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About the Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation NRW
Idea and conception: Regina Wyrwoll
Since 2002 the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia) has presented a bi-annual award for media art:
- Five international experts nominate up to eight international artists for an exhibition of at least six weeks, from which a jury selects a winner to receive a prize of € 25,000. The same jury also awards a newcomer prize of € 15,000 to a young artist from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia - Both the exhibition and the award presentation are carried out in cooperation with an art institution in NRW
The Nam June Paik Award is not aimed at design or other applied practices, but is concentrated on art in the narrow sense. The prizes may be awarded in various artistic disciplines, however, as long as the use of electronic/digital media is an integral part of the work. The guiding principle for the selection of artists and presentations is a relationship to the varied output of the world-renowned artist Nam June Paik, who lived for 19 years in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he received much stimulus for his work. Decisive to the selection of the exhibition venue is its substantive coherency to, or indeed discrepancy from, the electronic/digital arts. In 2010 the Stiftung museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf is host and cooperating partner for the exhibition and award presentation.
The following artists have been nominated for the main prize 2010 and part of the exhibition:
4nchor5 la6, Tokyo
Ei Wada a.k.a. Crab Feet, Tokyo
Chelpa Ferro, São Paulo
Ali Kazma, Istanbul
Rosa Barba, Berlin
Eike, Budapest
Hajnal Németh, Berlin
Ignas Krunglevicius, Oslo
Out of competition: Adriane Wachholz, newcomer prizewinner 2008 and Thorsten Hallscheidt, newcomer prizewinner 2008
The artists were nominated by the following experts:
Solange Farkas, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, and Videobrasil, São Paulo
Miklós Peternák, C3, Budapest
Udo Kittelmann, National Gallery, Berlin (chairman)
Yukiko Shikata, ICC Tokyo
Antonio Muntadas, artist, Professor with MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) New York/Barcelona
The jury consists of:
Beat Wismer, director general Stiftung museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
Prof. em. Katharina Sieverding, Düsseldorf/Berlin
Prof. Dr. David Link, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig/Köln
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, Berlin University of the Arts
The decision of the jury as to the main prize and the NRW newcomer prize will be announced at the awards presentation on September 30, 2010. The awards will be presented by the president of the Kunststiftung NRW, Dr. Fritz Schaumann, State Secretary ret., in the Museum Kunst Palast, Cologne.
Previous exhibitions, participating artists and winners of the Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation NRW
2002 NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf:
Anna Koleichuk, Russia
Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, Hungary
Zoe Beloff, Scotland/USA
Paul de Marini, USA
Eder Santos, Brazil
Herwig Weiser, Austria (prizewinner 2002)
2004 Phönixhalle, hardware medienkunstverein, Dortmund:
Szabolcs KissPál, Hungary
Akram Zataari, Lebanon
xonemo (Kensuke Sembo, Yae Akaiwa), Japan
Ryota Kuwakubo, Japan
[The User] (Thomas McIntosh, Emmanuel Madan), Canada
Lucien Samaha, USA
Angela Detanico, Rafael Lain, Brazil (prizewinners 2004)
Tilmann Roth, Cologne (newcomer prizewinner 2002)
2006 Museum of Applied Art, Cologne:
Matthew Buckingham, USA
Allora & Calzadilla, Puerto Rico
Robert Langh, Hungary
Steven Vitiello, USA
Ceal Floyer, UK
Ressentiment, Japan
Marcellvs L., Brazil
Toni Serra/Abu Ali, Spain/Morocco (prizewinner 2006)
Maja Illic, Cleb Choutov, Maxim Tyminko, Cologne (newcomer prizewinners 2004)
2008 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln:
Tatjana Blass, São Paulo
GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental, Salvador de Bahia
Attila Csörgo, Budapest (prizewinner 2008)
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, artist group, Los Angeles/Damaskus
BCL/Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel, artist group, Tokyo
Johanna Reich (newcomer prizewinner 2006)
About the Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation NRW
Idea and conception: Regina Wyrwoll
Since 2002 the Kunststiftung NRW (Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia) has presented a bi-annual award for media art:
- Five international experts nominate up to eight international artists for an exhibition of at least six weeks, from which a jury selects a winner to receive a prize of € 25,000. The same jury also awards a newcomer prize of € 15,000 to a young artist from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia - Both the exhibition and the award presentation are carried out in cooperation with an art institution in NRW
The Nam June Paik Award is not aimed at design or other applied practices, but is concentrated on art in the narrow sense. The prizes may be awarded in various artistic disciplines, however, as long as the use of electronic/digital media is an integral part of the work. The guiding principle for the selection of artists and presentations is a relationship to the varied output of the world-renowned artist Nam June Paik, who lived for 19 years in North Rhine-Westphalia, where he received much stimulus for his work. Decisive to the selection of the exhibition venue is its substantive coherency to, or indeed discrepancy from, the electronic/digital arts. In 2010 the Stiftung museum kunst palast in Düsseldorf is host and cooperating partner for the exhibition and award presentation.
