Käthe Kollwitz Prize

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize, endowed in 1960 by the East German Akademie der Künste, is awarded on an annual basis to a visual artist in honour of a single work or his/her overall achievement. It has a value of 12,000 Euros.

The prize winner is decided on by a members’ jury which changes every year. The life and work of the artist should be centred in Berlin.

On the occasion of awarding this honour, the Akademie der Künste organises an exhibition to the laureate as well as publishing a catalogue. Since 1992, the Käthe Kollwitz Prize has been co-funded by the Cologne Kreissparkasse (District Savings Bank) as the body responsible for the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.

Laureates

2020 Timm Ulrichs  ◆  2019 Hito Steyerl  ◆  2018 Adrian Piper  ◆  2017 Katharina Sieverding  ◆  2016 Edmund Kuppel  ◆  2015 Bernard Frize  ◆  2014 Corinne Wasmuht  ◆  2013 Eran Schaerf  ◆  2012 Douglas Gordon  ◆  2011 Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller  ◆  2010 Mona Hatoum  ◆  2009 Ulrike Grossarth  ◆  2008 Gustav Kluge  ◆  2007 Hede Bühl  ◆  2006 Thomas Eller  ◆  2005 Lutz Dammbeck  ◆  2004 Peter Weibel  ◆  2003 Horst Münch  ◆  2002 Renate Anger  ◆  2001 Jürgen Schön  ◆  2000 Svetlana Kopystiansky  ◆  1999 Mark Lammert  ◆  1998 Miriam Cahn  ◆  1997 Astrid Klein  ◆  1996 Martin Kippenberger  ◆  1994 Karla Woisnitza  ◆  1993 Martin Assig  ◆  1992 Lothar Böhme  ◆  1991 Manfred Butzmann  ◆  1990 Konrad Knebel  ◆  1989 Claus Weidensdorfer  ◆  1988 Christa Sammler  ◆  1987 Max Uhlig  ◆  1986 Gerhard Großmann  ◆  1985 Joachim John  ◆  1984 Manfred Böttcher  ◆  1983 Sabine Grzimek  ◆  1983 Sabine Grzimek  ◆  1982 Hans Vent  ◆  1981 Elisabeth Shaw  ◆  1980 Werner Tübke  ◆  1979 Wilfried Fitzenreiter  ◆  1978 Dieter Goltzsche  ◆  1977 Horst Zickelbein  ◆  1976 Harald Metzkes  ◆  1975 Werner Stötzer  ◆  1974 Wieland Förster  ◆  1973 René Graetz  ◆  1972 Herbert Sandberg  ◆  1971 Curt Querner  ◆  1970 Gerhard Kettner  ◆  1969 Theo Balden  ◆  1968 Willi Sitte  ◆  1967 Otto Nagel  ◆  1966 Fritz Dähn  ◆  1965 Fritz Duda  ◆  1964 Herbert Tucholski  ◆  1962 Sella Hasse  ◆  1961 Arno Mohr  ◆  1960 Karl Erich Müller