Serpentine Pavilion 2024
Image: Serpentine Pavilion 2024 designed by Minsuk Cho, Mass Studies. Design render, exterior view. Photo © Mass Studies Courtesy: Serpentine
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Minsuk Cho — Mass Studies
Serpentine Pavilion
Serpentine announced that Seoul-based Korean architect Minsuk Cho and his firm Mass Studies have been selected to design the 23rd Pavilion. Mass Studies’ Pavilion will be unveiled at Serpentine South on 5 June 2024. Titled Archipelagic Void, the Pavilion will consist of five "islands" designed around an open space. Mass Studies envisions a void defined by a series of smaller, adaptable structures located at its periphery, intertwining with the park’s natural ecology and its temporal conditions. The central void will act like the madang, a small courtyard found in old Korean houses, accommodating rich spatial narratives ranging from individual everyday activities to large collective events.
Artes Mundi 10 Prize
Image: Taloi Havini, Habitat, 2017. Three-channel, 16:9, HD, colour, 5.1 surround sound, 10:40 minutes. Installation view, Mostyn, Artes Mundi 10, 2023-24. Photo: Stuart Whipps.
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Taloi Havini
Artes Mundi Prize
With Bagri Foundation, Artes Mundi, UK’s biennial exhibition and international contemporary art prize, has announced Taloi Havini as the winner of the Artes Mundi 10 Prize. Taloi Havini is a multidisciplinary artist using a range of media including photography, audio–video, sculpture, immersive installation and print, to probe intersections of history, identity, and nation-building within the matrilineal social structures of her birthplace, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. At Mostyn gallery, Havini presents a major immersive video installation, Habitat. The three-channel work continues her ongoing investigation into the legacy of resource extraction and Australia’s fraught relationship in the Pacific.
artgenève 2024
Image: Pascal Vonlanthen, Zweitewelle, 50x70 cm, 2020.
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Pascal Vonlanthen — Lovay Fine Arts
Prix Solo artgenève-F.P.Journe
At artgenève 2024, the Prix Solo artgenève-F.P.Journe was awarded to the gallery Lovay Fine Arts for the Solo Show of Pascal Vonlanthen. Pascal Vonlanthen was born in 1957, he lives and works in Fribourg, Switzerland. Since 2014, Vonlanthen has drawn the raw material for his work from the texts, headlines and illustrations of local and international printed newspapers. As an illiterate person with cognitive dysfunctions, he interprets printed typography, advertisements, weather reports and other illustrations by hand. Unlike advertising copywriters who produce data in an attempt to capture our attention, Vonlanthen writes in such a way as to subvert its intelligibility.
Image: Deborah-Joyce Holman and Yara Dulac Gisler, Unless, installation view, 2021. Three-channel 4k film, 16:43 minutes. Photo: Gunnar Meier. Courtesy: Explorers Film Club and the artists.
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Deborah-Joyce Holman
Prix Mobilière
Deborah-Joyce Holman was awarded the Prix Mobilière 2024, they were nominated by Laurence Schmidlin, director of the Musée d’art du Valais. Deborah-Joyce Holman is a multidisciplinary artist based between London, UK, and Basel, Switzerland. In their work, they address the issue of the representation of people of colour and queer identity in society and popular culture. They explore representation and its limits, discourses, forms of communication and the instrumentalisation of identities at the crossroads between politics and poetry.
Mennour Emergence
Image: Nina Jayasuriya, untitled, 2023. Exhibition view magē gedara magē pansala, 2023.
© Nina Jayasuriya. Photo: Tristan Chevillard
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Lucie Antoinette
Joséphine Berthou
Thibault Hiss
Nina Jayasuriya
Nicolas Kyrillou
Sehyoung Lee
Mennour Emergence
The Mennour Institute announced the six winning artists who will benefit from the first "Mennour Emergence" program. They are: Lucie Antoinette, she paints aquatic, terrestrial and celestial landscapes, and dreamlike visions of nature; Joséphine Berthou, her films and installations are inspired by encounters with strangers and their environments; Thibault Hiss, his hybrid sculptural practice involves assembling fables with industrial objects and materials; Nina Jayasuriya, through ceramic, oil painting, tattooing, she archives images which pay homage to the link between profane and sacred; Nicolas Kyrillou, using the Buffer Zone that divides Cyprus in two as a starting point, he explores the memory of territories; and Sehyoung Lee, his performances, installations and poetry explore the indeterminate point of intersection between his body, where it comes from and the space it inhabits.
2023 Foundwork Artist Prize
Image: Valerie Asiimwe Amani, To Dismantle a House, installation and performance, 2022.
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Valerie Asiimwe Amani
Foundwork Artist Prize
Tanzanian artist and writer, Valerie Asiimwe Amani currently based in Oxford, UK, has been awarded the 2023 Foundwork Artist Prize. Working through various physical and embodied mediums, Amani's practice interrogates the ways in which body erotics, language, and the mythical are used to situate (or isolate) the self within community. "Among many outstanding submissions, Valeria Asiimwe Amani’s work stood out for her captivating and compelling approach to performance. Amani’s wide-ranging works mix media in order to combine the artist’s subjectivity with narrative, through the lens of folklore and history." said jury member Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
About the Foundwork Artist Prize
2024 USA Fellowship
Image: María Magdalena Campos-Pons, De Las Dos Aguas (Of the Two Waters), 2007. Composition of twelve Polaroid Polacolor Pro photographs, framed: approx. 80x90 in. (203.2x228.6 cm) overall. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida; promised gift of David Horvitz and Francie Bishop Good.
© María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Photo: courtesy of the artist
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USA Fellowship
The Chicago-based nonprofit United States Artists (USA) announced the 2024 USA Fellows, a class of 50 awardees, encompassing both artists and collectives from ten creative disciplines: Architecture & Design, Craft, Dance, Film, Media, Music, Theater & Performance, Traditional Arts, Visual Art and Writing. This year, four artists and two collectives won in the Visual Art category. They are New York–based Trisha Baga, San Juan–based Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Los Angeles–based EJ Hill, and Nashville-based María Magdalena Campos-Pons, as well as New Red Order, which comprises Indigenous artists Adam Khalil, Jackson Polys, and Zack Khalil, and Fronterizx Collective, which consists of Gabriela Muñoz and M. Jenea Sanchez.
