START POINT PRIZE – Prize for emerging artists
- Johannes felder / don juan campos (DEU)
- Iulian Bisericaru (ROM)
- Noam darom (ISR)
- Fen de Villiers (BEL)
- Jon Derganc (SVN)
- KATARZYNA DITRICH – PATURALSKA (POL)
- Slavomír Ďurkaj (SVK)
- David Michel fayek (ITA)
- Petra Hermanová (CZE)
- ISTVÁN MARIÁS AKA HORROR PISTA (HUN)
- Ján Kekeli (SVK)
- Dimitra Kondylatou (GRC)
- Aleksi Linnamaa (FIN)
- Andrei Mateescu (ROU)
- JOOST MELLINK (NLD)
- Christoph Franz, Michael Meier (DEU, AUT)
- Jorge Moneo Quintana (ESP)
- Anja Münch (DEU)
- Artur Niestroj (DEU)
- Cecilia Nygren (SWE)
- Noële Ody (AUT)
- Benjamin Orlow (GBR)
- Frank Merkx, Robert Goywaerts (BEL)
- Teodora Rogoz (ROM)
- Matti Schulz (DEU)
- Camilla Skibrek (NOR)
- Pavel Sterec (CZE)
- Kateřina Sudolská (CZE)
- Ismael Teira (ESP)
- Britta Thie (DEU)
- christopher tym (GBR)
- Katinka van Gorkum (NLD)
- Ondrej Vozárik (SVK)
- Stefanie Walk (DEU)
- thomas yeomans (GBR)
- Paweł Zawadski (POL)
- Aline Zeltner (CHE)
Benjamin Orlow
Although the genres and media of Benjamin Orlow’s works are very diverse, they all somehow combine strong emotions and their inappropriateness. The video Die gross Love tells us in the first part a story of World War II through a found footage and propaganda slogans, while the narrator tries to articulate rapidly and hastily his purely personal experience with the cruelty and absurdity of violence. The second part surprisingly deals with carefree youngsters’ memories, when on the background of an antiquated promotional film about the cruise ships it tells a personal story about the other side of social oppression. Another, much more intimate video Morfarland presents through the words and tears of an old Swedish woman the romantic poem about eternal love, written in 1852 by Zacharias Topelius. To get into even more emotional and intellectual confusion, two drawings of the highest men in the world in a life-size measure are illuminated by giant red shutters. (Pavel Vančát)
- Die Gross Love, 2012 video, 15:05 min.
- Die Gross Love, 2012 video, 15:05 min.
- The tallest man alive today and thetallest man ever, life size, watercolour on paper, mdf board, 300 x 300 cm
- The tallest man alive today and thetallest man ever, life size, watercolour on paper, mdf board, 300 x 300 cm
- Morfarland, 2012, video, 4:12 min
- Morfarland, 2012, video, 4:12 min
- //////////// ////////////, 2012 vertical blinds, 745 x 452 cm