A total of 15 artists from numerous UdK classes who work in the medium of photography have applied for this year's IBB Prize for Photography. Their applications demonstrate a great diversity of contemporary themes and techniques.
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The jury, consisting of Elke von der Lieth, Angelika Platen and Andrzej Steinbach, were impressed by the predominantly sophisticated formal and content-related quality of the submitted photographic works, but ultimately decided in favour of two outstanding positions:
Main prize winner Lasse Müller (Manfred Pernice class) impressed the jury with his photographic reconstructions of historical family portraits and conceptually thought-out, three-dimensional ‘photographic structures’.
Konrad Friedländer (Christine Streuli class) received the recognition prize for his photographic exploration of the relationship between art and the public with large-format photographs without perspective.
The positions of both prizewinners deal with the medium of photography in subtle and very different ways. Both prizewinners have succeeded very impressively in unfolding the great power of the medium of photography in their positions. They are photographic works that enable the viewer to actively engage with art.
The ‘IBB Prize for Photography’ is a joint initiative of Investitionsbank Berlin and the Freundeskreis der Universität der Künste Berlin | Karl Hofer Gesellschaft and has been endowed with 10,000 euros since 2024. The prize includes an exhibition of the prizewinner's work lasting several weeks, this time from 17 January to 30 March 2025 at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin. Outstanding students and graduates of the UdK Berlin who graduated no more than five years ago are eligible for funding. In addition to the special promotion of young artists, the prize is intended to document the development of contemporary photography in general.
With this competition, launched in 2007, the IBB emphasises its intention to promote young artists in Berlin and offer them the opportunity to present their work to a broad public. The cooperation with the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft and the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as with the Kommunale Galerie Berlin in 2024, also demonstrates the importance of photography in the spectrum of modern art. Hardly any other medium than photography is so uniquely suited to making the interaction between technology and art transparent.
18th IBB Prize for Photography
- Lasse Müller | Main Prize
- Konrad Friedländer | Recognition Prize
Opening on Friday, 17 January 2025, 6 pm Welcome
Elke von der Lieth | Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Dr Hinrich Holm | IBB - Investitionsbank Berlin
Prof. Dr Norbert Palz | Berlin University of the Arts
Christian Bracht | Karl Hofer Society e.V.
Laudation
Andrzej Steinbach
Exhibition from 18 January to 30 March 2025
- Location: Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin
- Opening hours: Tue to Fri 10 am - 5 pm, Wed 10 am - 7 pm, Sat and Sun 11 am - 5 pm Admission free
