Hamburger Bahnhof
Lifetime Achievement Award 2026
Image: Mona Hatoum, Over, under and in between, exhibition view, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2026). Photo: Roberto Marossi.
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Mona Hatoum
Lifetime Achievement Award
Mona Hatoum has been awarded the Hamburger Bahnhof Lifetime Achievement Award 2026. Born in 1952 in Beirut, she has lived in London since 1975. In 2003/04, she was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program; for many years, since then, she maintained a studio in Berlin alongside London. Mona Hatoum has been creating works for more than three decades which ask us to re-see the world, re-understand notions of territory, fragility, humanity, scale, and power. Her exhibition Over, under and in between is currently on view at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, featuring three large-scale installations, until November 9, 2026.
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Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris 2026
Image: Viktoriia Oreshko, Vingt-sept jours, oil on canvas, 160 x 300 cm, 2025. © All rights reserved
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Viktoriia Oreshko
Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris
Viktoriia Oreshko is the winner of the Prix Sisley Beaux-Arts de Paris pour la Jeune Création 2026. Viktoriia Oreshko, born in 1997 in Sarny, Ukraine, is a visual artist currently living and working in Paris. "The pictorial work of Viktoriia Oreshko, a Ukrainian painter, is a true realm of liberation, where the raw imagery of war gives way to a delicate evocation of the present. Her oil paintings on canvas, just like her small-format works on wood, are by no means testimonies, but rather a spiritual means of feeling at home, of returning to her house and her familiar objects. Her art has become a raison d’être, a daily impetus to move forward, despite everything, in the perpetual flow of life." – Makis Malafékas, art historian and writer.
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Rauschenberg Centennial Award
Images: Senga Nengudi, R.S.V.P. (Performance Piece), 1977, Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Thomas Erben Gallery. David Thomson, The Venus Knot (performance still), at The Invisible Dog, New York, 2015. Photo: Simon Courchel. Chandra McCormick, Men Going to Work in the Fields of Angola, 2004. Courtesy the artists.
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Senga Nengudi
David Thomson
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun
Rauschenberg Centennial Award
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has announced the winners of its Rauschenberg Centennial Award. Given in four disciplines, their winners are as follows: Senga Nengudi for art; David Thomson for performance; Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun for photography; and Patricia Spears Jones for writing. Nengudi, with a five-decade career, is best-known for her soft sculptures and installations that use pantyhose and sand as a medium. Thomson’s practice foregrounds collaboration and stretches into multiple disciplines, including music, dance, theater, and performance. McCormick and Calhoun are a husband-and-wife duo whose photographic work spans more than three decades, with a focus on their native Louisiana.
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2026 LG Guggenheim Award
Image: Trevor Paglen, Faces of ImageNet, 2022. Courtesy Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Pace Gallery, New York; and Paglen Studio, Brooklyn. © Trevor Paglen.
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Trevor Paglen
LG Guggenheim Award
Trevor Paglen is this year’s winner of the LG Guggenheim Award for technology-minded artists. The prize will support the costs of his work, which contends with surveillance technology and AI. On selecting Paglen the jury stated: "Trevor Paglen’s long-term, pioneering practice has persistently evolved throughout his career, demonstrating an exceptional commitment to innovation, critical reflection, and conceptual complexity. Over previous decades, his work has explored the liminal space of digital photography, interrogating the structures of seeing through questions of visibility, perception, and lens-based technologies. With the emergence of large language models and contemporary AI systems, Paglen’s practice has expanded to engage deeply with advanced data analytics, computer vision, and the underlying architectures that shape our modes of perception."
Bourse de création Prince de Monaco
Villa Médicis
Image: Nicolas Daubanes, La Serlienne de la loggia Balthus, 2025, d’après Diego Velázquez, 40 x 50 cm. © Nicolas Daubanes / Adagp, Paris, 2026.
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Nicolas Daubanes
Bourse de création Prince de Monaco – Villa Médicis
Nicolas Daubanes, resident at the Villa Médicis in 2024-2025, is the inaugural winner of the Bourse de création Prince de Monaco – Villa Médicis. Nicolas Daubanes has been selected for his project Le feu intérieur, which brings together the architecture and collections of the Villa Médicis. Inspired by the works of former residents (François-Marius Granet, Camille Corot, Diego Velázquez), the artist also draws on the aesthetics and ideas developed by Giovanni Battista Piranesi in his series of engravings Carceri d'invenzione, often translated as Imaginary Prisons (1745-1761). Since the beginning of his career, Nicolas Daubanes has been interested in issues surrounding the prison system, visiting prisons and meeting with inmates.
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2026 CPW Saltzman Prize
Image: © Sridhar Balasubramaniyam
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Sridhar Balasubramaniyam
CPW Saltzman Prize
The 2026 CPW Saltzman Prize has been awarded to Sridhar Balasubramaniyam for his project Manarsuzhal. Balasubramaniyam is an Indian visual artist based in Chennai, whose work in photography and video explores the intricate relationship between body and land. "Manarsuzhal (literally translating to ‘sand whirl’) is a work that was born out of years of wandering across Tamil Nadu. It is a journey through the intricate landscapes of the state; a journey where the movement of time, nature, and people constantly reshaped my idea of home. Emerging from unplanned moments, Manarsuzhal unfolds as a meditation on impermanence, belonging, and the quiet endurance of the land. Each image carries within it the traces of a journey, like sand blowing across the landscape." Sridhar Balasubramaniyam
FRUTESCENS 2026
Images: Gaëlle Delort, Développements series, 2024. Lívia Melzi, Musea Futuri series, 2024 - ongoing. Emma Tholot, Piccole Passioni series (detail), 2024. Valentin Valette, Ashes of the Arabian’s Pearl series, 2021-2024.
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Gaëlle Delort
Lívia Melzi
Emma Tholot
Valentin Valette
FRUTESCENS
The Centre photographique Rouen Normandie has announced the names of the four winners of the FRUTESCENS 2026 programme. Dedicated to the French photography scene, this programme aims to support its photographers and increase the visibility of their work across Europe via the FUTURES Photography platform. This year’s winners are: Gaëlle Delort, Lívia Melzi, Emma Tholot, and Valentin Valette. Four artists with highly individual approaches who are united by a shared exploration: questioning the document and the photographic image as sites of memory or belief.
