Mario Merz Prize
Image: Mohamed Bourouissa, Mehdi Anede, 2023. Fusione d'alluminio / Aluminium cast. Courtesy the artist and Mennour, Paris. Photo: Archives Mennour
ART
Mohamed Bourouissa
Mario Merz Prize
Algerian artist Mohamed Bourouissa is the winner of the fifth edition of the Mario Merz Prize in the Art section, awarded by the Fondazione Merz in Turin. Mohamed Bourouissa's projects are at the crossroads of different mediums, questioning stereotypical representations of immigrants, suburbs and prisoners in the media. Police violence, racial profiling, urban wandering and identity are the pillars of his theoretical and visual experiments, which he sometimes conducts in direct collaboration with his subjects.
Nasher Prize 2027
Image: Exhibition view Petrit Halilaj. An Opera Out of Time, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2025. © Petrit Halilaj, 2025. Courtesy of the artist, mennour, Paris, ChertLüdde, Berlin and kurimanzutto, New York and Mexico City. Photo: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jacopo La Forgia
ART
Petrit Halilaj
Nasher Prize
The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has awarded its 2027 Nasher Prize to Petrit Halilaj, the youngest artist to win the prize since its establishment in 2015. Halilaj has decided to donate the endowment to the Hajde! Foundation, a Kosovo-based nonprofit he cofounded with his sister in 2014 that focuses on supporting the work of Kosovar artists. Born in 1986 in Kostërrc, a small village outside the town of Runik, and now based between Kosovo, Germany and Italy, Petrit Halilaj is known for creating fantastical and immersive spaces that fuse childhood wonder with the personal and political history of his homeland. Last year, he participated in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop commission and his work is currently the subject of a solo show at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Audain Prize 2025
Image: Brian Jungen, Performance bonnet, 2019, nike air jordans, 32 x 31 x 30 in. (81 x 79 x 76 cm). Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries.
ART
Brian Jungen
Audain Prize
The artist Brian Jungen, renowned for transforming Nike Air Jordans into Northwest Coast First Nations masks, has won the 2025 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts, one of Canada’s highest honours in the arts. Jungen, an artist of mixed Dane-Zaa First Nations and Swiss ancestry, creates inventive sculptural amalgamations of Nike sneakers, sports uniforms, plastic furniture and containers, and other mass-produced objects. Often evoking visceral connections to traditional Indigenous artistry, including masks, drums and animals, his multidisciplinary practice challenges, explores and creates dialogue between Indigenous and settler cultures, examining the complexities of appropriation and cultural identity in a globalised world.
Prix Focale – Ville de Nyon 2025
Image: Mother and daughter in their kitchen. Eiheiji, Japan, 2024. © Camila Svenson
PHOTOGRAPHY
Camila Svenson
Prix Focale – Ville de Nyon
The Prix Focale – Ville de Nyon for a documentary series was awarded to Brazilian photographer Camila Svenson, for I'd rather have more heart than talent any day. The work was produced during an artistic residency in Japan, focusing on the oldest women in the Fukui region. In a country with one of the highest life expectancies in the world, and a rapidly ageing population, elders are of considerable social and family importance, influencing values, practices and rituals in everyday life. They preserve traditional crafts, local histories and spiritual teachings, ensuring the continuity of a cultural identity that balances modernity and the past.
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Prix Rubis Mécénat 2025
Image: Cent Sommeils, Liselor Perez, Beaux-Arts de Paris, courtesy Rubis Mécénat, Church of Saint-Eustache, Paris, 2025. © InstanT Productions
ART
Liselor Perez
Prix Rubis Mécénat
Winner of the Prix Rubis Mécénat 2025 with Beaux-Arts de Paris, Liselor Perez unveils Cent Sommeils at the Church of Saint-Eustache in Paris. Curated by Julia Marchand, the exhibition unfolds throughout the church, mysterious puppet-like figures inhabiting the nave and chapels. Inspired by the inner silence and the venue itself, and between poetry and science fiction, the works initiate a sensitive experience, an invitation to dream, where the puppet is no longer a simple plaything, but the embodied framework within which to question the meaning of ‘being’ and ‘other’.
FRAME Awards 2025
Image: Symbolplus, Symbolplus Office, Tokyo, 2024. Photo: Keishin Horikoshi
ARCHITECTURE
Symbolplus Office
Winner of the month for September
Symbolplus's renovation of its own workspace in a 23-year-old timber building took September's top spot. In an era where hybrid work has rendered the office conceptually fluid, the project anchors itself in something more enduring: craftsmanship and material depth. Innovation here is a conversation with the building itself. Discarded Tosa washi paper, once deemed too delicate for architectural use, is layered into durable shoji screens. Manually rotatable wooden ceiling panels reveal lighting fixtures only when needed, reducing visual noise without sacrificing function. Every joint, every movable element is constructed without metal fittings, relying instead on traditional Japanese carpentry techniques.
Révélation Livre d'artiste 2025
Image: Claire Cocano, Rue Désiré Chevalier, artist book limited edition, 2024.
ART
Claire Cocano
Révélation Livre d'artiste
The ADAGP Révélation Livre d'artiste prize has been awarded to Claire Cocano for her artist book Rue Désiré Chevalier. Rue Désiré Chevaliertakes us into a flat, the one in which Claire Cocano's Yugoslav grandparents settled when they arrived in France in the 1960s. It was in this same flat that, forty years later, they witnessed the dissolution of their native country. In this book, Claire Cocano weaves together her own images with family photographs, extracts from diaries, letters and identity cards. A tribute to her grandparents that questions family transmission and the legacy of migration.
