North Rhine-Westphalia: Katharina Fritsch receives the Great Culture Prize 2022

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The sculptor Katharina Fritsch (66) will receive the Great Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland this year.

North Rhine-Westphalia: Katharina Fritsch receives the Great Culture Prize 2022

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The sculptor Katharina Fritsch (66) will receive the Great Culture Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland this year. The artist, who works from Düsseldorf, is considered one of the most important contemporary sculptors and is valued worldwide, emphasized CEO Thomas Hendele in a statement on Friday. Michael Breuer, Chairman of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, justified the award, which is worth 30,000 euros, in Fritsch's works, which are "in the best sense of the word stimulating and irritating at the same time" and fascinate with a "tension between the familiar and the surreal".

Katharina Fritsch studied history and art history in Münster and switched to the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1977. According to the information, her international breakthrough came in 1984 in the exhibition "From Here - Two Months of New German Art in Düsseldorf". Fritsch is represented with her work in numerous important exhibitions - including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, London's Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel. As a professor of sculpture, she taught at the art academies in Münster and Düsseldorf and represented Germany several times at the Venice Biennale, where she received the Golden Lion in April 2022.

Since 1989, the Great Cultural Prize of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland has been awarded to outstanding personalities or institutions "who exceptionally enrich cultural life in the Rhineland and beyond".