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Cathrin Pichler Prize

Honouring the thinker, curator, author, and teacher Cathrin Pichler, this prize will be awarded this year for the seventh time to a student or alumni_alumnae of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, who - in the sense of Cathrin Pichler - deals with specific artistic methods and practices as contribution and intervention to scientific discourse. The prize is awarded for an existing artistic-scientific work/project.

The prize is endowed with € 2,500 - sponsored by the City of Vienna. The certificate will be awarded in the frame of a ceremony. The jury consisting of Dorit Margreiter, Anette Baldauf, Verena Kaspar-Eisert, Manuela Ammer, Magdalena Stöger, and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, will select the prize winner.

Enrolled students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and graduates who have completed their studies at the academy in the summer semester 2018* or later can submit their projects. The prize is awarded to an artistic-scientific project. (Qualification work such as diploma, master theses, or dissertation projects are excluded!)

Application period: March 8 until April 21, 2023 | 11:00 am

The following documents must be submitted as PDF files with max. 5 MB and max. 30 pages:

  • Project: documentation of the submitted project
  • Portfolio: documentation of artistic-scientific work
  • CV

    Films, videos, and sound works may be provided via a link (Vimeo, YouTube, incl. password) in the application mask. Submit via the Academy’s submission system https://calls.akbild.ac.at/.

    * Exception due to social reasons: Graduates who have completed their studies before summer semester 2018 may submit by presenting a confirmation of, e.g., years spent for childcare, disease or care for dependents, etc.)

For questions about the Cathrin Pichler Archive and to arrange a visit, please contact cathrin-pichler- archiv@akbild.ac.at or +43 1/58816-8101.
If you have any questions regarding the call, please get in touch with Elisabeth Jäger (e.jaeger@akbild.ac.at)

Prize Winners

2023: Masimba Hwati
Jury: Manuela Ammer, Anette Baldauf, Verena Kaspar-Eisert, Dorit Margreiter, Magdalena Stöger and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Announcement

2022: Kyungrim Lim Jang
Jury:  Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Sabine Breitwieser, Luisa Ziaja, Carola Dertnig, Magdalena Stöger and Andreas Spiegl
Announcement

2021: Franzis Kabisch
Jury: Nina Schedlmayer, Sabine Breitwieser, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Dorit Margreiter and Andreas Spiegl
Announcement
Exhibition

2020: Angela Anderson
Jury: Franz Thalmair, Sabine Breitwieser, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Constanze Ruhm and Jens Kastner
Announcement

2019: Nicole Suzuki
Jury: Carola Dertnig, Andreas Spiegl, Harald Krejci and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Exhibition

2018: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Jury: Carola Dertnig, Susanne Neuburger, Andreas Spiegl and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Exhibition

2017: Laura Nitsch und Barbara Juch
Jury: Gertraud Auer Borea, Anette Baldauf, Sabine Breitwieser, Dorit Margreiter and Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Exhibition