The Walter Tiemann Prize 2024 awardees have been announced. Of the 256 publications submitted from 14 countries, 57 publications were selected in a digital review for the second round on site in Leipzig. The jury, consisting of Regine Ehleiter (curator, art historian), Jo Frenken (artist, graphic designer), Luke Hall (graphic designer), Elisabeth Klement (graphic designer), Sascia Reibel (graphic designer), decided to award ten Honorary Prizes in addition to the Main Prize in order to honour the outstanding individual qualities of these publications.
This year, the Main Prize with prize money of 3,000 euros goes to Elias Erkan for the design of the book Ismael Ivo: I Believe in the Body, which was published by Spector Books in 2022. At the decision of the jury, ten publications will be awarded an Honorary Prize with a prize money of 500 euros: Joachim Bartsch, Timo Grimberg, Cecilia Murgia (arc) for the design of Blank. Raw. Illegible … Artists’ Books as Statements (1960–2022), Sabo Day for the design of A Shrine to Aphrodite, Haller Brun for the design of Capturing Nature, Line-Gry Hørup for the design of BLOOD: The Poems and Archive of R. Broby Johansen, Sophia Krayc for the design of Katalog der Zukünfte, Astrid Seme for the design of Axel Koschier, Tatjana Stürmer and Rudy Guedj for the design of 333, Edwin van Gelder (mainstudio) for the design of The Walter Benjamin and Albert S. Project, Boy Vereecken and Antoine Begon for the design of Back Matter, and Rana Wassef and Thomas Suadicani for the design of The Unreliable Scientific Method to Memory and Material Culture.