Berlin. On the evening of September 12, 2019, in the
presence of State Minister of Culture Prof. Monika Grütters and Dr
Nicolas Peter, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Finance,
Pauline Curnier
Jardin was announced as winner of the Preis der
Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
After its first edition in 2000, the Preis der Nationalgalerie was
awarded for the tenth time.
The jury, consisting of Annie Fletcher,
Director of IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin;
Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Curator at Hamburger
Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Udo
Kittelmann, Director of Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin; Philippe Vergne, Director of Serralves
Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and Theodora
Vischer, Senior Curator of Fondation Beyeler, Basel, decided
after intensive discussions on Pauline Curnier Jardin (born 1980 in
Marseille) as the prize winner.
The jury states
: “After a lively discussion the jury awarded the
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019 to Pauline Curnier Jardin for her work
not only in the shortlist exhibition here at the Hamburger Bahnhof but
for her practice in its entirety. The jury grounded its decision on
the Preis der Nationalgalerie’s spirit to support the development and
encouragement of an artist’s work. The jury especially appreciates
Pauline Curnier Jardin’s compelling and immersive filmic and
installation work. Not unlike a delirious circus, her work provides an
unsettling experience based on the confusion of our time.”
Dr Nicolas Peter, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Finance,
says: “Take a good look at the shortlist of the Preis
der Nationalgalerie within the past decade and you will realize that
having been nominated jumpstarted many of an artist’s career. As
long-term partner since the award’s inception we wholeheartedly
congratulate Pauline Curnier Jardin! It will be great to see what she
may come up with for her exhibition next year.”
With the award Pauline Curnier Jardin wins a major solo
exhibition next year in one of the Nationalgalerie’s institutions as
well as an accompanying publication.
In addition to Pauline Curnier Jardin, the shortlisted artists
for this year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie were Simon Fujiwara, Flaka
Haliti and Katja Novitskova. The works of the artists are presented in
a group exhibition until February 16, 2020 at Hamburger Bahnhof –
Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
In cooperation with the Deutsche Filmakademie the
Förderpreis für Filmkunst, endowed with 10.000
Euros, was awarded for the fifth time. The winner is Lucia
Margarita Bauer for Maman Maman Maman”.
The Jury, consisting of Nikola Dietrich,
Director Kölnischer Kunstverein; Doris Dörrie, writer
and filmmaker; Marina Fokidis, curator, writer and
Director of South as a State of Mind Journal; Ulrich
Matthes, actor, and Bige Örer, Director of
the Istanbul Biennale, chose the winner from a shortlist of four candidates.
As a symbolic prize Pauline Curnier Jardin and Lucia Margarita
Bauer received a signed multiple “Intuition” by Joseph Beuys from 1968.
After the award ceremony, more than 400 international guests and
friends of the Nationalgalerie celebrated the two winners and the
anniversary of the award with the longstanding partner BMW.
The Preis der Nationalgalerie was enabled by the Verein der
Freunde der Nationalgalerie nineteen years ago. For nearly fourteen
years BMW supports the Preis der Nationalgalerie as a long-term
partner, as well as the Förderpreis für Filmkunst in cooperation with
the Deutsche Filmakademie.
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information, please refer to http://preisdernationalgalerie.de/en/
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BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental
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