Announcement: Sikkens Prize 2024 award ceremony
The next Sikkens Prize will be awarded in October 2024. The Prize recognises and celebrates exceptional achievements in which colour is central and which have a transformative impact on society. Every two years, the Sikkens Prize highlights an individual or institution that has made a significant contribution to the field of colour.
The architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld was the first to receive the Sikkens Prize in 1959. Other winners include architects David Chipperfield and Le Corbusier, poet Seamus Heaney and artists Hella Jongerius and Bridget Riley. The retail chain HEMA and the Hippies have also won the prize. Click here for a full list of winners.
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Sikkens Prize 2024 for colourful, leading artist Pipilotti Rist
Announcement: Sikkens Prize 2024 award ceremony
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Hella Jongerius’s archive enters Vitra Design Museum
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Sikkens Prize increased to € 75,000
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Announcement of winners Grey goes Green
Anniversary film … celebrating the Sikkens Foundation’s 50th birthday
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Grey goes Green: adding colour to your community
Awarding Sikkens Prize to Carolyn Porco (2020) and Piet Oudolf (2022)
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Sikkens Foundation designs win European Design Awards
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Sikkens Prize awarded to Hella Jongerius
Short documentary about Hella Jongerius
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NRC-newspaper supplement about Hella Jongerius and Sikkens Prize
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Narayan Khandekar holds Mondrian Lecture 2017
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Publication of Narayan Khandekar’s Mondrian Lecture ‘Collecting Colour’
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Performance by Eef van Breen Group and Envisions
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Sikkens Prize 2017 for Hella Jongerius
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Publication: David Chipperfield – The Embedded Nomad
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