| | | |  | | | | | | | Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize Week 2025 | | | | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg » Farah Al Qasimi » | | | Exhibition | Opening | Film programme | Lecture | Excursion |
Award ceremony | Guided tour and discussion | Art in public space | | | | 2 – 6 June 2025 | | | Every two years, the state capital of Düsseldorf awards the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize to personalities who have made an important contribution to contemporary discourse in art through their work in the context of photography. The prize is awarded by the Lord Mayor on the recommendation of an independent international jury of experts.
On 4 June 2025, the main prize will be awarded to Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and the promotional prize to Farah Al Qasimi. | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
aus der Serie BUSHALTESTELLEN, Erevan-Yegnward, Armenien, 2004
© Ursula Schulz-Dornburg | | | | | | | In order to convey the artistic positions of the prizewinners, the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf has designed the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize Week with the following programme: | | | | | |  | | | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Aus der Serie: KRONSTADT, Russland, 2002
© Ursula Schulz-Dornburg | | | | | | Film programme
Monday: 2 June 2025, from 6 pm
Black Box - Cinema in the Film Museum
Schulstraße 4, 40213 Düsseldorf
6 pm Ursula Schulz-Dornburg presents:
Step Across the Border by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel
(1990, Germany/Switzerland, 87 min., German, OV)
8 pm Farah Al Qasimi presents:
The Red Shoes (1948) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
(1948, Great Britain, 133 min., English, OV)
Guided tour and discussion
Tuesday: 3 June 2025, 3.30 pm
K21 – Kunstsammlung NRW
Ständehausstraße 1, 40217 Düsseldorf
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg - The Vertical of Time
Guided tour through the collection
presentation at K21 and talk in Salon21
With Dr Doris Krystof, curator of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and
Dr Julian Heynen, curator, author and former director of K21
Pre-registration at: fotografie@duesseldorf.de
Excursion to the Museum Insel Hombroich
Wednesday: 4 June 2025
Departure: 10.30 am, Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf
Destination: Rocket station, Museum Insel Hombroich
Return journey: 3 pm Return arrival, Grabbeplatz, Düsseldorf
Guided tour by Roland Nachtigäller through the series of works Sonnenstand (1991)
by Ursula Schulz-Dornburg in one of the Three Chapels in the Kirkeby Field.
Pre-registration: fotografie@duesseldorf.de required
Note: After the guided tour, lunch will be offered at Café Biemel.
The coach journey and the guided tour are free of charge.
The lunch offer is optional and subject to a charge. | | | | | |  | | | Farah Al Qasimi
Living Room Vape, More Good News, 2016
© Farah Al Qasimi / Courtesy The Third Line and Francois Ghebaly Gallery | | | Public lecture
by Farah Al Qasimi
Thursday: 5 June 2025, 6 pm
Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences/Peter Behrens School of Arts
Münsterstraße 156/Building 6, 40476 Düsseldorf
Opening of the exhibition
Friday: 6 June 2025, 6 pm
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Grabbeplatz 4, 40213 Düsseldorf
Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize Exhibition 2025
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and Farah Al Qasimi
7 June – 7 September, 2025
Art in public space
2 June until 6 June, 2025
Urban space Düsseldorf
Exhibition of the Bernd and Hilla Becher Award winners in public urban space on 14 billboards.
All events are free of charge. Space at the events is limited.
Please book in advance at: fotografie@duesseldorf.de
More information: hier | | | | | | | The prizewinners | | |  | | | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Aus der Serie: VERSCHWUNDENE LANDSCHAFTEN, Shatt al-Gharraf, Marsh Arabs, Irak, 1980
© Ursula Schulz-Dornburg | | | | Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, born in 1938, has lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 1969. The jury justified its choice as follows: "With her work, Schulz-Dornburg pursues a cultural-historical anthropological interest, which she describes as the "verticality of time’: giving a conceptual and contemporary form to found and formerly animate things, as well as keeping a lasting awareness of resources present - in both human and nature-related ways." | | | | | |  | | | Farah Al Qasimi
Napping on Carpet, 2016
© Farah Al Qasimi / Courtesy The Third Line and Francois Ghebaly Gallery | | | The artist Farah Al Qasimi was born in Abu Dhabi in 1991 and studied photography and music at Yale University. The jury's statement said, among other things: "Al Qasimi works mainly with photography, video and performance and examines post colonial structures of power, gender and taste in the Arab Gulf states. [...] Splitting her time between Dubai and New York, social critique and observation of the multi layered aspects of each place are indirectly integrated into her artistic practice. Through her bold and vibrant photographs, she explores the unspoken social norms and values embedded in a place, a moment or an object."
Expert jurors 2022-2025
Max Becher (artist, son of Bernd and Hilla Becher)
Linda Conze (Head of the Photography Collection at the Kunstpalast as an advisory member)
Florian Ebner (Head of the Photography Department of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris)
Dr Felix Krämer (General Director of the Kunstpalast)
Ute Mahler (photographer and founder of the Ostkreuzschule in Berlin)
Alona Pardo (Head of Programmes of the Arts Council Collection, UK in London)
Prof. Ricarda Roggan (Artist and Professor of Photography ABK Stuttgart, member of the jury 2022) | | | | | |  | | | Farah Al Qasimi
Gaith At Home, More Good News, 2016
© Farah Al Qasimi / Courtesy The Third Line and Francois Ghebaly Gallery | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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