Remy Jungerman

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Opening Friday June 27, 17 h

Impressed by his innovative artistic approach to communication and transformation in diverse cultural environments, the jury of Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen selected Remy Jungerman as recipient of the 2008 edition. The Fritschy Prize Foundation was established in 2003 to award a biannual prize for visual artists whose work has made an important contribution to the intercultural debate in recent years.

With collages, sculptures and a wall installation, Jungerman, an artist of Afro-Surinamese-Dutch descent, challenges us to take a critical approach to ethnic issues, cultural misunderstandings and our attitude towards ‘the other’. Jungerman intentionally situates his visual language between diverse cultures so that the works – in very different ways – articulate concepts and traditions and provoke and challenge viewers to critique important social, cultural, and theoretical issues.

Museum Het Domein and the Fritschy Prize Foundation give Remy Jungerman the opportunity to mount a solo exhibition of his work. A full colour publication with curatorial essay by Lorraine Morales Cox, Ph.D. of Union College, New York, accompanies the exhibition.

The first edition of the prize was awarded to the Chinese artist Ni Haifeng in 2004. The prize’s second laureate in 2006 was Hadassah Emmerich. The members of the jury are: Lex ter Braak: director of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture Hadassah Emmerich: laureate Fritschy Prize 2006; Stijn Huijts: former director of Museum Het Domein, Sittard / presently director of Het Glaspaleis Heerlen Els van der Plas: director of the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Marianne van Tilborg: Lumen Travo Gallery Natascha Bär: art historian - member of MEG Foundation Piet Smeets: secretary – member of MEG Foundation Wiel Gielkens: chairman Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen and chairman MEG foundation

Remy Jungerman
Winner of the Fritschy Culture Prize Sittard-Geleen 2008