2020 HMKV's exhibition "Artists & Agents – Performance Art and Secret Services" (2019/2020) is awarded Exhibition of the Year 2020 by AICA (International Art Critics Association)

2018 Justus Bier Award for Curators: Inke Arns, Igor Chubarov and Sylvia Sasse have been awarded for the exhibition and the publication "The Storming of the Winter Palace - Forensics of an Image" (HMKV 2017/2018)

2017 HMKV receives the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations 2017

2014 HMKV nominated for the fifth time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations

2013 HMKV’s catalogue book “Sounds Like Silence” is elected as one of the “Most Beautiful Swiss Books of the year 2012.” 454 books were submitted, 19 books received the prestigious award.

2013 HMKV nominated for the fourth time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations. HMKV receives Honourable Mention in the context of the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations 2013.

2013 HMKV’s exhibition “Sounds Like Silence” is voted “Exceptional Exhibition 2012” by the German Section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) during the Venice Biennial 2013.

2011 JUMP Annual Sponsorship Award for Art Organisations funded by the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia (Kunststiftung NRW)

2011 HMKV nominated for the third time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations

2010 The US art magazine ARTFORUM counts “Arctic Perspective” among the “Best Exhibitions 2010”

2008 HMKV nominated for second time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations

2007 HMKV nominated for the first time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Associations

2004 Innovation Award by Fonds Soziokultur for the exhibition “games. Computer Games by Artists”

2003 “games. Computer Games by Artists” elected by the German section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics) as “Exceptional Exhibition 2003”