February 9 – 18, 2007
at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

Germany’s schools are guests at the MKM, where this year’s “Deutsche Bank Foundation Youth Art Prize” will be presented from February 9 to 18. For one year, 20 school classes from all over Germany visited the museum, examined the exhibited works, discussed them in detail under expert guidance and finally created their own works. An intensive process of getting to know and understand contemporary art characterizes this most highly endowed national youth art competition. The young people’s committed and very different approaches to interpreting art can surprise the viewer time and again, as was the case this year.

The jurors Markus Lüpertz, Coordt von Mannstein, Walter Smerling, Necmi Sönmez, Sylvia Ströher and Evelyn Weiss have selected three works to be honored with the Deutsche Bank Foundation Youth Art Prize in the amount of EUR 5,000, EUR 2,000 and EUR 1,000. After extensive discussion, which was due to the consistently high quality of the works submitted, the jury reached its decision by a majority vote:
1st prize: Uhlandgymnasium Tübingen
2nd prize: Gustav-Stresemann-Reisenberg School Tübingen 2nd prize: Gustav-Stresemann-Reisenberg School Tübingen Prize: Gustav-Stresemann-Realschule, Duisburg
3. 3rd prize: Caspar-Vischer-Gymnasium Kulmbach