2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Jian Wai, SOHO, 2004, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Courtesy of Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
ARCHITECTURE
Riken Yamamoto
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, is the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures and housing systems. Deeply embedded in upholding community life, he asserts that the value of privacy has become an urban sensibility, when in fact, members of a community should sustain one another. He defines community as a "sense of sharing one space," deconstructing traditional notions of freedom and privacy while rejecting longstanding conditions that have reduced housing into a commodity without relation to neighbors.
About the Pritzker Architecture Prize
Prix AWARE 2024
Image: Mystère I : Hermaphrodite endormi/e, space view, 12th Paris Biennale, Musée d’art Moderne, 1982. © Klonaris/Thomadaki
ART
Katerina Thomadaki (for her work with Maria Klonaris)
Prix d’honneur
Katerina Thomadaki is the winner of the Prix d’honneur 2024 for her work with Maria Klonaris. The award was created in 2016 to highlight the longevity and quality of the careers of women artists. Katerina Thomadaki and Maria Klonaris, an artistic duo from Athens, Greece, lived and worked in France from 1975. Together, they developed an experimental body of work at the crossroads of art, theatre, film, and aesthetic theory. Their oeuvre, free from the shackles of style or conventional discourse, redefined gender and its representation through the concept of "corporal cinema".
Image: JÍIBIE, 2019, 24 mins, HD, 5.1, DCP. Courtesy Laura Huertas Millán
ART
Laura Huertas Millán
Prix Nouveau Regard
Laura Huertas Millán is the winner of the Prix Nouveau Regard 2024. The award was created in 2022 to highlight mid-career artists. Laura Huertas Millán will benefit from a residency in New York in 2025, organised in partnership with the Villa Albertine and the A.I.R. Gallery, supported by CHANEL, as well as support for publications, exhibitions and long-term production. Laura Huertas Millán is an artist, filmmaker, and writer from Colombia, based in France and Belgium. Her works challenge and dismantle oppressive narratives through experimental fiction-making: sci-fi, speculative fiction, and lo-fi fantasy with a sharp criticism of anthropology.
Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024
Image: Rebecca Bellantoni, Principle concerns/Suppose you focus, installation view of Cites, group show, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, 2023. Photographer: Ben Westoby
ART
Rebecca Bellantoni
Visual Art Fellow
The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 winners were announced, celebrating UK’s rising artists and creatives. London-based artist, Rebecca Bellantoni, has been named Visual Art Fellow. Working across moving image, installation, performance, photography, textiles, printmaking, sculpture, sound-text and ceramics, Rebecca Bellatoni explores everyday occurrences and abstracts them. She investigates the layered lens of Black women’s writing (fiction and nonfiction), psychogeography, philosophy, religion and spirituality, as well as their aesthetics. She gently prises apart the concept of the accepted/expected ‘real’ and the experiential ‘real’; looking at how these removed borders may offer sanative experiences.
About the Arts Foundation Futures Awards
2024 LG Guggenheim Award
Image: Shu Lea Cheang, UKI, 2023. Digital color video, with sound, 80 min.
ART
Shu Lea Cheang
LG Guggenheim Award
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and LG have awarded Shu Lea Cheang the 2024 LG Guggenheim Award. American-Taiwanese-French artist and filmmaker, Shu Lea Cheang, is a Net art pioneer who has experimented with evolving technologies for over thirty years through her impactful and collaborative projects. Since the 1990s, she has engaged emerging technologies in innumerable forms, including as theme, tool and medium, and developed a remarkable understanding of their complexities, as well as insight into their role in shaping society. Her use of code, gaming engines, software design and hacking strategies, as well as traditional mediums like installations, film and performance in her multifaceted projects, reflect her unique approach to artmaking and reject neat categorization.
FRAME Awards
Image: Atelier Meadow, Cashmere Pavilion, client Xingwu and Yetian, Intertextile Shanghai, Autumn 2023. Photo: Edward Shi
DESIGN
Cashmere Pavilion by Atelier Meadow
Winner of the Month for February
Drawing on the production process of cashmere to create an immersive trade fair stand, the winning February project, Cashmere Pavilion, was recognized by the jury for its strong use of material. Atelier Meadow’s design was completed for Chinese cashmere brand Xingwu and Yetian during the Autumn 2023 Edition of Intertextile Shanghai, a textile trade fair. The pavilion is constructed with 100,000 m of steel wire, that is presented in a woven pattern. While it visually reflects the composition of cashmere textiles, the steel wire also functions to display products and the lighting system. Wood and stone were used in conference rooms. Metal mesh subtly divided meeting rooms, creating privacy and continuity in the stand’s composition.
2024 Deutsche Bank Frieze Film Award
Image: Kaylen Ng, The Metamorphosis Project, 2024.
ART
Kaylen Ng
Deutsche Bank Frieze Film Award
Kaylen Ng is the winner of the 2024 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award. The LA-based Singaporean-US filmmaker won for her work The Metamorphosis Project, which was selected by a jury from a shortlist of eight films. In The Metamorphosis Project, Ng examines the problematic relationship we have between experience and reality—a dying man is offered a chance to try a VR palliative care program, only to find himself questioning what it truly means to be alive. The film’s unflashy approach and avoidance of sci-fi tropes allow its core message to be delivered unfiltered: what happens to us when our relationships and sense of self are mediated by technology?
