Hans-Hollein-Kunstpreis for Architecture 2024

Award for Heidi Pretterhofer and Michael Rieper, professors of Baukultur in the field of architecture.

On Monday, August 5, 2024, Andrea Mayer, State Secretary for Art and Culture, announced the winners of the Austrian Art Prize and the Hans Hollein Art Prize for Architecture 2024.

In 2024, eight artists, a duo of architects and a collective will be awarded the prize for their versatile, internationally recognized work. This year, Ingrid Wiener (Fine Arts), Doris Uhlich (Performing Arts), Karin Berger (Film Art), Helga Bansch (Children's and Youth Literature), Marina Faust (Artistic Photography), Robert Schindel (Literature), Ursula Endlicher (Media Art), Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Music), ARGEkultur Salzburg (Cultural Initiatives) and Heidi Pretterhofer/Michael Rieper (Hans-Hollein-Kunstpreis for Architecture) received the awards.

"Many of the honorees have done pioneering work in their respective disciplines and have courageously and persistently pursued their visions. Their works are an integral part of contemporary Austrian art and thus belong to the canon of what every Austrian should have seen, read, heard or experienced at least once", (english translation, 2024) stated the State Secretary for Art and Culture in a press release. This year, the artists' achievements will be recognized with a higher prize money - 20,000 euros instead of 15,000 euros.

Heidi Pretterhofer and Michael Rieper understand their work as a situational laboratory that builds bridges between different fields of discourse and action.
At the interface of architecture, urbanism, theory and cultural production, they develop spaces that enable new forms of “coming together” of the most diverse fields, strands and voices.
Leading two offices of their own, they have repeatedly worked with changing partners for many years on risky collaborative projects. Through their wide range of formats, they persistently and consistently expand the field of architecture and the concept of architecture: Interventions, temporary and permanent architecture, publications, exhibitions and, last but not least, their joint teaching and research activities as part of the “Baukultur” professorship at the Kunstuni Linz.
All of these architectural and artistic fields of activity are equally understood by Rieper/Pretterhofer as an opportunity to establish a project-immanent relationship that sheds new light on the order and charm of things to open up perspectives for a society in crisis.
With their unwavering openness, which radically transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries and demands the courage to constantly unlearn and relearn, they achieve a form of discursive activism that gives the field of architecture a significant impact.
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