German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has been awarded the 8th Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, the Guggenheim Foundation announced in New York on Nov 5.
Established in 1996, the prize includes USD 100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, with past winners including Matthew Barney (1996), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004) and Emily Jacir (2008).
Born in 1941 and based in Düsseldorf, Feldmann was selected over five other nominees for the honor: Cao Fei, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Citing the backdrop of a global age “defined by the virulent power of images,” the jury commended Feldmann for his “obsessive accumulation of objects and images […] a tremendous ongoing project of cataloguing the multiplicity of potential meanings present in the world around us.” Jury members included the Guggenheim’s Nancy Spector and Alexandra Munroe as well as Udo Kittelmann of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and independent writer and curator Tirdad Zolghadr.
Feldmann’s exhibition at the Guggenheim is scheduled for May-September 2011.