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The sculptor Tobias Rehberger was awarded the newly established Hector Art Award of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

The jury consisted of Stephan Berg (Director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn), Doede Hardeman (Gemeentemuseum Den Haag), Dieter Hesse (Sponsoring-Chairman) and Kunsthalle director Ulrike Lorenz Rehberger has named as one of Germany's internationally important artists of the middle generation for its diversified plant in tension between art and design, with whom he senses as a subversive function, utility and ownership of art discussed.

Before Tobias Rehberger the "Goldenen Löwen" won for best artist at this year's Venice Biennale, he stood down on June 3 as the first winner of the Hector-Art Kunsthalle Mannheim. The jury chose the 43-year-old sculptor who is a professor teaches at the Städelschule in Frankfurt and more than a decade, with its opulent work of conceptual and material objects, constellations, space and light installations, and with location-based architectural and interior design wins international significance because it "controversial issues of contemporary culture of the relationship between art and life , art and consumerism, but also about the relationship between invention and reconstruction, shape-setting and action in complex experimental set-ups offer new interpretation "(Jury Statement). Der neue Hector-Kunstpreis ist mit 30.000 Euro dotiert, wovon 25.000 Euro der Erwerbung eines Werks für die Sammlung der Kunsthalle dienen. The new Hector's Art Prize is worth 30,000 euros, 25,000 euros of which are used in acquiring a work for the collection of the Kunsthalle.