Henkel Art.Award 2008

Altough there was a Hungarian artist in the final, the winner is the Slovenian Miha Štrukelj.

 German household products maker Henkel
organised the award for the seventh time this year, inviting
applications by graphic artists from 29 countries in the region.
Though graphic arts are the media for this year's contest, the
contest invites submissions of photography and industrial design in
alternating years.

The winner of this year's Henkel
Art.Award was picked by a jury headed by Gregor Podnar, who owns
galleries in Berlin and Ljubljana. Other jury members are Jutta M.
Pichler, director of the Caricature Museum of Krems, Monika Knofler,
director of the graphic collections at Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts,
and Zoran Petrovski, a curator for Skopje's National Museum.

The award has a cash prize of EUR
7,000, and Henkel will sponsor an exhibition of the winner's work in
his or her own country.

Last year, Rajmund Domán, a
student at the industrial design department of Budapest's Moholy-Nagy
University of Art, won the award for a portable coffee maker called
kotyoGO.