Description: The conceptual artist and sculptor Andrea Pichl is awarded this year's Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture. This renowned award is thus being presented for the first time to an artist who was born in the GDR and grew up in East Berlin. Her divided biography forms the backdrop of her artistic work, which, in the context of architecture and urban planning among other fields, explores the interactions between public and private space. In her works, the transformation in the meaning of public and private life before and after German reunification also becomes tangible, as the jury explains its decision. Architectural structures, in combination with photographs and drawings, trace contradictions in history and in narratives, thereby illuminating economic, cultural, and social dimensions in the relationship between East and West. Highly questionable distortions - such as the reciprocal transfer of capital, goods, and services - are brought into focus, pointing to what has remained hidden from the public and explicitly concealed in German-German cooperation. For Andrea Pichl's first solo exhibition in southern Germany, the book comprehensively presents her installation concept.
