—past years
2009
Laura Culham allumnus of the University College Falmouth won the prize in 2009 during the annual event at the University College Falmouth
2008
Suzanne Richle from the Zürcher Hochschule für Gestaltung, Switzerland was the winner of the Prize of Honour 2008 in Istanbul.
2007
Both exhibition and competition were organized by the Zürcher Hochschule für Gestaltung. The jury decided to award the work of Sachi Miyachi of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
2006
The jury of the Aias Prize of Hounour 2006 conveyed for the decision has unanimously decided to choose the work of Avi Krispin, of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie as the recipient of the 2006 prize.
2005
The jury of the AIAS prize competition in Baltimore came to the unanimous decision to chose for the multimedia work submitted by Sung-Min Bae, Gwan-Young Baek, and Dea-Hyun Ko from the Kaywon School of Art and Design, Seoul, Korea, to receive the AIAS Prize of Honour 2005.
The works of all participants were shown in the schools gallery.
Here you can read: the juryreport
2004
The exhibition and the competition 2004 were organised in the AKI building Enschede.
A jury of experts in the field of Art an Design decided for two prize winners:
Miss Hye-Kyoung-Ham from the Kaywon School of Art and Design in Seoul and
Miss Maria Zervou from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.
2003
The board decided there would be no prize competition in 2003. The next competition will be held in Enschede the Netherlands, affiliated to the AIAS event 2004.
2002
The AIAS-Prize-of-Honour was again devided into two prizes. The winners were Bo-hyung Seo (Kaywon School of Art and Design) and Helgi Thorssonn (Sandberg Instituut, affiliated to the Rietveld Academie).
2001
The exhibition and jury took place in the gallery of the Wimbledon School of Art. There were two Prize winners: Luzia Hurzeler of ESBAGE, Geneva and Yoo Jinee of the Kaywon School of Art and Design.
You can read the jury report here >>
2000
The AIAS-Prize-of-Honour 2000 was exhibited in Geneva and was devided in an award for Design and an award for Fine Arts.
Janneke Küpfer of the Rietveld Accademy won the prize for Fine Arts (DM 2000).
The design award for design was for the partnership Corinne Bonnard and Sophie Rubin (Ecoles des Arts Décoratifs, Geneva) Bonnard and Rubin received DM 2000 together.
1999
During the AIAS-workshop Park of the Future organized by the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the jury of experts from the AIAS memberschools choose the prize of Honour winner 1999 from the works presented at the Park of the Future exhibition at the grounds of the Westergasfabriek.
The prize has occasionally been raised to DM 10.000.
The winners were Anneliese Sojer and the group of artists: Sean Hopper, Leon White, Luke Griffin. The prize winners received DM 5.000,- each.
1997
In 1997 the AIAS-Prize-of-Honour was hosted by the Hochschule für Kunst und Design in Halle.
The jury decided against awarding a first prize because of the lack of aesthetic quality of the presented works.
Instead the jury proposed to spend the remaining prize money (DM 4.000.-) on an extra workshop with the theme ‘Destroyed Landscapes’, which was organized by the Hochschule für Kunst und Design in Halle in the spring of 1998.
1996
In 1996 the best graduates of Film and Video were eligible for the AIAS-Prize-of-Honour.
At the Hochschule für Künstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung in Linz, the jury unanimously chose the video animation of Volkert Schlecht (Hochschule für Kunst und Design, Burg Giebichenstein Halle) as the best contribution.
He received an amount of DM 4.000.
On the occasion of the 1996 General Assembly at the Hochschule für Künstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung, Linz, two former prize-winners, Anna Yokochi from AR.CO and Heleen Krijgsman of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, were invited for a round table discussion about the effects of winning the AIAS-Prize-of-Honour.
1995
In 1995 the AIAS-prize-of-Honour exhibition took place in Toyo Bijutsu Gakko of Tokyo, with the best graduates of the Graphic Design departments submitting their work.
The jury chose two prizewinners: Martin Kurzbein (Schule für Gestaltung, Zürich) and Heleen Krijgsman (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam).
They each received DM 2.000.
1994
During the general assembly of 1994 at the Esag in Paris, a jury of experts from the AIAS member-schools awarded the prize of Honour to two candidates: Ana Yokochi (AR.CO, Lisbon) for Art, and Harm W.Hogenbirk (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam) for Design.
The prizewinners received an amount of DM 4.000.- each. An exhibition of all the candidates’ work was then held in a gallery in Paris.