Prix Sarr-Villa Albertine 2023
Image: "Pour nous,
Pour metallove" - 2020
ART
Azzeazy
Prix Sarr-Villa Albertine
The Prix Sarr-Villa Albertine 2023 was awarded to Azzeazy (Assia Drame), a 4th year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the studios of Mimosa Echard and Julien Creuzet. She will receive an endowment and will benefit in 2024 from a one-month research residency in Chicago within the framework of the Villa Albertine with personalized support to materialize her artistic project and meet the actors of the artistic scene. Azzeazy, a multidisciplinary artist, is interested in the somatization of transgenerational experiences and knowledge to translate them into immersive soundscapes, she will draw inspiration from Chicago's architecture and music scene.
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AHI European Award 2023
Image: Restoration of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie by David Chipperfield Architects. © Simon Menges
ARCHITECTURE
Neue Nationalgalerie by David Chipperfield Architects
Built Heritage Award
The international jury of the AHI (Architectural Heritage Intervention) European Award has given the award in the Built Heritage category to the refurbishment of Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. The project was carried out by the architectural practice of David Chipperfield, the latest winner of the Pritzker. This building, inaugurated in 1968, was designed by the architect Mies van der Rohe. The jury considers that the intervention returns the building to its original state, in such a way that "it is almost as if nothing has happened in order for everything to happen. It is a meticulous intervention down to the very last technical detail, resulting in a powerful architectural statement. It represents architecture, heritage and intervention at their finest."
Prix Les femmes s’exposent 2023
Image: "Permafrost, le froid n’est plus éternel" © Natalya Saprunova
PHOTOGRAPHY
Natalya Saprunova
Grand Prix Fujifilm x Les femmes s’exposent
Natalya Saprunova is the winner of the Grand Prix Fujifilm x Les femmes s’exposent with her series "Permafrost, le froid n’est plus éternel". The Franco-Russian photojournalist traveled to Yakutia, Russia, to carry out in-depth work on permafrost and the consequences of global warming. Due to global warming, this underground cold that was once considered "eternal" is melting, having many impacts on local people.
Image: "TENHA ORGULHO / Sois fier·e" © Kamila K Stanley
PHOTOGRAPHY
Kamila K Stanley
Prix SAIF x Les femmes s’exposent
Kamila K Stanley is the winner of the Prix SAIF x Les femmes s’exposent with her series "TENHA ORGULHO / Sois fier·e". The British-Polish photographer and director traveled for 4 years in a Brazil hostile to LGBTQIA+ people, where half of the homophobic murders in the world are committed. By associating portraits and images of lush Brazilian vegetation, she draws a parallel between the violence exerted on LGBTQIA+ populations and on the living. Images and testimonies make visible a marginalized community through a story of hope and resistance.
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Baloise Art Prize
Image: Portraits, Sin Wai Kin's work on view at Soft Opening at Art Basel – Statements.
ART
Sky Hopinka
Sin Wai Kin
Baloise Art Prize
Sky Hopinka and Sin Wai Kin are this year’s winners of the Baloise Art Prize, an award given out annually to an artist showing in the Statements section of the Swiss edition of Art Basel. Sky Hopinka's work, the four-channel film Just a Soul Responding, is being shown by New York’s Broadway gallery. The film features images of landscapes with text overlaid referring to colonization and Indigenous histories. Sin Wai Kin's art is being shown by London’s Soft Opening gallery. They are represented by Portraits, five moving-image works featuring deities and fantastical beings, all in service of commentary on masculinity, binaries, and more. Cantonese and Peking Opera influenced the work, and science fiction and drag have inspired past ones.
Taishin Arts Award
Image: Jo-Hung Tang, As You Sleep Worry-Free, The Girls, 2022.
Acrylic, spray paint on masonite, 125 x 300 cm (125 x 150 cm x 2 pcs). © Chi-Hung Chu
ART
Jo-Hung Tang
Grand Prize
As part of the Taishin Arts Award, contemporary art award in Taiwan, Jo-Hung Tang was awarded the Grand Prize for his Jo-Hung Tang: As You Sleep Worry-Free—From Pandemic to War: About disaster crisis like a celebration in one or two different cook methods. Exhibited at Mind Set Art Center, the exhibition theme reflects the changes of the artist’s lifestyle and creative state of mind in the past few years during the pandemic. The jury gives the comments "Jo-hung Tang, through his accomplished artistic expressions, offers astute insights into the distance between disasters and the daily life of the layperson. His unique and humorous aesthetic politics make this distance feel as close as an absurd drama."
Prix de l'Entrepreneuriat AMI x IFM
Image: CACHÍ, Another part of us collection. Photographed by Joanna Hüttner Lemoine.
FASHION
CACHÍ
Prix de l'Entrepreneuriat AMI x IFM
The Prix de l'Entrepreneuriat AMI x IFM was awarded to CACHÍ, a genderless fashion label co-founded by French and Argentinian designers Élise Girault and Belén Frias. Recognised for mixing techniques and references from their two respective countries, Girault, 29, and Frias, 32, use embroidery, tufting and local motifs, like the passionfruit, from Argentina. Cachi is the name of Frias’s father’s village in Argentina. AMI founder and creative director Alexandre Mattiussi praised the beauty and quality of the clothes: "The singular houses are those that are embodied by the person. For me, Paris is my home. With CACHÍ, I travel between Argentina and France."
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Prix de la Société des Arts de Genève
Image: Bea Schlingelhoff, No River to Cross, Kunstverein München, 2021.
Courtesy of the artist and Kunstverein München, Munich. Photo by Constanza Meléndez
ART
Bea Schlingelhoff
Prix de la Société des Arts de Genève
Bea Schlingelhoff was awarded the Prix de la Société des Arts de Genève. The Jury was especially impressed by the way Bea Schlingelhoff’s practice engages with feminist and critical approaches to the history of institutions. The artist, who lives and works in Zurich, sees the art exhibition as both the raw material of her work and the context of the area she focuses on in order to reveal unspoken historical facts and the repressive forces underlying a given situation. Recently, No River to Cross, her solo exhibition at the Kunstverein München which revealed how the institution collaborated and courted favors with the Nazi regime, received widespread critical acclaim.
