Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2011 for John Miller
13 April - 31 October 2011
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| John Miller
Im Vordergrund: Self-Made Man, 2011
Erwerbung der Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst und des Museum Ludwig Im
Hintergrund links: Now we´re big potatoes, 1992, Gaby und Wilhelm
Schürmann, Herzogenrath Im Hintergrund rechts: Fotos der Serie Middle of
the Day, Erwerbung der Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst und des Museum
Ludwig © John Miller, Gaby und Wilhelm Schürman Foto: Lothar Schnepf,
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WOLFGANG HAHN PRIZE 2011 FOR JOHN MILLER
13 April - 31 October, 2011
This year’s Wolfgang Hahn Prize will be given to John Miller. The
Gesell-schaft für Moderne Kunst awards its prize annually to honor a
contem-porary artist whose oeuvre is internationally recognized.
Miller’s complex work investigates the wide spectrum of issues ranging
from technology and the individual to society which, according to
Miller, were anticipated by Concept Art and Fluxus. Presented on the
museum’s top floor, a small exhibition assembling sculpture,
photography, painting, and audiovisual works will offer an overview of
Miller’s work. Born in Cleveland in 1954, the artist has produced a new
two-part sculpture for the museum collec-tion. Created from
advertisement columns, among the elements Miller used for this piece was
a personal ad of a self-made man. After the exhibi-tion, Self-Made Man
and photographs from the series Middle of the Day will remain in the
Museum Ludwig, forming a representative body of Mil-ler’s work that will
extend and complement our holdings.
On the Wolfgang Hahn Prize:
COLOGNE With the Wolfgang Hahn Prize COLOGNE, the Gesellschaft für
Moderne Kunst pays tribute to the work of contemporary artists and
purchases a work for Museum Ludwig. The acquisi-tion prize is in memory
of Wolfgang Hahn (1924 – 1987), head conservator at the Wallraf-Richartz
Museum / Museum Ludwig and a far-sighted Cologne collector. An ongoing
line of development in the artist’s creative output and international
recognition within professional circles are two of the requirements for
the prize, along with the stipulation that the artist’s oeuvre is not
yet adequately represented in Museum Ludwig but important for the
continuance of the collection. The budget for the prize amounts to a
maximum of 100,000 euros per annum. In 2011 the Wolfgang Hahn Prize
COLOGNE will be awarded for the 17th time in succession. Since 1994, the
Wolfgang Hahn Prize COLOGNE has been awarded to:
James Lee Byars (1994) Lawrence Weiner (1995) Günther Förg (1996) Cindy
Sherman (1997) Franz West (1998) Pipilotti Rist (1999) Hubert Kiecol
(2000) Raymond Pettibon (2001) Isa Genzken (2002) Niele Toroni (2003)
Rosemarie Trockel (2004) Richard Artschwager (2005) Mike Kelley (2006)
Peter Doig (2008) Christopher Wool (2009) Fischli/Weiss (2010)
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