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Presentation of the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prizes 2022

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Photo: Art Cologne

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Every year, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine (ADKV) and Art Cologne award one price for outstanding art criticism and one to an art association of distinction. The aim is to promote innovative, outstanding art mediation work while publicly acknowledging the important role of creative and independent art criticism for contemporary art production.

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Previous winners of the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Criticism

2023 - Oliver Koerner von Gustorf

Open Call
Jury: Carina Bukuts (curator, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.), Magdalena Kröner (art critic and author, prize winner 2022), Moritz Scheper (director of Neuer Essener Kunstverein), Dr. Christoph Schneider (editor of artline art magazine) and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thomas (Professor of Modern Art History, Institute of Art History, University of Stuttgart)
Press Release (German)

2022 - Magdalena Kröner

Open Call
Jury: Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg (Director, Kunstmuseum Bonn), Olaf Nicolai (artist, Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich), Dr. Noemi Smolik (art critic, 2020 award winner), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Thomas (Professor of Modern Art History, Institute of Art History, University of Stuttgart)) and Dr. Kia Vahland (art critic and editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung).
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2021 - Due to the Covid pandemic, the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for
Art Critic was not awarded.

2020 - Noemi Smolik

Open Call
Jury: Prof. Dr. Stephan Berg (Director, Kunstmuseum Bonn), Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck (Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig), Swantje Karich (Features Editor, "Die Welt" and "Welt am Sonntag"), Olaf Nicolai (Artist, Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich) and Antje Stahl (Author, 2019 prizewinner) as well as Gerrit Gohlke as representative of ADKV (without voting rights).
Press Release (German)

2019 - Antje Stahl

Open Call
Jury: Alexander Koch (curator and gallery owner, director Neue Auftraggeber), Radek Krolczyk (2018 award winner), Hili Perlson (freelance art critic), Ricarda Roggan (artist, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Annette Tietenberg (Professor of Art History, HBK Braunschweig) as well as Gerrit Gohlke as representative of ADKV (without voting rights).
Press Release (German)

2018 - Radek Krolczyk

Open Call
Jury: Swantje Karich (editor of DIE WELT and deputy editor-in-chief of BLAU, lecturer), Stefan Kobel (freelance critic, e.g. for Handelsblatt), Alexander Koch (curator, gallery owner (KOW)), Astrid Mania (professor of art criticism and modern art history at HFBK Hamburg, freelance critic, e.g. for Süddeutsche Zeitung), Hili Perlson (art critic for artnet, fashion journalist and lecturer, e.g. for Süddeutsche Zeitung). Süddeutsche Zeitung), Hili Perlson (art critic for artnet, fashion journalist and lecturer) and Gerrit Gohlke as representative of the ADKV (without voting rights).
Press Release (German)

2017 - Kito Nedo

Open Call
Jury: Marius Babias (critic, curator and director of n.b.k. Berlin); Astrid Mania (art scholar and freelance critic); Jörg Scheller (art scholar and freelance critic, winner of the 2016 Prize for Art Criticism); Tobias Timm (journalist, editor of the features section of DIE ZEIT), Gerrit Gohlke as representative of ADKV (without voting rights)
Press Release (German)

2016 - Jörg Scheller

Open Call
Jury: Marius Babias (critic, curator and director of n.b.k. Berlin); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and board member of ADKV); Stefan Kobel (freelance critic, winner of the 2015 Prize for Art Criticism); Dominikus Müller (critic and editor-in-chief at frieze d/e); Tobias Timm (journalist, editor of the features section of DIE ZEIT)
Press Release (German)

2015 - Stefan Kobel

Open Call
Jury: Barbara Buchmaier (art historian, critic and freelance author, Berlin); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and board member of ADKV); Roos Gortzak (director of De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands); Dominikus Müller (critic and editor at frieze d/e); Sebastian Preuss (deputy editor-in-chief of Weltkunst, Berlin); Christine Woditschka (artist and freelance author, Berlin)
Press Release (German)

2014 - Barbara Buchmaier and Christine Woditschka

Open Call
Jury: Roos Gortzak (art historian and curator, Karlsruhe); Annette Kulenkampff (managing director documenta, Kassel); Sebastian Preuss (deputy editor-in-chief Weltkunst, Berlin); Kolja Reichert (freelance journalist and author, Berlin); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and board member of ADKV)
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2013 - Dr. Astrid Mania

Open Call
Jury: Nicola Kuhn (critic and curator, Berlin); Prof. Dr. Georg Imdahl (Professor of Art and the Public Sphere at the Kunstakademie Münster, Düsseldorf/Münster); Astrid Wege (critic, author and curator, Cologne); Gunter Reski (artist and author, Berlin); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and board member of ADKV)
Press Release (German)

2012 - Kolja Reichert

Open Call
Jury: Dr. Georg Imdahl (art critic); Dr. Astrid Mania (art critic); Gunter Reski (artist and author, Berlin); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and board member of ADKV)

2011 - Dr. Jens Kastner

Open Call
Jury: Catrin Lorch (art critic); Dr. Jennifer Allen (art historian and art critic); Thomas Locher (artist); Marius Babias (curator); Gerrit Gohlke (critic, curator and ADKV board member)

2010 - Unfortunately, the prize had to be paused.

2009 - Dr. Jennifer Allen

2008 - Rudolf Schmitz

2007 - Ludwig Seyfarth

2006 - Catrin Lorch

1999 - 2005
Winners of the ADKV Prize for Art Criticism

2005 - Dominic Eichler

2004 - Gregory Williams

2003 - Raimar Stange

2002 - Renate Puvogel

2001 - Jan Verwoert

2000 - Stefan Römer

1999 - Hans Christian Dany

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Previous Winners of the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Kunstvereine

2023 - Dortmunder Kunstverein

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2022 - Bonner Kunstverein

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2021 - Due to the Covid pandemic, the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for
Kunstvereine was not awarded.

2013 - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

2012 - Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

2011 - Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft

2010 - Kölnischer Kunstverein

2009 - Heidelberger Kunstverein

2008 - Salzburger Kunstverein & Westfälischer Kunstverein

2007 - Kunstverein Wolfsburg

2006 - ACC Galerie Weimar

2000 - 2005

Winners of the ART FRANKFURT PREIS

From 2000 to 2005, ART FRANKFURT honored the innovative work and exhibition practice of an art association with the ART FRANKFURT PRIZE (formerly the Adam Elsheimer Prize), endowed with € 13,000.