At a meeting in Florence, four new fellows were selected by this year’s jury, comprised of Susanne Gaensheimer, Director of the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, and the artist Rita McBride, who lives in Neuss. The recipients of the Villa Romana Prize in 2010 are: Anna Heidenhain, Sebastian Dacey, Anna Möller, and Martin Pfeifle are the new recipients.
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The Villa Romana artists' residence
© Photo: Heinz Peter Knes |
The Villa Romana Prize includes a 10-month fellowship at the artist’s house in Florence, a free studio, and a monthly stipend. The Villa Romana Prize is offered by the Villa Romana Association and funded by the Deutsche Bank Foundation, the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media, and additional private sponsors. Painter Max Klinger purchased the Villa Romana in 1905 to provide artists with a generous working situation in Florence.
The Villa Romana Prize is not only the oldest German art prize, but also the longest standing cultural commitment of Deutsche Bank. Deutsche Bank has supported this renowned award for contemporary art in Germany for more than 80 years, impressively documenting its tradition of supporting young artists. In keeping with Deutsche Bank’s decades of support, the Deutsche Bank Foundation has supported the Villa Romana Club e.V. for years - not only financially, but also with staff resources, as bank employees serve voluntarily in Club offices.
Villa Romana 2010 recipients
- Anna Heidenhain, born 1979 in Wiesbaden, studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf; she has been living in Istanbul since 2007. Heidenhain’s artistic work has increasingly shifted from sculptural form towards social space and the ambivalent zone between art and design, object, and representation. In 2006, Heidenheim received an artist’s grant to work at the Goyang National Art Studio in Korea.
- Sebastian Dacey, born 1982 in London, studied first at the Art College Wimbledon and subsequently at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. He lives in Berlin. Dacey’s oil paintings employ abstract and figurative elements, exploring their connection both to the painted ground and to art history. Over the past several years, Dacey has exhibited at the Kunstverein Heilbronn and the Kunstbau Lenbachhaus in Munich, among others.
- Anna Möller, born 1980 in Hamburg, studied at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. The relationship between body and concept plays a key role in her installations, paper works, and videos. From 2004 – 2008, Möller ran the exhibition space “Pudelkollektion” (Poodle Collection) in the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg together with Hannes Loichinger and Tillmann Terbuyken.
- Martin Pfeifle, born 1975 in Stuttgart, graduated from the Dusseldorf Kunstakademie in 2004 with a master’s degree under Hubert Kiecol. He won a Wilhelm Lehmbruck grant the same year. His work is characterised by large-scale constructions that mutate the existing space into a shell of physical experience of shifting and expansion. Pfeifle has already created numerous interventions in interior and exterior space, including at the Westfälische Landesmuseum in Münster, the Neuer Kunstverein in Aachen, and the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg.
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