Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2026
Image: Rene Matić, Jabari Gooden memorial flowers, Peckham, London, 2022.
© Rene Matić. Courtesy the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rene Matić
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Rene Matić, the 29-year old London-based artist, who was nomiated for the Turner Prize last year, has won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2026. Rene Matić was awarded the Prize for their 2025 exhibition “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH”, at CCA Berlin, Germany. Featuring newly produced photographs, installations and sound pieces, “AS OPPOSED TO THE TRUTH” is rooted in identity and belonging, subculture, class and family. Matić’s diaristic, snapshot-like photography captures everyday moments with poetic intimacy. The photographs, combined with collected objects, film and sound, form a vivid and layered portrait of contemporary life.
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Prix AWARE 2026
Image: Soun Gui Kim, Sek-Don poème, 1983. Courtesy the artist.
ART
Soun Gui Kim
Prix d'honneur
AWARE : Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions held its tenth annual contemporary art prize ceremony. Soun Gui Kim has been awarded the Prix d’honneur, granted to an artist with a career spanning over 40 years. Soun Gui Kim is a multimedia artist, poet, and teacher of South Korean origin who has lived in France since 1971. Initially trained in painting, she moved away from it in the 1970s through her ‘Situations plastiques’, participatory, outdoor performances aiming to take art out of museums to confront the elements. In the 1980s, she deepened her interest in video art, collaborating with figures like Nam June Paik and John Cage, and nourishing her work with both Eastern and Western philosophies. Her practice explores emptiness, impermanenece, and advocates for non-productive art.
Image: Laura Gozlan, Dead Fingers Talk, 2021. Production CNAP. © Laura Gozlan.
ART
Laura Gozlan
Prix Nouveau Regard
Laura Gozlan has been awarded the Prix Nouveau Regard, granted to a mid-career artist. Laura Gozlan lives and works in Paris, informed by multiple references, her films stage abrupt situations and ambiguous characters, oscillating between desire and dissatisfaction within contrasting environments. Through a series of microfictions in which she performs, Laura Gozlan documents the transformations of ‘MuM’, an androgynous figure navigating different ages and altered states of consciousness. Marked by an aesthetics of prosthetics and senescence, her works blur the boundaries of the post-human body.
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026
Image: Jongjin Park, Strata of Illusion, porcelain, paper, dye and glaze, 2025.
CRAFT
Jongjin Park
Craft Prize
Jongjin Park has been awarded the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2026 for Strata of Illusion. Jongjin Park’s seat-like form explores the tension between control and collapse, constructed as a dense, rectilinear mass formed from thousands of layered sheets of paper coated in coloured porcelain slip. The jury chose the work for its ability to confound expectations of what ceramics can be, revealing a sculptural presence that is both unexpected and purposeful. Although rooted in porcelain, the work speaks to multiple craft traditions: the use of air to establish form evokes glassblowing, while the layering of paper gestures at bookbinding.
The works by all 30 finalists are on view at the National Gallery Singapore until 14 June 2026.
Images: Baba Tree Master Weavers × Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, Frafra Tapestry, natural elephant grass, 2024. Graziano Visintin, Collier, gold and niello, 2025.
CRAFT
Baba Tree Master Weavers × Álvaro Catalán de Ocón
Graziano Visintin
Special Mention
Baba Tree Master Weavers × Álvaro Catalán de Ocón were awarded a Special Mention for the piece Frafra Tapestry. This large-scale, woven tapestry by eight master weavers is based on aerial photography of a traditional village in Ghana’s Gurunsi region. The jury admired it for its use of contemporary technology with ancestral weaving knowledge, and celebrated the cross-continent artistic endeavour to record the collective memory of a threatened architectural tradition and way of life.
Graziano Visintin also received a Special Mention for the piece Collier. The two necklaces are composed of tiny cubes built from thin sheets of gold and decorated with niello; an ancient metalworking technique. The jury were impressed by Visintin’s skilled and unusual use of niello to create a contemporary piece of jewellery, and admired the painterly way in which he applied the niello to the gold, creating an effect of endless miniature paintings elegantly strung together.
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Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize 2026
Image: Dolorosa, MADRE series, 2020 © Marisol Mendez
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marisol Mendez
Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize
Bolivian artist Marisol Mendez is the winner of the 2026 Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize for her work MADRE. Piecing together past memories and current observations, MADRE explores the influence of race and religion in shaping the perception and representation of Bolivian women. The series was conceived to challenge the embedded machismo and celebrate the diversity and complexity of the Bolivian culture through the portrayal of its women. The project became a cathartic experience that allowed Marisol Mendez to (re)connect to her female lineage and through it (re)invent the history of Bolivia.
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Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize
Image: Voix I, 2019-2021. Sumi ink, red calligraphy ink, ink, stamp ink, colored pencil, pencil, receipt, calligraphy paper, manuscript paper 44.5 x 44 cm. © Gozo Yoshimasu. Courtesy Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.
ART
Gozo Yoshimasu
Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize
Serpentine and the FLAG Art Foundation announced that Gozo Yoshimasu has been awarded the inaugural Serpentine x FLAG Art Foundation Prize. Having emerged from Tokyo’s interdisciplinary avant-garde of the 1960s, Yoshimasu has developed a distinctive practice that combines poetry with performance, audio recordings, photography and his own moving-image form known asgozoCiné. Gozo Yoshimasu will stage a solo exhibition that debuts at Serpentine North in autumn 2027, followed by a presentation reimagined for the FLAG Art Foundation in New York in spring 2028.
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Frieze New York 2026
Image: Seba Calfuqueo, Caminantes. Courtesy W—galería.
ART
W—galería
Focus Stand Prize
The winner of the annual Focus Stand Prize at Frieze New York has been announced, with the 2026 award going to Buenos Aires’s W—galería for its solo presentation of Indigenous Chilean artist Seba Calfuqueo. Rooted in their Mapuche and queer identities, Calfuqueo’s work is notable for its use of synthetic hair, standing as a symbol of the collision of the intimate and political. Also employing ceramics, photography and video, their work explores the body as a place of memory and resistance.
