Szpilman Award

The Szpilman Award is an annual art prize. It is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations.[1] It was first presented in 2003 and is still the only award for ephemeral works worldwide. The prize is open for the public.

The logo of Szpilman Award.

Background

The Szpilman Award is initiated, financed and organized by German-based art group Szpilman. It was founded in 2003.[2] Initially only people from Germany could apply. Regulations were changed in 2004 and opened the call for Europe. The public interest in the prize raised. In 2006 Szpilman abolished any restrictions: everyone from all over the world[3] can apply now for the Szpilman Award. The winner is chosen by a panel of up to 10 independent judges including the winner of the previous year. The prize is accompanied with a dynamic cash award (sum of money collected by members of the jury parallel to the competition, called "Jackpot Stipendium"), a trip to Cimochowizna (Poland), and a challenge cup whichwill be handed over to the next prize winner in the subsequent year.[4]

Since 2008 the Szpilman Award is also running a daily bulletin about ephemeral works, called "Potz!Blitz!Szpilman!".[5]

To make ephemeral works more public and to show a greater variety of possibilities members of Szpilman Award curate exhibitions since 2006 in cities all around the world, called Szpilman Award Shows, e.g. in galleries, museums and public spaces in Austria, Germany,[6] Greenland, Israel, Italy,[7] Switzerland,[8] The Netherlands and Turkey.[9]

Winners and shortlisted artists
Year Winner Work Shortlisted Notes
2003 Julia Weidner
(Germany)		 'Keep on' Shannon Bool
David Borchers
Karin Felbermayr
Stefan Hurtig
Alice Musiol
Gudrun Schuster
2004 Catrin Bolt
(Austria)		 'Ausstellung in der galerie.kärnten' Shannon Bool
David Borchers & Gregor Schubert
Matthias Lehmann
Alice Musiol
Gloria Zein

2005 Albert Heta [10]
(Kosovo[a])		 'Embassy of the Republic of Kosova, Prague, Czech Republic' Wolfgang Breuer
C5
Sarah Ortmeyer
Michael Part
Simone Slee
Adrian Williams
2006 Martin Flemming [11]
(Germany)		 'Wenn jeder denkt, es ist für alle, dann füttert niemand die Fische' Oleg Buryan
Pol Matthé
Stefanie Trojan

2007 Doug Fishbone
(United Kingdom)

Michał Sznajder
(Poland)

'Untitled (Muslim in Cage in Freud Museum)'


'Here'		 Evangelia Basdekis
Anja Brendle & Sebastian Höhmann
MeMe
Marc Nothelfer
Poison Idea

2008 Kamila Szejnoch [12]
(Poland)		 'Swing' Giorgina Choueiri
Julia Dick
Sai Hua Kuan
Kate Mitchell
Chris Richmond

2009 Hank Schmidt in der Beek [13]
(Germany)		 'In den Zillertaler Alpen' Jennyfer Haddad
Gerard Herman
Jaroslav Kyša
Roy Menahem Markovich
Alexander Thieme

2010 Sara Nuytemans & Arya Pandjalu [14]
(The Netherlands & Indonesia)		 'Treebute from Yogya' Anna Gohmert
Jennyfer Haddad
Maria Victoria Muñoz Castillo
Berndnaut Smilde
Tomas Werner

2011 Jaroslav Kyša [15]
(United Kingdom)		 'The Barrier' Jaś Domicz
David Horvitz
Petr Krátký
Jinho Lim
Péter Szabó

2012 Miná Minov [16]
(Bulgaria)		 'Bribe a Jury' Kush Badhwar
Alex Jones
Max Schranner
Amanda Wachob
2013 Luuk Schröder [17]
'Untitled' Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Šimánek and Vladimír Turner
Ilisie Remus
Marwin Rüffer
RoByn Thompson
Dominic Watson
2014 Paweł Stasiewicz [18]
'1,2,3,4' Robert Mădălin Demeter, Alexis Dworsky & Joachim Kaiser
Dávid Gutema & Dávid Mikulán
Lodewijk Heylen
Maciej Szczęśniak

Jury
gollark: No it isn't. Those things are "mighty" because they act as force multipliers, not because they do things on their own.
gollark: I see.
gollark: As in, Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or another queen?
gollark: "Fortunately" such high-energy drives would also be very visible when running, so we'd have plenty of time to prepare and be unable to do anything.
gollark: And if they wanted to kill off humans it would be trivial, as anything capable of accelerating a fairly large ship to significant fractions of lightspeed can do the same to a kinetic impactor of some sort.

See also

Notes and references

Notes:

a.   ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References:

  1. Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe: "Mahony at Austrian Cultural Forum" Saatchi Online, 9 May 2007.
  2. Weber, Grit: Szpilman Award, art kaleidoscope, page 23, January 2009.
  3. "Who participates in the Szpilman Award? " Archived 2008-12-25 at the Wayback Machine Szpilman Award: Information, viewed: 12 January 2009.
  4. Vvoi: "Szpilman Award: carpe diem, one ephemeral step at a time" New Art blog, 16 May 2007.
  5. "In love with ephemeral" Sleek Magazine No.22, page 94, September 2009.
  6. "Mer spingkse, wat kütt. Szpilman Award Show #12 - Clages". Clages. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  7. "Präsentation - Szpilman Award Show #10". www.villaromana.org. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  8. "La Placette". www.laplacette.ch. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  9. "Szpilman Award: Night of the Sunglasses". www.manzara-perspectives.com. Retrieved 2016-02-20.
  10. Paulson, Marc: Apply Now!, Laser Magazin, page 24-28, April 2007.
  11. Bieber, Alain: "Szpilman Award 2007" Archived 2013-08-20 at the Wayback Machine rebelart.net, 18 March 2007.
  12. Bosetti, Petra: "Ein Preis für (fast) nichts" art magazin, 25 November 2008.
  13. "Hank Schmidt in der Beek: In den Zilltertaler Alpen" Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine ArtSchoolVets, 10 May 2009.
  14. Bianpoen, Carla: "The quest for survival" The Jakarta Post, 7 May 2013.
  15. HR Stamenov; Petkova, Bora: Practices in Public Environment, 2012, page 92.
  16. Klopp, Tina: "Wie verkauft man eine Performance?" Die Zeit, 7 July 2013.
  17. "Szpilman Award 2013". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  18. "Szpilman Award 2014". Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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