Wolf Prize in Arts

Eduardo Souto de Moura

(Architecture - for the advancement of architectural knowledge in showing how buildings can philiosophically and experientially engage with the natural world, and for his exceptional skills as a designer.)

Plácido Domingo

(Music - for his powerful, multicolored voice that retains its purity and clarity at all registers.)

Simon Rattle

(Music - a leading international figure among today\u2019s conductors. His name precedes him as a perfectionist in performing a broad range of music compositions, and he is highly acclaimed all over the world by musicians who have performed under his baton, as by the listener audience. He is considered unique in the scope of his repertoire, which he performs at such high standards.)

Rosemarie Trockel

(Painting - for her multidimensional art practice, which provides a powerful model that engages the mainstream obliquely and critically.)

David Chipperfield, Peter Eisenman

(Architecture - for Innovative architect and educator, for advancing the discipline of architecture through both theoretical texts and exceptional buildings of profound consequence.)

Gia Kancheli, Claudio Abbado

(Music - for one of the world´s greatest contemporary composers, whose unique music is infused with unforgettable beauty.)

Michelangelo Pistoletto

(Painting - for his constantly inventive career as an artist, educator and activist, whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that contribute to fresh understanding of the world.)

Jean Nouvel

(Architecture - for providing a new model of contextualism and redefining the dialectic between the two salient characteristics of contemporary architecture: concreteness and ephemerality.)

Mstislav Rostropovich

(Music - a person of profound musical and humanitarian commitment, who has distinguished himself as one of the great musicians of our time.)

Daniel Barenboim

(Music - a cellist, conductor, pianist and exceptional human being, who has created a career of monumental proportions.)

Louise Bourgeois

(Painting - for an oeuvre, that for six decades and encompassing a remarkable range of media, has sustained aesthetic and formal innovation, intellectual complexity and contemporary relevance.)

Álvaro Siza Vieira

(Architecture - for the critical relevance of his typically responsive architecture to the continual transformation of both landscape and urban fabric.)

Pierre Boulez

(Music - one of the most creative living personalities in the realm of music.)

Riccardo Muti

(Music - one of the most outstanding conductors of our time.)

James Turrell

(Sculpture - for His highly individualistic imagery is a spiritualized synthesis of form and light in seemingly infinite space.)

Frei Otto, Aldo van Eyck

(Architecture - for their fundamental structural contributions to the advancement of contemporary architecture as a social and technical art form in the evolution of theTwentieth Century.)

Zubin Mehta

(Music - who is considered one of the world's foremost conductors of our time. His humanitarian contributions to bring people together through the universal language of music and his constant encouragement of young artists, are unforgettable.)

György Ligeti

(Music - one of the most outstanding composers of the second half of the 20th century. While based on musical tradition, he has brought new ways, original and innovative, and created models to inspire younger generations of composers.)

Gerhard Richter

(Painting - for his vast artistic activity, which has influenced the contemporary art scene of the past three decades.)

Bruce Nauman

(Sculpture - for distinguished work as a sculptor and his extraordinary contribution to twentieth century art.)

Jørn Utzon

(Architecture - his architecture, rooted in deep reading of human cultures, has given shape to processes of ritual and assembly in forms of haunting presence.)

Denys Lasdun

(Architecture - with architecture as a social art, he enhances the relations between people through primary architectural means that far transcend style.)

Frank Gehry

(Architecture - creating architecture as art and sculpture, he embodies the fight for liberation destroying dogma, principle and method.)

Yehudi Menuhin

(Music - one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century, his unforgettable interpretations and humanitarian activities contributed significantly to bringing nations together through musical education, enlightening peoples and elevating cultural levels throughout the world.)

Luciano Berio

(Music - one of the greatest composers of our generation, he is also recognized and admired worldwide as interpreter, conductor, Iecturer and writer whose new ideas, in an age of deva luation of human values, help to bring closer nations, cultures and generations.)

Anselm Kiefer

(Painting - for his epic and physically compelling paintings, in which he creates a continuum, linking current life with history and mythology.)

Claes Oldenburg

(Sculpture - who, over some three decades has invested prosaic objects with historic and mythical allusions. For all the simplicity of their subject matter, they are statements about metamorphosis and invite the observer to reflect upon life´s processes'.)

Fumihiko Maki, Giancarlo De Carlo

(Architecture - for their work which represents the spirit of an architecture that looks to the future without renouncing the past; brings about meaningful shapes and environments without forsaking human and social aspects and responds to universal issues without neglecting regional attributes.)

Isaac Stern

(music - for his everlasting humanistic contribution to society as an artist and educator, which transcends the boundaries of musical performance.)

Krzysztof Penderecki

(music - for his achievements and innovations in the field of composition.)

Jasper Johns

(Painting - One of the leading and most influential figures of Pop Art in the world since its inception.)

Eduardo Chillida

(sculpture - His sculpture, expressing a fruitful imagination and a practical beauty of forms, combines tradition and innovation in a contemporary guise.)

Ralph Erskine

(Architecture - for his fundamental contribution to contemporary architecture, based on his creative spirit, solving human problems in a highly original formal language.)

Olivier Messiaen

(music - for his inspired and inspiring extension of our sound world.)

Vladimir Horowitz

(music - for his outstanding contribution to the art of musical interpretation, and especially his musicalization of pianism.)

Josef Tal

(music - for his novel approach to musical structure and texture and the unfailing dramatic tension of his creations.)

Antoni Tàpies

(Painting)

Marc Chagall

(Painting)