Venue:MdbK - Museum der bildenden Künste
Katharinenstraße 10
04109 Leipzig
mdbk.deOn Wednesday, 10 June 2026, at 6 pm, the BMW Photo Award Leipzig will be presented at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (MdbK). This year's winners are HGB graduates Viktoria Binschtok, Harald Kirschner and Jay Ritchie. The event also marks the opening of the exhibition, which will be on display until 13 September 2026.
Since 2024, the BMW Group and the MdbK have awarded the prize every two years to artists who either have a biographical connection to Leipzig and the region or whose artistic work deals with the city and its surroundings. Positions from the fields of photography and related visual media are honoured. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros each and is linked to a joint exhibition including a catalogue.
By organising the BMW Photo Award Leipzig, BMW and the MdbK are pursuing several objectives: to strengthen Leipzig as a photography location, to promote younger or hitherto less visible positions in particular and to continue the more than 20-year collaboration between BMW and the MdbK in the field of photography. The exhibition of the award-winning works is also intended as an artistic contribution to the debate on the history, present and future prospects of the city of Leipzig.
Stefan Weppelmann, Elmar Kleuter and Philipp Freytag will speak at the opening.
