2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize: Francis Alÿs
November 18, 2023 – April 7, 2024
Francis Alÿs receives the 2023 Wolfgang Hahn Prize from the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig. The Mexico City–based artist (b. 1959 in Antwerp) studied architecture and urban planning and began working for local NGOs there in 1986, before starting his artistic career in 1990. As is customary, the prize entails the acquisition of a work for the collection of the Museum Ludwig. Francis Alÿs’s untitled two-part work is part of the so-called Sign Painting Project (1993–1997). It will be on show in a presentation from November 18, 2023 to April 7, 2024.