The Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize), officially Großer Berliner Kunstpreis, is a prize for the arts by the City of Berlin. It was first awarded in 1948 in several fields of art. Since 1971, it has been awarded by the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Künste) on behalf of the Senate of Berlin. Annually one of its six sections, fine arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and film and media arts, gives the great prize, endowed with €15,000, whereas the other five sections annually award prizes endowed with €5,000.
History The Berlin Art Prize has been awarded since 1948 in commemoration of the March Revolution of 1848. The official name then, Berliner Kunstpreis – Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948 (Berlin Art Prize – 1848/1948 Jubilee Foundation), was used until 1969, the ceremony was held by the Mayor in the Charlottenburg Palace.
The prize was planned to be awarded first on 18 March 1948 by the City Berlinale, to commemorate the March Revolution and the revolutionaries who fell for a new state (für einen neuen Staat gefallenen Revolutionäre). The first prize winners of 1948, shortly before the currency reform, who received awards of 10,000 Mark, were the sculptor Renée Sintenis and the composers Ernst Pepping and Wolfgang Fortner. The then-Senator of Education awarded the prize without consulting a jury.
In 1949 a constitution was drafted. The prize (per section DM 3,000.00) should be awarded annually for achievements in literature, music, painting, graphic and performing arts. As a result, changes were made regarding the divisions, the division between several winners and the award criteria. From the mid-1950s, the ceremony was always accompanied by criticism.
Since 1971, the prize is awarded by the Academy of Arts. The Academy awards the prize annually in alternating intervals of its six sections in the order of fine arts, architecture, music, literature, performing arts and film and media arts. The Arts Award for "Film and Media Arts" award since 1984 and from 1956 to 1983, there were instead the Arts Award for "Radio-Television-Film." The prize, awarded every six years by the literature section was named in 2010 the Fontane Prize.
Great Prize recipients
1971: Rainer Küchenmeister 1972: György Ligeti (Music) 1973: Bernhard Minetti 1974: Gottfried Böhm 1975: Josef Tal 1976: Wilhelm Borchert 1977: Joachim Schmettau 1980: Peter Stein (returned) 1981: George Tabori 1982: Meret Oppenheim 1983: Rolf Gutbrod 1984: Olivier Messiaen 1986: Marianne Hoppe 1987: Lina Wertmüller 1988: Rupprecht Geiger 1989: Norman Foster 1990: Luigi Nono 1992: Peter Zadek 1993: Otar Iosseliani 1994: Dieter Roth 1995: Renzo Piano 1996: Pierre Boulez 1998: Horst Sagert 1999: Kira Georgijewna Muratowa 2000: Anna and Bernhard Blume 2001: Hermann Czech 2002: Aribert Reimann 2004: Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts 2005: Aki Kaurismäki 2006: George Brecht 2007: Architects office SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) in Tokyo 2008: Helmut Lachenmann 2010: Thomas Langhoff 2011: Claire Denis 2012: Cristina Iglesias 2013: Florian Beigel 2014: Mathias Spahlinger 2015: Sherko Fatah 2016: Stefan Prins 2017: Emin Alper 2018: Thomas Demand 2019: Renée Gailhoustet 2020: Younghi Pagh-Paan 2021: 2022: Richard Peduzzi 2023: Joachim Trier 2024: Simone Fattal 2025 Gilles Clément
Selected prize recipients Recipients are typically listed in the sequence "Bildende Kunst" (art), "Baukunst" (architecture), "Musik" (music), "Darstellende Kunst" (performing art), "Film-Hörfunk-Fernsehen" (media)
1948: Renée Sintenis, Ernst Pepping, Wolfgang Fortner 1950: Bernhard Heiliger, Karl Hartung, Hans Uhlmann, Werner Heldt, Hans Jaenisch, Wolf Hoffmann, Wilhelm Deffke, Mac Zimmermann, Carl-Heinz Kliemann (art), Werner Egk, Helmut Roloff, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (music), Heinz Tietjen, Boleslaw Barlog (performing art) 1951: Louise Stomps, Mac Leube, Hans-Joachim Ihle, Theodor Werner, Alexander Camaro, Marcus Behmer, Siegmund Lympasik (art), Boris Blacher, Gerhard Puchelt (music), Hermine Körner, O. E. Hasse (performing art) 1952: Richard Scheibe, Lidy von Lüttwitz, Gerhart Schreiter, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Woty Werner, Eva Schwimmer, Gerda Rotermund, Georg Gresko (art), Arthur Rother, Helmut Krebs, Giselher Klebe (music), Mary Wigman, Frank Lothar, Kurt Meisel (performing art) 1953: Alexander Gonda, Emy Roeder, Johannes Schiffner, Karl Hofer, Otto Hofmann, Ernst Böhm, Dietmar Lemke, Elsa Eisgruber (art); Gerda Lammers, Karl Forster, Max Baumann (music); Käthe Dorsch, Ita Maximowna, Wolfgang Spier (performing art) 1954: Paul Dierkes, Ursula Förster, Otto Placzek, Max Pechstein, Curt Lahs, Hans Thiemann, Hans Orlowski, Sigmund