Christian Retschlag: Sprengel Prize 2023

With Christian Retschlag as the 2023 Sprengel Prize winner, the SPRENGEL PRIZE continues to pursue the new direction it has been taking since 2021. Initiated in 1979 by Bernhard and Margrit Sprengel and taken over by the Niedersä chsische Sparkassenstiftung as its sponsor in 1991, the Sprengel Prize has been jointly funded and organised by the Niedersä chsische Sparkassenstiftung and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture since 2021. Its realignment has been associated not only with a significant increase in funding, but above all with the linking of the prize to a travel scholarship within Europe and to an exhibition in the Sprengel Museum Hannover with a catalogue. Against the background of a rich and long history of intensive international cultural exchange, the travel scholarship as part of the prize and exhibition concept is being awarded in view of Lower Saxony’s firm place in a Europe with its specific conception of a democratic and liberal social order.

Julius Osman (*1992, Heilbronn) was a scientific trainee at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover and moved to the Museum Quadrat in Bottrop as Head of Collection in 2023. He received his master’s degree in art history from the University of Bonn and is working towards a doctorate there on the art of the 1980s and the Neue Wilde. His curatorial focus is on European and American art of the 20th and 21st centuries. Christian Retschlag (*1987, Magedburg) studied at the Braunschweig University of Art. In 2023 he was awarded the Sprengel Prize, which was associated with an exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and an artist’s book publication. In 2012 he studied at the Art Center College of Design Pasadena, among others.