Fukuoka Prize 2026
Image: Exhibition view, Ho Tzu Nyen, Jour spectral et contes étranges, LUMA Arles, July 5, 2025 – January 11, 2026. © Victor & Simon / Grégoire d'Ablon
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Ho Tzu Nyen
Fukuoka Prize
Ho Tzu Nyen has won the Fukuoka Grand Prize, the Japanese award which recognises individuals who have significantly contributed to the fields of Asian studies and Asian arts and culture. The Singaporean artist is the first from his country to win the award, now in its thirty-sixth edition. Ho’s installations often address the layered multiplicities of Southeast Asian cultures, invoking history, ghosts and mythologies. In 2019 he curated the Asian Art Biennial in Taiwan and is currently organising the forthcoming Gwangju Biennale, due to open in September.
Bourses ADIAF EMERGENCE 2026
Images: Exhibition view, Tiphaine Calmettes, Soupe Primordiale, Bétonsalon, 2022. © Adagp, Paris, 2022. Photo: Pierre Antoine. Collectif Grapain, Bord de route, 2023. Photo: Matthias Bednasch.
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Tiphaine Calmettes
Collectif Grapain
Bourse Artiste – Appel à candidatures
An initiative launched by ADIAF to support the emerging French art scene, the Bourses ADIAF EMERGENCE provide annual support to artists, art critics and curators under the age of 40 who live and work in France. Tiphaine Calmettes and Collectif Grapain are the recipients of the two grants for artists awarded following the call for applications. Tiphaine Calmettes explores attempts at communication between humans and their environment – or beyond – through everyday objects. Navigating between industrial aesthetics, climate fiction (‘cli-fi’) and a fascination with toxicity, the siblings (Maëva and Arnaud) of the Collectif Grapain use sculpture, installation and video to explore the dystopian realms of the contemporary world.
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EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival 2026
Image: © Daniel Chatard
PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Chatard
Garesio Wine Prize for Documentary Photography
Daniel Chatard won the second edition of the Garesio Wine Prize for Documentary Photography. Part of the EXPOSED Torino Photo Festival 2026 programme, the award celebrates photographic projects that offer an original perspective on the themes of landscape, the environment and ecology. The Franco-German documentary photographer Daniel Chatard was selected by the jury for his authentic and intense visual exploration, characterised by originality, consistency and a focus on small local communities.
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Liberty Art Award
Image: Eole et Lili Wurm, Brûlante avec Patricia Sutil, Brûlantes series. © Eole et Lili Wurm
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eole et Lili Wurm
Liberty Art Award
The duo Eole et Lili Wurm, twin sisters who began working together as teenagers, have won the Liberty Art Award. This sixth edition invited candidates to explore the theme of optimism. Their winning photograph titled Brûlante avec Patricia Sutil, captures a professional MMA fighter during her training in a favela in Rio de Janeiro: "How do these women take a stand and manage to carve out a space for themselves in places where masculinity reigns supreme? […] For us, the optimism in this photo is also about giving visibility to and representing these women for our sisters; it’s about showing that these women continue to fight for their place and proving that our space must expand," explain the artists, whose practice more broadly examines the representation of the body through movement, as well as the idea of femininity in spaces traditionally dominated by men.
Archibald Prize 2026
Image: Richard Lewer, Iluwanti Ken, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 198 x 198 cm.
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Richard Lewer
Archibald Prize
The Art Gallery of New South Wales named Richard Lewer the winner of the 2026 Archibald Prize. The award, considered Australia’s top portrait honor, is presented annually in recognition of the best portrait of an individual "distinguished in art, letters, science or politics" painted by an Australian resident. The New Zealand–born Lewer, a six-time Archibald finalist who lives and works in Melbourne, won the prize for his synthetic-polymer-paint-on-canvas portrait of Pitjantjatjara Elder, senior artist and ngangkaṟi (traditional healer) Iluwanti Ken.
ARCOlisboa 2026
Image: Dayana Lucas, Kairós, 2023. Courtesy of Lehmann.
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Lehmann
Fundação Millennium bcp Award for Best Booth
The Porto-based Lehmann gallery received the Fundação Millennium bcp Award for Best Booth at ARCOlisboa 2026. Lehmann presents a dialogue between Dayana Lucas (1987, Caracas), Maria Paz Aires (1998, Porto) and Marlon de Azambuja (1978, Rio Grande do Sul), which explores the intersections between the body, materiality and invocation as a ritual act, reflecting a broader resurgence of mystical and ritualistic dimensions in contemporary art. Intersecting photography, sculpture, painting and drawing, these artists approach matter and the body as sites of transformation and embodied knowledge. Their practices operate between the intimate and the symbolic, where invocatory gestures summon memories, forces and desires.
Premio Ermanno Casoli
Image: Installation view, FINESTRE, Studio con finestra, Pesaro, Italy. Arianna Pace, Chi è un fiore?, 2026. Glazed terracotta, 9 x 9 cm each. Print on Shiro Echo recycled paper, variable dimensions.
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Arianna Pace
Premio Ermanno Casoli
Fondazione Ermanno Casoli announced the winner of the 24th edition of the Premio Ermanno Casoli. This year’s prize has been awarded to Arianna Pace (Pesaro, 1995). In her artistic practice, Arianna Pace explores the landscape as a cultural and perceptual construct, seeking connections between natural history and human presence. Her work, which bears a resemblance to an archaeological investigation, combines scientific rigour with an attention to cultural and material memory, giving rise to works that reflect a deep care for the local area and its surroundings.
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MJ Long Prize 2026
Image: GRAS, Preston Tower, Prestonpans, Scotland, 2024.
ARCHITECTURE
Natasha Huq
MJ Long Prize
Natasha Huq, an associate at GRAS architects, has won the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2026 for her work on the restoration of Preston Tower in Prestonpans near Edinburgh, a Scheduled Monument. The project has deftly balanced restoration with precise but minimal intervention in the tower’s fabric, stabilising it while opening it to new use. Tight budget constraints called for a careful prioritising of works, in particular to minimise future maintenance. A key element in the success of the project was the collaborative process initiated by Huq that brought client, contractor and local residents into a shared stewardship of the building, which has reinvigorated it as a resilient community asset.
