Herbert Hofmann Prize 2009

The Herbert Hofmann Prize 2009 goes to artists from Vietnam, Germany and the Netherlands

The winners of the Herbert Hofmann Prize 2009 have now been chosen! This internationally renowned jewellery award is going to the Vietnamese designer Sam Tho Duong for his neck jewellery called 'Frozen', to the Dutch designer Beppe Kessler for her brooch ensemble 'later' and to German Felix Lindner for his pale green brooch called 'Mattress'. The three prize-winners were presented with their awards by the four-strong jury and the Managing Director of GHM, Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen, Dieter Dohr.

The Herbert Hofmann Prize has been presented each year since 1973 as part of the special exhibition SCHMUCK at the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich. This annual award, sponsored each year by GHM, Gesellschaft für Handwerksmessen, is presented to up to three participants in the exhibition. Alongside the usual catalogue on the current exhibition, for this year´s 50th anniversary a special documentation has been published about all the prize-winners since 1973.

The exhibits at SCHMUCK 2009 are on display until Tuesday, 17 March 2009 at the Internationale Handwerksmesse in Munich. After that visitors will have to go on a long journey to see them again – because they are going on display from 5 June to 18 July 2009 at the RMIT Gallery in Melbourne Station.