Liste der Kaiserringträger

2026	Gabriele Stötzer
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