jeah, we did it. since saturday we are back in berlin. and on top we are still alive and kicking.
some of you asked us what we have to do with the hugoboss-prize 2006? so here comes the solution of the riddle ;-)

after we did the documentation of the prize giving ceremony in 2002 they asked us if we want to do it this year again:

ten years hugoboss-prize with by now the 6.th winner.

established in 1996 to recognize significant achievements in contemporary art, the hugo boss prize is a biennial award administered by the solomon r. guggenheim foundation and presided over by an international jury of museum directors, curators, and critics. the prize carries with it an award of $50,000. past winners of the prize are: Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrc (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), and Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004).

on the evening of november 14 at a reception at the guggenheim museum, Thomas Krens, director, solomon r. guggenheim foundation, Lisa Dennison, director, solomon r. guggenheim museum, and Dr. Bruno Saelzer, chairman and CEO, HUGO BOSS AG, announced that Tacita Dean has been named the winner of the biennial hugo boss prize.

Dean is the sixth artist to win the prestigious prize. she was selected from a group of seven shortlisted artists: Jennifer Allora (US) & Guillermo Calzadilla (Puerto Rico), John Bock (Germany), Damián Ortega (Mexico), Aïda Ruilova (US), and Tino Sehgal (UK), in addition to Dean (UK).




An exhibition of Tacita Dean's work will be presented at the guggenheim museum from february 23 through june 6, 2007.









so platoon did the interviews with all the nominated artists, the director of the guggenheim museum, those responsible persons from hugoboss, the jury and some vip´s like dennis hopper. at the moment we cut the material into short films and you can watch them on friday this week on the hugoboss-prize.com












a spezial thanks goes out to missy galore at this point. we already known her since the last 5 years and when we got the request from hugoboss it was obvious for us that we want to do this job with her. by herself she is very involved to the art-scene in new york. she is an video-artist and runs a label for vj-ing, video-instalations and video-art since the last 14 years. so the perfect conversation partner at all. thanks missy.;-)


















tomorrow we will blog some stuff about a political/cultural action that we joined and which happend on thursday last week in front of the carnegie hall.

at this time it is extremly difficult to do some action in the general public because of the police and the actually law in the states. new york is getting more and more a state of control and it´s no fun to be there at this time ;-(

so stay tuned