The Szpilman Award is an annual art prize. It is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations.Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe: "Mahony at Austrian Cultural Forum" Saatchi Online, 9 May 2007. It was first presented in 2003 and is still the only award for ephemeral works worldwide. The prize is open for the public.
Background
The Szpilman Award is initiated, financed and organized by German-based art group Szpilman. It was founded in 2003.Weber, Grit: Szpilman Award, art kaleidoscope, page 23, January 2009. Initially only people from Germany could apply. Regulations were changed in 2004 and opened the call for Europe. The public interest in the prize raised. In 2006 Szpilman abolished any restrictions: everyone from all over the world"Who participates in the Szpilman Award? " Szpilman Award: Information, viewed: 12 January 2009. can apply now for the Szpilman Award. The winner is chosen by a panel of up to 10 independent judges including the winner of the previous year. The prize is accompanied with a dynamic cash award (sum of money collected by members of the jury parallel to the competition, called "Jackpot Stipendium"), a trip to Cimochowizna (Poland), and a challenge cup whichwill be handed over to the next prize winner in the subsequent year.Vvoi: "Szpilman Award: carpe diem, one ephemeral step at a time" New Art blog, 16 May 2007.
Since 2008 the Szpilman Award is also running a daily bulletin about ephemeral works, called "Potz!Blitz!Szpilman!"."In love with ephemeral" Sleek Magazine No.22, page 94, September 2009.
To make ephemeral works more public and to show a greater variety of possibilities members of Szpilman Award curate exhibitions since 2006 in cities all around the world, called Szpilman Award Shows, e.g. in galleries, museums and public spaces in Austria, Germany, Greenland, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey.
Winners and shortlisted artists
Year Winner Work Shortlisted Notes2003 (Germany)'Keep on'Shannon BoolDavid BorchersKarin FelbermayrStefan HurtigAlice MusiolGudrun Schuster2004 (Austria)'Ausstellung in der galerie.kärnten'Shannon BoolDavid Borchers & Gregor SchubertMatthias LehmannAlice MusiolGloria Zein 2005 Paulson, Marc: Apply Now!, Laser Magazin, page 24-28, April 2007. (Kosovo)'Embassy of the Republic of Kosova, Prague, Czech Republic'Wolfgang BreuerC5Sarah OrtmeyerMichael PartSimone SleeAdrian Williams2006 Bieber, Alain: "Szpilman Award 2007" rebelart.net, 18 March 2007. (Germany)'Wenn jeder denkt, es ist für alle, dann füttert niemand die Fische'Oleg BuryanPol MatthéStefanie Trojan 2007 (United Kingdom) Michał Sznajder (Poland) 'Untitled (Muslim in Cage in Freud Museum)''Here'Evangelia BasdekisAnja Brendle & Sebastian HöhmannMeMeMarc NothelferPoison Idea 2008 Bosetti, Petra: "Ein Preis für (fast) nichts" art magazin, 25 November 2008. (Poland)'Swing'Giorgina ChoueiriJulia DickSai Hua KuanKate MitchellChris Richmond 2009 "Hank Schmidt in der Beek: In den Zilltertaler Alpen" ArtSchoolVets, 10 May 2009. (Germany)'In den Zillertaler Alpen'Jennyfer HaddadGerard HermanJaroslav KyšaRoy Menahem MarkovichAlexander Thieme 2010 & Arya PandjaluBianpoen, Carla: "The quest for survival" The Jakarta Post, 7 May 2013. (The Netherlands & Indonesia)'Treebute from Yogya'Anna GohmertJennyfer HaddadMaria Victoria Muñoz Castillo Berndnaut SmildeTomas Werner 2011 HR Stamenov; Petkova, Bora: Practices in Public Environment, 2012, page 92. (United Kingdom)'The Barrier' Jaś DomiczDavid HorvitzPetr Krátký Jinho LimPéter Szabó 2012 Klopp, Tina: "Wie verkauft man eine Performance?" Die Zeit, 7 July 2013. (Bulgaria)'Bribe a Jury' Kush BadhwarAlex JonesMax Schranner Amanda Wachob2013 'Untitled' Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Šimánek and Vladimír Turner Ilisie Remus Marwin Rüffer RoByn Thompson Dominic Watson2014 '1,2,3,4' Robert Mădălin Demeter, Alexis Dworsky & Joachim KaiserDávid Gutema & Dávid MikulánLodewijk HeylenMaciej Szczęśniak
Jury
Bernd Euler (Germany) Lise Harlev (Denmark) Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck (Germany) Leonard Kahlcke (United Kingdom) Patrick Koch (Germany) Tina Kohlmann (Greenland) Claus Richter (Germany) Tina Schott (Belgium) Michał Sznajder (Poland) prize winner of the previous year
See also List of European art awards
References
External links SZPILMAN AWARD, the official web site Potz!Blitz!Szpilman!'