BBA Prizes 10 Year Anniversary 2025
Exhibition location
Kühlhaus Berlin
Luckenwalder Straße 3, 10963 Berlin
22. May - 01. June 2025
Opening night: Thursday 22. May, 19:00
Award Ceremony: Saturday 24. May
About the anniversary edition
In 2025, BBA Prizes is turning 10! To celebrate we are holding our biggest exhibition ever. Expanding to 3 floors of the Kühlhaus Berlin, we will present the BBA Photography Prize shortlist, BBA Artist Prize shortlist, One Shot Award nominees, and Made in Berlin Art Award nominees under 1 roof. Opening in May 2025, this exhibition will showcase the best work from around the world. Highlighting the platform that BBA Prizes has been providing for emerging artists and photographers for a decade now.
Tickets available now!
Moments from previous exhibitions
Focus on the prizes
Artist Prize
Photography Prize
*cash prize is split between 500€ production budget for your solo show in 2025/6 and 500€ to take away.
Introducing the Artist Prize shortlist!
João Abreu Lopes, Portugal
Mo Cheng, United Kingdom
Isobel Church, United Kingdom
Arina Gordienko MA, United Kingdom
Chris Klein, Canada
Birgit Klerch, Germany
David Moješčík, Czech Republic
Moritz Thoma, Germany
Elnara Nasirli, Azerbaijan
Nikolina Petolas, Croatia
Rayastre, Netherlands
Esther Schnerr, Netherlands
Mole^3, Japan
Camille Theodet, Germany
Andreas Theurer, Germany
Griet Troch, Belgium
Fernando Velazquez, United Kingdom
Anna Vonnemann, Germany
Chung-Kun Wang, Taiwan
Jodie Wingham, United Kingdom
Introducing the Photography Prize shortlist!
Attila Ataner, Canada
Yetunde Ayeni Babaeko, Germany
Michelle Blancke, Netherlands
Loc Boyle, Australia
Pamela Connolly, United States
Pierre-Yves Cruaud, France MPB Award nominee
Asafe Ghalib, United Kingdom MPB Award nominee
Héctor Faya, Mexico
Esther Garrison, Sweden
Diego Alberto Guerra Hernandez, Germany MPB Award nominee
Romi Krauskopf Narkiss, Israel
Christian A. Lang, Germany
Luca Ortis, United Kingdom
Cédric Raccio, Switzerland
René Riis, Germany
Blandine Soulage, France
Kaat Stieber, Netherlands
Pavel Surovy, Serbia
Ulla Vibe, Denmark
Terri Warpinski, United States
50 made the Artist Prize longlist
João Abreu Lopes, Portugal
Anamaria Avram, Germany
Neva Bergemann, Greece
Birgit Borggrebe, Germany
Wan Lin Chang, Taiwan
Mo Cheng, United Kingdom
Isobel Church, United Kingdom
Reinhard Dobat, Germany
Yael Erel, United States
Christian Fuchs, Peru
Arina Gordienko MA, United Kingdom
Alexander Grimm, Austria
Moran Gross, Israel
Telma Har, Iceland
Wim Heldens, Netherlands
Chris Klein, Canada
Birgit Klerch, Germany
Shangyu Li, China
David Moješčík, Czech Republic
Tomasz Musiał, Poland
Elnara Nasirli, Azerbaijan
Aleš Novák, Czech Republic
Nikolina Petolas, Croatia
Gazelle Pezeshkmehr, Norway
Jori Phillips, United States
Rayastre, Netherlands
Esther Schnerr, Netherlands
Maggie Shafran, United Kingdom
Helen Shulkin, Germany
Kulwant Singh Bhullar, Canada
Kasia Słania, Poland
Kerstin Studt, Germany
Tahir Sultan, India
Yuko Suzuki, Japan
Camille Theodet, Germany
Andreas Theurer, Germany
Moritz Thoma, Germany
Griet Troch, Belgium
Gerda Van Damme, Belgium
Fernando Velazquez, United Kingdom
Ladislav Vlna, Czech Republic
Svitlana Vol, Germany
Anna Vonnemann, Germany
Riley Waite, United States
Chung-Kun Wang, Taiwan
Jodie Wingham, United Kingdom
Zhenglong Yang, China
Nae Zerka, Austria
Mingxuan Zhang, Hong Kong
Halley Zien, United States
50 made the Photography Prize longlist
46 selected photographers + 4 MPB Award finalists make up the longlist.