The following artists have been nominated for the main prize 2010 and part of the exhibition:
4nchor5 la6, Tokyo
Ei Wada a.k.a. Crab Feet, Tokyo
Chelpa Ferro, São Paulo
Ali Kazma, Istanbul
Rosa Barba, Berlin
Eike, Budapest
Hajnal Németh, Berlin
Ignas Krunglevicius, Oslo
Out of competition: Adriane Wachholz, newcomer prizewinner 2008 and Thorsten Hallscheidt, newcomer prizewinner 2008
The artists were nominated by the following experts:
Solange Farkas, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, and Videobrasil, São Paulo
Miklós Peternák, C3, Budapest
Udo Kittelmann, National Gallery, Berlin (chairman)
Yukiko Shikata, ICC Tokyo
Antonio Muntadas, artist, Professor with MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) New York/Barcelona
The jury consists of:
Beat Wismer, director general Stiftung museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf
Prof. em. Katharina Sieverding, Düsseldorf/Berlin
Prof. Dr. David Link, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig/Köln
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, Berlin University of the Arts
The decision of the jury as to the main prize and the NRW newcomer prize will be announced at the awards presentation on September 30, 2010. The awards will be presented by the president of the Kunststiftung NRW, Dr. Fritz Schaumann, State Secretary ret., in the Museum Kunst Palast, Cologne.
Previous exhibitions, participating artists and winners of the Nam June Paik Award – International Media Art Award of the Arts Foundation NRW
2002 NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf:
Anna Koleichuk, Russia
Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, Hungary
Zoe Beloff, Scotland/USA
Paul de Marini, USA
Eder Santos, Brazil
Herwig Weiser, Austria (prizewinner 2002)
2004 Phönixhalle, hardware medienkunstverein, Dortmund:
Szabolcs KissPál, Hungary
Akram Zataari, Lebanon
xonemo (Kensuke Sembo, Yae Akaiwa), Japan
Ryota Kuwakubo, Japan
[The User] (Thomas McIntosh, Emmanuel Madan), Canada
Lucien Samaha, USA
Angela Detanico, Rafael Lain, Brazil (prizewinners 2004)
Tilmann Roth, Cologne (newcomer prizewinner 2002)
2006 Museum of Applied Art, Cologne:
Matthew Buckingham, USA
Allora & Calzadilla, Puerto Rico
Robert Langh, Hungary
Steven Vitiello, USA
Ceal Floyer, UK
Ressentiment, Japan
Marcellvs L., Brazil
Toni Serra/Abu Ali, Spain/Morocco (prizewinner 2006)
Maja Illic, Cleb Choutov, Maxim Tyminko, Cologne (newcomer prizewinners 2004)
2008 Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln:
Tatjana Blass, São Paulo
GIA Grupo de Interferência Ambiental, Salvador de Bahia
Attila Csörgo, Budapest (prizewinner 2008)
Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, artist group, Los Angeles/Damaskus
BCL/Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel, artist group, Tokyo
Johanna Reich (newcomer prizewinner 2006)
