Federal prize for art students awarded to Bubu Mosiashvili

Master student Bubu Mosiashvili (born in 1997 in Tbilisi, Georgia) was awarded the Federal Prize for Art Students on 6 November 2025, along with six other artists. His works will be on display until 4 January 2026 as part of the exhibition for the 27th competition of the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Seniors, Women and Youth at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. The prize is endowed with 30,000 euros and is shared among the students. In addition, they receive a production grant, which also enables them to create new works for the accompanying exhibition.

In addition to Mosiashvili, Eghbal Joudi was also nominated by the University of the Arts Bremen. Every two years, all 25 art colleges and academies in Germany represented in the Rectors' Conference of Art Colleges take part in the Federal Art Prize. Each institution is allowed to nominate two of its own study teams or students. An independent jury of experts then selects up to eight prize winners from all 50 nominees. This year's jury consisted of Stefanie Kleefeld (Director of the Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven), Renan Laru-an (theorist and curator of the Philippine Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025) and Dr Florence Thurmes (Director General of Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz).

• Maria Gerbaulet, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel 
• Lynn Gerstmair, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle 
• Felix Klee, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München 
• Living Room Collective, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg 
• Bubu Mosiashvili, Hochschule für Künste Bremen 
• Minh Anh Nguyễn, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe 
• Federico Torres De Los Rios, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. 

Bubu Mosiashvili's artistic practice is compelling in its complexity and multi-layered nature. In performative walks, installations and experimental publications accompanying his walks, he interrogates public space for its hidden history and the power structures inscribed within it. For Mosiashvili, understanding walking as an artistic practice is an inherently reflexive and automatic process that allows the body to take on the role of an attentive observer. By accompanying his walks with research in archives and using the material he finds for his installations and publications, he approaches public space on different levels and appropriates it in a variety of ways."

Stefanie Kleefeld, Director of the Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven

The competition and exhibition are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and organised in cooperation with the German Student Services Organisation and the Bundeskunsthalle.

A catalogue documenting the artistic work of the prize winners is published for each competition.