Prize of the Böttcherstrasse   23.04.2016 – 18.09.2016

Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2016

The Kunsthalle Bremen presents ten young and promising positions in contemporary art. Distinguished curators such as Johan Holten, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Susanne Pfeffer and Bettina Steinbrügge have nominated ten artists from the German-speaking area.

This year the jury has awarded the Prize of the Böttcherstraße to Emeka Ogboh.

The following ten artists have been nominated for the 2016 Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen:

Julius von Bismarck (born 1983 in Breisach am Rhein, Germany, lives in Berlin), nominated by Ellen Blumenstein, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
FORT (artistduo): Alberta Niemann (born 1982 in Bremen, Germany, lives in Berlin) and Jenny Kropp (born 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lives in Berlin), nominated by Prof. Dr. Christoph Grunenberg, Kunsthalle Bremen
Franka Kaßner (born 1976 in Oschatz, Germany lives in Leipzig), nominated by Prof. Dr. Bernhart Schwenk, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Oliver Laric (born 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria, lives in Berlin), nominated by Susanne Pfeffer, Fridericianum, Kassel
Pauline M´barek (born 1979 in Cologne, Germany, lives in Cologne and Brussels, Belgium), nominated by the Donors’ Circle of the Prize of the Boettcherstrasse, Bremen
Katja Novitskova (born 1984 in Tallinn, Estonia, lives in Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands), nominated by Bettina Steinbrügge, Kunstverein Hamburg
Emeka Ogboh (born 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria, lives in Berlin), nominated by Johan Holten, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (both born 1979 in Zurich/Winterthur, Switzerland, lives in Berlin), nominated by Dr. Eva Schmidt, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Nora Schultz (born 1975 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, lives in Vienna, Austria), nominated by Mario Codognato, 21er Haus, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Vienna
Peter Wächtler (born 1979 in Hannover, lives in Berlin und Brussels, Belgium), nominated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London

The Members of the 2016 jury:

Dr. Sabine Breitwieser, since 2013 Director of the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, previously founding Director of the Generali Foundation and Chief Curator for Media- and Performance-Art at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.
Dr. Ulrike Groos, since 2010 Director of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, additionally member of the Villa Massimo-Jury for Visual Arts and since 2009 member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz.
Fabrice Hergott, since 2006 Director of the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, previously Director of the Musées de Strasbourg and Curator for Contemporary Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Dr. Thomas Kellein, since 2013 independent curator and art advisor in Berlin, previously Director of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.
Adam Szymczyk, Artistic Director of documenta 14, which will take place in 2017, previously Director at Kunsthalle Basel.

 

Since 1985 the prize has been presented in the Kunsthalle Bremen with the support of the Donors’ Circle (Stifterkreis) of the Kunstverein in Bremen (Bremen Art Association). They have also made possible the purchase of a work by each of the prize’s winners. The Kunsthalle Bremen has thus been able to expand its collection through significant works by Martin Honert, Ólafur Elíasson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tino Sehgal, Ulla von Brandenburg, Thea Djordjadze or Daniel Knorr and Nina Beier, among others. Every two years, ten distinguished curators each independently select one artist from the German-speaking area.

 

(Fig.: Emeka Ogboh, The Continental Entrée, 2015/16, neon, road signs, audio, Installation view Kunsthalle Bremen, Courtesy of the artist, photo: Tobias Hübel)