CYPRIEN GAILLARD WINS PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD AT BERLIN’S NATIONALGALERIE

Artist Cyprien Gaillard has won the 2011 Publikumspreis (People’s Choice Prize) for his work Artefact, 2011, on view in the Nationalgalerie’s Young Art Prize exhibition. In September, Gaillard also received the museum’s juried prize, which was accompanied by a cash award of $63,000; runners-up included Klara Lidén, Andro Wekua, and Kitty Kraus. The museum’s director, Udo Kittelmann, stated of the prize’s competitors: “What is remarkable, as is often the case with this prize, is that all of these artists come from different countries, yet have all come to Berlin to live and work.”