Germany’s Hans-Peter Feldmann Wins $100,000 Hugo Boss Art Prize
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German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann, who turns everyday objects into conceptual installations, won the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize yesterday evening at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Feldmann, born in Dusseldorf in 1941, became the oldest artist to receive the biennial award since its inception in 1996. His use of toys, souvenirs and ordinary domestic objects “amounts to a tremendous ongoing project of cataloging the multiplicity of potential meanings present in the world around us,” the prize’s jury said in a statement.