2025 Turner Prize Nominees
Image: Nnena Kalu, Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10, installation view, 2024. Photo courtesy of Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana. Photo credit: Ivan Erofeev.
Rene Matić, AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH, Installation view, CCA Berlin, 2024. Photos: Diana Pfammatter/CCA Berlin.
Installation view Mohammed Sami, After the Storm, Blenheim Art Foundation, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, 9 July–6 October, 2024. Photographer: Tom Lindboe
Zadie Xa with Benito Mayor Vallejo, Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything, 2025. Installation view. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Danko Stjepanovic
ART
Nnena Kalu
Rene Matić
Mohammed Sami
Zadie Xa
Turner Prize Nominee
The four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2025 are Nnena Kalu, Rene Matić, Mohammed Sami and Zadie Xa. Nnena Kalu is nominated for her presentation as part of Conversations at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Hanging Sculpture 1 to 10 at Manifesta 15, Barcelona. Rene Matić is nominated for their solo exhibition AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH at CCA Berlin. Matić captures fleeting moments of joy in daily life, and expressions of tenderness within a wider political context. Mohammed Sami is nominated for his solo exhibition After the Storm at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. Sami is known for his large-scale paintings which explore memory and conflict. Zadie Xa is nominated for her presentation Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything with Benito Mayor Vallejo at Sharjah Biennial 16. Interweaving painting, mural, textile and sound, Xa’s work explores traditions and folklore, speaking to a multitude of cultures.
About the Turner Prize Nominees
2025 RAIC Gold Medal
Image: KPMB Architects, The Royal Conservatory of Music, TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, Toronto, Canada. © Eduard Hueber
ARCHITECTURE
Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg
RAIC Gold Medal
Marianne McKenna and Shirley Blumberg, founding partners of KPMB Architects, have been named the 2025 recipients of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal. Marianne McKenna is celebrated for her ability to create architecture that resonates with culture, community, and the arts. She led the transformation of The Royal Conservatory of Music, including Koerner Hall in Toronto, a performance venue praised internationally for its acoustic and architectural features. Shirley Blumberg is recognized for her commitment to architecture that supports inclusion, equity, and the public good. She is best known for her work on projects such as the Toronto Community Housing Corporation's Lawrence Heights redevelopment, the Harrison McCain Pavilion at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, the Global Centre for Pluralism in Ottawa, and the Montreal Holocaust Museum.
Art Brussels 2025
Image: Mendes Wood DM's Booth, solo show of Julien Creuzet, Art Brussels 2025. Courtesy of Mendes Wood DM and Art Brussels.
ART
Julien Creuzet
Solo Prize
At Art Brussels 2025, the Solo Prize was awarded to Julien Creuzet, represented by Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York). Julien Creuzet’s works are critical expressions at the intersection of Caribbean history and European modernity. In the installation, the artist combines the Greek myth of Andromeda with the figure of the red devil in Martinique, where he spent his childhood. A three-dimensional installation of ceramic shell like creatures is set on a bright coloured wall paper of the sea that includes historical and displaced museum artefacts. The sculptures are incorporating 21st century remnants of the sea, like plaster rests of fisher nets. They take the viewers into a realm that surprises, inspires, saddens and fills them with joy.
Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris 2025
Image: Zoé Bernardi, L'ascenseur, 2023. © Zoé Bernardi
ART
Zoé Bernardi
Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris
Zoé Bernardi is the winner of the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création 2025. Born in Paris in 2000, Zoé Bernardi works in photography and film. She graduated with honors from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2025. Her practice is concerned with questions of intimacy, coexistence and marginality. She has naturally turned her attention to her close community circle and to sexual, social and gender minorities. Zoé Bernardi deliberately hesitates between the intimate and the social, tenderness and violence, monstrosity and poetry, care and plasticity.
About the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris
Prix Carré sur Seine 2024
Image: Installation views, Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne and Jisoo Yoo, KnalPatronen, Prix Carré sur Seine 2024 exhibition, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris.
ART
Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne
Jisoo Yoo
Prix Carré sur Seine
Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne and Jisoo Yoo are the winners of the Prix Carré sur Seine 2024. Their approaches, though formally distant, resonate deeply with each other, questioning our perceptions of reality and inhabited space. Through his gestures of excavation, assembly and intuitive cartography, Alexandre Nitzsche Cysne gives contemporary form to the archaeology of the everyday. He creates a dialogue between urban textures and minimal poetry, in an attempt to give dignity to what is usually left aside. Jisoo Yoo questions ordinary gestures, the invisible patterns that govern the way we inhabit the world, think and move, and explores the fragility of boundaries, whether physical, social or mental.
About the Prix Carré sur Seine
EDIDA Awards 2025
Image: Installation view, Andrés Reisinger, Take Over Jeddah, 2024. © Mohammed Ali
DESIGN
Andrés Reisinger
Young Design Talent of the Year
At the ELLE DECO International Design Awards 2025, Andrés Reisinger was named Young Design Talent of the Year. In his work, the Argentine designer brings to life an imaginative encounter between the real world and the digital, comprising elements of scenographic architecture, dreamlike environments and otherworldly landscapes. His 2019 Hortensia Chair, an armchair covered in powder-pink petals that was created as an NFT piece and put into production in 2021 by Moooi, going on to become a huge social media hit, is an example. Last year saw us admire his mosaic mural, inspired by the work of surrealist René Magritte, at Nilufar Lancetti, while his poetic installation Take Over Jeddah saw the buildings of the city’s old town draped in pink.
