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In 2019 KHF-Berlin / Künstlerhof Frohnau and Kunstamt Reinickendorf have initiated the Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Award, a funded artist-in-residency for visual artists, including a production grant and an exhibition. The Dieter-Ruckhaberle-award commemorates the life and work of artist, curator and cultural politician Dieter Ruckhaberle. It is open to all visual artists whose work or wider professional practice is concerned with political, social or ecological questions. The selected artist/s will get a fully equipped live-in studio at the KHF / Künstlerhof Frohnau for two months, as well as a production budget of 2.000 € to cover art materials, equipment and/or living expenses. An exhibition in a gallery space in Berlin Reinickendorf will be presenting the results of the residency period. In 2019 and 2020 the recipients were selected through an international open call. In 2021 and 2022 this system will temporary be replaced – due to the Covid19 travel restrictions – by a process of nominations through a selected group of nominators from the art world.

Recipients of the Dieter Ruckhaberle Award 2019-2022:

2022 – Anna Scherbyna & Uliana Bychenkova

2021 – Surya Gied

2020 – Annette Frick

2019 – Luiza Prado

Since the 1960s Ruckhaberle was a leading figure of West-Berlin’s cultural scene. He tirelessly promoted and worked towards better working conditions for artists in Germany, always convinced that artistic freedom could only be guaranteed by an absence of economic pressure. Ruckhaberle initiated the IG Medien, a union for media related professions, and the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), a subsidized health insurance for artists. He co-founded various art institutions such as nGbK and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, as whose director he served for many years. As an artist Ruckhaberle created an extensive and multifaceted body of work, ranging between painting and sculpture, both abstract and figuratively, in search of new poetic forms and positions of critical contemporaneity. He passed away in May 2018 at his last major project: the Künstlerhof Frohnau, an artist “village” on the Northern outskirts of Berlin, which offers affordable studio spaces for artists since 1998.

The jury for the 2022 Award consists of the following people:
Rike Frank, Co-Director European Kunsthalle, Executive Director Berlin Artistic Research Grant Program
Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Artistic Director Galerie Wedding
Setareh Shahbazi, Artist, KHF Berlin
Jan Verwoert, Author, art critic and curator
Dr. Sabine Ziegenrücker, Director Kunstamt Reinickendorf, Department of Art and History

The jury for the 2019-2021 Award consisted of the following people:
Antonia Alampi, director Spore initiative
Kaya Behkalam, director KHF
Dr. Cornelia Gerner, director Kunstamt Reinickendorf
Gabriele Horn, director Berlin Biennial
Heike Ruschmeyer, artist