Deutsche Telekom and the Kunstmuseum Bonn are presenting the Human AI Art Award for the second time in 2025. With prize money of 10,000 euros and a two-month exhibition, the award promotes innovative artistic approaches in the age of digital transformation. This year's winner is the French artist and filmmaker Nicolas Gourault with his work Unknown Label (2023). The award ceremony on September 21 also marks the opening of the two-month exhibition in the Human AI Art Space in front of the Kunstmuseum Bonn. It will show the award-winning work as a site-specific 3-channel video installation. The Human AI Art Award honors artists who work in the field of tension between fine art and state-of-the-art technology, in particular artificial intelligence, and who are pioneers in this field.
The exhibition will open on September 21, 2025 at 11 a.m. in the Human AI Art Space specially designed for the prize in front of the Kunstmuseum Bonn. The award winner Nicolas Gourault will be present at the award ceremony and opening. Nicolas Gourault, who was born in 1991, lives and works in Paris. He initially attended art school and developed a research-oriented approach before turning to visual art. His works have been shown in art institutions such as the Centre Pompidou (FR), ZKM | Center for Art and Media (DE), Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) (DE), Ars Electronica (AT), and at film festivals such as the Berlinale (DE), Cinéma du Réel (FR), Sheffield Doc|Fest (UK), and Punto de Vista (ESP). Further information about the artist and the exhibition can be found here.
Portrait of Nicolas Gourault © Diego Castro @itsnotanothershot
For the second edition of the Human AI Art Award, 30 international artists were put forward by a nomination jury, 23 of whom applied for the prize. Nicolas Gourault was nominated by Dr. Inke Arns, Director of the Hartware Medienkunstverein (HMKV) in Dortmund. A jury of renowned personalities from the international art scene selected the winner from the applications submitted. The decisive factor for the decision was that Nicolas Gourault's work critically addresses the topic of autonomous driving and emphasizes the human factor in the context of artificial intelligence training. Based on methodical research, the video installation shows how machines learn to read the world and process it as information through laborious human work.
September 21 to November 23, 2025
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