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Congratulations to ASHLEY HANS SCHEIRL on receiving the SALZBURG STATE’S GRAND ART PRIZE 2026.

The jury members - Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Martin Hochleitner (Salzburg Museum), and Harald Krejci (Museum der Moderne Salzburg) - stated in their citation: “Scheirl’s contributions to Documenta 14 in Kassel/Athens, as well as her participation in the Lyon Biennial and in the Austrian Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale, demonstrate her significant international artistic recognition. Her work reveals the fragility of the human body with unflinching clarity and humor. It is characterized by a resolute, multi-layered exploration of various forms of media, including painting, video, photography, installation, film and performance.

In 2025, Ashley Hans Scheirl (b. 1956, Salzburg) was honored with a comprehensive retrospective at Belvedere 21 in Vienna and was awarded the Oskar Kokoschka Prize together with her partner Jakob Lena Knebl. Her latest exhibition PETROL M*OTHER is currently on view at Crone Wien and explores questions of identity, capitalism, and a technoid world.

1) Portrait of Ashley Hans Scheirl by Ernst Herold

2) Ashley Hans Scheirl, Vasen, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2023