Sprengel Prize 2025 for Sven-Julien Kanclerski

Sven-Julien Kanclerski, research assistant at the Institute for Design Methodology and Representation at TU Braunschweig and master student at HBK, was awarded the Sprengel Prize 2025 on 21 November. The prize, worth €12,500, is awarded every two years by the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture to outstanding young artists from Lower Saxony.

Sven-Julien Kanclerski was awarded the Sprengel Prize 2025. Photo credits: Sarah Jade, Sprengel Museum Hanover

Kanclerski used the prize money and the ‘Lower Saxony in Europe’ travel grant to research the reuse of old Continental car tyres in Romania and to process this artistically. In doing so, he documented relics, traces and situations of everyday life. In photographs, installations and objects, the artist shows how materials can take on new meanings and forms – between improvised practicality and poetic transformation. His works open up unusual perspectives on everyday resources and reveal how multifaceted the relationship between people, materials and the urban landscape can be.

The artist, who lives in Hanover, was born in Langenhagen in 1988 and graduated from the HBK Braunschweig in 2019. In 2020, Kanclerski received the Kunstverein Hannover Prize. In 2021, he was a scholarship holder of the Art Encounters Foundation in Timişoara, Romania.

The exhibition ‘Sven-Julien Kanclerski. The Universal (Trumpets starting to play)’ can be seen at the Sprengel Museum in Hanover until 1 March 2026.