Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2026
Image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Paper Drop (Star) (2006). Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York. © Centre Pompidou.
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Wolfgang Tillmans
Roswitha Haftmann Prize
German contemporary artist Wolfgang Tillmans is the winner of the Roswitha Haftmann Prize 2026. Throughout his career Wolfgang Tillmans has challenged the potentiality of making pictures and has brought a new kind of subjectivity to photography. He explores traditional genres such as portraiture, still life, or landscape with a constant interest in the limits of visibility by pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique, thus questioning the existing values and hierarchies. Through the integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, Tillmans expands conventional ways of approaching photography and addresses the fundamental question of what it means to create pictures in an increasingly image-saturated world.
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Grand Prix artistique 2026
Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Image: Bruno Perramant, Feu pâle n°2, 2019, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm.
© Thomas Lannes © ADAGP, Paris, 2026
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Bruno Perramant
Grand Prix artistique
Bruno Perramant is the winner of the Grand Prix artistique 2026 de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca. Born in 1962 in Brest, Bruno Perramant has built a body of work in which painting functions as a ‘contre image’: a space of friction between the real and the imaginary, personal memory and collective narratives. His canvases and polyptychs orchestrate visual collisions between art history, cinema, literature and biographical fragments. Through cut-outs, ellipses and sudden appearances, he composes mental sequences in which History and stories overlap. His exploration of colour – particularly his unique use of blue – opens up an unstable, almost gaseous space in which fragmented figures, suspended gestures and latent tensions emerge.
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Prix de sculpture 2026
Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Image: Kader Attia, Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2024, carved wood. Coll. particulière. © ADAGP, Paris, 2024. Courtesy Kader Attia, Galerie Nagel Draxler, mor Charpentier. Photo: Laurent Lecat.
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Kader Attia
Prix de sculpture
Kader Attia is the winner of the Prix de sculpture 2026 de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca. French Algerian artist, curator, and educator Kader Attia is a leading figure on the international contemporary art scene and winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2016. He has been appointed curator of the Seventh Kochi-Muziris Biennale, to open in Kochi, India, in December 2027. Attia is known for multifaceted practice addressing themes such as social injustice, marginalized communities, and postcolonialism.
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Prix Photo Sociale 2026
Image: La longue saison © François Le Guen
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François Le Guen
Grand Prix Photo Sociale
François Le Guen has been awarded the Grand Prix Photo Sociale 2026 for his work La longue saison. Somewhere in Provence, a remote hamlet is home to a community offering refuge to people whose lives have been damaged or marginalised: those who have suffered social or personal breakdowns, are going through withdrawal, are homeless, or have been wandering for a long time. This place provides a form of shelter when all other options seem impossible. La longue saison is a photographic tale of a collective quest for reconstruction: a record of what unfolds there, on the fringes of the established institutions, where each person tries to rediscover a sense of self and a place in the world.
2026 Sam Gilliam Award
Image: Edgar Calel, installation view, Edgar Calel: B’alab’äj (Jaguar Stone), SculptureCenter, New York, 2023. Soil, rocks, audio, carved wood, hoes, candles, and offerings. Dimensions variable. Courtesy the artist and Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City. Commissioned by SculptureCenter, New York and Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam. Photo: Charles Benton.
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Edgar Calel
Sam Gilliam Award
The Dia Art Foundation and the Sam Gilliam Foundation have named Edgar Calel as the winner of the 2026 Sam Gilliam Award. A visual artist and poet, Calel’s multidisciplinary practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation, and performance. Deeply rooted in his Maya Kaqchikel heritage, Calel engages ancestral knowledge systems, ritual practices, and the cultural traditions of Guatemala’s midwestern highlands, where he lives and works. Drawing on materials, language, and sites connected to his hometown, his work foregrounds Indigenous experiences and addresses histories of colonialism, systemic exclusion, and cultural erasure.
Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2026
Image: behind the glass, minsk, 2005 © Alexandra Catiere
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Alexandra Catiere
Prix Niépce Gens d’images
Alexandra Catiere is the winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2026. For over three decades, Alexandra Catiere has been building a body of work centred on encounters, both with her subjects and with the unexpected. "‘Dialogue’ is the key word in my work," she explains in the artist’s statement accompanying her portfolio. "I am in touch with the subject and the moment, but also with the chemistry and all the accidents that can happen during the creative process. Ideas arise from the matter. That is why I love working with film so much. The creative process takes place largely after the shot is taken, during development, and as the image takes shape in the print."
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2026 UIA Gold Medal
Image: Eduardo Souto de Moura, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal, 2009.
Courtesy of Souto de Moura Arquitectos. Photo: Luís Ferreira Alves.
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Eduardo Souto de Moura
UIA Gold Medal
Eduardo Souto de Moura (Porto, 25 July 1952) is a Portuguese architect whose work has profoundly shaped contemporary architecture through its clarity, intellectual rigour, and enduring engagement with place. Emerging from the Porto School and shaped by his early collaboration with Álvaro Siza, he has developed a singular architectural language that navigates between abstraction and material presence, continuity and transformation. Notable projects include the Estádio Municipal de Braga, carved into a former quarry; the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, known for its terracotta-hued volumes; and the Cultural Center of Viana do Castelo, designed to look more like a machine than a building.
2026 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award
Image: Guilty Grounds © Steffi Reimers / courtesy Contour Gallery
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Steffi Reimers
Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award
Steffi Reimers, represented by Contour Gallery, Rotterdam, is the winner of the 2026 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award. Reimers is a Dutch photographer whose long-term projects look at history, loss and the things that are often left out of sight. Her winning project, Guilty Grounds, was made in Calabria, Southern Italy, and considers the landscape in relation to the crimes and influence of the ‘Ndrangheta. Working with specialised lighting, Reimers brings out traces in the land that might otherwise go unnoticed: marks, textures, fragments and signs of past violence. The series asks how much a place can carry, and how photography might reveal what remains after an event has passed.
