Henkel Art.Award. 2012

Henkel 

Art.Award. 

2012

Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, 

Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey 

and the Ukraine

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Content 6 Henkel Central Eastern Europe/Günter Thumser 

7 KulturKontakt Austria/Gerhard Kowarˇ 

8 museum of modern art stiftung ludwig vienna/Rainer Fuchs 

Henkel Art.Award. 2012 Winner 

12 Marge Monko 

Henkel Art.Award. 2012 Nominees 

14 Miks Mitrevics 

16 Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan 

18 Katarina Zdjelar 

20 Olga Jitlina 

Henkel CEE Artists Studentship, Winner 2012 

20 Olga Jitlina 

Henkel Young Artists Prize Austria, Winner 2012 

24 Maureen Kaegi 

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Preface 

Henkel Central 

Eastern Europe 

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Henkel Central Eastern Europe (CEE) has been committed to actively promoting the fine arts in Central and 

Eastern Europe for 11 years now. This is clearly demonstrated by the “Henkel Art.Award.”, an annual prize competition 

launched in the year 2002 which is designed to promote outstanding artists in the Central and Eastern 

European region. 

The Henkel Art.Award. originated with the corporate philosophy which Henkel CEE has been committed to for 

around 25 years, since the start of its expansion to Hungary and further to the Central and Eastern European 

region. 

Today, artists from 23 countries are eligible to participate. In addition to the monetary prize and an exhibition in his 

or her native country, the winner is also given the opportunity to display his or her works of art within the context 

of an exhibition held at the museum of modern art stiftung ludwig vienna (mumok) in the following year. 

From our point of view, the entire project is to be considered as a jump start to promote the career development 

of the artists. This approach has been successful, as many of our award winners such as Dan Perjovschi, Miha 

Stukelj, Mladen Miljanovic ´ 

and many more have convincingly proven. 

The brochure features the works of all artists nominated as finalists for the Henkel Art.Award. 2012, including the 

award winner, as well as the Young Artists’ Prize Winners 2012. It represents an important contribution to 

Henkel´s cultural network in Central and Eastern Europe, and shows the creativity and uniqueness of the nominated 

artists and the winners. 

Günter Thumser 

President of Henkel Central Eastern Europe 

The numerous entries from 23 countries in South East and Eastern Europe for the Henkel Art.Award. 2012 point 

to a successful continuation of this important initiative. The list of the five nominated finalists from Estonia, Latvia, 

Romania, Russia and Serbia not only show the wide diversity of contemporary artistic creation in this region, but 

are also impressive in themselves thanks to the quality of the presented works of art. This year the extensive 

female presence among the participants as well as the shortlisted nominees is noteworthy. 

The winners of the two prizes granted to young, up and coming artists are also exceptional. Maureen Kaegi, an 

artist who lives and works in Vienna, convinced the jury on the basis of an extensive portfolio of different types of 

work. Photography, videos, drawing and painting are the techniques she prefers. They are closely inter-related in 

her installative arrangements. 

Olga Jitlina from St. Petersburg impressed the jury with her videos and interactive installations, in which she 

makes reference to current problems in Russian society such as the situation of migrant workers from the former 

Central Asian Soviet republics in large Russian cities. 

The Henkel Art.Award. is a successful example of what can be achieved through the cooperation of private 

companies with artistic and cultural institutions. Over the years this art prize has become an important platform for 

young creative artists in South East and Eastern Europe. KulturKontakt Austria is pleased that it has been able to 

make a contribution to this award from the very beginning. 

Gerhard Kowarˇ 

Director of KulturKontakt Austria 

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KulturKontakt 

Austria 

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mumok 

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The art experts serving as preliminary jury members were from a variety of countries. They guaranteed this year's 

Henkel Art.Award. of setting forth its very high level. This year's winner was Marge Monko. Also nominated for the 

award were Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Olga Jitlina, Miks Mitrevics and Katarina Zdjelar. Their great sensibility 

to societal changes and the causes of them in their countries distinguished all of them. A consciousness of history 

and a critical attitude towards prevailing situations formed the foundations of their works. These, in turn, interact 

in a variety of ways with international discourses, thus providing the new and local aspects expanding and 

enriching them. 

