Media partner 2026
The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in collaboration with the Freunde der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Friends of K20 K21) and with generous financial support from the Reydan + Roger Weiss Foundation, will present the K21 Global Art Award for the fourth time on October 8, 2026 – one of the most highly endowed international prizes dedicated to contemporary art. Distinguished by its truly global scope, the K21 Global Art Award recognizes mid-career artists who articulate a distinct artistic vision while generating meaningful new directions within contemporary discourse. The prize includes the acquisition of a work for the collection and a dedicated presentation at K21, reinforcing the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen’s long-term commitment to a globally engaged program.
The K21 Global Art Award, founded in 2023, builds on a curatorial concept conceived by Susanne Gaensheimer. It contributes to the programmatic expansion of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen’s renowned collection, strengthening its diversity, contemporary relevance, and global breadth. Linked to a significant new acquisition for the collection, the award is endowed with 100,000 euros. This art prize also symbolizes the Friends’ creative and sustainable commitment to the museum. The acquired work will be given to the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen by the Friends of K20 K21 on permanent loan.
K21 is the museum of international contemporary art of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and is dedicated to current developments in international contemporary art practice. The museum presents paintings, drawings, immersive installations, video works, and multidisciplinary approaches by leading contemporary artists from around the world, including Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Cao Fei, Cyprien Gaillard, Isaac Julien, Zanele Muholi, Bunny Rogers, Dayanita Singh, Hito Steyerl, Raqs Media Collective, and Ai Weiwei. In addition to presenting its collection and hosting groundbreaking international exhibitions featuring Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Isaac Julien, Julie Mehretu, and many others, the museum engages with current discourses and acts in the spirit of an expanded understanding of art. Through these efforts, the collection is continuously developed and expanded in alignment with diversity, global perspectives, and digital transformation, responding to ongoing social change.
For five years each, the K21 Global Art Award is advised by a nomination jury composed of renowned museum directors and curators from across the globe: Naomi Beckwith (since 2026, documenta 16, Kassel, and Guggenheim Museum, New York), Doryun Chong (since 2023, M+, Hong Kong); Koyo Kouoh (from 2023 until 2025, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town); Omar Kholeif (since 2023, Sharjah Art Foundation, Government of Sharjah, UAE); and Jochen Volz (since 2023, Pinacoteca de São Paulo).
Each jury member is invited to nominate up to two artists. The short list of nominees is submitted to the selection committee, which selects the winning artist. The 2026 selection committee consists of Beatrice Hilke (Curator, Haus am Waldsee), Susanne Gaensheimer (Director, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen), Leopold Freiherr von Diergardt (Chairman of the Friends of K20 K21), as well as two young members of the Friends of K20 K21, Jonas Görges (collector, Düsseldorf) and Katharina Neudeck (specialist in modern and contemporary art, Kunsthaus Lempertz).
Previous laureates include South African artist Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela (2023), Chinese video artist Wang Tuo (2024), and Brazilian artist Tadáskía (2025).
Nominees for the
K21 Global Art Award 2026
- Monira Al Qadiri
- (b. 1983 in Dakar, Senegal; Kuwaiti citizen; lives in Berlin, Germany)
Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti artist educated in Japan. Spanning sculpture, installation, film and performance, Al Qadiri’s multifaceted practice is mainly based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf’s “petro-culture” is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works. She currently lives and works in Berlin.
Her solo exhibitions include “Chameleon”, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (2025); “HERO”, Berlinische Galerie (2025); “Burning Desire”, Gothenburg Museum of Art (2025); “Deep Fate”, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2025); “The Archaeology of Beasts”, Bozar, Brussels (2024); “Haunted Water”, UCCA Dune, Aranya Gold Coast, Beidaihe (2023); “Mutant Passages”, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2023); “Holy Quarter", Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2022); “Refined Vision”, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2022); “Holy Quarter”, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2020). Select group exhibitions include Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025); 24th Biennial of Sydney (2023–24); 59th Venice Biennale (2022); 15th Triennial of Small Sculpture, Fellbach (2022); Asia Art Biennial, Taiwan (2021); “Our World is Burning”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); “Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars”, MoMA PS1, New York (2019–20); Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); and 6th Athens Biennale (2018). Al Qadiri’s also exhibits art in public space. Recent commissions include “Ocean Knight”, Creator Projects, Esbjerg, Denmark (2026); “First Sun”, Public Art Fund, Central Park, New York (2025); “The Children of Smokeless Fire”, UK City of Culture, Bradford (2025); “Zephyr”, Art22, Doha, Qatar (2022); and “Chimera”, Expo 2020 Dubai, UAE (2021).
- biarritzzz
- (b. 1994 in Fortaleza, Brazil; lives in Salvador, Brazil)
biarritzzz is an anti-disciplinary transmedia artist who investigates languages, codes, and media. She understands magic and low resolution as important counter-narratives for navigating the current cosmological dispute of realities. She has participated in exhibitions at the Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre; Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro; MASP, São Paulo; Kunsthall Trondheim; Delfina Foundation, London; Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo; A.I.R. Gallery, New York; The Wrong Biennale; FILE, São Paulo; and The Shed, New York; among others. Her works are included in the collections of Rhizome ArtBase, New Museum, New York; KADIST Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; and Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo/Poços de Caldas.
She was nominated for the PIPA Award in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, she made her film debut with the experimental short “Onde Está Mymye Mastroiagne? (Where Is Mymye Mastroiagne?)”, based on the real story of a 56-year-old transgender Second Life gamer. The film was screened at major festivals in Brazil, where it won three Best Short Film awards, and it continues to have an active international circulation. In 2025, she received the Atlantic Film Commission from Contemporânea, Portugal, followed by the inaugural Pérez Art Museum Miami Commission for Digital Art. The artist is also known for the seminal work “I’m Not an Afrofuturist” (2020), a transmedia musical project involving live performance, GIFs, video, and poetry. This research later developed into a critical discussion on AI, imperial colonialism, and futurism, presented at the Brazilian philosophical TV program Café Filosófico in 2023. She was an artist-in-residence at Attention After Technology at Art Hub Copenhagen in 2023 and at the Dreaming Beyond AI residency, Berlin, in 2025.
- Julia Phillips
- (b. 1985 in Hamburg, Germany; lives in Chicago, USA)
Julia Phillips primarily works with ceramics and metal, creating sculptures reminiscent of functional objects. Her works are metaphors for social and psychological experiences, metaphors that are both mechanical and bodily, and that typically focus on experiences of power relations between individuals or between an individual and an institution. Recently, Phillips has turned her focus towards the inside of the body, portraying organs and growths as well as references to the medical environment to challenge perceptions of subject-object relationships within the care industry.
She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1 in New York, Kunstverein Braunschweig, and the Barbican Arts Centre, London. She was featured in the Berlin Biennale, the New Museum Triennial, the Venice Biennale, and the Whitney Biennial. Her work has been shown at museums including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Museum Brandhorst, Munich; the Museu de Arte de São Paulo; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Her work is held in numerous public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt a. M.; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Julia Phillips recently completed her first public artwork commission titled “Observer, Observed” for the NY High Line, which was shown in second iteration at the Sydney Festival 2026, and published her first monograph titled “Energy Exchange” with Mousse Publishing, Milan.
She is faculty in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago.
- Mohammed Z. Rahman
- (b. 1997 in London, UK; lives in London, UK)
Mohammed Z. Rahman is a British-Bengali artist based in London. With a background in social anthropology, Rahman approaches his practice as both an intimate and political force. Interweaving personal, social and folk histories of migration, labour, queerness, family and class, his paintings disturb conventions of domestic space and custom in favour of dream logic and magical realism, excavating stories of everyday resistance. Allegorical and concrete, his domestic scenes employ the vernacular of surrealism and social realism – art movements which, Rahman notes, flourish during times of unrest: “the former, in that it allows one to dream beyond current conditions and process the unconscious, and the latter, to give voice to the everyday lived experience of the working and non-ruling classes, acting against hegemony.”
Current and upcoming exhibitions include “Art Now”, Tate Britain (2026); “In Minor Keys”, 61st Venice Biennale (2026); and Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff (2027). Recent solo exhibitions include “Hearthside”, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2025); “Remember to Live”, Peer, London (2025); “A Flame is a Petal”, Phillida Reid, London (2024); “Awake”, Art Basel Hong Kong (2024); and “City of Burrows”, Phillida Reid, London (2023). Rahman’s work was included in 2022’s Brent Biennial, curated by Eliel Jones. His permanent public mural, “At Home”, was co-commissioned by Peer and Hackney Council and unveiled in August 2025 in London. His work is held in the collections of the Tate, UK; Government Art Collection, UK; LAM Museum, Netherlands; and the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE.
- Juliana dos Santos
- (b. 1987 in São Paulo, Brazil; lives in São Paulo, Brazil)
Juliana dos Santos is a Brazilian artist whose practice investigates the relationships between color, time, and space. Working across immersive installations, painting, and performance, she employs natural pigments, fabrics, paper, and organic materials, most notably the “Clitoria ternatea” flower, with which she maintains what she describes as an ongoing collaborative process.
The blue extracted from the “Clitoria ternatea” flower operates in her work as sensorial, symbolic, and political matter. Rather than treating painting as a fixed image, Juliana dos Santos constructs pictorial fields through actions such as blowing, dispersion, staining, and oxidation, allowing the material itself to participate in the formation of the work. Through these procedures, distinctions between painting, installation, and performance dissolve into a continuous process of making.
The natural oxidation of the vegetal pigment introduces duration into the pictorial surface, allowing the work to continue transforming over time. Her paintings often bring into contact two distinct temporal regimes: the living time of vegetal color, which shifts according to humidity, light, temperature, and oxidation, and the more static time of industrial or mineral pigments, whose chromatic behavior tends toward permanence. Color is therefore not stabilized but experienced as a living process, positioning painting as an unfolding event rather than a concluded object.
Recent presentations include her solo exhibition Temporã at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and her participation in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice” (2025). Juliana dos Santos holds a PhD in Arts from the Institute of Arts at Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). In 2018, she was artist in residence and lecturer in the Department of Contextual Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria.
- WangShui
- (b. 1986 in Dallas, TX, USA; lives in New York, USA)
WangShui explores divergent structures of perception. Working across video, sculpture, painting, and installation, they examine the psychosomatic loops that shape our experience of the world. Their practice integrates personal histories with research into desire, architecture, and media. A central concern is liminality and its radical potential as a form of resistance. WangShui engages the latent space of images and materials to activate hallucinatory states between detail and distance, transparency and opacity, knowing and unknowing. WangShui received a BA in Art Practice and Social Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in Film and Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson.
Past solo exhibitions include “WangShui”, kurimanzutto, New York (2024); “Window of Tolerance”, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2023); “WangShui: poiesis”, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2023); “Whitney Screens: David Hartt and WangShui”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2020); and “WangShui”, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2019). Selected group exhibitions include “Soft Robots: The Art of Digital Breathing”, Copenhagen Contemporary (2025); “Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); “Quiet as It’s Kept”, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2022); and “No Humans Involved”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2021). In 2024, WangShui participated in the 60th Venice Biennale, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere”, and in the 2022 Biennale de Lyon. WangShui lives and works in New York.
- Wong Ping
- (b. 1984 in Hong Kong; lives in Hong Kong)
Wong Ping currently works and lives in Hong Kong. Through pop-like imagery and colorful animation that extend and transform into vibrant installations and surreal architectural environments, Hong Kong-born Wong Ping chronicles his native city’s dynamic forces and tension through an incisive lens, where humor becomes a foil for searing social commentary. Wong Ping explores sexuality, family, and social relations, with an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary in which shock and amusement co-exist, often using first-person narration voiced by the artist in a matter-of-fact manner, brimmed with linguistic textures of Cantonese that combine the poetic and the crass. Animating his work is the mechanism of social control and surveillance, the tribulations of adolescence to adulthood, and their attendant desires, obsessions, and repressed sexuality. By pushing the boundaries of private and public, and against social conventions of what might be deemed acceptable, his work probes social infrastructure and political limitations, as an unsolvable riddle that is contemporary life.
In 2025, he was a co-recipient of the Sigg Prize at M+, Hong Kong. His solo exhibitions include “Wong Ping: Edging”, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (2023); “Wong Ping: The Silent Neighbor”, New Museum, New York (2021); and “Golden Shower”, Kunsthalle Basel (2019). He has also participated in “ANTI”, the 6th Athens Biennale (2018), and the “58th October Salon: The Dreamers”, Belgrade Biennial (2021).
- Cici Wu
- (b. in Beijing, China; grown up in Hong Kong; lives in New York, USA)
Cici Wu is a New York-based artist who grew up in Hong Kong. Reducing filmmaking to its most humble and elemental components, she creates drawings, objects, videos, and installations, which extend the imaginative and structural premises of cinematic language across a wide range of media. Often taking local microhistories or archives as a point of departure, she uses the cinematic frame as a means to negotiate and reflect on the ways in which transpersonal narratives of social, cultural, and historical belonging structure our experiences of self. She has exhibited at major art events, including the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (2025); Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2024); 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, South Korea (2021); and Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020).
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2025); Scheusal, Berlin (2024); Empty Gallery, Hong Kong (2023, 2019); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Norway (2023); 47 Canal, New York (2021, 2018); and has participated in group exhibitions at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2026); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2025); National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2024); The Drawing Center, New York (2023, 2020); CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2022); Para Site, Hong Kong (2020, 2018); among others. She has organized exhibitions and screenings at 99 Canal, New York (2025); Giorno Poetry Systems, New York (2024); M+, Hong Kong (2023); among others. She co-founded the independent project space and residency PRACTICE (2015-2017) in Chinatown, New York. Her work is on view in the current exhibition “Greater New York” at MoMA PS1 (2026).
Previous Winners of the K21 Global Art Award
Tadáskía
Wang Tuo
Senzeni Mthwakazi Marasela
Nomination Jury
- Naomi Beckwith
- documenta 16, Kassel, Germany
- Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Naomi Beckwith is the Artistic Director of documenta 16 and Deputy Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York. There she oversees collections, exhibitions, publications, curatorial programs and archives and is jointly responsible for the strategic direction within the international network of affiliated museums. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Beckwith has (co-)organized renowned exhibitions and monographic projects, including the award-winning exhibition “Howardena Pindell: What Remains to Be Seen” (2018, MCA Chicago, USA) and “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now” (2015, MCA Chicago, USA). She was a member of the curatorial team for the realization of the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” (2021, The New Museum, New York), conceived by Okwui Enwezor before his death. Her exhibitions, lectures and publications focus on the impact and resonance of Black culture on multidisciplinary practices in global contemporary art. As a scholar and art historian, Beckwith has been a visiting professor at Northwestern University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (both Chicago, USA). Currently, she teaches as a lecturer at the Kassel Art Academy. Beckwith was awarded the 2024 David C. Driskell Prize for African American Art and Art History by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (USA). In fall 2025, she led the curatorial team for the American Season at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris in their presentation of the exhibition “ECHO DELAY REVERB — American Art, Francophone Thought” and the Melvin Edwards retrospective.
- Doryun Chong
- M+
- Hong Kong
Doryun Chong is the Artistic Director and Chief Curator, M+, Hong Kong. Chong oversees all curatorial activities and programmes at M+, including collections, exhibitions, learning and public programmes, publications, and digital initiatives across the museum’s three main disciplinary areas of design and architecture, moving image, and visual art.
He has curated and overseen critically acclaimed exhibitions for M+, including “Noguchi for Danh Vo: Counterpoint” (2018), “Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now” (2022, with Mika Yoshitake), and “Picasso for Asia—A Conversation” (2025, with François Dareau). He has also helped organise and supervise the five editions of Hong Kong’s participation in the Venice Biennale from 2015 to 2024.
Prior to joining M+, Chong worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. He curated several landmark exhibitions during that time, including “Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde” (2012) at MoMA, New York; and “Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis” (2008) at MoMA, New York; and “House of Oracles: A Huang Yong Ping Retrospective” (2005) at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
- Omar Kholeif
- Sharjah Art Foundation
- United Arab Emirates
Prof. Dr. Omar Kholeif, PhD, is an author, artist, a museum curator, and cultural historian who currently serves as Professor of Global Art Theory and Practice at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) and Head of the Postgraduate Programme in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) at the GSA and the University of Glasgow. In 2012, they founded the not-for-profit, London-based cultural agency, broadcast platform and collection, artPost21, which presents curatorial projects at the nexus of art and social justice. From 2018 to 2025, Omar Kholeif served as Director of Collections and Senior Curator at the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE. Prior, they served as Manilow Senior Curator and Director of Global Initiatives at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London; Head of Art and Technology at SPACE, London; Senior Curator at Cornerhouse and HOME, Manchester, founding director of SAFAR Film Festival, and Curator at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool. They have curated or co-curated several international art events including the 14th Sharjah Biennial: “Leaving the Echo Chamber” (2019); “Time, Forward!” at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); the Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); and the 7th Liverpool Biennial (2012). The author of over 40 publications, their recent volumes, include, “In the Heart of Another Country” (Snoeck, 2022); “Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs” (Phaidon, 2023); “Nil Yalter: Circular Tension” (Mousse Publishing, 2024); “Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades” (The Redfern Gallery, 2025); “Huguette Caland: imagine otherwise” (2025); and “Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams” (Lisson Gallery/D.A.P, 2025). Kholeif serves as founding series editor of “imagine/otherwise” for Sternberg Press and as a visiting professor in critical race in fine art and the creative industries at MIMA Research Unit, Teesside University, UK.
