Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2016 – Edmund Kuppel

Edmund Kuppel

The Akademie der Künste is presenting this year’s Käthe Kollwitz Prize to the photographer, sculptor and media artist Edmund Kuppel, who was born in 1947. In awarding the prize, the Akademie is honouring this artist’s pioneering work on the relationship between photography and sculpture. His extensive oeuvre explores the creative processes in photography, its technical conditions, and how the medium is perceived. To mark the occasion of this award, the Akademie is presenting a special exhibition dedicated to a selection of Edmund Kuppel’s works produced since the late 1960s. The exhibition showcases sculptural photographic works, film, video and individual media art works and projection installations, as well as the extraordinary Cabinet of Ferdinand von Blumenfeld, based on a series of bistro landscapes. The exhibition will also be premiering the film Les marches du héros absurde (2016). The exhibition is accompanied by a paperback catalogue brochure.