Wolfgang Hahn Prize awarded to Henrik Olesen

The Wolfgang Hahn Prize Cologne 2012 will be awarded to Danish-born artist Henrik Olesen, it has been announced. The main stipulation for the award – which carries a €100,000 budget to accession Oleson’s work into Museum Ludwig’s collection – state that the artist’s practice has undergone rigorous ongoing development and has met with international acclaim in professional circles, and that his or her oeuvre is not yet adequately represented at Museum Ludwig. “The jury has deliberately decided on an artist who since the 1990s has consistently focused his attention on issues of identity, the social construction of norms, and the materiality and symbolism of objects” said Enno Scholma, president of the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst.