2024 Soane Medal
Image: Town House – Kingston University, London, United Kingdom, 2020, designed by Grafton Architects, structural design by Hanif Kara's practice AKT II. © Ed Reeve
ARCHITECTURE
Hanif Kara
Soane Medal
Structural engineer and AKT II co-founder Hanif Kara has been named the winner of this year's Soane Medal for "realising some of the most recognisable architectural projects across the globe". Since co-founding London-based firm AKT II with Albert Williamson-Taylor and Robin Adams in 1996, Kara has overseen the engineering of several high-profile projects, including four Stirling Prize-winning buildings. Stirling Prize-winning projects in Kara's portfolio include the Peckham Library in London by Will Alsop, the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge by Stanton Williams, Bloomberg's European headquarters in London by Foster + Partners and Kingston University London – Town House by Grafton Architects.
Prix Viviane Esders 2024
Image: Quotidien series © Jean-Claude Delalande
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jean-Claude Delalande
Prix Viviane Esders
The Prix Viviane Esders has been awarded every year since 2022 to celebrate the work of a European photographer over the age of sixty. This year, the prize was awarded to Parisian photographer Jean-Claude Delalande for hisQuotidien series, which depicts his family environment. Black-and-white stagings and self-portraits, with an almost surreal contrasts, chronicle the ordinary and eclectic aspects of his life as a couple and as a family, in a long-term project that began in 1993.
2024 OBEL Award
Image: Colectivo C733, Tapachula Station, Mexico, 2021. © Rafael Gamo. Courtesy of the OBEL Award
ARCHITECTURE
Colectivo C733
OBEL Award
The 2024 OBEL Award has been awarded to a body of 36 public works by Colectivo C733. The projects, all of them located in Mexico, were completed in just 36 months. Initiated as part of a nationwide effort by SEDATU (Mexico’s Secretariat for Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development), the 36×36 projects revitalised vulnerable urban and rural areas across Mexico through a collaborative and community-focused approach. This aligns with the OBEL Award's 6th cycle overarching theme, ‘Architectures With’, highlighting initiatives that positively impact both people and the planet.
Prix COAL 2024
Image: Sequana, performance, Nuit Blanche 2023, MAC VAL. In collaboration with choreographer Anne Collod and carnyx player Samuel Meric. Production: MAC VAL, Galerie Municipale Jean Collet, Atelier des Ardoines. © Fernanda Tafner
ART
Yan Tomaszewski
Prix COAL
The Prix COAL 2024 was awarded to Yan Tomaszewski for his Sequanaproject. Through it, he proposes to renew the imaginary of the Seine by reactivating another possible relationship with the river, based on dialogue, empathy and care. Starting with the thousands of ex-voto offerings once made to Sequana, the healing goddess of the Seine, this long-term project is based on the creation of multiple processes: sculptures to purify the river and measure its pollutants, gestures of offering and neo-Pagan rituals, co-creation of a collective of Guardians around the attribution of a legal personality to the river, participation in activist movements against a destructive riverside project, scientific collaborations and the making of a film.
Prix Matsutani 2024
Image: Mathieu Bonardet, Three Blocks, 2024, graphite on paper, 174 x 107 cm. © Samuel Chasseur
ART
Mathieu Bonardet
Prix Matsutani
Mathieu Bonardet was awarded the Prix Matsutani 2024, he is represented by the galerie etc. in Paris and the Michèle Schoonjans Gallery in Brussels. Artist Hélène Delprat, who nominated this year's artists said: "Of the four artists nominated for the prize, Mathieu Bonardet's rigour, concentration and passion for black graphite make him the one whose work most closely resembles that of Matsutani. Great economy of means. Repetition of gestures like a ritual. Consideration of time. He is also interested in body movement and actions, which he films regularly. In this way, he combines drawing, the body and film, and explores volume in close relation to his drawing. I love his determination."
2024 Sigg Art Prize
Image: Dana-Fiona Armour, Alvinella Ophis, 2024. Courtesy the artist
ART
Dana-Fiona Armour
Sigg Art Prize
Paris-based German artist-researcher Dana-Fiona Armour, whose work explores the symbiosis between species, was awarded the 2024 Sigg Art Prize for a contemporary art project that incorporates AI. Revealed at Asprey Studio in London during Frieze Week, Armour's winning work, Alvinella Ophis, responds to the theme ‘Future Desert’ with a 3D-animated video installation set in a dystopian desert devastated by ecological disaster. There lives the hybrid species Alvinella Ophis, a combination of the Pompeii worm and the snake, symbolising evolutionary resilience and probing the significance of humanity in a non-anthropocentric world.
Frieze London 2024
Image: Nat Faulkner, Sculpture, 2024. Chromogenic print on Fulifilm Crystal Archive paper, 90 x 120 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Brunette Coleman, London
ART
Nat Faulkner
Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize
London-based artist Nat Faulkner has won the 2024 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze London. Faulkner, represented by Brunette Coleman in the Focus section, will have a solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2025 as part of the award. Faulkner calls analogue photography a ‘magical practice’, embracing the variables of chemistry, environmental factors and time, and refers to early pioneers of photography, such as Henry Fox Talbot. His parallel sculpture practice also reflects a recontextualizing of the technology of the past.
PAD London 2024
Image: Laffanour Galerie Downtown PAD London Booth. Untitled by Peter Schlesinger, 2021, glazed stoneware, presented by Tristan Hoare. Plaster medallion with a decor of a woman and two birds by Alberto Giacometti, unique piece, circa 1938, presented by Galerie Jacques Lacoste.
DESIGN
PAD London Prize
The 2024 PAD London Prizes have been awarded. Laffanour Galerie Downtown received the Booth Prize. The Contemporary Design Prize went to the work of New York-based artist Peter Schlesinger, the focal point of a presentation by London gallery Tristan Hoare, which is debuting at this year’s fair. The Historical Design Prize was awarded to a plaster medallion with a decor of a woman and two birds by Alberto Giacometti, a unique piece (circa 1938) presented by the Galerie Jacques Lacoste.