Christian A. Lang, Germany
Patrícia Abreu, Brazil
Attila Ataner, Canada
Yetunde Ayeni Babaeko, Germany
Patrice Baudrier, France
Mark Benham, United Kingdom
Zoltan Bisak, Serbia
Michelle Blancke, Netherlands
Loc Boyle, Australia
Jo Ann Chaus, United States
Pamela Connolly, United States
Camilo Contreras, Colombia
Matt Crabtree, United Kingdom
Pierre-Yves Cruaud, France
Asafe Da Silveira Oliveira, United Kingdom
Shaohan Fang, United States
Héctor Faya, Mexico
Jelena Filipinski, Germany
Rohan Ganapathy, Sweden
Esther Garrison, Sweden
Christopher Gooding, United Kingdom
Marco Gualdoni, Italy
Diego Alberto Guerra Hernandez, Germany
Pekka Innanen, Finland
Ali Khan, Qatar
Benjamin Kis, Germany
Yevhen Kostiuk, Ukraine
Romi Krauskopf Narkiss, Israel
Jesper Krijgsman, Netherlands
Ana Leal, Brazil
Jaume Llorens, Spain
Gianluca Micheletti, Italy
Tomomichi Nakamura, Japan
Dustin Nguyen, United States
Luca Ortis, United Kingdom
Joseph P Smith + Therese Debono, Malta
Cédric Raccio, Switzerland
Marcel Rauschkolb, Germany
Lee Rayne, Germany
René Riis, Germany
Claudia Rubner, Italy
Paolo Saracco, Italy
Per Schorn, Germany
Alena Solomonova, Slovenia
Blandine Soulage, France
Kaat Stieber, Netherlands
Pavel Surovy, Serbia
Ulla Vibe, Denmark
Terri Warpinski, United States
Anjie Zhong, China
MPB Award finalists
The MPB Award finalists were chosen by our official sponsor MPB in a series of 4 heats throughout the Photography Prize open call period. The theme for the 2025 MPB Award is ‘show the bigger picture’.
Christian A. Lang, Germany
Asafe Da Silveira Oliveira, United Kingdom
Pierre-Yves Cruaud, France
Diego Alberto Guerra Hernandez, Germany
Meet the Artist Prize jury
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Andreas Herrmann
Founder & Director of Mianki Gallery in Berlin. 2nd Chairman of the State Association of Berlin Galleries (lvbg e. V.)
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Jack Bullen
Director & Co-Founder of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London
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Luisa Catucci
Owner & Director of Luisa Catucci Gallery in Berlin
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Suzy Royal
Curator, GlogauAIR
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Mario Bermel
Co-director & Co-founder of Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin. Contemporary Art Curator & Advisor for the Samurai Museum Berlin
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Vishal Shah
BBA Gallery Co-Director and Creative Director & Multidisciplinary artist
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Elizabeth Kang
Founding Director of Kang Contemporary in Berlin
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Renata Kudlacek
BBA Gallery Co-Director & Founder. Curator & Artist
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Ute Edde Hammer
Jury Moderator for the BBA Artist Prize 2025. Art historian & Culture Management
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Benjamin Jaeger
Art Advisor & Art Consultant. Founder of Jaeger Art and Berlin Photo Week.
Meet the Photography Prize jury
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Cia Durante
Director of Partnerships & VIP at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in London.
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Sarah Fenner
Global Partnerships Account Manager at Artsy.
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Jennifer Tietze
Vice President of Marketing at MPB.
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Heiko Tiemann
Artist, photographer, and tutor. Founder of Fotowerkstatt.
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Alexander Jöchl
Museum Director of Samurai Museum Berlin. Curator for contemporary art.
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Vishal Shah
BBA Gallery Co-Director and Creative Director & Multidisciplinary artist.
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Renata Kudlacek
BBA Gallery Co-Director & Founder. Curator & Artist.
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Mathias Thiel
Managing and Creative Director at studio asisi, Berlin.
10 year Anniversary Sponsors
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