Liste der Kaiserringträger
| 2025 | Katharina Fritsch |
| 2024 | Miriam Cahn |
| 2023 | Yuri Albert, Vadim Zakharov |
| 2022 | Isaac Julien |
| 2021 | Adrian Piper |
| 2020 | Hans Haacke |
| 2019 | Barbara Kruger |
| 2018 | Wolfgang Tillmans |
| 2017 | Isa Genzken |
| 2016 | Jimmie Durham |
| 2015 | Boris Mikhailov |
| 2014 | Wiebke Siem |
| 2013 | Olafur Eliasson |
| 2012 | John Baldessari |
| 2011 | Rosemarie Trockel |
| 2010 | David Lynch |
| 2009 | Bridget Riley |
| 2008 | Andreas Gursky |
| 2007 | Matthew Barney |
| 2006 | Jörg Immendorff |
| 2005 | Robert Longo |
| 2004 | Katharina Sieverding |
| 2003 | William Kentridge |
| 2002 | Jenny Holzer |
| 2001 | Christian Boltanski |
| 2000 | Sigmar Polke |
| 1999 | Cindy Sherman |
| 1998 | Ilya Kabakov |
| 1997 | Franz Gertsch |
| 1996 | Dani Karavan |
| 1995 | Cy Twombly |
| 1994 | Bernd & Hilla Becher |
| 1993 | Roman Opalka |
| 1992 | Rebecca Horn |
| 1991 | Nam June Paik |
| 1990 | Anselm Kiefer |
| 1989 | Mario Merz |
| 1988 | Gerhard Richter |
| 1987 | Christo |
| 1986 | Georg Baselitz |
| 1985 | Eduardo Chillida |
| 1984 | Willem de Kooning |
| 1983 | Günther Uecker |
| 1982 | Max Bill |
| 1981 | Richard Serra |
| 1979 | Joseph Beuys |
| 1978 | Victor Vasarely |
| 1977 | Alexander Calder |
| 1976 | Max Ernst |
| 1975 | Henry Moore |