Hahn (art), Erna Berger, Hertha Klust, Volker Wangenheim (music); Tatjana Gsovsky, Käthe Braun, Caspar Neher (performing art) 1955: Gerhard Marcks, Hans Purrmann, Manfred Bluth, August Wilhelm Dressler, Max Taut, Hans Scharoun, Sergiu Celibidache, Joseph Ahrens, Josef Greindl, Walter Franck 1956: Heinz Trökes, Hugo Häring, Philipp Jarnach, Ernst Schröder, Helmut Käutner 1957: Erich Heckel, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinz Tiessen, Joana Maria Gorvin, Heinz Rühmann 1958: Fritz Winter, Wassili Luckhardt, Hans Werner Henze, Martin Held, Robert Siodmak 1959: Elsa Wagner 1960: Julius Bissier, Paul Baumgarten, Wladimir Vogel, Erich Schellow, Günter Neumann, Heinz Pauck 1961: Rudolf Belling, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, , 1962: Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann, Egon Eiermann, Gerhart von Westerman, Gert Reinholm, Hans Rolf Strobel and Heinz Tichawsky 1963: Max Kaus, Sergius Ruegenberg, Paul Hindemith, Fritz Kortner, Jürgen Neven-du Mont 1964: Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Werner Düttmann, Hans Chemin-Petit, Rolf Henniger, Wolfgang Neuss 1965: Jan Bontjes van Beek, Hermann Fehling, Elisabeth Grümmer, Ernst Deutsch, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss 1966: Hann Trier, Walter Rossow, Johann Nepomuk David, Rudolf Platte, Dieter Ertel 1967: Rudolf Hoflehner, Frei Otto, Karl Böhm, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Hans Richter 1968: Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Erwin Gutkind, Heinz Friedrich Hartig, Hans Lietzau, Georg Stefan Troller 1969: Heinrich Richter, Ludwig Leo, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Herbert Ihering, Peter Zadek
Year Fine arts Architecture Music Literature (Fontane Prize) Performing Arts Film – radio – television / Film and media art (from 1983) 1971 Rainer Küchenmeister Fred Forbat 1972 György Ligeti Hans-Heinrich Reuter 1973 Bernhard Minetti Internationales Forum des Jungen Films: Ulrich Gregor, Klaus Wiese, Christian Ziewer; ARD-Filmstudio: Franz Everschor, Klaus Lackschéwitz, Heinz Ungureit 1974 Gottfried Böhm 1975 Josef Tal Hubert Fichte 1976 Wilhelm Borchert Ernst Jacobi, Peter Watkins 1977 Joachim Schmettau Julius Posener 1979 Alexander Kluge 1980 Peter Stein, refused 1981 George Tabori 1982 Meret Oppenheim 1983 Rolf Gutbrod 1984 Olivier Messiaen 1985 Brigitte Kronauer 1986 Marianne Hoppe 1987 Lina Wertmüller 1988 Rupprecht Geiger 1989 Norman Foster 1990 Luigi Nono 1991 Gerhard Meier 1992 Peter Zadek 1993 Otar Iosseliani 1994 Dieter Roth 1995 Renzo Piano 1996 Pierre Boulez 1997 Wolfgang Hilbig 1998 Horst Sagert 1999 Kira Muratowa 2000 Bernhard Johannes Blume, Anna Blume 2001 Hermann Czech 2002 Aribert Reimann 2003 Wilhelm Genazino 2004 Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch 2005 Aki Kaurismäki 2006 George Brecht 2007 SANAA 2008 Helmut Lachenmann 2009 Emine Sevgi Özdamar 2010 Thomas Langhoff
Year Fine arts Architecture Music Literature Performing Arts Film and media art 2011 Philip Loersch BeL Sozietät für Architektur = Anne-Julchen Bernhardt & Jörg Leeser Alan Hilario Nora Bossong Moritz Grove Maria Speth 2012 Abbas Akhavan Tatiana Bilbao Christoph Ogiermann Monika Rinck Manuel Pelmus, Kristof Van Boven Astrid Schult, Sebastian Bäumler 2013 Birgit Dieker SelgasCano = José Selgas, Lucía Cano Simon Steen-Andersen Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker Ulrich Rasche Ali Samadi Ahadi, Nadim Mishlawi 2014 Kader Attia Group "Miasto Moje A w Nim" Sergej Newski Stephan Thome Bettina Bartz Maren Ade 2015 Marta Popivoda Achim Menges Marena Whitcher, Rafael Nassif Thomas Melle Kollektiv laborgras: Renate Graziadei, Arthur Stäldi Andrey Zvyagintsev 2016 Sven Johne Office KGDVS = Kersten Geers, David van Severen Stefan Prins Angelika Meier Anna Prohaska Peter Avar 2017 Axel Anklam Francisco Mangado Elena Mendoza Annett Gröschner Valery Tscheplanowa Athina Rachel Tsangari 2018 Dominik Lejman Philippe Block Anna Korsun Daniela Danz Simon Stone Christoph Brech 2019 Prinz & Gholam Dorte Mandrup Zeynep Gedizlioğlu Uljana Wolf Alexander Scheer Nicolette Krebitz 2020 David Schutter Architekturmagazin ARCH+ Christian Winther Christensen Norbert Zähringer Sasha Marianna Salzmann Christine A. Maier 2021 Sajan Mani Architekturbüro HARQUITECTES Petra Strahovnik Lea Schneider Gina Haller Susann Maria Hempel 2022 Stephanie Gudra atelier le balto Øyvind Torvund Roman Ehrlich Bastian Reiber Bettina Blümner 2023 Petrit Halilaj Xu Tiantian Joanna Bailie Barbi Marković Marcel Kohler Nelly Quettier2024 Leyla Yenirce Summacumfemmer Cedrik Fermont / Syrphe Carolin Callies Lilith Stangenberg Salomé Jashi2025 Assaf Gruber Anton Kolomieitsev Cassandra Miller Brigitta Falkner Göksu Kunak Pietro Marcello
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