Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022. Nan Goldin

The Akademie der Künste will present the 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize to the US American photographer and filmmaker Nan Goldin.
In honouring Nan Goldin, the Academy is recognising an artist with a key position in the global contemporary photography scene who has broken taboos and pushed the envelope with photographs of her personal milieu and the LGBTQ* community.

The exhibition Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022. Nan Goldin featuring photographs by the artist spanning a period of five decades will be open until midnight, with free admission from 7 pm on.

Welcome: Jeanine Meerapfel, president of the Akademie der Künste
Welcoming address: Rolf Tegtmeier, director of executive staff of the Kreissparkasse Köln
Statement of the jury: Hubertus von Amelunxen, cultural and art scholar
Laudatory speech: Klaus Biesenbach, director of the Neue Nationalgalerie

Following the ceremony, you are invited to a party with DJ Phillip Sollmann (Efdemin) starting at 10 pm.

With the kind support of the Cologne Kreissparkasse which funds the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.

In cooperation with EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography