Reiffers Art Prize 2026
Image: Stanislava Kovalcikova, Tale of the two suns, 2020, oil, gilding foil and fried egg on linen.
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Stanislava Kovalcikova
Reiffers Art Prize
For its fifth edition, Reiffers Art Initiatives has rewarded Stanislava Kovalcikova, whose works are now on show at the Reiffers Art Center as part of the group exhibition Trafiquer l’inconnu, curated by Bernard Blistène. Stanislava Kovalcikova was born in 1988 in Slovakia. She lives and works in Paris and Düsseldorf. Her paintings, which are both solemn and sensual, stand out as much for their iconography as for their unique settings. Modernism and contemporary decay moulder in her canvases and sculptures, populated by remnants of our daily lives. By exploring confrontation, fear and psychosexual impulses, Kovalcikova lays bare painting in its deepest dimension, evoking both the weight of history and the fleeting nature of the present moment.
Image: Khaled Jarada, Remaining gesture, 2026, charcoal on Fabriano paper, 140 x 190 cm. © Philippe Garcia
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Khaled Jarada
Special mention
Khaled Jarada has been awarded a Special mention. Khaled Jarada was born in 1996 in Gaza, Palestine, and lives and works in Paris. The artist creates compositions captured in medias res (in the midst of the action). His characters appear unbalanced, anxious, out of step. The sense of suspension in his works is not only temporal, but also spatial. Jarada began to explore the discomfort of this liminal dimension when he himself was confronted with uprooting, whilst in exile. Rejecting all forms of rigidity, he elevates moments, places, objects and figures — often overlooked — to make them subjects worthy of being exhibited, appreciated and idealised.
Art Basel Awards 2026
Image: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989. Courtesy the artist, Sprüth Magers and The Broad Art Foundation.
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Art Basel Awards
Art Basel has announced the 33 medallists honoured in the second edition of its awards programme. In addition to artists, the medallists include patrons, curators, media figures, institutions and other cultural actors, with the aim of recognising the ways in which influence and impact are felt in the contemporary art arena. This year’s Icon category is entirely comprised of women artists — Barbara Kruger, Howardena Pindell and Jenny Holzer. Medallists in the Established category include filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Arthur Jafa, Theaster Gates and interdisciplinary practitioner María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Emerging artists selected for medals include Precious Okoyomon as well as film-and music-maker Farah Al Qasimi and transculturality-focused sculptor Carla Gueye. The medallists will be honoured during Art Basel in June.
BelgianArtPrize 2027
Image: Installation view, After Rain, Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Rossella Biscotti, Princess of Kasiruta, 2019. Natural rubber, 230 x 105 cm (with relief) and 210 x 100 cm (plain). Courtesy of the Diriyah Biennale Foundation. Photo: Marco Cappelletti.
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Rossella Biscotti
BelgianArtPrize
Rossella Biscotti is the winner of the BelgianArtPrize 2027. In her work Biscotti explores pressing social issues – such as climate crisis, migration and postcolonialism – in a subtle and nuanced manner. She integrates broad historical narratives with subjective personal experiences, bringing to life the multiplicity of stories that exist in the margins of official History. The forms and materials that she employs to embody her research-driven practice are diverse and surprising.
2026 Guggenheim Fellowships
Image: Collier Schorr, Dominik, First Tour, Backnang, 2000. Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.
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Guggenheim Fellowships
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 223 scholars and artists who received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship. Fellows are divided into creative arts, social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities. Among the winners in the fine arts category are sculptor John Ahearn; new media and installation artist American Artist; Kenneth Tam, featured in the upcoming edition of Greater New York at MoMA PS1; Japanese German artist Kota Ezawa; fiber artist Sonya Clark; and multidiscplinary artist John Miller. Other winners include Juana Valdes, Fia Backström, Allison Janae Hamilton, and Francis Ruyter.
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Prix MAIF Métamorphoses 2026
Image: Théophile Peris, Ressort, raw fleece, 280 x 190 x 150 cm, 2024. © Blaise Adilon
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Théophile Peris
Grand Prix
The Prix MAIF Métamorphoses has announced its first cohort of winning artists. The award aims to help foster the emergence of a responsible and socially engaged arts scene that supports, at a local level, the protection of ecosystems and their biodiversity, and raises public awareness of environmental issues and community life. Théophile Peris was awarded the Grand Prix. With his project Des montagnes de laine, the artist immerses himself in the Pyrenees to work hand in hand with local farmers, the Filature de Niaux and the local community. Together, they plan to create vast pieces of wool felt, crafted using traditional techniques. Each stage of production will be open, participatory and festive, offering the public a sensory and cultural experience.
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EUmies Awards 2026
Image: AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck, Charleroi Palais des Expositions, Charleroi, Belgium.
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Charleroi Palais des Expositions
Architecture Winner
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission have announced the winners of the 2026 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards. The 2026 Architecture Winner is the Palais des Expositions in Charleroi by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck. The renovation reworks a 1950s convention centre in Belgium through selective demolition, reuse, and spatial reconfiguration. The intervention retains the existing structural system while opening the building to its surroundings, transforming the former central hall into a covered exterior field of terraced spaces.
Image: Vidic Grohar Arhitekti, Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama
Emerging Architecture Winner
The 2026 Emerging Architecture Winner is Temporary Spaces for the Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana by Vidic Grohar Arhitekti. Located within a series of former industrial halls, the architetcure adapts the existing structures into a temporary cultural infrastructure for the theatre during the renovation of its main building. The project reorganizes the complex through a sequence of low-budget, targeted interventions that introduce performance spaces, public foyers, and support functions while retaining the spatial logic and material character of the industrial site.
