Elisabeth
Gritsch receives Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the City of Vienna
04. February 2023
The Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize 2023 of the University
of Applied Arts Vienna and the City of Vienna goes to Elisabeth Gritsch. The diploma student Gritsch made a lasting impression
with her work Rücken Richtung Wand and convinced the jury. The diploma work is characterized by a sensitively painted reflection
that is marked by a concentrated urgency. The paintings represent performative constellations of psychosocial spaces that
permanently oscillate between stasis and the possibility of departure.
Angewandte's warmest congratulations!
About the prize
Since January 2021, the Vanessa Preger-McGillivray Prize has
been awarded at the end of the winter semester for a final project in the field of study Fine Arts. The University of Applied
Arts Vienna and the City of Vienna endow this award in memory of its namesake, who was murdered in an attack in downtown Vienna
on November 2, 2020. Vanessa Preger-McGillivray had begun studying at Angewandte in October 2020. The award is intended to
commemorate Vanessa and underline the potential of studying art, to provide impulses and to illustrate the hopes and perspectives
for an artistically fulfilled life.
