Playground Art Prize 2023 goes to Lotti Brockmann
This year, the PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE 2023 of the Galerie VON&VON goes to Lotti Brockmann, student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Prof. Veronika Dirnhofer, for her work Stolen Statues (Licked). Since 2016, the PLAYGROUND exhibition series has offered young artists the ideal opportunity to present their work to a broad audience and make their first contacts in the art world.
This year's jury consisted of Nicolaus Schafhausen (curator and art manager), Franciska Zólyom (director of the Foundation Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig), Leonie Radine (curator of Museion Bolzano) and Dr Florence Thurmes (director of Museum Ostwall in Dormtunder U).
About the work Stolen Statues (Licked)
The work Stolen Statues (Licked) is an ongoing collection of 1:1 casts of public statues and monuments in Vienna's urban space. The sculptures are cast in caramelised sugar and can be licked by the viewers. Both the material and the statues, which are inscribed in power relations through their cultural and linguistic history, are incorporated, liquefied and melt in relation to the time and space of the respective location.