Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2023
Image: View of the exhibition "INFILTRÉES - 5 manières d'habiter le monde", Acacias Art Center, Paris
Ser Serpas, 2023
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Ser Serpas
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
Ser Serpas is the winner of the Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2023. A young American artist living in Paris, she has been recognized for her artistic approach and the sensitivity of her works, which reflect the tensions that shake today's society. Ser Serpas' works form abstract poems that tell of our relationship to our environment and our ability to make it ours, to reassemble it as much as to sublimate it. The artist is not content to just grapple with the world, she works just as much to reconfigure it aesthetically and conceptually, to propose other imaginaries and other ways of making the world, together.
About the Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
Louis I. Kahn Award
Image: Herzog & de Meuron, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, realization: 2006-2016. ©Iwan Baan
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Herzog & de Meuron
Louis I. Kahn Award
Herzog & de Meuron received the 2023 Louis I. Kahn Award, an award given by the Center for Architecture and Design in Philadelphia. The 2001 Pritzker Prize-winning architectural practice is known for working on projects at every scale – from furniture to territorial studies – and approaching each project without preconceptions. Notable examples of their work include the Tate Modern gallery in London; Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg; National Stadium in Beijing, the main stadium for the 2008 Olympics; and Prada Aoyama in Tokyo. In November 2022, the firm broke ground on the much-anticipated Calder Gardens dedicated to the works of Alexander Calder on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia.
2023 Joan Miró Prize
Image: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, The Boat People, 2020 (still). Single-channel video, 4k, Super 16 mm transferred to digital, colour, 5.1 surround sound. Produced by Bellas Artes Projects and James Cohan, New York. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. © Tuan Andrew Nguyen 2023.
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Joan Miró Prize
Tuan Andrew Nguyen is the winner of the 2023 Joan Miró Prize, awarded by the Fundació Joan Miró with the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, where he was born, in Vietnam. The jury placed special value on the social, political and environmental commitment of Nguyen’s work, which addresses challenging themes related to history, collective memory and the impact of colonialism through rigorous and poetic art projects in which he combines the moving image and sculpture.
Prix Utopi·e 2023
Image: Elijah Ndoumbe, "Let’s Look, Together", 2021. © Elijah Ndoumbe
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Prix Utopi·e
Every year, Utopi·e organizes a call for applications for LGBTQIA+ artists. This year the 10 winning artists are: Maïc Baxane, Nelson Bourrec Carter, Aëla Maï Cabel, Audrey Couppé de Kermadec, Naelle Dariya, Sido Lansari, Elijah Ndoumbe, No Anger, Jordan Roger Barré and Kianuë Tran Kiêu. From diverse generations and practices, the winning artists have in common to articulate biographical elements with an aesthetic of solicitude, catharsis, and participation. They cross multiple subjects, probe the relationships with the living and the body, conquer the economic and ecological forms of artistic productions, seize and free themselves from the formats assigned to them, by exposing, performing and editorializing modern stories.
FRAME Awards
Image: Nightingale ParkLife by Austin Maynard Architects, part of Nightingale Village, Melbourne, Australia, completion: 2022. © Tom Ross
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Nightingale Village
Winner of the Month for May
Nightingale Village is May’s FRAME Awards-winning project. With 203 homes across six buildings, Nightingale Village offers sustainable, community-centric living in Melbourne’s central business district. The co-living complex was a collaboration between Architecture Architecture, Austin Maynard Architects, Breathe, Clare Cousins Architects, Hayball and Kennedy Nolan. Each responsible for one building, the firms worked together to maximize usable space for residents, reduce construction costs, and achieve environmentally sustainable outcomes.
2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Image: Parul Gupta, Notes on Movement- Layer #115, 2022. Ink on Archival Paper. 123 x 142 x 5 cm. Courtesy the artist and The Sovereign Art Foundation.
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Parul Gupta
Grand Prize
Parul Gupta (b. 1980, India) is the Grand Prize winner of the 2023 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Gupta won for her ink on paper work Notes on Movement- Layer #115, in which she layers copies of the same intricate drawing to give the suggestion of movement. She likens the work to a video still. Parul Gupta works around the subject of architectural spaces by countering the question of perception, of how a particular place/space informs the way we see. How a spacial intervention changes our perception of each individual space, as well as our perception of ourselves in that space.
About the Sovereign Asian Art Prize
Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2023
Image: © 2019 Taharqa et la Nuit #1
Juliette Agnel courtesy galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris
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Juliette Agnel
Prix Niépce Gens d’images
Juliette Agnel is the winner of the Prix Niépce Gens d’images 2023. Born in 1973, Juliette Agnel studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris after studying visual arts and ethno-aesthetics at the Université Paris 1. A meeting with Jean Rouch takes her on the roads of Africa where she will work for more than ten years. She continues her research on extreme landscapes and natural forces during an expedition to Greenland in 2018, to Sudan in 2019 and today in the prehistoric caves of Arcy-sur-Cure (2021-2023). This last series, entitled La Main de l’enfant will be exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles in July 2023.
