The KULTUR ROCKT Award for Fine Art will be given out in cooperation with the bureau of culture of the city Schmallenberg to an artist from the fields of painting, photography, sculpture, performance or installation on a yearly basis.
Following the nomination process by the examination board under the direction of Saskia Holsträter and Kai Richter, the KULTUR ROCKT jury evaluates the three nominees.
Each of the jury members can give 1 x 3 points (for the artist she or him likes best), 1 x 2 points (for the artist she or him likes second best) and 1 x 1 point (for the artist she or he likes third best). The artist with the most points is the winner of the KULTUR ROCKT Award for Fine Art.
The winner will then be presented in a single show on the occasion of the festival, opened by a vernissage in Schmallenberg.
Apart from the single show the winner gets 1,500 Euro prize money and a certificate.
Winner 2025: Irene Weingartner, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Luzern + Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Winner 2023: Meike Schulze Hobeling, Kunstakademie Münster
Winner 2022: Charlott Weise, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden + Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam.
Winner 2021: Miriam Jonas, Kunstakademie Münster + Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Winner 2019: Silke Berg, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Winner 2018: Isabel Schober, Kunstakademie Münster
The international and interdisciplinary jury consists of the following persons:
- Matthias Beckmann, drawer, Berlin
- Henry Hargreaves + Caitlin Levin, artist duo, New York
- Saskia Holsträter, head of bureau of culture Schmallenberg, Sauerland
- Nina Hoss, actress, Berlin
- Cathy Jardon, painter, Berlin
- Professor Sabine Keggenhoff, architect, Sauerland
- Anne Knapstein, chairwoman of the organisation Kunstverein Sundern-Sauerland e.V., Sauerland
- Alexander Krichel, pianist and vice-chairman + artistic director of the organisation KULTUR ROCKT e.V., Hamburg
- Jannik Schümann, actor, Berlin
- Andrea Schulte, owner + managing director Schulte Lagertechnik and chairwoman of the organisation Kulturring Sundern, Sauerland
- David Smith, author, Los Angeles
- Professor Dr. Rainer Stamm, head of Osthaus Museum, Hagen
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Artists can apply for the KULTUR ROCKT Award for Fine Art by sending their portfolio to: info@kultur-rockt.com
The examination board takes into consideration applications, which has been submitted by November 30 of the previous year. In addition, artists will directly be chosen for the nomination list by the examination board. The final list with three nominees in total will then be presented to the KULTUR ROCKT jury.
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