Nan Goldin Awarded 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize
Nan Goldin has been named the recipient of the 2022 Käthe Kollwitz Prize. The distinguished award, offered by the Berlin Academy of Arts, acknowledges modern photographers who’ve made vital contributions of their discipline. The photographer, filmmaker, and activist is being lauded for her intimate, pathbreaking work centered on the LQBTQ+ group. She is going to obtain the prize, which is accompanied by an E12,000 ($12,800) award, in early 2023; an attendant exhibition of her work will run from January to March of that 12 months.
In an oeuvre spanning greater than 4 a long time, Goldin has examined problems with themes of gender, domesticity, and sexuality, sometimes by way of works comprising quite a few pictures or slides, usually with an audio part. The artist usually lives with or is carefully engaged together with her topics. Amongst her works cited by the jurors as essential are The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1986, a sound-accompanied slideshow nominally based mostly on a Kurt Weill music from Bertolt Brecht’s 1928 Threepenny Opera. A snapshot of homosexual tradition in New York within the post-Stonewall period, the work pays tribute to the quite a few pals, lovers, and acquaintances Goldin misplaced to the HIV/AIDS disaster within the Nineteen Eighties. “The immediacy in her pictures is owing to her bodily and emotional affiliation and lack of distance from a dwelling atmosphere that was closed off to many individuals and was opened up by her as an artist,” famous the judges in a collective assertion.
Goldin is the founding father of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Dependancy Intervention Now), which she established after changing into hooked on OxyContin, which was prescribed to her following an harm. Her efforts with this group have had a big affect in bringing to mild and halting the apply of “artwashing,” notably as practiced by members of the Sackler household linked with Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.
