Eyes on Talents x Paris Good Fashion
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability 2025
Image: Il est alors possible de risquer le rêve © Clara Chichin / Hans Lucas / ADAGP
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Clara Chichin
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability
The winners of the Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability 2025, created by Eyes on Talents and Paris Good Fashion, and supported by Printemps, have been annouced. This year, the jury recognized four artists whose work pushes the boundaries of sustainability and visual narrative. Clara Chichin's winning series Il est alors possible de risquer le rêve questions our sensitive relationship with the living world through daily exploration of the Parc des Beaumonts, a natural refuge in the heart of the city, located in the eastern suburbs of Paris. The French artist seeks to rekindle our capacity for wonder and propose a different representation of the landscape, open to the imaginary.
Image: Volver a Mirar © Flama
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Flama
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability
Volver a Mirar, the winning work of Venezuelan photographer Flama, is a fusion of fashion and art that recontextualises the work of Venezuelan artists through his lens as a fashion photographer. Rooted in his upbringing surrounded by the visual arts, the project explores the link between the body, identity and artistic expression in a Latin American context. Each photographic encounter becomes an act of reinterpretation, linking contemporary fashion with the visual language of Venezuelan art.
Image: Yield © Jeff Rich
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Jeff Rich
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability
The Yield series by American photographer Jeff Rich explores the lasting impact of mineral, gas and oil extraction in Montana, a state marked by both natural beauty and industrial exploitation. It highlights the environmental damage, from open-pit mines to polluted rivers, as well as the economic changes associated with the resource boom. The work examines the consequences of extraction, raising questions about sustainability, responsibility and what is left behind.
Image: Avoiding Second Death © Just Willis
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Just Willis
Grand Prix Photography & Sustainability
Final winner, American photographer Just Willis was rewarded for his work titled Avoiding Second Death. Describing his work, the artist said: "Using photo collage to recreate reality, My work explores place and space in a deeper context. As I reconstitute who I am from the parts of who I was, I look at the things I previously used to define myself, and try to make something new. Just as a memory has gaps, so too do my images."
The four winning works will be exhibited this summer at the 7ème Ciel in the Printemps Haussmann, the largest physical space in Paris dedicated to circular fashion, from 11 to 31 July.
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Art Basel Awards
Image: Meriem Bennani, Windy, Paris+ par Art Basel, 2023. Presented by C L E A R I N G, commissioned by High Line Art and Audemars Piguet Contemporary.
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Art Basel Awards
The 36 inaugural Art Basel Awards winners have been announced. Artist Lubaina Himid, designer Grace Wales Bonner and the designers from Formafantasma are among the medal winners praised for their innovative practices. In the visual arts, we find Meriem Bennani and Lydia Ourahmane in the emerging artists category, Ibrahim Mahama and Tony Cokes among the established artists, and Lubaina Himid, Joan Jonas and Cecilia Vicuña among the iconic artists. The winners will choose from among them the 12 gold medallists who will be honoured at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025. At Art Basel in Basel, there will be a day of conferences and debates with the participation of the first 36 winners.
Reiffers Art initiatives
Mentorship 2025
Image: Daniel Buren, L’Observatoire de la lumière, in situ work, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, May 2016. Detail © DB-ADAGP Paris. Miles Greenberg, Late October, performance / installation, Arensenal Contemporary, Toronto, Canada, 2021. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid
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Daniel Buren and Miles Greenberg
Mentorship
For its 5th edition, the Reiffers Art initiatives program for young artists has announced the choice of Daniel Buren as its new mentor. Daniel Buren is the first French artist to take on the role of mentor. He will accompany 28-year-old Canadian performer and sculptor Miles Greenberg until October 2025. Together, they will present a joint exhibition at the Reiffers Art Center during Art Basel Paris, where Daniel Buren will also unveil a permanent site-specific intervention.
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Prix Sarr – Villa Albertine
Image: Clémence Gbonon, Man Smoking, 2025. Oil on canvas, 195 x 130 cm.
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Clémence Gbonon
Prix Sarr – Villa Albertine
Clémence Gbonon, who graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris with honors in 2024, will benefit from a one-month research residency at the Villa Albertine in Chicago in 2026, thanks to the Prix Sarr – Villa Albertine, a collaboration between the Beaux-Arts de Paris, Catherine and Mamadou-Abu Sarr and the Villa Albertine in Chicago. A figurative painter with a strong emphasis on color, Clémence Gbonon will explore the political radicalism of art in Chicago's black communities, questioning black figuration in France and enriching her practice with these two approaches.
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Prix Elysée 2025
Image: Why Don’t You Dance? © Hannah Darabi
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Hannah Darabi
Prix Elysée
The Prix Elysée 2025 was awarded to Hannah Darabi for her project Why Don’t You Dance?. Hannah Darabi is a photographic artist born in Teheran. Based in Paris, her native country remains the main subject of most of her photographic series. Why Don't You Dance? is an artistic research project exploring Iranian popular dance through three emblematic figures: Mahvash, Jamileh and Mohammad Khordadjan. Combining photographic series, archives and participatory workshops, the project analyzes how dance, depending on social and political contexts, can become a tool for expressing identity and emancipation, particularly within the Iranian diaspora.
PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025
Image: Lesia Vasylchenko, Night Without Shadows and Light Without Rippling of Waves, 2022-2025. Video installation. Photo: Ela Bialkowska, OKNO Studio for PinchukArtCentre.
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Lesia Vasylchenko
Grand Prize
Kyiv-born artist Lesia Vasylchenko is the Grand Prize winner of the 8thedition of the PinchukArtCentre Prize, a nationwide prize for Ukrainian artists aged 35 or younger. The artist has been automatically shortlisted for the next edition of the Future Generation Art Prize and has announced that she will donate the entire prize sum to charitable contributions in support of the army. With poetic editing and a sense of rhythm, Lesia Vasylchenko tells of a world that is changing before our eyes from 1918 to 2025, not through violent images, but through their absence, through silence, light and shadow. The sky, once a space of freedom, becomes a backdrop for disasters, but also a space of memory and contemplation.
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Baloise Art Prize
Image: Art Basel 2025. Statements Stand M9, Soft Opening, London, UK. Statements Stand M17, Galerie Eli Kerr, Montreal, Canada.
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Rhea Dillon
Joyce Joumaa
Baloise Art Prize
This year’s Baloise Prize at Art Basel has been awarded to London artist Rhea Dillon and Lebanese Canadian artist Joyce Joumaa, two emerging artists, both of whom are showing in the fair’s Statements sector. Exhibiting with London gallery Soft Opening, Dillon, whose work examines ‘the formation of Caribbean and British identities’, was selected for her presentation Leaning Figures. Enclosed and leaning inside wall-based sculptural vitrine, Dillon's reimagined glassware portrays Black bodies at rest. Joumaa was selected for her presentation Periodic Sights, comprising photographs in repurposed fuse boxes of scenes in Tripoli and Beirut, commenting on the energy crisis in Lebanon.
OBEL Award 2025
Image: Courtesy of HouseEurope!
HouseEurope!
OBEL Award
HouseEurope!, a registered non-profit organization focused on promoting the social and ecological transformation of Europe's built environment, has received the 2025 OBEL Award. Presented annually by the Henrik Frode Obel Foundation, the award recognizes architectural contributions with the potential to drive meaningful change. Aligned with this year's theme, ‘Ready Made,’ the OBEL Award Jury selected HouseEurope! for its efforts in raising awareness and fostering public engagement around the need for a shift in construction and housing practices across Europe.