This year's winner of the Henkel Art.Award. was Marge Monko. She was born in 1976 in Tallinn, Estonia. Her 

photographs and films are centered around the historical transition from Communism to Capitalism, and its ramifications 

upon societal role models. The artist diligently researches the current political context of daily working 

lives. She then subjects them to a critical analysis. In doing such, she takes the female perspective. This comprises 

a searching look at Communism's propaganda and pathos and at the belief in progress informing 

Capitalism's striving for profits. This look reveals the emptiness of the one-time promises of Communism and its 

culture of industry. The look shows the gestures of submission accompanying their decay. These, in turn, re-emerge, 

under altered circumstances, as the career consciousness of neo-liberal elites. “Shaken Not Stirred” is a video 

created in 2009. It reveals the life of the woman forming its main figure to be quite different than the image of the 

successful businesswoman presented to the outside world. Her life is, in fact, a failure. Viewed on the private 

level, she is deeply disappointed in life. Her world is shaped by the gaps – greater than ever before – existing between 

the various classes of society. 

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan have been performing their works since 2010. Their transnational lives give rise 

to the topics forming the foundation of their performances, which refer to the various concepts existing of national 

identity. Benera was born in 1977 in Constanta, Romania. She is a Romanian with Ukrainian and Italian roots. 

Estefan was born in 1978 in Targu Secuiesc, Romania, and has Hungarian roots. The artists' performances 

question the bases of national identities by, to give an example, their simultaneously reading a variety of schoolbooks 

depicting historical events. These excerpts enable the superimposition and drowning out of each other's 

voices. Their words manifest the contrary interpretations of identical events, leading to their reciprocal canceling 

out and annihilation. Further works of them explore the links between economic and political interests, and how 

they form the decisive determinants of nationality-perpetuating depictions of history. 

Olga Jitlina was born in 1982 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She devotes herself to the controversial political issues 

emerging from Russia's society during its period of transition. The tensions existing between the classes of the 

well-situated and immigrants and between property owners and those exploited by them are ignored by official 

Russia. Jitlina's performances, films and photographs impart visibility to these tensions, and to the absurd and 

power-concealing strategies undertaken by the police charged with maintaining order in the country. The artist's 

works unearth these concealed items, and propose forms of resistance and alternative ways of solving problems. 

One of her works takes the form of a game. Among its figures are immigrants slaving away at work. This sketches 

indirect rules of conduct fostering integration. Such innovations reveal her proactive, reality-driven approach. This 

approach is as productive as her accepting payment for causing the well-heeled to swap their clothing with poor 

immigrants. This represents the realization – albeit on the short term – of a utopia of societal egalitarianism. That, 

in turn, advances such a utopia's implementation. 

Miks Mitrevics was born in 1980 in Latvia. The artist's installations feature stationary and short-lived elements, 

and work these into a fragile and poetic language of forms. The foundation of his oeuvre and the center of interest 

are formed by observations of daily life focusing on the ephemeral and on happenstance. These depictions reveal 

objects that seem, at first glance, to be familiar, but whose unusual combinations and portrayals develop proprietary 

forms of story-telling and of the poetry of the actual. In this vein, the observation of nature featuring an 

embracing couple shown in “Fragile Nature” (2009) turns out to be nothing more than a work of fiction generated 

by photography, one that, however, does arouse our sense of romanticism and which makes the items shown in 

the picture seem to be real. Mitrevics creates artificial worlds comprised of stationary objects and of citations from 

nature. They cause the natural to seem to be artificial. They also indicate the proximity between our vision of nature 

and an artificial world of settings, a proximity of which we are not aware. Thanks to this, the artist's works 

strengthen our ability to perceive the artificiality of our vision of the world, thus removing the blindness imposed 

upon our consciousness. 

