2025 Met Contemporary Commissions
Image: Installation view, Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 4, 2021–May 2, 2022. Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2022.
Installation view, Jeffrey Gibson, The Body Electric, 2022, SITE Santa Fe. Courtesy of SITE Santa Fe. Photo: Shayla Blatchford.
ART
Jennie C. Jones
Jeffrey Gibson
Met Contemporary Commissions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the artists for its 2025 commissions. Jennie C. Jones (born 1968, Cincinnati, Ohio) will produce her first multi-work outdoor sculptural installation for the Museum’s Roof Garden. She will explore the sonic potential of stringed instruments as well as their formal possibilities. In Jones’s unique response to modernism, these acoustic sculptures propose the line of the string as a proxy for art history, unbroken and continuous. For The Met Fifth Avenue facade, Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972, Colorado Springs, Colorado), a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, will create four figurative sculptures—works that he refers to as ancestral spirit figures.
About the Met Contemporary Commissions
2024 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards
Image: prototype, Readellion Bookstore, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2023. Photo: Yevhenii Avramenko
ARCHITECTURE
Readellion Bookstore by prototype
Interior Architecture Building of the Year
The Readellion Bookstore by prototype in Kyiv, Ukraine, has been named Building of the Year in the Interior Architecture category at the 2024 ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards. The 44 sq.m space is designed to be easily reorganized based on the constantly changing and expanding content. In the middle of the space, there's a custom-designed suspended island that can be raised by a pulley to create room for presentations or book club meetings. During working hours, it serves as a display for new releases.
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Design Doha Prize 2024
Image: Sayar & Garibeh, "Chibroom" Bench, 2023. Stone and raffia, 135 x 45 x 45 cm.
DESIGN
Sayar & Garibeh
Furniture Design Prize
Sayar & Garibeh is the winner of the inaugural Design Doha Prize in the Furniture Design category. The studio was founded by Stephanie Sayar and Charbel Garibeh, Lebanese-based designers, currently living between Paris and Beirut. Their playful approach to design embraces their vision of naive and experimental design with a pinch of humour, using new materials and forms. They create their identity through everyday life experiences, creating bridges between local craftsmanship, artisanal scene and design. At the Design Doha Prize, they presented Rico, a hand-built terracotta furniture series decorated with natural fibres.
Image: Abeer Seikaly, Meeting Points, installation view at Amman Design Week, Ras Al Ain Hangar Exhibition, 2019. Courtesy of Amman Design Week and © Edmund Sumner, 2019
CRAFT
Abeer Seikaly
Craft Prize
Abeer Seikaly is the winner of the Design Doha Prize in the Craft category. A Jordanian-Palestinian interdisciplinary thinker and maker, Abeer Seikaly works across architecture, design, fine art and cultural production. Her practice is grounded in "acts of memory": journaling, documenting, archiving and collecting. She weaves "narrative threads" from these memories. Abeer Seikaly's Design Doha Prize winning project, Meeting Points, combines traditional Bedouin tent-making techniques with contemporary design practices to create a multi-layered structure that is both a work of art as well as a prototype for temporary dwelling.
2024 Schering Stiftung Award
for Artistic Research
Image: Installation view, Sung Tieu: One Thousand Times, 2023. Photo: Gunnar Meier
ART
Sung Tieu
Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research
Scherung Stiftung and KW Institute have announced German-Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu as the winner of the 2024 Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. The jury explained its choice as follows: "In her artistic practice, Sung Tieu combines sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation. Referring to the visual language of minimalism, Tieu researches neglected socio-political histories, often focusing on Cold War-related narratives. An important aspect of her work is the investigation of police, military, and state administrative systems developed to control, condition, and direct human behavior. By referencing design and architecture found in public spaces and administrative institutions, the artist employs both visual and auditory elements to illustrate how power is exerted over individuals."
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2024 Louis I. Kahn Award
Image: Weiss/Manfredi, Seattle Art Museum: Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington, USA. Project Year: 2001-2007. Photo: Benjamin Benschneider
ARCHITECTURE
Weiss/Manfredi
Louis I. Kahn Award
New York-based architecture office Weiss/Manfredi has been named the 37th recipient of the Louis I. Kahn Award, offered by DesignPhiladelphia. The firm, founded by Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, is recognized for its wide range of projects, from cultural institutions to urban landscapes, all demonstrating and responding to contextual conditions, sustainability standards, and centered around the human experience. Notable examples of their work include the Olympic Sculpture Park at the Seattle Museum of Art, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Hunter’s Point South Waterfront Park on the East River in New York.
