Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2025
Image: Alice Maher, Pythia, 2025, charcoal and chalk on paper, 152 x 102 cm.
Courtesy Purdy Hicks Gallery.
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Alice Maher
Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Irish artist Alice Maher is the winner of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2025. Using a variety of mediums, of which drawing remains the core, Alice Maher delves into ancestral stories, myths and the unconscious. She tries to understand who we are and where we come from. She affirms the place of the feminist body, in symbiosis with the animal and plant world. Alice Maher often creates her drawings dynamically, to best accompany her thought process. "It's not just a question of accessing the subconscious, but of giving it permission, as it were, to put itself into action," she comments.
About the Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Prix Drawing Now 2025
Image: Susanna Inglada, Alboroto, 2025, charcoal on coloured paper, 192 x 182 cm.
Courtesy Galerie Maurits van de Laar.
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Susanna Inglada
Prix Drawing Now
Spanish artist Susanna Inglada, represented by Galerie Maurits van de Laar (Netherlands), is the winner of the Prix Drawing Now 2025, awarded to an artist presented at Drawing Now Paris, 27 to 30 March 2025. Susanna Inglada's work is socially engaged, addressing gender, power dynamics and the human condition. She uses collage techniques to create highly expressive collaged drawings. The artist cuts out and assembles fragments of coloured paper drawn in charcoal until figures are created. Through her work, she seeks to create a dialogue and encourage emotion and reflection in the viewer.
Prix Roger Pic 2025
Image: Véronique de Viguerie, Torkham, Pakistan 3 December 2023: Pakistan has threatened to arrest the 1.5 million undocumented Afghan refugees in the country. These women, who fled after the Taliban took control of the country on 15 August 2021, are waiting to be registered before being taken home by force. Afghanistan, no (wo)man’s land series. © Véronique de Viguerie / Cnap
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Véronique de Viguerie
Prix Roger Pic
The Prix Roger Pic 2025 has been awarded to Véronique de Viguerie for her series Afghanistan, no (wo)man’s land. Between 2006 and 2024, the photojournalist documented the daily lives of Afghan women. In her images, they appear as resilient figures in the face of a situation that is constantly reducing them to nothing. "Through my photography, I refuse to portray them solely as submissive victims, frozen in the suffering imposed on them by history. My lens also captures their strength, their solidarity and their courage: these women who, despite oppression, continue to fight, to organise and to take their destiny into their own hands, defying the way in which they are all too often viewed", says the author.
2025 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Image: Arpita Akhanda, Dendritic Data lb, 2024. Paper weaving, archival print on Hahnemühle photo rag, 175 x 127 x 18 cm. Courtesy the artist and Sovereign Art Foundation.
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Arpita Akhanda
Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Arpita Akhanda is the winner of the 2025 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. The Indian artist was recognised for Dendritic Data lb (2024), a paper weaving reflecting on identity and memory. Judging panel chair David Elliott praised Akhanda's ‘poetic, multidisciplinary approach’, combining traditional weaving with landscape and traumatic memory. Growing up Arpita Akhanda was deeply influenced by her grandparents' stories of their traumatic relocation following the partition of India, which shaped her understanding of identity, roots and the ongoing search for belonging. Memory and migration are recurring motifs in her practice, as she explores remembrance and articulates the sense of loss that the body inherits from past traumas.
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Prix Rubis Mécénat 2025
Image: Liselor Perez, Dans la fontaine, 2024. © Erwan Fichou
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Liselor Perez
Prix Rubis Mécénat
Liselor Perez is the 2025 winner of the Prix Rubis Mécénat in collaboration with the Saint-Eustache church and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. In the autumn, she will unveil her site-specific installation for the Saint-Eustache church. The installation will feature a series of puppets set in situations that blend in with the architectural motifs of the church. Liselor Perez's practice combines sculpture, textiles and performance, exploring intimacy and identity through sculptural bodies often made of fabric. Her work questions the porosity between human beings and their environment, between memory and transformation.
Rencontres Photographiques de
Boulogne-Billancourt 2025
Image: © William Dupuy, Les Enfants Fantômes series.
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William Dupuy
Grand Prix RPBB
As part of the Rencontres Photographiques de Boulogne Billancourt, the Grand Prix RPBB for photographers engaged in documentary work was awarded to William Dupuy for Les Enfants Fantômes [The Ghost Children]. This work sheds light on a largely unknown social reality: the millions of children around the world who are not registered at birth. Deprived of a legal identity, they grow up without rights, without access to education, healthcare or any official recognition. In Burundi, this phenomenon affects thousands of children, trapping them in extreme poverty. Through an immersive documentary approach and strong aesthetics, William Dupuy reveals the invisibility of these children, while highlighting the daily struggle of their families to offer them a future.
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