Katarina Zdjelar was born in 1979 in Belgrade. Her films and performances are informed by the topics of migration 

and by the tension incited by personal molding and by foreign and new environments. The thrust of Zdeljar's 

work is the integration of analysis and playfulness into the consideration of language and of its role as the main 

medium of communication. The voice is the audible form of language, one building a bridge between mental and 

physical forms of expression. This fact is employed in the exploration of questions arising from translation, which 

is the primary function of language. This function comprises the translation of thoughts by language. This, in turn, 

means that this medium and its structures of imports have varied during history and according to cultures. 

Zdejlar's work makes this fact abundantly apparent by interrupting conventional methods of translation. The work 

manages to convey this by instructing persons to write down a language not comprehensible to them and delivered 

verbally. This results in nonsensical words and texts. These make, however, it apparent that language can not 

be restricted to its visual and audio forms of manifestations. Rather, language constitutes a system of cultural references. 

The recognition of these forms the preconditions for the understanding of the language. 

The professional participation by jury members, Henkel staff members, KulturKontakt Austria and mumok enabled 

the planning and implementation of the Henkel Art.Award. This comprised the selection of the artists nominated 

and of the winner. We wish to express our deep thanks to the above and to the artists participating. 

Rainer Fuchs 

Chairman of the Jury 

Deputy Director, mumok 

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NOMINEES AND PRIZE WINNERS 2012 

Henkel Art.Award. 2012 Winner 

Marge Monko 

Henkel Art.Award. 2012 Nominees 

Miks Mitrevics 

Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan 

Katarina Zdjelar 

Olga Jitlina 


Olga Jitlina 


Maureen Kaegi 

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Art.Award. 2012 

Winner 

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MARGE MONKO 

Born 1976 in Tallinn/Estonia. Lives and works in Tallinn/Estonia. 

info@margemonko.com, marge.monko@artun.ee 

Education 

2011-2012 Baltic Film and Media School, Tallinn, MA 

program Film Arts/EE 

2005-2008 Estonian Academy of Arts, photography, 

MA/EE 

2005 University of Applied Arts, Vienna/AT 

2002-2005 Estonian Academy of Arts, photography, 

BA/EE 

Solo Exhibitions (Selection) 

2011 Tell me, Platan Gallery, Polish Institute in 

Budapest/HU 

2010 Shaken Not Stirred, Gallery of Tallinn Art Hal/EE 

2009 Bread and Roses, Draakoni Gallery, Tallinn/EE 

2008 Marge Monko and Tanja Muravskaja, Hobusepea 

Gallery, Tallinn/EE 

2007 Studies of bourgeoisie, Finnish Museum of 

Photography, Helsinki/FI; Tell me, Tallinn City 

Gallery/EE 

2006 Studies of bourgeoisie, Hobusepea Gallery, 

Tallinn/EE 

2005 Electronic_city. Portraits, Gallery at the House of 

Scholars,Tallinn/EE 

Group Exhibitions (Selection) 

2012 Connected by Art, Contemporary Art from the 

Baltic Sea region, Schwerin Museum/DE; Manifesta 9, 

Genk/BE; Köler Prize 2012 exhibition. Contemporary 

Art Museum of Estonia/EE 

2011 Generation of the the Place: Image, Memory and 

Fiction in the Baltics, Tallinn Art Hall/EE; Confrontations 

and Provocations, National Museum in Warsaw/PL; 

Water – Sense and Sensation, Wäinö Aaltonen 

Museum of Art, Turku/FI 

2010 Kunst macht frei, Modern Hungarian Gallery, 

Pécs/HU; Confrontations and Provocations, Museum 

of Contemporary Art, dept. of the National Museum in 

Szczecin/PL; Artishok Biennal, Tartu Art House/EE; 

Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki/FI 

2009 Blue-Collar Blues, Tallinn Art Hall/EE; Poses and 

Neuroses. Self-Portraits, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn/ 

EE; Doings or Not, Hobusepea Gallery, Talinn/EE 

2008 Doings or Not, Vzigalica Gallery, Ljubljana/SI; 

Plaisirs de l’imagination Castle of Tours/FR; Border 

country Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of 

Art/CN 

2007 Cropped Dreams and Irritators, Jeune création 

européenne, biennale of emerging art, Montrouge/FR 

Other Activities 

2011 Tallinn Month of Photography, festival of lensbased 

art (artistic director) 

Since 2007 Board Member of Union of Photography 

Artists in Estonia 

Curated exhibitions 

2008 Up Close and Personal, Hobusepea and 

Draakon Gallery, Tallinn/Estonia; I see you looking at 

me, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu/EE 

Residencies 

2010 Pro Helvetia AIR Program in Bern 

(PROGR_Zentrum für Kulturproduktion)/CH 

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(le) A still from the 

photo film Noras 

Sisters (2009), single 

channel with voice 

over, 7:20 

(ri) A still from 

video Forum (2009), 

two channels 

with sound, 23:42 

Tableaux I from the series Studies 

of Bourgeoisie (2004-06), 

c-print 98x85cm



Nominee 

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MIKS MITREVICS 

Born 1980 in Riga/Latvia. Lives and 

works in Brussels/Belgium and Riga/Latvia. 

miks.mitrevics@gmail.com, www.miksmitrevics.com 

Education 

2010 - 2011 Postgraduate (Laureate), HISK - Higher 

Institute for Fine Arts, Gent/Belgium 

2003 - 2005 Master of Arts (MA), Visual 

Communication, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga/Latvia 

1999 - 2003 Bachelor of Arts (BA), Visual 

Communication, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga/Latvia 


2012 Let's go for a walk? I don't know. It's already 

late. Okay, just around a lake, Galerie VidalCuglietta, 

ArtRotterdam - New Art Section/NL (Selected by Witte 

de With) 

2011 Let's go for a walk? I don't know. It's already 

late. Okay, just around a lake, Museum of 

Contemporary Art, Zagreb/Croatia; Noise in the corridor 

it's 5:23' and I know it's the postman bringing the 

letters, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels/Belgium; 

ARTscape Latvija : Miks Mitrevics, Galeria Vartai, 

Vilnius/Lithuania; Fragile Nature, Overbeck- 

Gesellschaft, Kunstverein Lübeck/DE; 

2010 Fragile Nature, Stadtturmgalerie, Innsbruck/AT 

2009 Carethings, Riga Art Space, Riga/Latvia; Entropy 

Cube, KIM? Contemporary Art Centre/VKN gallery, 

Riga/Latvia; Fragile Nature, Latvian exposition in the 

53rd Venice Biennale, Venice/Italy 

2007 Collection of Persons, Andrejsala, Riga, Latvia 

(Collaboration w. K. Kursisa) 

2006 Observer, Space4 Gallery, Peterborough 

Museum/UK; Somewhere nearby, National Art 

Museum Creative workshop, Riga/Latvia 


2012 Five thousand generations of birds, Fitjar/ 

Norway; Connected by Art, Staatliches Museum 

Schwerin, Schwerin/DE; Le Prince des rayons, Galerie 

VidalCuglietta, Brussels/Belgium 

2011 Visitor, HISK, Gent/Belgium; Dublin 

Contemporary 2011, Dublin/Ireland; Modesty, Galerie 

Bäckerstrasse 4, Vienna/AT; Ex-Libris, Galerie 

VidalCuglietta, Brussels/Belgium; The Emergence of 

Things, STUK kunstencentrum, Leuven/Belgium 

2010 update-Die Welt als Modell, Montag Stiftung, 

Bonn/DE; Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma Art 

Museum, Rauma/Finland; Naturalia, Jozsa Gallery, 

Brussels/Belgium; Not There, Gallery Leto, 

Warszawa/Poland; Riga dröhnt!, Kunsthalle 

Rostock/DE 

2009 Purvitis Art Award Exhibition, National Art 

Museum exhibition hall Arsenals, Riga/Latvia; Space 

Oddity, Europe XXL programme, maison Folie 

Wazemmes, Lille/FR 

2008 Exposition d'art contemporain balte, Cite 

Internationale des Arts, Paris/France; Is the Medium 

the Message?, Andrejsala, Riga/Latvia; Manifesta 7, 

The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 

Rovereto/Italy; L'art en Europe, European 

Contemporary Art, Domaine Pommery, Reims/FR; 

