Loth Sculpture Prize awarded to artist Klaus Münch and Galerie Albert Baumgarten
Klaus Münch and his Freiburg gallery owner Albert Baumgarten can be pleased about this year's Loth Sculpture Prize endowed with 20,000 euros - donated by the L-Bank.
Karlsruhe, May 06, 2023 - Klaus Münch and his Freiburg gallery owner Albert Baumgarten can be pleased this year about the Loth Sculpture Prize endowed with 20,000 euros - donated by the L-Bank. The prize-winning objects will be on display at art KARLSRUHE until Sunday (May 7) at the gallery's Sculpture Square in Hall 2. In the differently colored Plexiglas objects, highly magnified preparations from cell research can be seen, which sometimes have a proximity to lunar landscapes. The semi-plastic objects have a surprising spatial depth due to built-in mirrors.
Award ceremony at the ARTIMA art Forum
The award ceremony took place on Friday afternoon at the ARTIMA art Forum. The prize, donated by L-Bank, was awarded by a jury of experts. Members of the jury include Alexander Heil (Wilhelm Loth estate, jury chair), Sebastian Baden (Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt), Pia Dornacher (Museum Lothar Fischer, Neumarkt) and Prof. Erwin Gross (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe).
"When objects occupy a sculpture space, their radiance captivating from afar, it arouses curiosity. Individual Plexiglas sculptures, independent of each other, combine in their formal diversity to form a variable work of art and appear anew again and again, depending on the quality of the light, the conditions of the room or the time of day. One suspects mysterious messages in the deliberately restrained silkscreen prints on the object surfaces. These are highly magnified cell preparations from research. In this way, the artist links nature with culture and opens up scope for the viewer to think and make his own associations," says jury chairman Alexander Heil, explaining the verdict.
At the twentieth anniversary of art KARLSRUHE, a total of 26 sculpture spaces were up for election. After Galerie Scheffel and its artist Stefan Rohrer were pleased to receive the award last year, Albert Baumgarten and Klaus Münch joined the list of winners this year. The Loth Sculpture Prize, donated by L-Bank, honors both the gallery and the artist.
art KARLSRUHE honors strong positions
For sixteen years now, award ceremonies have been a fixed part of the art KARLSRUHE program. "It has always been important to the fair, and to me in particular as curator, to promote the art world. One aspect of this commitment is our three award ceremonies, with which we want to honor strong artistic positions and make them visible," says Ewald Karl Schrade, who is overseeing the fair as curator for the last time this year.
In addition to the Hans Platschek Prize for Art and Writing, which was awarded last Thursday to Berlin artist Cornelia Schleime, and the Loth Sculpture Prize (donated by L-Bank), the art KARLSRUHE Prize for the best one-artist show will also be awarded on Saturday (May 6).
