Deutsche Bank's Artists of the Year 2021 winners on display at MUDEC

Milan ’s MUDEC is hosting Deutsche Bank Artists of the Year 2021, an exhibition dedicated to the winners of the prestigious international prize the bank dedicates to contemporary art, now in its 10th year. The 2021 prize was awarded to artists Maxwell Alexandre (Brazil), Conny Maier (Germany) and Zhang Xu Zhan (Taiwan). The exhibition is curated by Britta Färber.

After opening at the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin, MUDEC - Museo delle Culture exceptionally brings to Milan the exhibition that presents for the first time to the Italian public three of the most interesting artists on the international scene, who have distinguished themselves for creativity and significant value of their work.

Beginning with this group exhibition, the first in a series of initiatives, MUDEC is opening up even more to the languages and themes of contemporary art with an artistic and cultural palimpsest of international scope, accompanied in addition by in-depth collateral events with thematic guided tours, educational workshops, meetings and round tables.

The works of Brazilian Maxwell Alexandre, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1990, focus on racism and police violence, but also on community and spirituality. Conny Maier, born in Berlin, combines a neo-expressive, comic style with a keen sense of color and composition. Her impressive cycles of work focus on the existential interrelationship between human beings and nature, personified in a variety of animals.

In his animated films, sculptures and video installations, artist Zhang Xu Zhan, born in Taipei in 1988, has created a fantastical cosmos populated by mythical creatures, singing animals, plants and nature spirits and dominated by ancient rituals: a world at once apocalyptic and fairy-tale that investigates universal themes such as death, transience and the search for community.

Deutsche Bank, which has been committed to the promotion of contemporary art for more than 40 years, has been awarding this prize since 2010 to emerging artists who work primarily with paper or photography, the preferred medium of the works that make up the Deutsche Bank Collection, which was established in the mid-1970s and today represents one of the most important corporate collections internationally.

The winner is chosen on the recommendation of the bank’s Global Art Advisory Council, composed of such internationally renowned curators as Victoria Noorthoorn, Hou Hanru and Udo Kittelmann. Instead of awarding a cash prize, Deutsche Bank supports its Artists of the Year by helping to introduce them to the general public, producing a solo exhibition and catalog, and purchasing some of their works for the collection. Starting in 2018, the artists’ solo exhibitions will open at PalaisPopulaire, Deutsche Bank’s space in Berlin dedicated to art and culture, and subsequently set up in other international institutions.

For all information, you can visit MUDEC’s official website.

Deutsche Bank's Artists of the Year 2021 winners on display at MUDEC

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