Buket. Exhibition of Latvian Contemporary Art, 

National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow/RU; 

Awards/Residencies 

2011 Flemish Government Scholarship/Belgium 

2010 State Culture Capital Foundation Scholarship, 

Riga/Latvia 

2009 Purvitis Art Award, Nomination, Riga/Latvia 

2008 Swedbank Art Award, Kumu Art Museum, 

Tallin/EE 

2006 Diena Culture Award, Riga, Latvia; East2East 

Commission, Peterborough Digital Arts/GB; UNESCO- 

Aschberg Bursary, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, 

Austria 

2003 Year Award, Visual arts/Latvia 

Promise to Return. Innsbruck, 04.11.2010. and Written in Water, 

Kalnciems, 26.08.2011. Exhibition view 

Wind Sock III. (detail) Kalnciems, 26.08.2011. 

Branches, tripod, chimes, ventilator, sensor.

Pacta sunt Servanda perofrmance, 2012 

The equitable principle 

„Pacta sunt Servanda, chapter 4 - Fekete Marcius 1990“ 

performance, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel 

ANCA BENERA & ARNOLD ESTEFAN 

Anca Benera 

Born 1977 in Constanta/Romania. ¸ 

Lives and 

works in Bucharest/Romania. 

anca.benera@gmail.com, www.ancabenera.ro 

Arnold Estefan 

Born 1978 in Targu Secuiesc/Romania. Lives and 

works in Bucharest/Romania. 

estefan.arnold@gmail.com, www.arnoldestefan.ro 

Education 

Anca Benera graduated the National University of Arts 

in Bucharest and holds a Master degree at the same 

university (2003). She did an internship at the Peggy 

Guggenheim Collection in Venice (2002) with a grant 

from the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation New York. 

She is an artist and co-founder of the Centre for Visual 

Introspection/Bucharest. 

Arnold Estefan studied Fine Arts at the University of 

Art, Timisoara (2003); Arnold Estefan is a visual artist 

and graphic designer based in Bucharest. He is cofounder 

and co-director of the Centre for Visual 

Introspection in Bucharest, an independent platform for 

research, artistic and theoretical production 

(www.pplus4.ro). 

Exhibitions (Selection) 

2012 Art or Life:aesthetics and biopolitics, curated 

by_vienna project; Intense Proximity, La Triennale, 

Palais de Tokyo, Paris/FR; Winning Hearts and Minds 

by Critical Art Ensemble at Documenta 13, Kassel/DE; 

Hard Fact, tranzit.ro, Iasi/RO; From Mathematics to 

China, Salonul de Proiecte, National Museum of 

Contemporary Art, Bucharest/RO 

2011 Navigating London’s lost rivers, Camden Arts 

Centre, London/GB; Doppelgänger of the recent past, 

Temps d’images festival, Cluj/RO; BIEFF, International 

Experimental Film Festival Romania 2011 Bucharest/ 

Romania; Catedra de Istorie Temporara, Magma, 

Sfantu Gheorghe/RO; Self publishing in times of freedom 

and repression (curatorial project), Centre 

for Visual Introspection, Bucharest/RO 



Nominee 

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Parapoetics in TENT. photography Frank Hanswijk 

My lifetime (Malika)/Video still 

KATARINA ZDJELAR 

Born 1979 in Belgrade/Serbia. Lives and works in Belgrade/Serbia and 

Rotterdam/Netherlands. 

