German architecture award rescinded over British artist’s Israel boycott vow

James Bridle said the awards jury praised the artist’s book that contains a discussion of Israel’s ‘apartheid wall’ in the occupied West Bank. Photograph: Idris Ahmed/Alamy

A German architecture foundation has rescinded one of its €10,000 (£8,360) awards from a British artist over the signing of an open letter promising a boycott of Israeli cultural institutions, citing the German parliament’s controversial antisemitism resolution as a factor behind the decision.

The Athens-based artist and author James Bridle, who uses they/them pronouns, was announced in June as the recipient of the Schelling Architecture Foundation’s theory prize, awarded every two years, for their “outstanding contributions to architectural theory”.