The acclaimed artist Rirkrit Tiravanija is heading the first edition of the Horizn Discovery Award. His work is widely recognised, defying media-based description by combining object making, performances and other forms of social action. For the Discovery Award, Rirkrit was asked to nominate three artists with outstanding talent to make project proposals. In September, the Jury will select one of them as a winner for this year’s award.

For the Horizn Discovery Award 2018, Rirkrit was invited to nominate three artists with outstanding talent to make project proposals. In our exclusive interview we discuss his perspective on supporting young artists from non-Western regions, travel and identity.

Biennials allow courageous curatorial concepts to address urgent issues of our times. This exhibition format often calls for new commissions which we would like to encourage with our Horizn Biennial Award. We aim to support new projects produced within the framework of an international biennial.

We are proud to introduce Minia Biabiany as the recipient of the Horizn Biennial Award 2018. Her installation “Toli toli” intertwines personal and global narratives and reflects on the topics of place, knowledge, tradition and crafts in the post-colonial contexts. We invite you to discover the work of Minia by visiting the Biennale at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin through 9 September.

The curatorial team of Horizn Art Programme appoints one Advisory Board Member per year who nominates upcoming artists from a certain region with new works without any restraints in format. The Horizn Discovery Award funds one project per year.

Scope
The selected project will be granted a production award of €10,000 and honoured at our annual Horizn Art Award Night.

We collaborate with an international network of art professionals who support us to uncover the most inspiring rising artists from regions that are not yet visible to the global art world. By inviting regional experts, we aim for discovery beyond our direct reach. Through the art programme, we aim to support young emerging artists from all over the world who thus far work mostly under the radar of the established international art scene.

The curatorial team of Horizn Art Programme elects one biennial each year. We invite the respective curators to nominate three new projects which are to be produced for their upcoming biennial. The Horizn Biennial Award funds one project per year.

Scope
The selected project will be granted a production award of €5,000 and honoured at our annual Horizn Art Award Event.

Horizn Art Programme is collaborating with the 2018 Berlin Biennale for the first Biennial Award. The exhibition We don’t need another hero invites artists and contributors who think and act beyond art, some exhibiting in Berlin for the first time. The Biennale’s director Gabriele Horn and this year’s curator Gabi Ngcobo were asked to nominate three participating projects for the Horizn Biennial Award.

In 2018, we partnered with the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and its director Gabriele Horn and curator Gabi Ngcobo for the Horizn Biennial Award. We met Gaby and Gabi for an interview on the Berlin Biennale, inspiration and travel.