zdjelar.k@gmail.com 

Education 

2004-2006 Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning 

Academie, MA Fine Art, Rotterdam/NL 

1999-2004 University of Arts Belgrade, Faculty of 

Applied Arts, Belgrade/SRB 

2001-2002 CENPI, Centre for Contemporary Theatre 

and Performance Art, Art Theory, Belgrade/SRB 

Solo & Duo Exhibitions (Selection) 

2012 And In Between, Katarina Zdjelar and Thomas 

Locher, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems/AT 

2011 Act I, ActII, CIRCUS Gallery, Berlin/DE; City 

Museum, Tobacna 001 Gallery, Today’s motto is Do 

one thing passengers that one helps, Ljubljana/SI; 

Centre for Contemporary Art Celje, Katarina Zdjelar- 

Stepping In-Out, Celje/SI 

2010 I think that here I have heard my own voice 

coming to me from somewhere else, Centre d’Art 

Contemporain, Fribourg/CH; Katarina Zdjelar-One or 

two songs, CIRCUS Gallery, Berlin/DE; ar/ge kunst 

Galerie Musum, Katarina Zdjelar & Michael Hoepfner, 

Bolzano/Bozen/IT; Katarina Zdjelar-Shoum, Galería 

Valle Ortí, Barcelona/ES 

2009 TENT., Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Katarina 

Zdjelar-Parapoetics, Rotterdam/NL; CAV, Centro de 

Artes Visuais, Coimbra/XX; The 53rd Venice Biennial, 

Serbian Pavilion, But if you take my voice, what will be 

left to me?, Venice/IT; SKOR, The Precarious State 

project, Edition #3, Amsterdam/NL; Speaking through 

each other’s mouth, Salon of Museum of 

Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade/SRB 

2008 The Perfect Sound, VIVID, Birmingham/GB; 

Katarina Zdjelar-Everything is Gonna Be, Ellen de 

Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam/NL; Everything is gonna 

be, Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Paris/FR 

2007 Office for Art, Theory and Design, Another 

Project, CASCO, with Renee Ridgway, Utrecht/NL; 

Bez prevoda, Gallery of Contemporary Art, 

Pancevo/SRB 

2006 Back to back by heart, Mirta Demare Gallery, 

Rotterdam/NL 

Group exhibitions and screenings (Selection) 

2012 Acts of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein 

Stuttgart, Stuttgart/DE; Schlagwörter und Sprachgewalten, 

Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/ Basel/CH; 

Time, Trade & Travel, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, 

Amsterdam/NL; CEAAC, Centre Européen d'Actions 

Artistiques Contemporaines, Simultan, Strasbourg/BE 

2011 When the Day‘s Loud Voices Do Not Keep 

Quiet, Schaulager, video screening, Basel/CH; It’s 

Time We Got To Know Each Other, 52nd October 

salon, The Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrade/ 

SRB; Frieze Film, Rise Again, Frieze Foundation, 

London/GB; Iron Applause, Slovak National Gallery, 

Bratislava/SK; Poetic Things That Are Political, MNAC, 

Museu do Chiado, screening program, Lisboa/PT; Your 

center is my periphery, AME, Tallinn/EE 

2010 Courtisane Festival, Vital Signs, Gent/BE; 

Second Scénario, la Box, Bourges/FR; Searching 

Songs, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 

Tokyo/JP; Let’s Talk about Nationalism! Between 

Ideology and Identity, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn/EE; 

39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, 

Rotterdam/NL 


2010/11 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch 

Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 

Amsterdam/NL 

2008 VIVID, Birmingham/GB 

2007 ISCP, International Studio and Curatorial 

Program, New York/USA; Platform Garanti Centre for 

Contemporary Art, Istanbul/TR; TICA, Tirana Institute 

for Contemporary Art, Tirana/AL 

Photo: Marko Krunic 



Nominee 

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Nominee 

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Henkel CEE Artists 

Studentship, 

Winner 2012 

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OLGA JITLINA (ZHITLINA) 

Born 1982 in St. Petersburg/Russia. Lives and works in St. Petersburg/Russia. 

olgajitlina@mail.ru 

Education 

2007 Graduated from the Russian Academy of Art/RU 

2005 Graduated from The University of Jewish 

Studies/RU 

Exhibitions (Selection) 

2012 The Silent Week, media-play by Olga Jitlina performed 

in New Holland by Katja Sytnik and Kirill 

Adibekov, St. Petersburg/RU; Happiness is a warm 

gun, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg/RU; The 

Silent Week - media-play by Olga Jitlina at Muzeon 

sculpture park, Moscow/RU; Screening of the film 

Editing based on Three Songs about Lenin by D. 

