On 11th November 2020, the jury of the Jutta Cuny-Franz Foundation has chosen this year's award winners from 283 applications from 47 countries.
The Jutta Cuny-Franz Award 2021 endowed with 10.000 € is granted to Anna Lehner (USA, b. 1992) for her work BRITTLE BOUNDARIES.
The two sponsorship awards, each endowed with € 1,500, go to Isaac Chong Wai (Hong Kong, *1990) for MISSING SPACE and Hikari Sasaki (Japan, *1991) for KITOKITO (when and when). This year's five non-endowed honorary degrees went to Elmira Abolhassani (Iran, b. 1989), Juli Bolaños-Durman (Costa Rica, b. 1984), Erin Dickson (United Kingdom, b. 1987), Carmen Schaich (Germany, b. 1987) and Ayano Yoshizumi (Japan, b. 1991).
The award ceremony will take place online in spring 2021 due to Covid 19 restrictions, unfortunately the special exhibition of the winners has to be cancelled.