Erste Bank Art Award
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and the Erste Bank Art Award
The Erste Bank Art Prize was developed as part of the partnership with DAS WEISSE HAUS and will be awarded for the tenth time in 2025. A further partner are the Austrian Cultural Forums (ACF), which facilitate the residency and an exhibition in the respective country.
The Erste Bank Art Prize is endowed with prize money and a solo exhibition at DAS WEISSE HAUS and enables a one-month stay in the host country combined with an exhibition. Artists who have already exhibited at DAS WEISSE HAUS or participated in the studio and residency programme of studio DAS WEISSE HAUS are eligible to apply for the Erste Bank Art Prize.
Following a five-year collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, a cooperation with the ACF in London was possible in 2021. In 2022, the Erste Bank Art Award was realised together with the ACF in Belgrade and the Novi Sad-based SULUV Gallery. Novi Sad was the Capital of Culture that year. In 2023, we are grateful for the cooperation with the ACF in Warsaw. In 2024 there was a collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Ottawa and the SAW Centre, Ottawa, and in 2025 we would like to thank Dr Denise Quistorp, Director of the ACF in Prague, for her cooperation.
The Erste Bank Art Prize was developed as part of the partnership with DAS WEISSE HAUS and will be awarded for the tenth time in 2025. A further partner are the Austrian Cultural Forums (ACF), which facilitate the residency and an exhibition in the respective country.
The Erste Bank Art Prize is endowed with prize money and a solo exhibition at DAS WEISSE HAUS and enables a one-month stay in the host country combined with an exhibition. Artists who have already exhibited at DAS WEISSE HAUS or participated in the studio and residency programme of studio DAS WEISSE HAUS are eligible to apply for the Erste Bank Art Prize.
Following a five-year collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, a cooperation with the ACF in London was possible in 2021. In 2022, the Erste Bank Art Award was realised together with the ACF in Belgrade and the Novi Sad-based SULUV Gallery. Novi Sad was the Capital of Culture that year. In 2023, we are grateful for the cooperation with the ACF in Warsaw. In 2024 there was a collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum Ottawa and the SAW Centre, Ottawa, and in 2025 we would like to thank Dr Denise Quistorp, Director of the ACF in Prague, for her cooperation.
Erste Bank ExtraVALUE Art Awards 2016–2020 – a publication
As part of the long-standing cooperation between (studio) das weisse haus and Erste Bank, the Vermehrt Schönes! Art Award (formerly the ExtraVALUE Art Award) was initiated in 2016.
The projects implemented within this award are now compiled in a publication. In line with the award’s history the publication is designed to be versatile and expandable. It features all nine award winners with individual portraits and in so doing, provides an overview of the development of the Erste Bank Art Award. In conjunction with interviews and contributions by renowned authors, the awardees’ work is contextualized in its exhibition setting.
Awardees 2016–2020
Gabriele Edlbauer, Karine Fauchard, Julia Gaisbacher, Ulrike Köngishofer, Nika Kupyrova, Fabian Erik Patzak, Karl Salzmann, Samuel Schaab, Marit Wolters
Authors
Jacques Attali, Albin Bergström, Dorothée Bauerle-Willert, Kari Conte, Iva Čukić et.al., Felipe Duque, Anne Faucheret, Christian Fuhrmeister, Verena Gamper, Karin Harrasser, Kathrin Heinrich, Stephanie Koscher, Elke Kransy, Natalia Kvitkova, Emmanuel Lévinas, Boris Manner, Johanne Mohs, Christine Moser, Boris Ondreička, Veronika Rudorfer, Ferdinand Schmalz, Ralph Seliger, Andreas Spiegl, Franz Thalmair, Lambert Wiesing, Gesa Ziemer
Editors
Alexandra Grausam in cooperation with Ruth Goubran of Erste Bank Sponsoring Programme
Graphic Design
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Printed and bound by
Druckservice Peter Czermak