The Hugo Boss Prize was an award given every other year to an artist (or group of artists) working in any medium, anywhere in the world. Upon its establishment in 1996, it distinguished itself from other art awards because it has no restrictions on nationality or age.
The prize was administered by the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and his long-time art advisor, artist Hilla von Rebay. The foundation is a leading institution for the collection, preserv ...
and sponsored by the
Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss AG, often styled as BOSS, is a luxury fashion house headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company sells clothing, accessories, footwear, and fragrances. Hugo Boss is one of the largest German clothing companies, ...
clothing company, which since 1995 has been sponsoring various exhibitions and activities at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously exp ...
. It included a cash award of US$100,000 and a
tetrahedral
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trophy.
A jury of five to six curators, critics, and scholars was responsible for the selection of the artists. They nominated six or seven artists for the shortlist; several months later, they chose the winner of the prize. In the prize's early years, most nominated artists were little known.
[ In 1996 and 1998, the nominated artists exhibited their work at the now-defunct Guggenheim Soho, where a space on the second floor was named the Hugo Boss Gallery in 1996; since 2000, only the winning artist has shown his or her work. The Guggenheim Foundation discontinued the prize in 2022.
]
History of the Prize
1996
The first Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...
, an American filmmaker and sculptor. The other nominees were:
* Laurie Anderson
Laurel Philips Anderson (born June 5, 1947), known as Laurie Anderson, is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician, and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and ...
(United States)
* Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni (born January 19, 1964) is a Bahamian–born American artist, who creates contemporary work in performance art, sculpture, and photography. Antoni's work focuses on process and the transitions between the making and finished product, ...
(United States)
* Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang (; born 8 December 1957) is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey.
Biography
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligraphe ...
(PRC)
* Stan Douglas
Stan Douglas (born October 11, 1960) is an artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining ...
(Canada)
* Yasumasa Morimura
Yasumasa Morimura (森村 泰昌, Morimura Yasumasa, born June 11, 1951) is a contemporary Japanese performance and appropriation artist whose work encompasses photography, film, and live performance. He is known for his reinterpretation of r ...
(Japan)
1998
Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Work
Much of Gordon' ...
, a Scottish video artist, won the second Hugo Boss prize. The other nominees were:
* Huang Yong Ping
Huáng Yǒng Pīng (; February 18, 1954 – October 20, 2019) was a Chinese-French contemporary artist and one of the most well known Chinese avant-garde artists of his time. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provoc ...
(PRC/France)
* William Kentridge
William Kentridge (born 28 April 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films, especially noted for a sequence of hand-drawn animated films he produced during the 1990s. The latter are constructed by ...
(South Africa)
* Lee Bul
Lee Bul ( ko, 이불, born in Yeongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea in 1964) is a contemporary sculpture and installation artist who appeared on the art scene in the late 1980s. Her work questions patriarchal authority and the marginalization of ...
(South Korea)
* Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Elisabeth Rist (born 21 June 1962) is a Swiss visual artist best known for creating experimental video art and installation art. Her work is often described as surreal, intimate, abstract art, having a preoccupation with the female b ...
(Switzerland)
* Lorna Simpson (United States)
2000
The third Hugo Boss Prize went to Marjetica Potrč
Marjetica Potrč (pronounced ; born 1953) is an artist and architect based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Potrč's interdisciplinary practice includes on-site projects, research, architectural case studies, and series of drawings. Her work documents an ...
, a Slovenian artist, architect and urban theorist working in sculpture and photography. The other nominees were:
* Vito Acconci
Vito Acconci (, ; January 24, 1940 – April 27, 2017) was an influential American performance, video and installation artist, whose diverse practice eventually included sculpture, architectural design, and landscape design. His foundational p ...
(United States)
* Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him bei ...
(Italy)
* Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (Denmark and Norway)
* Tom Friedman (United States)
* Barry Le Va
Barry Edward Le Va (December 28, 1941 – January 24, 2021) was an American sculptor and installation artist. Trained in his native California, he lived and worked in New York City. Le Va was among the leading figures of post-studio and process ...
(United States)
* Tunga (Brazil)
2002
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe (born 11 September 1962) is a French artist who works in a variety of media from films and sculptures to public interventions and living systems.
Education
Pierre Huyghe (pronounced ''hweeg'') was born in Paris in 1962. He lives a ...
, a French artist who works in multiple media, won the fourth Hugo Boss Prize. The other nominees were:
* Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist.
