S+T+ARTS Grand Prize 2026 / Prix Ars Electronica
Artist Talk, Contested Futures Conference, presented in the context of the S+T+ARTS day at Ars Electronica, 2026, Photo: Philipp Greindl
I am super happy to have won one of the two major S+T+ARTS Grand Prize 2026 of the European Commission for my long-term project Office for Tree Migration (OTM).
A huge huge thank you goes to all supporters and wonderful OTM Agents!!!
Extract Jury Statement
[...] The project’s deepest contribution lies in the dissolution of the boundary between research and art, and the proposal that ecological awareness is not only a matter of information, but of attention and imagination. At a moment when climate change risks becoming either an abstraction or a source of paralysis, Office for Tree Migration offers a different relationship to the crisis—one grounded in ecological and interspecies solidarity, and the possibility that slowing down to perceive “tree time” might itself be a form of political and ethical practice. [...]
Clemens Malina-Altzinger, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Hito Steyerl, Peter Friess (left to right) vog.photo Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony 2026, Veronika Liebl and Agnes Meyer-Brandis (left to right) Prix Ars Electronica Award Ceremony 2026, Photo: Tom Mesic Artist Talk, Contested Futures Conference, Ars Electronica STARTS day, Photo: Philipp Greindl Artist Talk, Contested Futures Conference, Ars Electronica STARTS day, Photo: Philipp Greindl Artist Talk, Contested Futures Conference, Ars Electronica STARTS day, Photo: Philipp Greindl Ulla Taipale and Agnes Meyer-Brandis with the S+T+ARTS Award Trophy Installation view, Prix Ars Electronica and Prix S+T+ARTS exhibition, Lentos Museum, Linz, AT, 2026 Installation view, Prix Ars Electronica and Prix S+T+ARTS exhibition, Lentos Museum, Linz, AT, 2026
photographs: Agnes Meyer-Brandis, vog.photo, Philipp Greindl
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