Vienna (OTS) – Yesterday, Thursday, January 19, 2023, 7 artists and 3 collectives were awarded the Austrian Art Prizes 2022 by State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer. 10 artists and 4 collectives received the Outstanding Artist Award 2022. The award ceremony took place during a ceremony in the Vienna Hofburg with host Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen.
“Today superlatives are appropriate and just right”, State Secretary for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer addressed the artists in her speech. “These prizes are a recognition of absolute top performance, exceptional artistic appearances and, last but not least, the commitment and dedication you put into your art. Because art, artistic creation, is the center of our culture, the creative core of the culture industry.”
Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen congratulated the award winners in his opening speech and emphasized the social importance of their work: “It is art that keeps our society moving. Art steps on our toes – intentionally – and doesn’t even apologize for it! And neither should she. We need someone to step on our toes. Helping us see the world around us in a new light. Art holds a mirror in front of us all. Whatever we see there can be a major impetus for change. And that is something that the world desperately needs.”
The art prize, each endowed with 15,000 euros, went to Ines Doujak (fine arts), Christiana Perschon (film), Margot Pilz (media art), Willy Puchner (children’s and youth literature), Lisl Sharp-Ponger (artistic photography), Thomas Stangl (literature ), Johannes Maria Staud (music) and the collective ARTEC architects (Hans Hollein Art Prize for architecture), Society Lalish (cultural initiatives) and toxic dreams (Performing Arts). The awards are given to established artists for their diverse, internationally recognized body of work.
The winners of the Outstanding Artist Awards 2022, which this year went to Anita Leisz (fine arts), Uta Belina Waeger (design), Liddy Scheffknecht (artistic photography), Daniel Jokesch (caricature and comics), Judit Varga (music) and Klaus Mühlbauer (fashion). In the film division, Ella Raidel (fiction and documentary) and Johannes Gierlinger (experimental film) and in the literature division, Florian Neuner and Julie Völk (children’s and youth literature) and the collective club Motif (cultural initiatives), mia2 architecture (Architecture), buckhorn (performing arts) and Cairo (media art) awarded. With the Outstanding Artist Award are presented by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS) Artists are awarded who can show a meaningful oeuvre and whose works are of artistic national importance.
The winners of the years 2021 and 2020, who might not be celebrated due to the pandemic, were also received yesterday.
The winners are selected by independent expert juries.
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