Prix Jean-François Prat 2025
Image: Toby Ziegler, Blind men exploring the skin of an elephant, 2023. Oil and inkjet on canvas, 200 x 250 cm. Courtesy the artist and gallery Max Hetzler Berlin / Paris / Londres / Marfa.
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Toby Ziegler
Prix Jean-François Prat
Toby Ziegler is the winner of the Prix Jean-François Prat 2025. Born in London in 1972, he lives and works in London. Toby Ziegler gathers motifs from a wide variety of sources (photos, paintings, memory) and converts them by computer to generate new forms and new pictorial spaces. Erasing the distinction between figuration and abstraction, the artist slips between the virtual and the real. His paintings depict spaces in perspective, covered with diffuse, often squared-off shapes that suggest abstract volumes while structuring the surface.
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Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2025
Image: Symbiose © Arash Khaksari
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Arash Khaksari
Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode
Arash Khaksari is the winner of the Grand Prix Picto de la Photographie de Mode 2025 for his series Symbiose. Born in Teheran, Iran, he grew up in a multicultural environment. In Symbiose, Arash Khaksari explores the interaction between humans, nature and the ephemeral through the unique creations of Dasha Tsapenko. Her pieces, made entirely from living, biodegradable materials, redefine fashion as an organism in perpetual evolution. Each image captures the fusion between the garment and its environment, playing with light, textures and the temporality of materials. The series creates a dialogue between the human and the living, a reflection on fashion as an organic extension of the natural world.
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Prix artistiques 2025
Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Image: François Boisrond, Madeleine à l'autoportrait, acrylic on canvas, 2018-2022. © Adagp, Paris, 2025. Pascal Convert, Bibliothèque cristallisée Pablo Picasso, optical glass, 168 elements, 320 x 180 mm. Maître verrier Olivier Juteau, 2020-2024. © Collection Musée Picasso-MP 2025 © Adagp, Paris, 2025
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François Boisrond
Pascal Convert
Prix artistique
François Boisrond and Pascal Convert are the winners of the Prix artistiques 2025 de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca. Painter François Boisrond's sources of inspiration include media heroes and mascots, video games, Belgian comics and French posters, as well as artists such as David Hockney, Peter Black, Fernand Léger, Savignac and Matisse. He doesn't hesitate to use new technologies or historical techniques to paint his ‘little truths’, which he situates halfway between ‘the anecdotal’ and ‘the cliché’. Sculptor Pascal Convert is an artist, historian and writer. He describes himself as an ‘archaeologist of architecture, childhood, history, the body and time’, and the question of memory and forgetting is at the heart of his work. He is the author of emblematic and committed works.
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London Design Biennale 2025
Image: Malta Pavilion, URNA, London Design Biennale 2025.
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Malta Pavilion
London Design Biennale Medal
The Malta Pavilion was awarded this year's London Design Biennale Medal for most outstanding overall contribution, for its project presenting an expandable spherical urn designed to enshrine the ashes of multiple people together. Called URNA, the pavilion looks at a new ritual for memorialising human remains, following a shift in legislation around cremation from the Maltese government in 2019. It reflects on the importance of the traditional rituals of the columbarium, ossuary and wake, and reimagines these meaningful ceremonies for the coming era. The centrepiece is a large-scale spherical module crafted from limestone, guiding audiences to reflect on cycles of life, renewal and memory.
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Les femmes s’exposent 2025
Image: AcompañantAs © Mahé Elipe
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Mahé Elipe
Prix SAIF - Les femmes s’exposent
Mahé Elipe is the winner of the Prix SAIF - Les femmes s’exposent for her series AcompañantAs. This project, initiated in 2021, highlights an invisible but essential network of women who accompany other women through their abortion journey, beyond borders, laws and silence. They are called ‘Acompañantas’. They are abortion doulas - mothers, students, activists - all united by the same cause: the right to control one's own body. For several years, they have been weaving a network of reproductive solidarity across Latin America and the United States.
Image: La route du blues © Chloé Kerleroux
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Chloé Kerleroux
Prix Fujifilm - Les femmes s’exposent
Chloé Kerleroux is the winner of the Prix Fujifilm - Les femmes s’exposent for her series La route du blues. Highway 61, also known as the Blues Highway, cuts through the heart of the American South and bears the scars of a history marked by slavery, segregation and the struggle for civil rights. At the crossroads of past and present, Chloé Kerleroux reveals the resilient and creative soul of African-American communities in the South. In 2023 and 2024, she immersed herself in the heart of Trail Ride culture: a Black equestrian tradition rooted in these southern regions, where groups of riders gather for horseback rides combining western heritage, music, celebration and community spirit.
Ramsay Art Prize 2025
Image: Installation view, Jack Ball, Heavy Grit (2024) in Ramsay Art Prize 2025, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Courtesy of the artist and AVA, Boorloo/Perth. Photo: Saul Steed
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Jack Ball
Ramsay Art Prize
Jack Ball is the winner of the Ramsay Art Prize 2025, which recognizes Australian artists under forty, with their work Heavy Grit. The Perth-born, Sydney-based artist explores themes of queer intimacy and desire in their winning work. Heavy Grit was developed in response to a collection of scrapbooks held by the Australian Queer Archives, including press clippings from the 1950s to 1970s that referenced trans lives. Ball’s work reveals fragments and glimpses of queer histories, layering archival materials with personal images and soft form sculptures, and creating an interplay between the past and the present.
Frieze Seoul 2025
Image: Im Youngzoo, Calming Signal (이탤릭), 2023/2025. Three-channel video installation. Concept image. Courtesy the artist.
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Im Youngzoo
Frieze Seoul Artist Award
The South Korean artist Im Youngzoo has been named as the recipient of the 2025 Frieze Seoul Artist Award. Im’s winning commission, Calming Signal, will be a three-channel video installation that responds to this year’s theme of ‘Future Commons’. The term ‘calming signals’ was coined by Norwegian canine ethologist Turid Rugaas to describe certain instinctual, repetitive behavioural patterns exhibited by dogs to de-escalate or avoid aggressive encounters, and which appear to be a product of the animals’ human domestication. Im’s commission will use this concept to explore how recurrent learned gestures and behaviours appear in human society in times of collective unease.
