Elizabeth Price Explores Modernist Church Architecture in Duisburg

Turner Prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price presents two video works at Duisburg's Liebfrauenkirche, examining the histories of post-war modernist Catholic churches. The first, "Here we are" (2025), uses archival black-and-white photographs, negative inversions, and hypnotic sound to explore how architecture addressed the experiences of working-class Irish migrants in Britain between 1955 and 1975. The second, "Where are you where are you", commissioned for Manifesta 16, slowly pans over the damaged St. Marien church in Essen-Karnap, built on ruins of a bombed neo-Gothic church, addressing war and violence. Price, born 1966, studied at Ruskin School of Art, Royal College of Art, and University of Leeds, and is a professor at Kingston University. Her previous solo exhibitions include Tate Britain, Art Institute of Chicago, Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, and Schirn Frankfurt. She won the Turner Prize in 2012 for "The Woolworths Choir of 1979", a video triptych linking disparate themes through subtle connections. Price describes her work as staging overlooked social histories.