Sikkens Prize

The Sikkens Prize is an independent art prize, awarded to individuals or institutions that have made a special contribution to the field of colour.

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● Sikkens Prize 2017
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In 2017 designer Hella Jongerius received the latest #SikkensPrize. She has developed a uniquely use of colour. She has been researching colour pigments and the connection between colour, fabric and light.
https://t.co/x4efeaLrYM⁣ #HellaJongerius

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● Sikkens Prize 2015⁣
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In 2015, the Sikkens Prize was awarded to British architect David Chipperfield (1953) because of his subtle and intelligent colour application. Chipperfield’s use of colour supports and emphasizes his architectural design.
⁣https://t.co/dfTwYKtd2e

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● Sikkens Prize 2012⁣
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Bridget Riley was the first female artist to receive the Sikkens Prize. Riley’s pure, subtle and precise use of colour has led to a sensational oeuvre that is a great inspiration to the next generation of artists.
⁣⁣⁣https://t.co/tB68tkcdh4

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● Sikkens Prize 2010⁣
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The work of visual artist David Bade is full of dynamics, humor and colour. It has a playful character, but at the same time his work is straightforward. With his work, Bade makes contact with society and adds colour to it in his own unique way.⁣

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● Sikkens Prize 2007⁣
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Krijn de Koning received the Sikkens Prize for artworks in which colour and form, as well as feeling and atmosphere evoke a sensory experience of space.

#dutchart #krijndekoning
https://t.co/4RF3UDAZ3K

[Jude Sherry @judesherry]

@PedestrianCork @CorkHealthyCity @CorkCyclingCrew @youngknockABC @lee2sea @GardenCityShane @kevburkeie @btcdp “Its job is to provide this in-between realm by means of construction, i.e. to provide, from house to city scale, a bunch of real places for real people and real things”

Aldo van Eyck designed 700+ play areas in Amsterdam over 30 years

I’m sure we can raise to that challenge

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● Sikkens Prize 2004
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The @HEMA received the award for its idiosyncratic use of form and colour in its various retail concepts – from product packaging to publicity, and from shop decoration to web design.

https://t.co/BHSSjn6LPG

#hema #dutchculture #colourandculture

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● Sikkens Prize 1999
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In 1999 the Prize was awarded to the IBA Emscher Park for the way in which this event accompanied the transition from a former industrial area to a new type of cultural landscape on the basis of many different sorts of projects.

https://t.co/oGVBCVyjkQ

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CLAUDIO MAGRIS⁣
● Sikkens Prize 1999
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The Italian professor #ClaudioMagris received the Sikkens Prize for his contribution to the exploration of the cultural landscape of Europe and its significance for the European debate on identity.
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More 👉 https://t.co/fTQQzdVJi5

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JOHN GAGE⁣
● Sikkens Prize 1997⁣
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British art historian John Gage received the Sikkens Prize in 1997 on the basis of his research into and publications on the role and significance of colour in the history of Western culture.⁣

https://t.co/jW62AtwqMm

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● Sikkens Prize 1995

The city cleaning department of Paris received the Sikkens Prize for the consistent use of the color green in materials and clothing, which led to an awareness of the problems of waste and the environment in the population of Paris.
https://t.co/EdRz7bxJDL

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● Sikkens Prize 1995
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Dutch landscape architect Adriaan Geuze received the #SikkensPrize for his alert response to the changing view of the city & nature, for his thoughtful ingenuity and his surprising aesthetic vocabulary.
https://t.co/jcDhFCmdbs

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��� 𝘚𝘪𝘬𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘺, 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏! 🌟

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● Sikkens Prize 1995

Jan Dibbets received the prize for his designs for stained glass windows for the cathedral in Blois and the Sint Gertrudis Church in Wijlre, which concentrates on the controlled balance between form and background.

𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦:
https://t.co/jlkq27LouZ

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● Sikkens Prize 1993⁣
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In 1993 artist Donald Judd received the Sikkens Prize for a brilliant oeuvre and its characteristic moral clarity and determination, from the overall form to the smallest details of construction and colouration.

𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘦 👉 https://t.co/pT2bt9In8s

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● Sikkens Prize 1991⁣
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Dutch musician Reinbert de Leeuw received the Sikkens Prize to underline the importance which colour and shading can have, unhampered by the material limitations of the strictly visual.

👉 https://t.co/W4cs16vmD0

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● Sikkens Prize 1989
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Spanish architect Oriol Bohigas received the Sikkens Prize for his role as the supervisor of the reconstruction and urban development of Barcelona, for his historical architectural research and more...!

👉 https://t.co/4yTwQpxfET

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● Sikkens Prize 1987

The Italian arte povera artist Luciano Fabro received the Sikkens Prize for the unique way in which he indicated that color is not abstract in his work, but is an optical experience which also depends on the atmospheric conditions.

https://t.co/esqdxn75qR

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● Sikkens Prize 1985
Architects Germano Tagliasacchi & Riccardo Zanetta were awarded for their unique historical research into the 19th-century use of color in the architecture of Turin and the application of that in the development of the old innercity.
https://t.co/klXAoIqPgc

[Eric van 't Hoff @ericvanthoff]

Very happy with #BennoPremsela (1920-1997) winning The @SikkensPrize! Awarded to artists who made a special contribution to the field of colour! Love Premsela cause he was among first to not only focus on design quality but also on technical durability! https://t.co/TILo5Fge6O