Karin Hollweg Prize extended

The Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation has been supporting master students (Meisterschüler:innen) at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) with the Karin Hollweg Prize since 2007. Karin Hollweg, Deputy Chairwoman of the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation, and Prof Dr Mirjam Boggasch, Rector of the HfK Bremen, have now agreed to extend the funding.

"We are very grateful to the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation and especially to our Honorary Senator Karin Hollweg for her many years of commitment and generous support for our master students," says Prof Dr Mirjam Boggasch, Rector of the HfK Bremen. "The Karin Hollweg Prize promotes the master students of the fine arts in Bremen, and also provides impetus for up-and-coming artists, the art-interested public and the exhibiting institutions, and creates visibility for the importance of artistic expression."

The Karin Hollweg Prize is awarded annually in connection with the exhibition of the master students of the University of the Arts Bremen, which takes place in different exhibition venues on a rotating basis. It is one of the most highly endowed prizes of all art academies in Germany. Each year, a jury from outside the university, made up of art experts from Bremen and the surrounding area, decides on the award.

The prize comprises 18,000 euros, half of which is paid out directly to the prizewinner as prize money, while the second half is reserved for the realisation of a solo exhibition. A further 2,000 euros will be made available to the exhibiting institution of the master student exhibition. This brings the total funding to 20,000 euros per year.

Funding from the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation has been agreed for a further five years and is therefore secured until at least 2028.

"zip" is the title of this year's exhibition by HfK master students at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, which can be seen there from 15 June to 18 August. The exhibition concept was developed together with the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus team and 15 positions will be presented throughout the museum, with individual artists occupying specific rooms and walls and others distributing their works throughout the building. 

The exhibition provides a good overview of the current focus of artistic training at the HfK.

Special highlights: Presentation of the Karin Hollweg Prize 2024, July 4th at 7 p.m. and the catalogue presentation, August 1st, 6:30p.m.

The Dilettantin Produktionsbüro (Anneli Käsmayr and Jenny Kropp together with Claudia Heidorn, Anna Jandt and Alberta Niemann) (2007), Verena Johanna Müller (2008), Christian Haake (2009), Nicolai Schorr (2010), Noriko Yamamoto (2011), Janis E. Müller (2012), Franziska Keller (2013), Z. Schmidt (2014), Tobias Heine (2015), Claudia Piepenbrock (2016), Felix Dreesen (2017), Zhe Wang (2018), Mattia Bonafini and Luisa Eugeni (2019), Kate Andrews (2020), Shirin Mohammad (2021), Martin Reichmann (2022) and Hannah Wolf (2023).