We warmly invite you to celebrate with us in the presence of the artists.
19:00 Speeches (with translation in Austrian Sign Language)
→ Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science
→ Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director Kunsthalle Wien
→ Johan F. Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
→ Brigitte Felderer, Vice Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna
→ Hannah Marynissen, Curator Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024
19:30–22:00 DJ-set by tonedeaf
Free admission.
Rawan Almukhtar and Ida Kammerloch won the Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024. The Kunsthalle Wien Preis seeks to support emerging artists living and working in Vienna and to promote discourse on contemporary art via an annual collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Rawan Almukhtar studied Art and Intervention | Concept at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and was awarded the Kunsthalle Wien Preis for the two-part installation HIJRA – Queering Borders and DUKHANIA – The Protesting Archive. The paintings and drawings take inspiration from his experiences as a refugee and activist. Through the practice, Almukhtar seeks to ‘witness’ the stories of migrants and ‘reclaim’ how they are represented to include the ‘beautiful stories’ and present ‘the whole experience from an insider perspective’.
Ida Kammerloch studied TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and was awarded the Kunsthalle Wien Preis for the video installation ULTRA ALL INCLUSIVE. Her recent video essays draw upon her grandfather’s archive of homemade videos. Recorded in post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s, they document a time of significant political and social change. Kammerloch uses her own family history to explore the complex interrelationships between global capitalism and Russian national identity, against the backdrop of architecture and trade.
The Kunsthalle Wien Preis 2024 is realized with the kind and generous support of Kunsttrans and smc Steirer Mika & Comp.
Kunsthalle Wien thanks Café Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Ottakringer Brauerei and Winzerhof Familie Dockner for supporting the opening.
