modern art, classical music and jazz as well as
architecture and design. In 1972, three large-scale paintings were
created by the artist Gerhard Richter specifically for the foyer of
the BMW Group’s Munich headquarters. Since then, artists such as Andy
Warhol, Jeff Koons, Daniel Barenboim, Jonas Kaufmann and architect
Zaha Hadid have co-operated with BMW. Currently, female artist Cao Fei
from China and American John Baldessari are creating the next two
vehicles for the BMW Art Car Collection. Besides co-initiatives, such
as BMW Tate Live, the BMW Art Journey and the “Opera for All” concerts
in Berlin, Munich and London, the company also partners with leading
museums and art fairs as well as orchestras and opera houses around
the world. The BMW Group takes absolute creative freedom in all its
cultural activities – as this initiative is as essential for producing
groundbreaking artistic work as it is for major innovations in a
successful business.
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