Shortlist exhibition of the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019. BMW since 2006 long-term partner.

Berlin. Supported by BMW as long-term partner,
Pauline Curnier Jardin (born 1980 in Marseille),
Simon Fujiwara (born 1982 in London), Flaka
Haliti
(born 1982 in Pristina) and Katja
Novitskova
(born 1984 in Tallinn) have been nominated for the
Preis der Nationalgalerie 2019 by an international jury this March.

The museum prize is awarded every two years and pays tribute to
artists under 40 who live and work in Germany. The four artists will
be presented in a joint exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum
für Gegenwart – Berlin from August 16, 2019 to February 16,
2020
. All four artists show spatial ensembles in which they
combine existing and new works. The tonality and handwriting of the
four spatial work presentations is very different; what they have in
common is an explicit reference to aspects of our contemporary
European society.

With her transgressive artistic approach, which combines visual
and narrative elements of theatre and cinema, Pauline Curnier
Jardin
creates a stage space. In this walk-in installation,
cinematic and sculptural work intermesh in Curnier Jardin’s
characteristic manner. Her composition of the two films “Explosion Ma
Baby” (2016) and the new production “Qu’un Sang Impure” as well as the
sculptural work “Peaux de Dame in the Hot Flashes Forrest” (2019)
create a wild web around desire and reproduction.

In the shortlist exhibition, Simon Fujiwara
presents a compilation of four works that stem from his investigation
of contemporary mass phenomena and their economic, socio-political,
and media aspects. The very different works illustrate the extent to
which these phenomena have an emotional component of their own. The
video installation “Likeness” (2018) focuses on the figure of Anne
Frank and her media-effective staging and instrumentalization.

Flaka Haliti continues her two series “Its urgency
got lost in reverse (while being in constant delay)” and “Is it you,
Joe?” for the exhibition. Two colorful idle robots, composed of
materials from abandoned KFOR field camps in Kosovo – the discarded
pieces of a peace process – are juxtaposed by the artist with the
transformable figure of Joe, who has accompanied her since 2015 as a
difficult to grasp alter ego. In the staging that shapes the entire
space, the two groups of works are just as much interlocked as they
rub against each other.

Katja Novitskova became known as one of the pioneers
of an artistic language called “Post-Internet Art”. For the shortlist
exhibition, she creates a virtuoso, multi-part and multi-layered
“environment” of sculptural elements, murals and projections of
various kinds. Here, too, the works in the overall installation form a
common, closely interlocking structure. The works are based on
Novitskova’s interest in current research in biotechnology and revolve
around the question of the future existence of the organic as a
component of technological processes.

An international jury will choose the winner on
September 12, 2019. The award consists of a solo
exhibition with a catalogue at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für
Gegenwart – Berlin in the fall of 2020. The jury consists of:

Annie Fletcher (Director of IMMA – Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin)
Anna-Catharina Gebbers (Curator at Hamburger Bahnhof
– Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin)
Udo Kittelmann (Director of Nationalgalerie –
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
Philippe Vergne (Director of Serralves Museum of
Contemporary Art, Porto)
Theodora Vischer (Senior Curator of Fondation
Beyeler, Basel)

Also on September 12, this year’s winner of the Förderpreis für
Filmkunst, which the Nationalgalerie has been awarding together with
the German Film Academy since 2011 and which includes a prize money of
10,000 euros, will be announced.

The opening of the exhibition will take place at Hamburger
Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin on
August 15, 2019 from 8.00 PM.

For further information, please visit: preisdernationalgalerie.de

For further questions please contact:
Prof. Dr
Thomas Girst
BMW Group Corporate and Governmental
Affairs
Head of Cultural
Engagement
Telephone: +49-89-382-24753
Email: Thomas.Girst@bmwgroup.com

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