Vertov by Olga Jitlina and Kirill Adibekov, Poriadok 

Slov, bookshop, St. Petersburg/RU 

2011 Me-gration, a video presentation and roundtable 

discussion (How to Work with Migrants? Ethics and 

the Politics of the Image, Andrei Sakharov Museum 

and Public Center, Moscow/RU; Presentation of 

Migrant Labor Board Game Russia, The Land of 

Opportunity, Artek, St. Petersburg/RU; Gute 

Aussichten, Special project at Moscow Biennale/RU 

2010 GLOB(E)SCAPE, ARTPLAY Design center, 

Biennale of Young Art, Moscow/RU; Hydroponics, 

Perm 

2009 Special program of The Annual Festival Of 

Private Contemporary Art Collections, Fabrika, 

Moscow, Videoart Archive CYLAND; Re:Re: Residence 

Revisited, Gryaznaya galereya, St. Peterburg/RU 

2008 Acclimatization, CAG gallery, St. Petersburg/ RU; 

Memory of the Fields, Etazhi art-center, St. Petersburg/ 

RU 

2007 Notes from the overpass, a group exhibition of 

young artist from Saint-Petersburg and Los-Angeles, 

G18 gallery, Helsinki/FI 

Selected Public Talks, Lectures and Conferences 

2012 Artists talk at Pedagofical Poem project, Presnya 

Museum, Moscow/RU; Presentation of projects of the 

residency program Artist-Society ArtPlay Design 

Center, Moscow/RU 

2011 Conference Artist-Society – Reflecting 

Interaction, Kyrgyz National Art Museum, Byshkek/ 

KG; YouthArtCamp, Almaty/KZ 

2008 Introduction into Game Art, Subjective 

Landscapes, Center for Contemporary Art of S. 

Kuryokhin, St. Petersburg/RU 


2012 Russian finalist of the Henkel Prize 2012; TOKA- 

MAK, HIAP, Suomenlinna, Helsinki/FI 

2011 Cyland media-art residency, Kronstadt island, 

St. Petersburg/RU; Artist-Society art-residency, 

Taboshar, Khudjand/TJ 

From the 90ies to 

Richmond/Video 

Simsalabim 

photo is done in 

collaboration with Aliona Chendler 

Children´s revolution 

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Olga Zitlina (Zhitlina)/page 20 


Maureen Kaegi 

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pencil on paper 

pen on paper 

MAUREEN KAEGI 

Born 1984 in New Plymouth/New Zealand. Lives and works in Vienna. 

mail@maureenkaegi.net 

Education 

2005 - 2010 University of Applied Arts, Vienna/AT 

2005 - 2007 Foundation course (Contemporary 

Dance), Dance Art Studio, Vienna/AT 

2007 - 2008 University of the Arts, Zurich/CH 

2009 - 2010 School of Arts and Cultures, 

Newcastle/GB 


2011 where the surface is, MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, 

Vienna/AT 

2010 common places, University of Applied Arts, 

Vienna/AT 

2009 work presentation, Schloss Werdenberg, St. 

