KAIROS Prize

The KAIROS Prize European Culture Award is annually since 2007 by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded in Hamburg. The international award is endowed with 75,000 euros. About the winners are chosen by an independent board of trustees.

The KAIROS Prize European artists and scientists from the fields of visual and performing arts, music, architecture, film, photography, literature and journalism to be excellent. Are taken into account " both artistic Individuallleistungen and the contributions of those who often - enable culture in Europe and give her a decisive impetus - beyond the public perception: producers, publishers, gallery owners and other initiators " (according to self-representation ). Named this price, which expressly does not see itself as an award for a completed life's work, after Zeus ' youngest son, Kairos, the god of the right moment.

Award winners

  • 2007 Albrecht Dümling, musicologist
  • 2008 Tímea Junghaus, art historian
  • 2009 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, choreographer
  • 2010 Andri Snær Magnason, Icelandic writer
  • 2011 sermin Langhoff, theater maker
  • Katell Gélébart 2012, French designer
  • 2013 Paweł Althamer, video and installation artist
  • 2014 Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnian filmmaker
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