WOLFGANG TILLMANS WINS 2015 HASSELBLAD AWARD
The Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden announced today that the artist Wolfgang Tillmans has won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2015. Worth roughly $120,000, the prize will be given in Gothenburg next November right before an exhibition of Tillmans’s work opens at the Hasselblad Center there on December 1, 2015. A new book by Tillmans will also be released on the same day.
This year’s award committee consisted of Simon Baker, curator of photography at Tate Modern, London; Irina Chmyreva, senior curator of “Project in Support for Photography in Russia” at the IRIS Foundation, Moscow; Katerina Gregos, an independent curator and artistic director of Art Brussels in Brussels; Roberto Koch, publisher at Contrasto Books, Rome & Milan; and Roxana Marcoci, senior curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Remscheid, Germany in 1968, and studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design in Bournemouth, England from 1990 to 1992. He was also the winner of Turner Prize in 2000.
