8th International Marianne Brandt Award

The 8th International Marianne Brandt Award 2022 asks artists and designers how that which connects us with other living beings and habitats can be newly discovered and designed. We are looking for projects, images, and texts on cooperative, aesthetic, metaphorical, and poetic exchanging relationships with other organisms and natural existences.

Could a perspective in which humans see themselves less as a counterpart to other living beings and habitats, but rather pay attention to similarities, familiarities, and mutual dependencies help establish new cooperative natural relations? How could we conceive and design connecting processes, objects, and atmospheres in this sense? How can we talk, write and tell about our existential connections in poetic and creative ways?

In the 1920s the Chemnitz-born artist and Bauhaus designer Marianne Brandt had written poems, in which she discovered forms of nature that appear like poetic and constructive role models for her shiny and geometric metal designs of “tableware” and “lighting bodies”. The sea appeared as a “shimmering round” or the moon as a “sculptural sphere”. At the same time, she searched for analogies in natural phenomena for her sensations and moods. Brandt found resonance in “sheet lightning” or in “rippling waves”.

What are the approaches to nature that are relevant for artists and designers today? How can we foster, show or celebrate moments that connect us?

Award Categories:

Details Project

A product, a study or image documentation with a maximum of three variations can be submitted.

Details Photography

Three single images or a series of maximum of five images can be submitted. Series have to be labelled

as such.

Details Text

Texts can be submitted with up to 5,000 characters in German and English.

Participation Info:

• The submission fee is 30€
• You may pay the submission fee directly by credit card.
• Or you may pay by bank transfer or paypal after uploading.

Bank transfer to:

Kunstverein Villa Arte

IBAN: DE07 8705 0000 3551 0127 67

BIC: CHEKDE81XXX

transfer purpose: Submission_Your Name

Paypal to:

at@marianne-brandt-wettbewerb.de

transfer purpose: Submission_Your Name

Every participant receives a catalog of the award.

Application Procedure

The contest is divided into two phases:

The first phase contains the digital submission of the exhibits. For projects and photography we suggest you upload about five images of your work, please include information about the size and the material of your work. The jury will then nominate 60 exhibits for the second phase.

The second phase in August/ September 2022 includes the submission of the exhibits by mail. In case participants are nominated for this phase they will receive further details for their submission by mail. The postage fee for submission and return by mail is covered by the participant. We are working on getting more funding to be able to support artists with the fee.