STUDIO: Ximena Ferrer Pizarro
Rainer Wild Art Foundation Prize
Ximena Ferrer Pizarro (*1994 in Lima, Peru) is this year's winner of the Rainer Wild Art Foundation Prize. In her paintings, she deals with current political issues, stories from her everyday life and stereotypes about her home country of Peru. She expresses these in a humorous formal language. Her bright colours and exaggerated, almost grotesque figures are characteristic of her work. Ferrer Pizarro raises questions about identity, interculturality, religiosity and the colonial past of her country.
In the STUDIO of the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Ferrer Pizarro is showing the five-part painting series "All the times I wanted to be white". Here, the artist explores the colonial past of her country, which still causes strong social tensions today. Each painting forms a self-contained short story that can be read as a form of micropolitical resistance against these colonial power relations that still exist today.
Launched in 2015, the Rainer Wild Art Foundation Award honours visual artists under the age of 35 who live and work in Germany. At the request of the foundation, the prize is awarded in Mannheim since 2020. The award comes with prize money of 5,000 euros and a solo exhibition in the STUDIO of the Kunsthalle.
Curator: Dorotea Lorenz
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STUDIO
The STUDIO is where Kunsthalle Mannheim displays contemporary art by living artists. The STUDIO provides space for unfettered transdisciplinary experiments. This is where visitors can see changing exhibitions of new work by international artists working on surprising themes and questions.
