“Keren Cytter is awarded the first-ever Absolut Art Award for her outstanding cross-pollination of art forms. Cytter’s works take her beyond the traditional art forms, while exploring the intersection between theater, performance, film and installation art. Her artistry involves investigative narratives which reason with both our subconscious and our quest for good storytelling,” says Daniel Birnbaum, head of the Absolut Art Award jury.
Keren Cytter, born 1977 in Israel, now lives in Berlin. Her work has brought a lot of critical acclaim when shown at galleries and museums around Europe. The prize provides the artist, in addition to the cash award, with the chance for a collaboration or an underwritten work with the Absolut Company in the upcoming year.
“Andy Warhol was the first artist to collaborate with Absolut Vodka. Since then hundreds of artists have helped us in the building of our brand, for which we are forever grateful. Absolut and art have walked hand in hand for many years, and the Absolut Art Award expresses our long term commitment to creativity,” says Anna Malmhake, VP Global Marketing at The Absolut Company.
Daniel Birnbaum, professor and principal of the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and Director of the Visual Arts Sector at the Venice Biennale 2009, chairs the Absolut Art Award jury, which also consists of Thomas Nordanstad, filmmaker and curator, Anna Malmhake, Vice President Global Marketing, The Absolut Company and Göran Lundqvist, Chairman of the board at Sweden’s Historical Museum of Wine & Spirits. Future juries will include the most recent winner of the ABSOLUT Art Award.
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