Gallen/CH 


2012 Werkschau 2012, Kunst Kanton Zürich/CH; 

Ausbeute“ Kunstzeughaus, Rapperswil/CH; HAIR 

2012, Hospiz Galerie, Bregenz/AT; From different corners, 

Galerie Bart, Amsterdam/NL 

2011 Urban Landscapes, Austrian Cultural Forum, 

Washington/USA; Metamart, Künstlerhaus, Vienna/AT; 

vielfach verortet, Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt/ 

DE; Atelier und Werkstipendiaten 2012, Helmhaus, 

Zürich/CH; Holzwege, Schloss Eschelberg, Linz/AT; 

From different corners, Arteversum Düsseldorf/DE; 

Group Show (Adieu Gessnerallee!), Galerie Mark Müller 

2010 Die Magie des Alltäglichen, Kunstzeughaus, 

Rapperswil/XX; K10 - Regionale Kanton Zürich, Oxid, 

Winterthur/CH; The Essence, Künstlerhaus, Vienna/AT; 

ArtmArt, Künstlerhaus, Vienna/AT; Operation Domino, 

Galerie Z, Hard/AT 

2009 First Choice, Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich/CH; 

Plattform, Galerie Bäckerstrasse 4, Vienna/AT; Living 

Spaces - Living Forms, Galerie 5020, Salzburg/AT; 

Baskerville, Die Veranda, Vienna/AT 

2008 Month of Photography Eikon, Museums Quarter, 

Vienna/AT; Using Photography, Month of Photography, 

Vienna/AT; Le Mois Off de la Photo, FetArt, Paris/FR; 

Stadtflucht, Kunstraum, Winterthur/DE 

Performances 

2011 Add me! Post me! Like me!, von Malika Fankha, 

Theater Drachengasse, Vienna/AT 

2009 In die Gänge, K3 Zentrum für Choreographie, 

Hamburg/DE 

2008 Aipotu, Vebikus Kunstforum, Schaffhausen/DE; 

Aipotu, Salon des Arts, ETH Zurich/CH 

2007 Aipotu, MAK Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Vienna/AT; Aipotu, Wuk Im Flieger, Vienna/AT; Aipotu, 

Fluc, Praterstern 5, Vienna/AT 

2006 Wien - Berlin, Kunsthalle ECC, Berlin_2006/DE; 

Wenn einer eine Reise tut, Offspace Praterstrasse, 

Vienna/AT 

Awards and Scholarships 

2012 Artist in Residence, Fondation du Château 

Mercier, Sierre/CH; Artist in Residence, SOART, 

Millstättersee/AT; Theodor Körner Fonds, Vienna/AT; 

Artist in Residence, Paris, Kanton Zürich/CH; 

2011 Artist in Residence, Kairo, Pro Helvetia/DE; Artist 

in Residence, A.I.R.-Programm Arlberg Hospitz/AT; 

Grant, BMUKK, Vienna/AT; Grant, University of Applied 

Arts, Vienna/AT; Grant, Fachstelle Kultur, Zurich/CH; 

Grant, Stadt-Zürich/CH 

2010 Grant, Stadt-Zürich/CH 

2009 Scholaship, University of Applied Arts, Vienna/AT; 

Artist in Residence, Schloss Werdenberg, St. Gallen/ 

CH; nni und Heinrich Sussmann Stiftung, Vienna/AT 

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Henkel Central Eastern Europe GmbH 

Corporate Communications 

Editorial & responsible team 

Sabine Schauer 

Christina Hammertinger-Bischof 

Contact details 

Dr. Sabine Schauer 

Communication Director 

Central Eastern Europe & Middle East and Africa 

Phone: +43-1-71104-2253 

E-Mail: sabine.schauer@henkel.com 

Mag.(FH) Christina Hammertinger-Bischof, MSc. 

Corporate Communications Manager CEE & MEA 

Phone: +43-1-71104-2463 

Fax: +43-1-71104-2650 

E-Mail: christina.hammertinger@henkel.com 

Further information 

http://www.henkel-cee.com, http://www.henkel.at 

http://artaward.henkel-cee.com 

http://www.facebook.com/HenkelArtAward 

Photos 

Marge Monko, Miks Mitrevics, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Katarina Zdjelar, Olga Jitlina, 

Maureen Kaegi 

Design 

Renate Bartaun, MA 

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