Danner Prize 2026

With its conferring of the Danner Prize, four further honorary awards, and an exceptional exhibition in Neues Museum Nuremberg, the Danner Foundation recognizes outstanding arts and crafts achievements for the 15th time in 2026. This year Ute Kathrin Beck receives the Danner Prize for her powerful sculptural ceramic work Orakel I (Oracle I). The honorary awards go to Markus Marschmann’s multimedia installation Apparat 987, Florian Clemens Meier’s installation Die Bausteine unserer Existenz (The Building Blocks of Our Existence), the brooch series Still by Sabine Steinhäusler, and Ayaka Terajima’s nearly life-sized ceramic object I looked up and she looked at me. The works are presented in this lavishly produced publication in large-format photographs, supplemented by personal statements from the artists. Together with contributions by renowned authors, a remarkable panorama of contemporary craft emerges that captures its singularity and diversity.

Text in English and German.