2026 Turner Prize Nominees
Images: Roberts Institute of Arts presents Simeon Barclay, The Ruin, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, January 2025. Photo © Anne Tetzlaff. Courtesy of the Artist & Workplace.
Installation view of Kira Freije: Unspeak the Chorus, The Hepworth Wakefield, November 2025.
Photo © Lewis Ronald.
Marguerite Humeau, “Torches” at ARKEN Museum, 2025 © Marguerite Humeau. Photography by Mathilde Agius. Courtesy of the artist.
Tanoa Sasraku, Morale Patch installation view, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2025-26.
Image © Jack Elliot Edwards, courtesy the artist and Vardaxoglou Gallery, London
ART
Simeon Barclay
Kira Freije
Marguerite Humeau
Tanoa Sasraku
Turner Prize Nominee
Simeon Barclay, Kira Freije, Marguerite Humeau and Tanoa Sasraku have been announced as the shortlisted artists for the 2026 Turner Prize. Simeon Barclay was nominated for his performance The Ruin, an hour-long spoken word performance drawing on his upbringing in Huddersfield and his lived experience of the industrial landscape of northern England. Kira Freije was nominated for her first major solo exhibition, Unspeak the Chorus at The Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire. She uses metal, fabric and found materials to create sculptures that explore universal human emotions. Through sculpture and cycles of light and sound, Marguerite Humeau’s work examines the formation of life, ancient human history and imagined future worlds. She was nominated for her solo exhibition Torches presented at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen and Helsinki Art Museum. Tanoa Sasraku explores geopolitical ideas through object-like sculptures and works on paper and film, and was selected for the exhibition Morale Patch at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
About the Turner Prize Nominees
Prix Carta Bianca 2026
Images: Nazanin Pouyandeh, La ronde, 2025. Oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm.
Marta Roberti, Self-portrait in a Flamingo pose, 2023. Oil pastel drawing on handmade carbon paper, on double-layered Taiwanese mulberry paper. Courtesy the artist & Sara Zanin/© Roberto Apa.
ART
Nazanin Pouyandeh
Marta Roberti
Premier Prix
The Prix Carta Bianca aims to bridge the worlds of art and healthcare by facilitating interactions between artists and patients through collaborative projects. For its fifth edition, the First Prize was exceptionally awarded to two artists: Nazanin Pouyandeh, an Iranian painter living in France, and Italian artist Marta Roberti. A special award was also presented to visual artist Pascal Convert “to honor this French artist whose work exemplifies the values of the Prix Carta Bianca, grounded in ethics, a humanistic worldview, social commitment, the memory of those who fought for freedom, and the power of the book as a tool for resistance and the struggle against the destruction of thought.”
SaloneSatellite Award 2026
Image: Russo Betak, NIPPON – ARK Collection. Photo: Jakob Storm.
DESIGN
Russo Betak
1st Prize
For its 15th edition, the SaloneSatellite Award celebrated emerging design practices that leveraged craftsmanship as a catalyst for technological innovation. The 1st Prize was presented to the Denmark-based lighting designers Russo Betak, for Nippon. The pendant lamp is 3D printed with seashells and sculpted by hand. Part of their Ark collection (Danish for ‘sheet’), also launched during Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026, the manufacturing process allows moulding of the warm, freshly printed material by hand, with its final form preserving the gestures and fluidity as a layered texture.
About the SaloneSatellite Award
Art Brussels 2026
Image: herman de vries, journal d'une visite à l'île ste. marguerite le 9me avril,
26 x 36 cm (14 panels), 1997. Courtesy Settantotto.
ART
Settantotto and herman de vries
Solo Prize
At Art Brussels 2026, Settantotto celebrates the 95th birthday of artist herman de vries with a solo presentation of this contemporary Dutch Master, for which the gallery received the award for best solo booth. The jury found the presentation offered a focused and in-depth insight into a timeless oeuvre characterised by simplicity, modesty, and a longstanding ecological conscience, highlighting both the beauty and fragility of nature. With over sixty years of practice, the sensibility with which his works speak across different generations reveals a much needed recognition of the values needed to navigate an increasingly complex world.
Prix Carré sur Seine 2025
Images: Maxime Bagni, Night Work, 2026, installation © Elena Blokhina.
Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Negative Palm, UV printing on plexiglass, video © Elena Blokhina. Gabriel Moraes Aquino, Fortune Coconut, various techniques © Elena Blokhina
ART
Maxime Bagni
Gabriel Moraes Aquino
Prix Carré sur Seine/Expert des Rencontres artistiques
The Prix Carré sur Seine/Expert des Rencontres artistiques was awarded to two artist this year: Maxime Bagni and Gabriel Moraes Aquino. The exhibition Indices de Présence at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles | Paris brought together the ten finalist artists to explore a fundamental question: what remains of us in what we create? Ten approaches, ten ways of capturing, archiving and transforming what remains of us in what we create.
About the Prix Carré sur Seine
World Press Photo of the Year 2026
Image: Carol Guzy, Separated by ICE. ZUMA Press, iWitness, for Miami Herald.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Carol Guzy
Separated by ICE
World Press Photo of the Year
The World Press Photo foundation has awarded its top honor to Separated by ICE, a photograph of two young girls clinging to their father’s shirt as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detain him afer an immigration hearing. Taken by independent photojournalist Carol Guzy in a hallway of New York’s Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, one of the few U.S. federal buildings where photography is permitted, this image, and the story it is a part of, serves as an important record of the reality for many people in the United States, where fear of separation and deportation pervades in the places where immigrant families once sought protection and justice.
About the World Press Photo of the Year
Sony World Photography Awards 2026
Image: Citlali Fabián, Mitzy Violeta Cortez, Bilha, Stories of my Sisters series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Citlali Fabián
Photographer of the Year
The prestigious title of the Photographer of the Year was awarded to Citlali Fabián, a visual artist from the Yalalteca Indigenous community in Mexico, now based in the UK. Her winning series Bilha, Stories of my Sisters was created to inspire young girls with positive role models. It offers a glimpse into the world of activists and artists from various Indigenous communities in southern Mexico. Shaped through a collaborative process between the photographer and her subjects, the series utilises a mixed-media approach to photography.
