H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance
Since 2007, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich awards the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, to date Austria’s only prize for performance in the context of visual art. Endowed with 5.000 EUR, the ambition of the H13 Prize is to showcase the diversity and relevance of contemporary performance art and to make it accessible to a broader audience – in Austria and beyond.
The presentation of the prize-winning performance project takes place in the framework of the H13 award ceremony. An accompanying, usually two-week exhibition offers the public the opportunity to engage with the artists’ work outside of the live performance itself. In this way, the prize contributes to the question of how to present performance art in the context of an exhibition space.
Prize-winners from past years: Rehema Chachage (2023), Elisabeth Kihlström and Alexander Martinz (2022), Sara Lanner (2021), Julischka Stengele (2020),Helena Eribenne (2019), Otto Krause and Milan Loviška (2018), Anna Vasof (2017), Andrea Maurer (2016), Julia Marx (2015), Barbis Ruder (2014), Peter Fritzenwallner (2013), Lilo Nein (2012), Dolce & Afghaner – Djana Covic and Fahim Amir (2011), Jakob Lena Knebl (2010), kozek hörlonski – Peter Kozek and Thomas Hörl (2009), Christian Falsnaes (2008), Roberta Lima (2007)
H13 2024
In 2024, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich awards the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance for the 18th time. With the aim to increase the international visibility of the local performance art scene and to make a lasting contribution to its promotion, the H13 Prize will be awarded again in cooperation with a renowned institution abroad: the Mudam Luxembourg. In addition to the prize money and the presentation at the Kunstraum, the winner(s) receive a multi-day, individual tutoring with Clémentine Proby, Assistant Curator at the Mudam.
As always, the call for entries is thematically open. It begins on Thu, 22.02.2024. The submission deadline is Fri, 12.04.2024. The winners will be announced mid-May.
The premiere of the selected performance and the award ceremony take place on Fri, 22.11.2024, the subsequent installational presentation shall run until Sat, 07.12.2024.
The jury 2024 includes:
- Tom Engels (Artistic director of Grazer Kunstverein and curator of the 15th Baltic Triennial)
- Clémentine Proby (Assistant curator at Mudam Luxembourg)
- Frederike Sperling (Artistic director of Kunstraum Niederoesterreich)
- Miriam Stoney (Artist, author, translator)
The jury's decision is incontestable and final.
The winner will be notified by 10.05.2024.
General rights and liability for submission can be found HERE.
This year's H13 Prize will be accompanied by the two-day symposium Performance Besides Itself. Infra- and Parastructures of a Contemporary Liveness. On Fri, 06.12. and Sat, 07.12.2024, Austria-based and international performance curators, theorists and practitioners will convene at Kunstraum Niedereosterreich to reflect on recent developments and the impact of live arts within institutional-infrastructural contexts.