MdbK [jetzt]. Preis der Förderer

With Franzi Goralski, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Anna Perepechai and Theresa Rothe, the exhibition for the MdbK [now] art prize brings together four concise positions of young contemporary art. Using a variety of artistic media - from expansive installations to graphics, photography, video, audio, sculpture and fragrance - current artistic discourses on questions of memory, identity, space and community are impressively presented.

FRANZI GORALSKI (FG)
Franzi Goralski (*1992 Radebeul) completed a degree in Fine Arts at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK) in 2017 and subsequently completed a Master's degree at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam. Goralski's artistic practice is collective, process-oriented and transdisciplinary. FG is interested in alternative forms of living and learning and creates spaces for marginalized perspectives beyond capitalist logic. Goralski works together with Adam Erdmann in the duo die Blaue Distanz. FG is anchored in the queer and feminist community and lives and works in Dresden.

MASHID MAHBOUBIFAR
Mahshid Mahboubifar (*1991 Jahrom/Iran) is an artist and filmmaker from Iran. In her work with moving and still images, she reflects on her connection to her immediate surroundings, her research - often through interviews - and her subjective perception. By reconstructing archive material, she explores how narratives are constructed and preserved. Mahboubifar graduated in Expanded Cinema from the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2025. She lives and works in Leipzig and Berlin.

ANNA PEREPECHAI
Anna Perepechai (*1989 Poltava/Ukraine) grew up in the Chernihiv region (Ukraine). She studied journalism in Kyiv, visual communication in Weimar, photography in Montreal and is currently completing her diploma in this subject at the HGB Leipzig. Her work combines documentary and experimental approaches and focuses on socio-political transformations, collective memory and traumatic experiences, especially in former Soviet societies. Anna Perepechai lives and works in Leipzig.

THERESA ROTHE
Theresa Rothe (*1990 Dresden) studied at the HfBK Dresden, where she graduated in 2019 and completed her master's degree in 2022. Her sculptural and installation works deal with the body, everyday life, the unconscious and the expression of inner emotional worlds. Dreamlike images and fantasies often form the starting point and open up a field of tension between the grotesque and play, dream and reality. Theresa Rothe lives in Leipzig and has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg since 2024.

The award ceremony will take place on May 29, 2026 as part of the opening of the exhibition.