GERMANY ART PRIZE 2025/26

Using the digital APPLICATION FORM, academically trained artists, including young artists and professional autodidacts, can take part in this national art competition with up to five works (via photo upload). The art prize slogan is "Art powers future". A five-member expert jury views the digitally submitted works on a large screen. They then make the nomination decisions in the four art disciplines of painting, sculpture/object, photography/digital art and graphics. The art prizes are determined from the approximately 30 nominated works in a further jury meeting. The GERMAN ART PRIZE financially supports young artists up to the age of 35 – and waives the processing fee for two submitted works.

With the 2025/26 ART PRIZE GERMANY, this art prize (until 2019 the “Worpswede Art Prize”) is in its 10th year of existence. A reception is planned in the beautiful mountain resort of Hahnenklee (a district of Goslar) in summer 2025 to mark the tenth anniversary. The participating artists, jury members, patrons, moderators, sponsors and employees are invited. Invitations will be sent out in May 2025.

GERMANY ART PRIZE 2024/25

The application phase is over. Artists from Germany and abroad have applied for the GERMAN ART PRIZE with over 500 works. Now it’s getting exciting! Who has been nominated? Who will be the winner of the art prize? The five-member expert jury decided in January 2025. The art prize award ceremony will take place in June 2025. The location and date will be announced in April.

GERMANY ART PRIZE 2023/24 goes to Baden-Württemberg, NRW, Lower Saxony

Sonja Keppler (Pforzheim) with the sculpture “Resistance Helmet IV”, Rika Pütthoff-Glinka (Dortmund) with the digital art work “Joy of Life” and Frank Schult (Celle) with the painting “Headless through Time” have made it – and are the winners of the GERMAN ART PRIZE 2023/24. The award ceremony took place on April 6, 2024 in the STEIGENBERGER Parkhotel Braunschweig.

In front of a good 100 artists and guests from all parts of Germany, the speaker of the five-member expert jury, Prof. em. Erich Kruse (HBK Braunschweig), explained the decisions of the jury from various federal states in detail. The three art prizes, each with gold awards, in the categories of painting, sculpture/object, photography/digital art were presented by Prof. em. Erich Kruse, Dr. Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate and Franz-Friedrich von Preußen.

The jury work was carried out by Dr. Carsten Voss (art historian, Hannover), Prof. Erich Kruse (HBK Braunschweig), Bettina Breidbach (author and artist, Bremen), Thorsten Heinze (gallery owner, Berlin) and Dr. Georg Trivisas (artist and ex-gallery owner, Hannover). The moderator of the art award ceremony was Constantin Barzantny (Chairman of the Hannover Artists' Association). Art award organizer Albin Homeyer thanks the artists involved, jury members, the patron, the moderator and everyone else involved.