His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his profession as an architect and relocated to Mex ...
(Mexico)
* Ólafur Elíasson (Denmark)
* Hachiya Kazuhiko (Japan)
* Koo Jeong-A (South Korea)
* Anri Sala
Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.
Life and career
Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Pari ...
(Albania)
2004
The fifth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to Rirkrit Tiravanija
Rirkrit Tiravanija ( th, ฤกษ์ฤทธิ์ ตีระวนิช, pronunciation: [] or Tea-rah-vah-nitJerry Saltz (May 7, 2007)Conspicuous Consumption''New York Magazine''.) is a Thai contemporary artist residing in New York City, Be ...
, a Thai artist born in Buenos Aires who now works in New York, Berlin and Bangkok. The other nominees were:
* Franz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann (born 1963 in Neumarkt-Sankt Veit, Bavaria) is a German painter and installation artist based in Berlin. He makes cartoonish abstraction.
Life
He attended the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Munich from 1984 to 1988 and the Ho ...
(Germany)
* Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil)
* Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij Willem de Rooij (born 1969 in Beverwijk, Netherlands) is an artist and educator working in a variety of media, including film and installation. He investigates the production, contextualization and interpretation of images. Appropriations and collab ...
(The Netherlands)
* Simon Starling (United Kingdom)
* Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong ( born 1971 in Beijing) is a Chinese contemporary artist. In the early 1990s, he began to work with film. He began creating films and videos using 35 mm film. Currently Yang directs films, creates photographs, and creates video in ...
(China)
2006
The sixth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to the British artist Tacita Dean
Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...
. The other nominees were:
* Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla (US and Puerto Rico)
* John Bock
John Bock (born 1965 in Schenefeld, Germany) is a German artist. He studied in Hamburg, Germany and lives and works in Berlin.
Work
Bock is a multi-media artist primarily known for his performances. Since 1991, he creates environments hand cr ...
(Germany)
* Damián Ortega (Mexico)
* Aïda Ruilova (US)
* Tino Sehgal
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Tino may refer to:
People Given name
* Tino Ausenda (191 ...
(Germany)
2008
The seventh Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to Palestinian Emily Jacir
Emily Jacir ( ar, املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker.
Biography
Jacir was born in Bethlehem in 1973, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia, attending high school in Italy. She attended the University of Dallas, ...
. The other nominees were:
* Christoph Büchel (Iceland)
* Patty Chang
Patty Chang (born February 3, 1972 in San Leandro, California)"About." ''Patty Chang.'' Accessed March 10, 2018. http://www.pattychang.com/about/ is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, California. ...
(United States)
* Sam Durant
Sam Durant (born 1961, in Seattle) is a multimedia artist whose works engage social, political, and cultural issues. Often referencing American history, his work explores culture and politics, engaging subjects such as the civil rights movement, ...
(United States)
* Joachim Koester
Joachim Koester (born 1962) is a conceptual artist. He works principally in still photography and video. Hal Foster, writing in Artforum, has characterized his work as being "along the borders between documentary and fiction."
Over the last fifte ...
(Denmark)
* Roman Signer Roman Signer (born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland) is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, art installations photography, and video.
Early life and career
Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Signer started his career as an artist later i ...
(Switzerland)
2010
The eighth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to the German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann. The other nominees were:
* Cao Fei
Cao Fei ( zh, 曹斐; born 1978) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution. Her work explores Chi ...
(PRC)
* Roman Ondák (Slovakia)
* Walid Raad
Walid Raad (Ra'ad) (Arabic: وليد رعد) (born 1967 in Chbanieh, Lebanon) is a contemporary media artist. The Atlas Group is a fictional collective, the work of which is produced by Walid Raad. He lives and works in New York, where he is curr ...
(Lebanon/United States)
* Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Natascha Sadr Haghighian is an artist known for assuming multiple identities. Her official press releases and gallery biographies conflict on country of origin, date of birth, and place of residence.
Her work is primarily concerned with investigat ...
(Iraq/Germany)
* Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( th, อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; ; ) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, ...
(Thailand)
2012
The ninth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to the Vietnamese artist Danh Vo. The other nominees were:
* Trisha Donnelly (United States)
* Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson (born 1977) is an American artist who produces conceptual post-black art. Johnson first received critical attention in 2001 at the age of 24, when his work was included in '' Freestyle'' (2001) curated by Thelma Golden at the St ...
