The American artist and analytical philosopher Adrian Piper has been awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2018.
Adrian Piper continues to have a significant influence on conceptual art in the USA to this day, through her works on paper, her videos, multimedia installations, paintings, sound works, and her graphics based on text and photography.
With themes that include gender and race, Piper expands the spectrum of first-generation concept art and minimalism. Since the late 1960s, she has consistently scrutinised the political conditions of art's production processes as well as its reception and meaning. Piper finds a minimalist and at the same time poetic formal language in her artistic approach that appeals to a broad public.
