Runners-up of SKODA Prize 2011 to be awarded residency

Swiss curator, Heike Munder, an international jury member will be in India to participate at the The SKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. [dated January 2012]

Swiss curator, Heike Munder, who was the international jury member for the award will be in India to participate at the The ŠKODA Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011 award ceremony. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. 

Events: The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011 
Exhibition opening on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 
Venue: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 
Award ceremony: Saturday 28 January 2012 
Entry: By invitation only 

Heike Munder, director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich has participated as an international jury member for the prestigious SKODA Prize 2011. Heike is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg and the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe. The jury members have shortlisted the final three whose works can be viewed at www.theskodaprize.com The final announcement of the winner and the award ceremony will take place on Saturday 28 January 2011 in front of the jury members and reputed members of the art fraternity. 

The award ceremony will be preceded by The ŠKODA Prize Show 2011, an exhibition showcasing the works of the shortlisted finalists Jitish Kallat, L N Tallur, and Navin Thomas. The two runners-up of the prize will receive a 4-week residency in Switzerland, awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. 

Heike Munder 
Heike Munder is the director and curator of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich and has held the post for the last ten years. She is the founder member of Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, founded in 1995 and was its co-director up to the year 2001. She is also the co-founder of SEECAN, Southeast-European Organization and European organization Art Centres of Europe. 

Munder has been actively curating art shows whose concerns revolve around psychological spaces and collective memory, hedonistic and glamorous strategies, performative startegies and conceptual humour. Among the most important exhibitions curated by her are "The Garden of the Forking Paths" for Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg in 2008, "Identity Troubles" (co-curated) for Halle für Kunst Lüneburg e. V. in 2004 and for Nurture, New York in 2005 and "Disfunctional Places" (co-curated) in Belgrade in 2001. In 1999, she was awarded the Jürgen-Ponto Prize for "Junge Kunst in Kunstvereinen". Munder studied Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg. She has held teaching positions at Goldsmith College, London, Department Cultural Studies at University of Lüneburg and Department Art at University of Bern. She currently teaches at the Academy of Art, Zürich. 

For more information please visit: www.theskodaprize.com