The Murmur of the Cosmos.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023

Chilean artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023. In conjunction with the award ceremony, the Akademie der Künste is showing a selection of her works, which can be seen from 19 Jun to 25 Aug 2024 on Hanseatenweg. Over 60 drawings, photographs and objects unfold in a site-specific installation.

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s work focuses on the conflicts that are of current concern to people around the world, combining archetypes derived from our collective consciousness, taboos, questions of gender and sexuality, intercultural reflections and interrogations of spiritual practice.She uses dreams, the subconscious and memories to create a poetic visual world between the imaginary and the real, with human existence at its centre.

De la Horra grew up during a period when her native Chile was governed by the junta following the military coup in 1973 and plagued by torture, abductions and human rights violations. Her drawings, sculptures and installations are influenced not only by her country’s history but also by her examination of her own family history, the mythologies of the Indigenous population and European colonial rule in Central and South America.

The exhibition catalogue will include texts by Ulrike Grossarth and Siegfried Zielinski.

With the generous support of Kreissparkasse Köln and Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.