(United States)
* Qiu Zhijie (PRC)
* Monika Sosnowska
Monika Sosnowska (born 7 May 1972 in Ryki) is a Polish installation artist. In 2003, she received the Bâloise Prize at Art Basel as well as the Polityka's Passport award given by Poland's most prestigious weekly.
Life and career
Sosnowska s ...
(Poland)
* Tris Vonna-Michell
Tris Vonna-Michell (born 1982) is a British artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection. Vonna-Michel ...
(Great Britain)
2014
The tenth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to the American artist Paul Chan. Other nominated artists were:
* Sheela Gowda
Sheela Gowda (born 1957 in Bhadravati, India) is a contemporary artist living and working in Bangalore. Gowda studied painting at Ken School of Art, Bangalore, India (1979) pursued a postgraduate diploma at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniket ...
(India)
* Camille Henrot
Camille Henrot (born 1978) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris and New York.
Biography
Henrot was born in 1978 in Paris, France. She attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and s ...
(France)
* Hassan Khan (Egypt)
* Steve McQueen
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 1950s, 1960s, and ...
(Great Britain)
* Charline von Heyl
Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German abstract painter. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She moved to the United States in the 1990s, and has studios in New York City and in Marfa, Texas.
Life
Von Heyl was born in Ma ...
(Germany)
In March 2014, nominee Steve McQueen withdrew his name from consideration for the Hugo Boss Prize because of the demands of promoting his Oscar
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-winning movie '' 12 Years A Slave''.
2016
The eleventh Hugo Boss prize was awarded to the South Korean conceptual artist Anicka Yi
Anicka Yi (born 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a conceptual artist whose work lies at the intersection of fragrance, cuisine, and science. She is known for installations that engage the senses, especially the sense of smell, and for her collaborat ...
. The other nominees were:
*Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera (born 1968 in Havana, Cuba) is an artist and activist who focuses on installation and performance art. She lives and works between New York City and Havana, and has participated in numerous international exhibitions. Her work is ...
(Cuba)
* Mark Leckey (Great Britain)
*Ralph Lemon
Ralph Lemon (born August 1, 1952 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American choreographer, company director, writer, visual artist and a conceptualist. Raised in a religious environment, he developed his artistic creativity as a child.Diana Stockon, � ...
(United States)
* Laura Owens (United States)
*Wael Shawky Wael Shawky is an Egyptian artist.
Based on extensive periods of research and enquiry, Wael Shawky’s work tackles notions of national, religious and artistic identity through film, performance and storytelling. Shawky frames contemporary culture ...
(Egypt)
2018
The twelfth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh (born 1967) is an American artist from Chicago who works in New York City in the United States. She works in various media including sculpture, installations, video, performance, and social practice. Leigh has described her work as a ...
, an American interdisciplinary multimedia artist. The other nominees were:
* Bouchra Khalili (Morocco)
*Teresa Margolles
Teresa Margolles (born 1963) is a Mexican conceptual artist, photographer, videographer, and performance artist. As an artist she researches the social causes and consequences of death.Prince Claus Fund (June 2012''Report from the 2012 Prince Clau ...
(Mexico)
*Emeka Ogboh
Emeka Ogboh (born 1977) is a Nigerian sound and installation artist best known for his soundscapes of life in Lagos. Trained as an artist, he began working with sounds that characterize cities following an Egyptian multimedia art program. H ...
(Nigeria)
* Frances Stark (United States)
*Wu Tsang
Wu Tsang (born 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is a filmmaker, artist and performer based in New York and Berlin, whose work is concerned with hidden histories, marginalized narratives, and the act of performing itself. In 2018, Tsang received a ...
(United States)
2020
The thirteenth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to Deana Lawson, an American photographer. The other nominees were:
*Nairy Baghramian
Nairy Baghramian (born 1971) is an Iranian-born German visual artist. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Berlin.
When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum selected Baghramian as a finalist for the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize, they described Baghram ...
(Iran)
*Kevin Beasley
Kevin Beasley (born 1985 Lynchburg, Virginia) is an American artist working in sculpture, performance art, and sound installation. He lives and works in New York City. Beasley was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Biennial in ...
(United States)
*Elias Sime
Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several hol ...
(Ethiopia)
* Cecilia Vicuña (Chile)
*Adrián Villar Rojas Adrián Villar Rojas (born 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian sculptor known for his elaborate fantastical works which explore notions of the Anthropocene and the end of the world. In his dream like installations he uses aspects of drawin ...
(Argentina)
References
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