Oskar Kokoschka Prize 2022 for Lawrence Weiner - Posthumous presentation of the prize to his widow in a festive setting.

The posthumous presentation of the 2022 Oskar Kokoschka Prize to the laureate's widow, Alice Weiner, took place yesterday evening at a ceremony. With Lawrence Weiner, an outstanding conceptual artist is being honored who, with his unmistakable formal language that oscillates between the poetic and the political, has also dealt with public space in a powerful way. "As bitter as it is that Lawrence Weiner, unfortunately, passed away on December 2, 2021, there remains the consolation - although a small one - that he was very pleased to receive the Oskar Kokoschka Prize in November 2021 and also expressed his joy about this award," explains the chairman of the jury and rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Gerald Bast, and continues, "I am very pleased that Mrs. Alice Weiner did not shy away from the journey from New York to Vienna to accept the prize in person."