Since 1997 the Mart Stam Society - the non-profit association supporting the Weißensee
Kunsthochschule Berlin - has awarded the Mart Stam Prize every year. The winners are chosen by
an independent jury for the best final projects at the academy of art. Thus the society
provides assistance to young artists and designers during their studies and helps them start
their professional careers. The publication features texts and images presenting all the 2022
award winners in detail. Their works reflect the issues that are currently moving the
generation of 20- to 30-year-olds. By investigating the pressing problems of our time and
current discourses they develop the themes of their art. Their own mental state is examined
and artistically processed. Dreams and fears body shame experiences of exclusion due to
mental illness are addressed but there are also works that openly criticize everyday racism or
urban development which ignores the needs of the city's inhabitants. With works by: Milan
Bergheim Kaja Busch Ju Hyun Hwang Nina Pläs¿kovä Sabine Richter Alexandra Ruppert Vaia
Tatopoulou Lor Willkomm and Jakob Wirth.
