Käthe Kollwitz Prize



The Käthe Kollwitz Prize (Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis) is a German art award named after artist Käthe Kollwitz.

Established in 1960 by the then-Academy of Arts of the German Democratic Republic (nowadays the Academy of Arts, Berlin), the prize is awarded annually by a jury whose members are newly chosen each year to a visual artist living and working in Germany who is honored either for a single work or their complete body of work. Since 1992, the prize money (12,000 euros as of 2009) has been co-funded by the Kreissparkasse Cologne, the owner of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne. The Academy organises a parallel exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, for the laureate.

Previous winners

 * 1960:
 * 1961: Arno Mohr
 * 1962:
 * 1964:
 * 1965:
 * 1966:
 * 1967: Otto Nagel
 * 1968: Willi Sitte
 * 1969:
 * 1970:
 * 1971: Curt Querner
 * 1972: Herbert Sandberg
 * 1973:
 * 1974: Wieland Förster
 * 1975: Werner Stötzer
 * 1976: Harald Metzkes
 * 1977:
 * 1978: Dieter Goltzsche
 * 1979:
 * 1980: Werner Tübke
 * 1981: Elizabeth Shaw
 * 1982:
 * 1983: Sabina Grzimek
 * 1984:
 * 1985:
 * 1986:
 * 1987: Max Uhlig
 * 1988: Christa Sammler
 * 1989:
 * 1990:
 * 1991:
 * 1992:
 * 1993:
 * 1994: Karla Woisnitza
 * 1995: Micha Ullman
 * 1996: Martin Kippenberger
 * 1997: Astrid Klein
 * 1998: Miriam Cahn
 * 1999: Mark Lammert
 * 2000: Svetlana Kopystiansky
 * 2001:
 * 2002:
 * 2003:
 * 2004: Peter Weibel
 * 2005:
 * 2006: Thomas Eller
 * 2007: Hede Bühl
 * 2008:
 * 2009: Ulrike Grossarth
 * 2010: Mona Hatoum
 * 2011: Janet Cardiff, George Bures Miller
 * 2012: Douglas Gordon
 * 2013:
 * 2014: Corinne Wasmuht
 * 2015: Bernard Frize
 * 2016:
 * 2017: Katharina Sieverding
 * 2018: Adrian Piper
 * 2019: Hito Steyerl
 * 2020: Timm Ulrichs
 * 2021: Maria Eichhorn
 * 2022: Nan Goldin
 * 2023: Sandra Vásquez de la Horra