Ideas Competition: A Memorial Square for Marie-Luise Nikuta at the Hahnentorburg, Cologne — €5,000 in Prizes
Levve Un Levve Losse
The Cologne association Levve Un Levve Losse — friends of the carnival singer and composer Marie-Luise Nikuta (1938–2020) — is looking for a memorial place on the square named after her in October 2025, next to the Hahnentorburg, the Rudolfplatz tram tracks and Schaafenstraße, the heart of Cologne's queer community. Concepts may cover a monument or sculpture, ground design, planting, light and ...
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Three prizes totalling €5,000: first prize €2,500 with a recommendation to the City of Cologne to realise the design, second prize €1,500, third prize €1,000. Prize money is paid in the week after the announcement. Authors keep copyright; realising the winning design requires a separate contract. The realisation should be possible within a budget of €100,000–150,000.
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Open to all natural and legal persons: artists, designers, architects, students and interdisciplinary teams; up to two concepts per person or team. Jury members and their relatives, and board members and members of the organising association, may not take part. Submissions are anonymous.
Dates & details
- Deadline
- 23:59 (digital submission as PDF by e-mail)
- Programme dates
- Jury by 30 November 2026; announcement and public presentation in December 2026
- Results
- December 2026
- Costs to the artist
- Time to prepare a concept and visualisations