Daimler Contemporary
Art
Scope - Interface Complex
Contemporary Art from Japan und Germany
South
African Contemporary Architecture
Daimler Award for South African Culture 2007
Overview
Katja Strunz
Art Scope - Interface Complex
Hiroharu Mori (J) · Kohei Nawa (J) ·
Katja Strunz (D) · Georg Winter (D)Art Scope Daimler Japan is the name of a promotion program for young Japanese artists launched in 1991. In 2005, the award program was restructured to provide for an exchange of contemporary Japanese and German art.
The works of the four award winners in 2005 - Kohei Nawa and Hiroharu Mori from Japan, Katja Strunz and Georg Winter from Germany - were jointly presented in the fall of 2006, initially in the Hara Museum for Contemporary Art in Tokyo. For the second time after 2004, the works of the winners of the "Artist in Residence" award, a groundbreaking program for Japan, will also be shown in Haus Huth, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. The exhibition comprises some 20 pictures, photographs, objects and installations part of which were specifically created for this project.
Heinrich Wolff
The Red Museum of Struggle - Port Elizabeth 2005
South African Contemporary Architecture
Daimler Award for South African Architecture 2007We present the ten architects or architecture practices and their major projects from the various South African provinces nominated for the Daimler Award for South African Contemporary Architecture.
An special presentation is be devoted to the prizewinner,Heinrich Wolff, selected by an international jury from a presentation by the nominees in February 2007 in Pretoria.
The Daimler Award for South African Culture, established to give young people working creatively in the field of culture their first international exposure, is being awarded for the seventh time since 1999.
In 1999, the first award went to the Johannesburg artist Kay Hassan. The jazz musician Themba Mkhize won the Daimler Award in 2001, and the artist Jane Alexander was awarded it as the Daimler Award for South African Sculpture in 2002. Jane Alexander's impressive sculptures and photographs were presented here in Haus Huth, as were Kay Hassan's large-format collages, videos and installations. In 2003 the Daimler Award went to the choreographer Sbo Ndaba, and the photographer Guy Tillim won it in 2004, followed in 2005 by Gabeba Baderoon, who accepted the DC Award for South African Poetry, linked with a reading in Berlin and a publication.