Meet the Three Winners of the ars viva Prize 2024

The practices of Atiéna R. Kilfa, Daniel Lie and caner teker show ‘an awareness of current issues in relation to history’

Selected from 48 nominees, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Daniel Lie and caner teker are the winners of the ars viva 2024 Prize for Visual Arts, awarded to artists under the age of 35 living in Germany.

While the winners all share an ability to make connection between present and past, explains Mathilda Legemah of Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in this video, each artist ‘has their own independent existing style and form.’ Lie creates elaborate site-specific installations rooted in their lived experience; Kilfa works in mediums that ‘present a kind of uncertainty’, including video and architectural models; developing from text publications into performance, teker’s practice explores an interest in ‘how to translate cultural histories and references.’ 

Established in Germany in 1953 with the aim of supporting artists in the aftermath of war, the ars viva Prize has for 70 years, helped to ‘contribute to the resilience of art’, says Legemah; past recipients include Georg Baselitz, John Bock, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Anna Oppermann, Albert Oehlen, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rosemarie Trockel. Ultimately the Prize ‘does not put the spotlight on itself’, Legemah reflects, ‘but rather on the artists’.

The ars viva Prize 2024 exhibition is on view at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen from October 13th to December 10th, 2023 and at Belvedere 21, Vienna from February 16th to June 9th, 2024.

Find out more about the ars viva Prize at https://arsviva.kulturkreis.eu