MUSA Karl Anton Wolf and Media Art Prize
For the fourth time this year, the MUSA Prize for Young Art and the Media Art Prize of the City of Vienna and, for the first time, the Karl Anton Wolf Prize will be awarded to the winners in the context of a celebration in the MUSA Museum, Startgalerie, Artothek.
The prizes are endowed with 5,000 EUR each and are determined by an independent advisory board.
Moderation | Anna Soucek
Laudators | Günther Moschig, Susanne Neuburger, Thomas Gardner
Sound | Volkmar Klien, Hannes Löschl
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MUSA PRIZE FOR YOUNG ART 2017 | PATRICK ROMAN SCHERER
Since 2014, the MUSA Prize for Young Art has been awarded annually. Donated by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (Department of Fine Arts), identified by an independent advisory board and endowed with 5,000 EUR, it is awarded to young visual artists who presented a particularly successful exhibition in the starting gallery of the MUSA last year. This year's award will be presented to the artist PATRICK ROMAN SCHERER.
Statements by the artist: "I prefer to work in pencil on paper. The exclusion of color allows me to concentrate on the line and tolerate impulsive drifting between image worlds of different origins, without color effects exceeding the representation. Each work tells an autonomous story, fed by observations, experiences and sensations. I approach different subjects and materials graphically in divergent expressions. The interplay between intensity and intimation brings movement into the series of image and symbol landscapes. My idea of expanding the picture surface by one dimension is the starting point of my work with and on objects whose motifs should merge with the underground or compete with one another. A weighting in favor of traditional patterns, realistic representations or thrown memos does not come to my mind. It results in a random order outside the hierarchical principle. "
KARL ANTON WOLF PRIZE 2017 | NICOLE SIX & PAUL PETRICH
Founded in 1987, the foundation of visual artist Karl Anton Wolf (1908-1989) was taken over by the City of Vienna in 2016 and will be continued in his spirit. Connected with it is the Karl Anton Wolf Prize. He honors artists whose works are highly innovative and independent and / or are dedicated to socially relevant topics. In 2017 he will be awarded to the artist duo NICOLE SIX & PAUL PETRITSCH.
This acknowledges an artistic position whose work is characterized by its uncompromising quality and the ability to let itself and, subsequently, the observer emerge from the unconscious self-evident. The existential meaning of space and time and their effectiveness for humans, runs like a red thread through their installations, performative works and videos. By means of concrete experiments, Six and Petritsch research and measure their environment, questioning various aspects such as the fear of falling, gravity as a natural condition or the exposure of man in space. Their experimental arrangements, which partly tilt into the absurd, aim to put human action and perception - in short: familiar security - to the test in provoked extreme situations.
MEDIENKUNST PRIZE OF THE CITY OF VIENNA 2017 | VOLKMAR KLIEN
In 2017, the jury of the City of Vienna's Media Art Award honors VOLKMAR KLIEN for its continuous and consistent artistic and theoretical engagement with forms of contemporary composition, electroacoustic music and sound art.
His playful localization of the sound in spatial and temporal structures is reflected above all in his installation works and establishes a practice that is strongly related to international sound art. At the same time, the individual signature of an artist focused on abstractions of sound is permanently present. His bridge between artistically exploring and occasionally curatorial approaches and simultaneous presence in the international gallery context as well as in the field of modern music is always characterized by an ironically aesthetic, acoustic view. Embedded in the Viennese tradition of modern music, Volkmar Klien has developed a highly independent sculptural design vocabulary, which the jury would honor with the award of the Vienna Media Art Prize 2017. (Statement of the jury)