State Prizes Baden-Württemberg 2024

The winners of the State Prizes Baden-Württemberg “Gestaltung Kunst Handwerk 2024“ [Design Arts Crafts] are Stefan Broszeit, Gomaringen, Felicia Mülbaier, Mannheim, and Heide Nonnenmacher, Nattheim. The State Prizes are endowed with prize money of 4,000 euros for each artist. Certificates and prize money of 500 euros were awarded to Friedemann Bühler, Langenburg, Iris Merkle, Stuttgart, and Ulrike Scriba, Gengenbach. The prizes were handed over on September 27 at the Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim.

With her porcelain sculptures #Haltung, Heide Nonnenmacher implements her thoughts on the current critical situation on our planet. Height 52 to 58 cm. © H. Nonnenmacher.

State prize winner Felicia Mülbaier, Talismane, 2022 – 2024. Petrified wood, silk, paint, wax on on leather underlay.

Stefan Broszeit, Gomaringen, received the State Prize for this wooden box with an inlaid lid. © S. Broszeit.

Prior to this, the six craftspeople or artists had been selected and nominated by an expert jury from a field of 91 applicants. 132 of the 201 works submitted will be on display at the state exhibition in the Museum im Kleihues-Bau Kornwestheim until November 17, 2024. “The Baden-Württemberg craftspeople have once again demonstrated their creativity and outstanding craftsmanship,” emphasized Minister of Economic Affairs Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, patron of this year’s competition and the state exhibition.

Ulrike Scriba was honored for this minimalist silver jug with lid.

Iris Merkle, Stuttgart, was also honored at the 2024 Baden-Württemberg State Prize for this necklace. © I. Merkle.

Friedemann Bühler, Langenburg, was honored for this elaborate woodturning work.

The Crafts Prize for young craftspeople, worth 3,000 euros, goes to Birgitta Voigt, a goldsmith from Karlsruhe. The prize is awarded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism and the “Promoting Talent” initiative of the Association of Arts and Crafts Baden-Württemberg e. V. (BdK)”. The Stuttgart Region Chamber of Skilled Crafts also donates a crafts prize worth 1,500 euros, which is awarded to master stonemason and sculptor Steffi Schneider from Wangen in the Allgäu.

The competition for the State Prizes and the associated State Exhibition of Arts and Crafts take place every two years. The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism organizes the competition together with the BdK Baden-Württemberg. This year, the city of Kornwestheim is acting as co-organizer. The exhibition shows the objects awarded the State Prize and other selected craft exhibits from studios and workshops in Baden-Württemberg. The spectrum ranges from jewelry and utensils, ceramics, textiles, wood, stone, wickerwork, glass, and metal to paper, leather, and puppets.