Current laureate of 2025

Kinoshita’s works deal with combinations of several disciplines. Throughout her oeuvre, one can find elements from theatre and experimental music, two fields in which she was active for some time. Duration (time) and a conscious approach regarding the position of the viewer are two important aspects in her work. No themes, rather an interest in reading between the lines would describe her engagement. Kinoshita considers her work as a space where different works interact with each other but also with the viewer. How these different roles are taken by different players within a specific spatial condition is something she continues exploring. Her work was shown in several international exhibitions.

Suchan Kinoshita lives and works in Brussels. She studied rhythmics and later contemporary music theatre at the Music Academy in Cologne. From 1988 to 1990, she was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. In 1993, she was selected for a two-year residency at PS1 in New York. Since 2006, she has been teaching at the Kunstakademie Münster. Suchan Kinoshita’s work has been exhibited in numerous international exhibitions. In 1992, she won the Prix de Rome in the category “Art and Public Space,” and in 2015 she received one of the Greenberger Awards in New York.