German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann has won the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize.
Feldmann, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1941, became the oldest artist to receive the award since it was created in 1996. His use of toys, souvenirs and ordinary domestic objects “amounts to a tremendous ongoing project of cataloging the multiplicity of potential meanings present in the world around us,” the prize’s jury said in a statement.
Administered by the Guggenheim Foundation, the prize recognizes outstanding innovation and creativity in the arts.
An exhibition of Feldmann’s work will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum from May 20 through Sept. 5, 2011.