euward9 - Top -class jury names the winners of the European Art Prize for painting and graphics in the context of intellectual disabilities

euward9 – The European Art Award

Last Saturday, September 16th, a distinguished jury of recognized international experts selected the winners of the prestigious Augustinum Foundation Art Prize for Painting and Graphics in the Context of Intellectual Disability for the ninth time.

Winners of the euward9

In alphabetical order, Samaneh Atef (Lyon, FR), Belén Sánchez (Madrid, ESP) and Desmond Tjon A Koy (Amsterdam, NL) were announced as the winners of the euward9.

The jury made its decision last weekend – more precisely on September 16 – and thus selected the three talented artists from a large number of applicants for the European Art Prize for Painting and Graphics in the Context of Intellectual Disability of the Augustinum Foundation.

In 2024, they will be honored with this prestigious award.

The award winners in alphabetical order

Samaneh Atef

Samaneh Atef (born 1989) lives in Lyon, France, and was born in 1989 in Badar Abbas, Iran. Atef's pen and ink drawings tell the story of women, from life-giver to prisoner, from celebrated birth mother and healer to scapegoat, and everything in between.

As a self-taught outsider artist, she gives a voice to those who are still marginalized in our world today through her symbolic works.

Belén Sánchez

Belén Sánchez (born 1972) lives in Madrid, Spain, and has been a member of Studio Debajo del Sombrero since 2008. Her own body is central to her drawings, collages, sculptures, and films, through which she tells stories of aggression and healing.

As a performer, she slips into the roles of both good and evil. This creates a tension-filled space for action, enabling her to both explore the depths of violence and resolve moral conflicts in a positive way.

Desmond Tjon A Koy

Desmond Tjon A Koy (*1993) lives in Amsterdam, NL and is of Ghanaian-Surinamese descent. He enjoys working with pencil and fineliner on topics related to Black culture, religious history, and music.

Lately, his work has increasingly focused on the history and struggle for freedom of People of Colour.

euward9 as a renowned forum for art created in the context of intellectual disability

Since 2000, euward has gained special prominence as a renowned forum for art in the context of intellectual disability. It recognizes the unique qualities of this type of artwork, which offers unparalleled access to the world and its perception.

The euward is a Europe-wide recognized award that honors the complete works of each artist and thus becomes the only prize of its kind.

This internationally renowned art prize is also largely supported by international museums and cultural institutions.

The Augustinum Foundation awards the prize every three years. This year's euward9 is sponsored Aktion Mensch , the Edith Haberland-Wagner Foundation , and the Louisoder and Pfefferkorn Foundation .

Over 240 artists from 25 European countries applied for the euward this year; the euward board nominated 19 participants for the prize.

From this shortlist, the jury finally selected the three winners.

From May 17 to July 14, 2024, the prize winners will be honored with a monographic exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and supported with cash prizes and a catalogue with a total value of approximately €25,000. The ranking of the first three winners will be announced at the opening and awards ceremony on May 16, 2024, at the Haus der Kunst
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jury of euward9, which met on September 16, was comprised of internationally recognized experts:

• Dr. Ivana Basicevic Antic, Director of the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art / Jagodina, SRB
• Dr. Carine Fol, Artistic Director, CENTRALE for contemporary art / Brussels, B
• Dr. Monika Jagfeld, Director, open art museum – center for outsider art / St. Gallen, CH
• Prof. Colin D. Rhodes, Hunan Normal University, curator, author / Silverstone, UK

organizer

Augustinum gemeinnützige GmbH, Stiftsbogen 74, 81375 Munich, www.augustinum.de

Save the date: Opening and award ceremony 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2024, 6 p.m.
At Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich:
Opening and presentation of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes, in the presence of the artists. For more
information see euward9 – Haus der Kunst in Munich exhibits prize winners

Board of Trustees

• Christian Berst (gallerist, exhibition curator, author) / Paris
• Sabine Brantl (Curator, Head of Archive, Haus der Kunst) / Munich
• Dr. Monika Jagfeld (Director, Museum of Swiss Naive Art and Art Brut ) / St. Gallen
• Elena Sorokina (Exhibition Curator) / Paris
• Stephanie Weber (Curator of Contemporary Art, Lenbachhaus Munich) / Munich
• Matti Wustmann (illustrator and animator, sieben/barner16) / Hamburg

Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst

An exhibition for euward9 – the 9th art prize for painting and graphic art in the context of intellectual disability – will take place in the South Gallery at the Haus der Kunst between May 17th and July 14th, 2024.

In 2024, the Haus der Kunst be delighted to welcome the winners and nominated artists of euward9.

As a public institution, the Haus der Kunst is committed to ensuring that everyone can participate in social exchange through art. Diversity, equality, inclusion, and accessibility are central to its work and are also taken into account in program planning and exhibition development.

The building itself was opened in 1937 as the "House of German Art" and was then an important site of National Socialist propaganda and art policy. Nazi politicians used pseudo-medical language to defame modern art movements and drew direct comparisons with photographs of people with physical or mental disabilities to justify their removal from German museums – which is particularly disturbing.

In light of this historical background, the house now bears a special responsibility as an exhibition venue.

With its ninth edition, euward 2024 will take place for the fifth time at the Haus der Kunst, with a decisive change since 2021: euward is no longer a guest exhibition, but a building block that, like the other projects, is presented in the annual program of the Haus der Kunst.

This step puts the artists and their works in the foreground and brings the format closer to the intention of the prize, which aims to establish itself in the context of contemporary art.

The euward9 exhibition also offers the chance to question familiar ideas and conventions and to encounter the artistic work of the prize winners and nominated artists freely and without established interpretive patterns.

The institutions of the art world must reinvent themselves, their concepts fundamentally change. Our familiar notion of normality has evaporated, freed from the rust of its rigid certainties. And so, the collaboration with the Augustinum Foundation offers the Haus der Kunst an opportunity to bring its fundamental values ​​to the fore in a new form

Andrea Lissoni , Artistic Director of Haus der Kunst, in the foreword to the catalogue of euward8, 2021.

The exhibition will be on display from May 17 to July 14, 2024, in the South Gallery of the Haus der Kunst. Curated by Klaus Mecherlein (Augustinum Foundation) and Sabine Brantl (Haus der Kunst).

Get in touch

Haus der Kunst | South Gallery
, Prinzregentenstraße 1, 80538 Munich
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