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Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts 2022 Winner: Architect Rem Koolhaas
28 March 2022
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas of OMA, Rotterdam, NL:

photo Courtesy of OMA / Photography by Fred Ernst
The Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts 2022 is awarded to Rem Koolhaas
This year?s Rolf Schock Laureates are the architect Rem Koolhaas, pianist Vi?kingur O?lafsson, philosopher David Kaplan, and the mathematician Jonathan Pila. The Rolf Schock Prizes are awarded every other year and span areas as varied as science, the visual arts and music. The four laureates will share 2 million Swedish kronor.
Rolf Schock was a vibrant person who, throughout his life, was interested in logic and philosophy, as well as the visual arts and music. On his death, he bequeathed his money to a foundation which, since then, has awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes. The laureates are selected by three Swedish academies: the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, The Schock Prizes are unusual because they recognise people who work in the sciences, as well as practitioners of the visual arts and music. People such as Rolf Schock are fascinating, individuals who have the breadth and ability to see the interrelationships between such apparently different areas. We are very proud of this year?s laureates, who have been proposed by the three different academies.
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