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Mona Hatoum receives the 2010 Käthe Kollwitz Prize
30 Jul 2010
The Akademie der Künst, Berlin has awarded Mona Hatoum the prestigious Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The Akademie has chosen to honour Hatoum for her contribution to the visual arts, with a multifaceted practice in which the human body, caught between violence, power and vulnerability, is a central preoccupation.
The awards ceremony will take place on 30th July and an exhibition of Hatoum’s work spanning her career will be on view at the Akademie der Kunste’s Pariser Platz venue until 5 September. Recent works such as ‘Undercurrent (red)’ (2008), ‘Paravent’ (2008) and ‘Electrified III’ (2010) will be exhibited alongside earlier work like ‘Deep Throat’ (1996). There will also be a special late night screening of the early video work ‘Measures of Distance’ (1988) on 28 August, during the ‘Long Night of Museums’ and a talk on Mona Hatoum’s work by Ursula Panhans-Bühler and Friedrich Meschede.
The prize is co-sponsored by the Kreissparkasse Köln, funding body of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Cologne and a catalogue will accompany the exhibition.
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2010: Mona Hatoum
Akademie der Künste,
Pariser Platz 4,
10117 Berlin
Tuesday – Sunday 11am – 8pm
31 July – 5 September
Undercurrent (red), Cloth covered electric cable, light bulbs, dimmer device 8 x 1070 x 1070 cm Photo: Courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
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