The winners of the JugendKunstTriennale 2024
On Saturday, June 8, there was a palpable sense of excitement in the air at the Freiheitshalle in Hof. The city of Hof had invited guests to the award ceremony and exhibition opening of the JugendKunstTriennale, which it will host in 2024. The JugendKunstTriennale is the most important cultural project of the Saxon-Bavarian network of cities and takes place every three years.
Artists between the ages of 14 and 25 responded to the call for entries and submitted their works back in February. At the beginning of March, a six-member jury selected 128 works from the 438 submissions from Bayreuth, Chemnitz, Hof, Plauen, Marktredwitz and Zwickau, which will now be presented in the foyers of the Freiheitshalle until July 5.
The winners were announced and honored at the exhibition opening in the presence of representatives from the six cities and a large number of the artists. Jury spokesman Bernd Rössler, painter and lecturer at the technical college for product design in Selb, presented the endowed prizes together with the Mayor of Hof, Eva Döhla. Head of the Cultural Office Peter Nürmberger, who curated the exhibition together with Anja Schmidt and Sigena Süßmann, hosted the award ceremony.
The prize winners
Main prizes (14-18 years, endowed with 500 euros each):
- Lotta Seifert, 17 years old, Chemnitz: "Wegbegleiter", painting
- Lorine Groß, 18 years old, Zwickau: "The girl with the headphones", acrylic painting
Main prizes (19-25 years, endowed with 500 euros each):
- July Teubert, 19 years old, Hirschfeld: "Red List", pen drawing/graphics
- Jonathan Löscher, 21 years old, Zwickau: "Erinnerungstäuschung", arcyl paint on canvas
Sponsorship award (14-18 years, endowed with 150 euros and donated by Kunstladen Selbitz e.V.)
- Jannik Gottinger, 14 years old, Raschau/Markersbach: "Flower greetings to Vincent", painting
Sponsorship award (19 - 25 years, endowed with 300 euros and donated by Kunstladen Selbitz e.V.)
- Finia Merle Schneider, 19 years old, Chemnitz: "WG", acrylic
The winners will also have the opportunity to present their work in a solo exhibition at Kunstladen Selbitz e.V. Harry Kurz, Chairman of Kunstladen Selbitz e.V., was delighted with the two young artists Finia Merle Schneider and Jannik Gottinger about their upcoming collaboration.
Recognition awards, endowed with 200 euros, were presented to the following artists (in alphabetical order):
- Maximilian Dotzauer, 19 years old, Chemnitz
- Lara Ebert, 24 years old, Selb
- Sophie Gulde, 17 years old, Limbach-Oberfrohna
- Rosa Haugk, 17 years old, Zwickau
- John Joachim, 17 years old, Plauen
- Annika Karl, 18 years old, Neumark
- Oliwia Krzeminska, 18 years old, Auerbach
- Jana Leicht, 18 years old, Pottenstein
- Eva Ludwig, 18 years old, Trogen
- Oskar Meckert, 17 years old, Plauen
- Lea Melillo, 15 years old, Hof
- Emily Nordmann, 18 years old, Plauen
- Jakob Reiff, 22 years old, Münchberg
- Selma Riedl, 20 years old, Pechbrunn
- Remo Roocke, 23 years old, Kirchberg
- Anastasia Schneider, 22 years old, Plauen
- Lara Siegel, 22 years old, Chemnitz
- Kaija Ströhlein, 20 years old, Trebgast
- Lilien Virág Vincze, 24 years old, Bayreuth
- Lotte Warncke, 21 years old, Chemnitz
The exhibition can be viewed from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and by appointment until July 5. A catalog has been published to accompany the exhibition. With the kind support of Sparkassen Bayreuth, Hochfranken, Vogtland and Zwickau.
