FRAME Awards 2026
Image: Atelier Glow, Commune STORE, Wuyi Mountains of Fujian province, China, 2024. Photo: Zhiyi.
DESIGN
Commune STORE by Atelier Glow
Winner of the month for April
April’s winning project Commune STORE by Atelier Glow is nestled in the Wuyi Mountains, China, within a traditional mountain village embraced by encircling peaks, bamboo groves, and terraced fields. The project reimagines a long-abandoned rural primary school, preserving its collective memory while reviving it as a contemporary public space that weaves together dwelling, exchange, and agricultural practice— exploring the evolution of society, culture, and ways of life in a rural context. The building’s walls and structual framework were preserved as texture-enriching surfaces, while many of the furniture and flooring elements were made from salvaged materials.
2025-2027 Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Image: Dian Suci, Searching Land in the Land Word, 2022. Acrylic on transparent fabric, acrylic sheets, stones. Variable dimensions. © and ph. Dian Suci
ART
Dian Suci
Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Dian Suci is the winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. She will embark on a six-month travelling residency in Italy. The project proposal with which Suci won the prize is titled Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice. It springs from her desire to explore the fallout of the encounter between religious artisan traditions and the capitalist system, through a comparative study of Italy and Indonesia. With the guidance of experts in specific fields and through research, site visits and work in the studio, Suci will explore the silent flow of spirituality moving through bodies, hands, and materials, even within the process of mass production and commoditization.
About the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture
Image: DAAR, Mourning in the Concrete Tent, Sharjah Architectural Triennial, 2023.
Photo: Edmund Sumner for Sharjah Architectural Triennial.
ART | ARCHITECTURE
DAAR
Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture
Storefront for Art and Architecture has announced that DAAR—Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, an architecture/art practice convened by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (Bethlehem; Stockholm), has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture. For over two decades, DAAR has produced a body of work that is both intellectually rigorous and politically grounded, addressing spatial and territorial injustices through research, design, pedagogy, and public engagement.
About the Kyong Park Prize for Art and Architecture
Belfast Photo Festival 2026
Image: Louise Desnos, Acedia series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Louise Desnos
Spotlight Award
French photographer based in Paris, Louise Desnos is the first of two winners of the 2026 Spotlight Award for her project Acedia. Acediareflects on laziness, idleness and introspection as both a personal state and a quiet form of resistance. Through images of stillness, drift and everyday non-events, Louise Desnos explores time, doubt and the fragile line between freedom and melancholy.
Image: Laura Pannack, The Journey Home From School series.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Laura Pannack
Spotlight Award
The second winner is London-based photographic artist Laura Pannack, for her project The Journey Home From School. The project explores the daily walk to and from school in Cape Town’s gang-governed Cape Flats, where the threat of violence shapes ordinary childhood routines. Made collaboratively with young participants, the work offers an intimate portrait of adolescence, danger and resilience. As cameras pass between Pannack and the young participants, the project unfolds through dialogue and collaboration. Working with analogue photography, drawing, poetry, collage and cyanotypes, they create an open-ended body of work that reflects the complexity and contradictions of adolescence.
About the Belfast Photo Festival
AJ Small Projects 2026
Image: Bricolage, Castlands Road, Catford, London, 2023.
ARCHITECTURE
Castlands Road by Bricolage
Overall Winner
Castlands Road by Bricolage has been named the Overall Winner of the Architects' Journal Small Projects awards 2026. Set on a quiet residential street in Catford, Castlands Road is a small, personal work of architecture. Designed and self-built by Will Howard as a home for his young family, the project transforms the end of a back garden into a generous three-bedroom house, built with limited means and attention to how resources are used. The process used to make this house, demonstrates a viable and accessible pathway for citizens and communities to make better, more resilient homes for themselves.
2026 Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship
Image: Taeyoon Choi, We Tricked Rocks to Think, 2026. Acrylics on canvas, 5.32 x 25.5 feet. Graphic design by Beomjun Kim. Forever Gallery, Seoul.
Photo: H SPACE.
ART
Taeyoon Choi
Rhonda Holberton
LIZN'BOW
Miguel Novelo
Wes Taylor
Knight Arts + Tech Fellowship
Taeyoon Choi, Rhonda Holberton, LIZN'BOW, Miguel Novelo and Wes Taylor are the five new media artists named as Knight Arts + Tech Fellows. The 2026 Knight Arts + Tech Fellows works across media art, technology, performance, and community practice, united by a deep commitment to reimagining technology as a social, cultural, and embodied system rather than a purely technical or commercial one. Across their varied practices, their work collectively explores technology’s capacity to function as an active participant in shaping or redefining our human relationships and environments.
