Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis awarded for the second time: The jury awarded it to the artist Annette Frick, who was born in 1957 in Bonn (Germany). Over the last three decades Frick has produced an impressive body of work in which she has been exploring the photographic image as a means to not only document but also to think through and perform alternative ways of living and working along the social and cultural margins.  The protagonists of Frick’s photographs and print works are the “masks of identity” of Berlin´s queer culture and its changing architecture. Her series of portraits and urban studies reflect the conflicts and changes around the politics of representation and identity within recent history, and open up spaces of poetic, performative and political imagination through engagement, complicity and proximity. During her residency period Annette Frick will work together with Wilhelm Hein, Filipa Cordeiro, Oana Limban and other artists on a new issue of her magazine series “Jenseits der Trampelpfade“, which she publishes since 1992 with Wilhelm Hein.

The jury of this year’s Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis was composed of:
Antonia Alampi, co-director SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, curator Sonsbeek 20-24
Kaya Behkalam, artist, curator and director of Künstlerhof Frohnau e.V.
Dr. Cornelia Gerner, director, Public Art Council Berlin-Reinickendorf
Gabriele Horn, director, Berlin Biennale
Heike Ruschmeyer, artist, curator of the Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Estate