The Westerwald Prize is awarded to outstanding ceramic works in a competition. As in previous years, the 74 works selected from 425 submissions, which are now presented in the publication, demonstrate the high aesthetic and artistic standards of ceramic works throughout Europe. First and foremost, however, this applies to the prizewinners Johannes Nagel and Jesse Magee in Free Ceramics; Monika Debus and Franz Julien for Salt Fired Ceramics (Prize of the City of Hoehr-Grenzhausen); and Hyunjin Kim, who received the Talent Award.
The primary aim of the prize is to promote the dialogue between ceramics and art in the Westerwald region. The great interest in the competition and the political developments of recent years prompted the organisers to announce the prize throughout Europe, from 1999. Since then, this dissolution of boundaries has been reflected in the enormous quality of the submitted works.
With contributions by Joerg Johnen, Dr. Sabine Runde, Achim Schwickert, Julian Stair, Michael Thiesen, Nele van Wieringen, Konrad Wolf.
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