BERLIN ART WEEK 2026

Opening hours : 10.09. – 13.09.2026 : 2 – 6 pm

Featured Night . Berlin Art Week . Drinks & Music
11.09.2026 . 6 – 10 pm
Music Performance by EWA SAD
11.09.2026 . 8 – 9 pm

BERLIN ART WEEK 2026

Berlin Art Week 2026

We are happy to be part of Berlin Art Week!

09.09. – 13.09.2026

KVOST presents IZABELLA GUSTOWSKA, winner of the 2026 Claus Michaletz Preis and KVOST Scholarship, as part of the “Featured” section at Berlin Art Week

Opening and Award ceremony : 09.09.2026 : 6 – 9 PM

Berlin Art Week 2026

Next Events

Tour & Talk
with curator Thibaut de Ruyter
29.08.2026 . 2:30 pm

Finissage & Concert : Coda. Spuren. Himmel.
An audiovisual concert collage Choreographies and compositions by Bach, Oehring, and Görtz with Ursula Weiler (flutes), Hermut Oehring, and Daniel Göritz (guitars)
29.08.2026 . 6 pm

CLAUS MICHALETZ PREIS & KVOST STIPENDIUM 2026

IZABELLA GUSTOWSKA

KVOST is pleased to announce the Polish artist Izabella Gustowska (b. 1948) as this year’s recipient of the KVOST Stipendium and the Claus Michaletz Preis 2026, endowed with €10,000. The artist was selected from 124 applications.

Izabella Gustowska lives and works in her hometown of Poznań. Since the 1970s, she has played a central role in conceptually oriented Polish art concerned with representations of the body and a feminist critique of representation.

She is Professor at the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznań, where she heads the Experimental Film Studio. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including the São Paulo Biennale (1983, 1987) and the Venice Biennale (1988). Her works are held in renowned museums and collections in Poland and internationally, including the National Museum Wrocław, the Museum of Modern Art, and the private collection of Grażyna Kulczyk at the Susch Museum.

At the center of her artistic practice lie questions of identity situated between memory and fiction, as well as affinities with the work of other female artists. Biographical experiences are reflected against the backdrop of socio-political and feminist discourses. Her work is characterized by the use of text, photography, and film in connection with the “looping” technique she developed, which employs repetition and moments of return as a central compositional principle.

This year’s jury consisted of the artists Zuzanna Czebatul, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Boris Mikhailov, the curators Monika Branicka and Rainald Schumacher, Dr. Silke Manske and Corinna Reuter from the Secco Pontanova Stiftung, as well as the curator and director of the art association Stephan Koal.

CLAUS MICHALETZ PREIS & KVOST STIPENDIUM 2026

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“Sie gehörten zur Familie” (“They were part of the family”)
Review by Andreas Hergeth

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