German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann was announced last night as the winner of the eighth Hugo Boss Art Prize, in an awards ceremony at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Feldmann, who lives and works in Düsseldorf, explores the phenomena of visual culture. He creates installations in which images and everyday objects - collected from different commercial and domestic sources - are put together in carefully constructed settings or serial forms.
Partnering with the Guggenheim Foundation, the prize recognizes artists who push the boundaries of contemporary art to create fresh perspectives. And to bolster that crusade, the biennial winner takes home a handsome stipend of $100,000 alongside a coveted solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York.
Commendably, the prize imposes no restriction on age, gender, nationality or media. The jury – a formidable panel of international curators, artists and collectors – chooses artists entirely by the body of work they have produced throughout their careers. Past recipients have included the likes of Matthew Barney, Douglas Gordon (1998) and Marjetica Potrč.
This year’s crop of entrants – Cao Fei, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad and Apichatpong Weerasethakul – ranges in age and their diverse portfolios run from sculpture and photography to mixed media, essays and even sound.
An exhibition of Hans-Peter Feldmann's work will take place at the Guggenheim, New York, from 20 May - 5 September 2011.
Feldmann creates installations in which images and everyday objects - collected from different commercial and domestic sources - are put together in carefully constructed settings or forms.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul currently lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He produces expressive, lyrical films, using various narrative devices in both feature-length and short forms.
Cao Fei was born in 1978 in Guangzhou, China. He uses photographs, videos, performances and new-media to examine the rapid evolution of Chinese society.
Created by Cao Fei, RMB City is an online virtual reality city. This work is an example of the artist’s preoccupation with the growing cultural trends in Chinese society, such as costumed role-play and online communities.
As a highly conceptual artist, Natascha Sadr Haghighian looks to discourage the view of the artist as a creative genius.
’Good Feelings in Good Times’ (2003) by Roman Ondák is part of London’s Tate Collection.
Through the process of collaboration, Natascha Sadr Haghighian encourages the communal nature or collectivity of artistic work.
Lebanon-born artist Walid Raad now lives and works in Beirut and New York.
Often including the viewer in his creative process, Roman Ondák uses performative interventions in social settings to playfully comment on the absurdities of socio-cultural structures.
Primarily focused on the contemporary history of his native country, Lebanon, Walid Raad’s conceptual work explores issues of trauma, collective memory and the representation of conflict.
One of the works of Emily Jacir, winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize, titled ’Memorial to 418 Palestinian Villages’.
Hugo Boss Prize 2008 winner, the Palestinian-Arab multimedia artist Emily Jacir.
Using a multimedia approach, Emily Jacir - winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize - connects themes of movement, borders, displacement and belonging with the individual and national identity of Palestinians.
Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul studied at Khon Kaen University and has a master of fine arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The work of Rirkit Tiravanija, winner of the 2004 Hugo Boss Prize.
One of the works of Tacita Dean, winner of the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006. This is a still from ’Boots’ (2003) – one of three 16mm colour anamorphic films produced in English, French, and German.
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