The KAIROS Prize has been awarded to European artists and scholars from the fields of visual and performing arts, music, architecture, design, film, photography, literature and journalism since 2007 by the
Alfred Toepfer Foundation The Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. is a German foundation established in 1931 by the Hamburg merchant Alfred Toepfer. The foundation is committed to promoting European unification and ensuring cultural diversity and understanding between the coun ...
in Hamburg. It is endowed with a sum of 75,000 Euro.
Winners
Source:
*2007:
Albrecht Dümling
Albrecht Dümling (born 1949) is a German musicologist and music critic.
Biography
Born in Wuppertal, Dümling studied musicology in Essen, Vienna and Berlin and earned a Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary study on Arnold Schoenberg and Stefan Georg ...
, German musicologist
*2008:
TÃmea Junghaus, Hungarian art historian
*2009:
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 10 March 1976) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer and director. He has made over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, three Ballet Tanz awards for best cho ...
, Belgian choreographer
*2010:
Andri Snær Magnason
Andri Snær Magnason (born 14 July 1973) is an Icelandic writer. He has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, and essays. Andri is also a director and producer of three documentary films that have premiered in IDFA and CPH:DOX. His ...
, Icelandic writer
*2011:
Åžermin Langhoff
2017
Åžermin Langhoff (born in 1969) theater producer based in Germany who immigrated from Turkey as a child. She is director of the Maxim Gorki Theater.
References
1969 births
Turkish emigrants to West Germany
Turkish theatre director ...
, Turkish-German theatre director
*2012:
Katell Gélébart, French fashion designer
*2013:
Paweł Althamer
Paweł Althamer (born 12 May 1967, Warsaw) is a Polish contemporary sculptor, performer, collaborative artist and creator of installations, and video art.
Life and work
In the years 1988-1993, he studied sculpture at the Warsaw Academy of Fine ...
, Polish sculptor and video artist
*2014:
Jasmila Žbanić
Jasmila Žbanić (; born 19 December 1974) is a Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer. She has received numerous accolades, including nominations for the Academy Awards, Academy Award and two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards. ...
, Bosnian film director
*2015:
Eike Roswag, German architect
*2016:
Teodor Currentzis
Teodor Currentzis ( ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek and Russian conductor, musician and actor.
Biography
Currentzis was born in Athens, and at the age of four began to take piano lessons. At age seven, he began violin lessons. He entered ...
, Greek-Russian conductor and musician
*2017:
Inci Bürhaniye and
Selma Wels
*2018:
Jan Gerchow
*2019:
Nihad Kreševljaković
Nihad Kreševljaković (born 24 February 1973) is a Bosnian historian, producer, screenwriter and director of the Sarajevo War Theatre.
Biography
Kreševljaković was born in Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia. He enrolled at the University of Sarajevo, Fa ...
, Bosnian historian and director
*2020:
Agnes Meyer-Brandis
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (born 1973) is a German installation artist, known for her Moon Goose Colony, an internationally exhibited artwork and film in which (inspired by a story by Francis Godwin) she raises a flock of geese and teaches them to become ...
See also
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List of European art awards
This list of European art awards covers some of the main art awards given by organizations in Europe. Some are restricted to artists in a particular genre or from a given country or region, while others are broader in scope. The list is organized ...
References
External links
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Awards established in 2007
European arts awards
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