Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2023:
Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs (*1959 in Antwerp, Belgium) has been awarded the 2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst. ‘The work of Francis Alÿs is anchored in the political and is at the same time poetic. His works often take the form of stagings of the absurdity of everyday life. With the simplest of artistic gestures, he tells of the complex social and all too often unequal realities of life in our societies. Contradic-tions of political and cultural regimes thus become just as tangible as the contradictions of his own aesthetic productions, which Alÿs formulates and presents in a pointed manner.’, said Matthias Mühling, guest juror and director of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.

The publication from the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst introduces artist Francis Alÿs and his work with a laudatory speech by guest juror Matthias Mühling, texts by Yilmaz Dziewior, the artist and Néstor García Canclini, a brief biography and numerous illustrations.

The publication was edited by Pia Gamon, Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig e.V. (Cologne 2023, 112 pages with 57 (52 col.) ill.)