- Jochen Volz
- Pinacoteca de São Paulo
- Brazil
Jochen Volz is the General Director of Pinacoteca de São Paulo. He was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion at the 57th Biennale di Venezia (2017) and was the chief curator of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo (2016). Between 2012 and 2015 he was Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London. Prior, he was a curator at the Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, since 2004, where he has served as General Director between 2005 and 2007 and Artistic Director between 2007 and 2012. In 2009, he organized “Fare Mondi / Making Worlds”, the international section of the 53rd International Venice Biennale together with Daniel Birnbaum. In 2006, he guest curated for the 27th São Paulo Biennial. Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus Frankfurt am Main. As a critic he is writing for magazines and catalogues.
- Koyo Kouoh
- Zeitz MOCAA
- Cape Town, South Africa
Koyo Kouoh has been a member of the K21 Global Art Award’s nominating jury since its first edition in 2023 and lived between Cape Town, South Africa; Dakar, Senegal; and Basel, Switzerland. She has been Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, South Africa, since May 2019 and curator of the 61th Venice Biennale in 2026. Prior to this appointment, she was the founding Artistic Director of RAW Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge, and society in Dakar, Senegal. She has organized meaningful and timely exhibitions such as “Body Talk: Feminism, Sexuality and the Body in the Works of Six African Women Artists”, first shown at Wiels in Brussels, Belgium in 2015. She curated “Still (the) Barbarians”, the 37th EVA International, the Ireland Biennial in Limerick in 2016 and participated in the 57th Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, with the deeply researched exhibition project “Dig Where You Stand” (2018), a show within a show, drawn from the collections of the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History. She was the initiator of the research project “Saving Bruce Lee: African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy”, co-curated with Rasha Salti at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Germany (2015 – 2018). Active in the critical field of the arts community in a pan-African and international scope, Kouoh has a remarkable list of publications under her name, including “When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting” (2022); “Shooting Down Babylon” (2022), the first monograph on the work of the South African artist Tracey Rose; “Breathing out School: RAW Académie” (2021); “Condition Report on Art History in Africa” (2020); “Word!Word?Word! Issa Samb and The Undecipherable Form” (2013); and “Condition Report on Building Art Institutions in Africa” (2012), to name a few. She has served as Curator of the Educational and Artistic Programme of 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London, United Kingdom and New York, United States (2013 – 2017), as well as on the curatorial teams for documenta 12 (2007) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Kouoh is the recipient of the Grand Prix Meret Oppenheim 2020, the Swiss Grand Award for Art that honors achievements in the fields of art, architecture, critique and exhibitions. During her tenure at Zeitz MOCAA, her curatorial work has focused on in-depth solo exhibitions of African and African-descent artists. As such, she has organised exhibitions with Otobong Nkanga, Johannes Phokela, Senzeni Marasela, Abdoulaye Konate and Tracey Rose.
Selection Committee
K21 Global Art Award 2026
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Katharina Neudeck, Jonas Görges, Beatrice Hilke, Vivien Trommer, Leopold von Diergardt (from left to right), photo: Andreas Endermann
- Beatrice Hilke
- Curator
- Haus am Waldsee
- Jonas Görges
- Young Member
- Friends of K20 K21
- Katharina Neudeck
- Young Member
- Friends of K20 K21
Board of Trustees Stiftung Junge Kunst
- Prof. Dr. Susanne Gaensheimer
- Director
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Dr. Vivien Trommer
- Corresponding Member / Head of Collection
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Leopold Freiherr von Diergardt
- Chairman
- Friends of K20 K21
- Anna-Alexandra Pfau
- Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
- Stiftung Junge Kunst
- Dr. Tilman Steinert
- Treasurer of the Board of Trustees
- Stiftung Junge Kunst
- Gabriel Sulkowski
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Stiftung Junge Kunst
