2012
Douglas Gordon
The interrogation of closed narrative structures in film is a central theme in the art of the Scot Douglas Gordon. In site-specific video installations, photographs or conceptual text works, he examines the basic technical and psychological conditions of cinematic narration and explores how the present is reflected in film and mass media. Gordon attempts to suspend the traditional constitution of the viewer created by the common narrative structures of mainstream cinema. He looks for ways of how and “what cinema, not film, could substitute. In other words, the chance of being mesmerised once again.” (Douglas Gordon, 1999)
Impressions of the award ceremony
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2012 to Douglas Gordon: audience
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2012 to Douglas Gordon: Douglas Gordon with laudator Mirosław Bałka
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2012 to Douglas Gordon: President of the Akademie der Künste Klaus Staeck with Douglas Gordon
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2012 to Douglas Gordon: Douglas Gordon
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2012 to Douglas Gordon: Audience in the exhibition rooms
Audio recordings of the award ceremony
Laudatory speech (Mirosław Bałka)