The fourth Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass was awarded over the weekend, with the top honor including a 15,000 Euro (more than US$ 20,000) prize going to Karen Lise Krabbe of Denmark. Open to European artists working with glass, the richest prize in glass is awarded at multi-year intervals. The first was given in 1977, followed by 1985, and 2006. Second prize was awarded to American Jeff Zimmer (currently living in Scotland and thus qualifying for the competition). Sylvie Vandenhoucke of Belgium won third prize.
On Monday, an exhibition opened at the European Museum of Modern Glass, in Rodental in Germany, and at the nearby Veste Coburg in Coburg, Germany, to coincide with the award. Works by 50 of the artists in the competition will be on view through September 14, 2014, featuring 170 works by 150 artists, helping to make this part of Bavaria an important outpost for glass arts this summer.
The judges for the 2014 Coburg Prize for Contemporary Glass were Sven Hauschke, Veste Coburg Art Collections; Milan Hlaveš, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague; Susanne Jøker-Johnsen, Bornholm; Peter Layton, London; Jutta-Annette Page, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo,Ohio; Anne Vanlatum, Musée-Atelier départemental du Verre, Sars-Poteries; and as a non-voting member Klaus Weschenfelder, Veste Coburg Art Collections. A total of 11 prizes were given, including prizes by the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Colin Reid and Shige Fujishiro of Japan but living in Germany), the Otto Waldrich-Award (Anna Mlasowsky of Germany), and the Dan Klein Memorial Award (Jeehae Kim of South Korea but living in France). Special jury prizes were also awarded to Maria Bang Espersen of Denmark; László Lukács of Hungary; Alena Matějka of the Czech Republic; and René Roubíček of the Czech Republic
More information about the competition is available here.