BBA Artist Prize 2023
About the 2023 edition
Guess who’s back? For the 8th year, the BBA Artist Prize will once again be breaking barriers and building careers for emerging international artists. 22 diverse and talented artists have been selected for this year’s exhibition at Kühlhaus Berlin. In partnership with Fleurop, Deeds News, PixOnWall and Kühlhaus Berlin, the BBA Artist Prize is an unmissable competition and the perfect way to celebrate Gallery Weekend Berlin. From textile art through to gun barrels turned into wind instruments, this year’s edition of the BBA Artist Prize will be packed with discoveries of some of the most talented artists in the world. Brought to you exclusively by BBA.
On Saturday 29 April at 20:00, our acclaimed jury will announce the winners of the prizes. Along with the usual three prizes (a solo show + cash awards), this year the top three prize winners will have an exhibition opportunity at CSR (Contemporary Show Room) in Friedrichstraße Berlin and published interviews on the Deeds Online Newspaper.
Last year’s winner Katarina Kudelova will also be featured at the exhibition, as well as live performers (more info on this soon)…
22 Shortlist artists
Anna-Karin Brus, Sweden
Ernest Kankam, Ghana
Dongli Ma, China
Joachim Ramin, Germany
Kristoffer Axén, Sweden
Thomas Cameron, Scotland
Kohei Kimura, Japan
Neil Mendoza, USA
Glen Ogden, UK
Oscar Isaias Contreras Rojas, Italy
Dior Thiam, Germany
Pedram Baldari, USA
Christophe Canato, France/Australia
Anouk Koch, Switzerland
Valerie Messini + Damjan Minovski (2MVD), Austria
Tatjana Zonca, Italy
Sandra Boutros, Lebanon
Amirnasr Kamgooyan, Iran
Mathe Laszlo, Romania
Abigail Norris, UK
Slate Quagmier, USA
Judging art is hard work. But somebody’s gotta do it.
50 made the longlist

Indu Antony

Amnon David Ar

Kristoffer Axén

Pedram Baldari

Rita Bard

Sandra Boutros

Christine Brey

Thomas Cameron

Christophe Canato

Alessandro Carboni

Andrea Carrasquillo Jimenez

Jia-Rey Chang

Michael Cheung

Mark C. Hewitt

Yu Hao Hung

Cristina Jobs

Andrej Josifovski

Amirnasr Kamgooyan

Ernest Kankam

Anna-Karin Brus

Kohei Kimura

Anouk Koch

Béatrice Lartigue

Mathe Laszlo

Christie Lau

Huijun Lu

Dongli Ma

Lisa McCleary

Neil Mendoza

Valerie Messini + Damjan Minovski (2MVD)

Anna Valeriya Mikhaylova

Li Ning

Abigail Norris

Glen Ogden

Martin Poyner

Slate Quagmier

Nik Ramage

Joachim Ramin

Anja Rausch

Anna Rendecka

Alberto Repetti

Oscar Rojas Isaias Contreras

Katrin Spranger

Adonis Stoantzikis

Nina Sumarac

Yongqi Tang

Dior Thiam

Yu Chin Tseng

Roman Zhyvytsia

Tatjana Zonca