Biennale Arte 2024
Image: Pavilion of Australia, kith and kin, 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Matteo de Mayda.
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Archie Moore - Australia
Golden Lion for Best National Participation
The Golden Lion for Best National Participation went to Australia for Archie Moore's exhibition kith and kin, curated by Ellie Buttrose. Archie Moore worked for months to hand-draw with chalk a monumental First Nations family tree. Thus 65,000 years of history (both recorded and lost) are inscribed on the dark walls as well as on the ceiling, asking viewers to fill in blanks and take in the inherent fragility of this mournful archive. Floating in a moat of water are redacted official State records, reflecting Moore’s intense research as well as the high rates of incarceration of First Nations’ people. This installation stands out for its strong aesthetic, its lyricism, and its invocation of shared loss for occluded pasts. A special mention went to the Republic of Kosovo for Doruntina Kastrati's The Echoing Silences of Metal and Skin, curated by Erëmirë Krasniqi.
Image: Mataaho Collective, Takapau (2022). Polyester hi-vis tiedowns, stainless steel buckles and j-hooks. Site specific reconfiguration, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere. Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Marco Zorzanello.
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Mataaho Collective
Golden Lion for Best Participant in the International Exhibition
Aotearoa New Zealand's Mataaho Collective received the award for Best Participant in the International Exhibition, with special mentions going to Samia Halaby and La Chola Poblete. The Māori Mataaho Collective has created a luminous woven structure of straps that poetically crisscross the gallery space. Referring to matrilinear traditions of textiles with its womb-like cradle, the installation is both a cosmology and a shelter. Its impressive scale is a feat of engineering that was only made possibly by the collective strength and creativity of the group. The dazzling pattern of shadows cast on the walls and floor harks back to ancestral techniques and gestures to future uses of such techniques.
2024 Turner Prize
Nominees
Image: Pio Abad,1897.76.36.18.6, 2023. India ink and screen print on heritage wood free paper, 1016 x 686 mm. Courtesy the artist. © Pio Abad.
Installation view of Claudette Johnson: Drawn Out at Ortuzar Projects, New York, 2023. Courtesy of Ortuzar Projects, New York and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Tim Doyon. © Claudette Johnson.
Installation view of Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar at Tramway, Glasgow 2023. Courtesy of Tramway and Glasgow Life. Photo: Keith Hunter.
Installation view of Delaine Le Bas, Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginningat Secession, Vienna 2023. Courtesy of Secession, Vienna. Photo © Iris Ranzinger
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Pio Abad
Claudette Johnson
Jasleen Kaur
Delaine Le Bas
Turner Prize Nominee
Nominees for the 2024 Turner Prize are Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur and Delaine Le Bas. Pio Abad is nominated for his solo exhibition To Those Sitting in Darkness at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, highlighting overlooked histories of artefacts and drawing parallels with familiar household items. Claudette Johnson's solo exhibitions Presence at the Courtauld Gallery, London and Drawn Out at Ortuzar Projects, New York have earned her nomination for the prize. Jasleen Kaur is nominated for Alter Altar at Glasgow's Tramway, addressing family memory and community struggle. Delaine Le Bas has been nominated for her solo exhibition at Secession, Vienna, Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning, where she transformed the gallery through theatrical costumes, sculptures and painted hung fabrics.
About the Turner Prize Nominees
Grand Prix artistique 2024
Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Image: Pierre Huyghe, After Alife Ahead (2017). Ice rink concrete floor, sand, clay, phreatic water, bacteria, algae, bee, chimera peacock; Aquarium: black switchable glass, conus textile; Incubator, human cancer cells; Genetic algorithm; Augmented reality; Automated ceiling structure; Rain; Ammoniac; Logic game. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Ola Rindal. © Pierre Huyghe/ADAGP, Paris (2017).
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Pierre Huyghe
Grand Prix artistique
Conceptual artist, filmmaker and philosopher Pierre Huyghe (b. 1962) has become renowned for works that explore themes of pleasure, adventure and celebration. Through his exhibitions, films and public performances, he creates situations that examine the boundary between reality and fantasy. His varied works often take permeable forms, mixing living systems, videos and objects, each time inventing a new format and a new language. In his exhibitions, the visitor becomes an actor in a reality that is framed but not imprisoned. Never the culmination of a project, his exhibitions are only one stage in it. Projects are extended, told, shared, stopped and started again.
About the Grand Prix artistique Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives 2024
Image: Clédia Fourniau, Colombes 165 green, 2023. Polymeric preparation, acrylic ink, dye, mica, vinylic paint, resin on textile, 165 x 117 x 7.5 cm.
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Clédia Fourniau
Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
For its third edition, Reiffers Art Initiatives decided to reward the work of artist Clédia Fourniau. Born in 1992, the artist was in the running alongside Majd Abdel Hamid, Alex Ayed, Garance Früh and Aïcha Snoussi, whose work is on show from 26 April to 8 June as part of the group exhibition (RE)GENERATION, curated by Vittoria Matarrese. "This prize is an immense honor and will enable my work to be seen. In a period when abstract painting is less visible, and as a young woman who approaches the painting in a very physical relationship, I’m particularly happy that it’s this type of painting that is being rewarded," declared Clédia Fourniau.
About the Prix Reiffers Art Initiatives
BelgianArtPrize 2025
Image: Suchan Kinoshita, Architektonische Psychodramen, installation views and details, P/////AKT, 2022. Photo: Charlott Markus, courtesy of P/////AKT Amsterdam.
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Suchan Kinoshita
BelgianArtPrize
The winner of the BelgianArtPrize 2025 is Suchan Kinoshita (b. 1960), a German-Japanese artist living in Brussels. Embracing different disciplines, at the crossroads of theatre, music and architecture, Suchan Kinoshita's multimedia installations resonate with her past as a stage director. The passage of time, the construction of memories and the viewer's relationship to the work in a given space are instilled in many of her projects: at P/////AKT, Amsterdam in 2022, for example, she showed her Architektonische Psychodramen (Architectural Psychodramas), a clever mix of objects, texts and songs referencing Japanese culture, fashion, childhood and pop culture.
Prix Rubis Mécénat 2024
Image: Charlotte Simonnet, project sketch Saint-Eustache church. © Charlotte Simonnet
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Charlotte Simonnet
Prix Rubis Mécénat
Charlotte Simonnet is the 2024 winner of the Prix Rubis Mécénat in collaboration with Saint-Eustache and the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Charlotte Simonnet (b. 2000) will be unveiling an installation at Saint-Eustache church in the autumn, rooted in the spirit of the place and the people who bring it to life. "It's the community, the connection between the church and its inhabitants, this close union that has guided the creation of my pieces," confides the 4th year student at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, whose sculptural work, combining metal, concrete and wood, brings together nature, the industrial world and ornamentation.
Prix Carta Bianca 2024
Image: Diego Cibelli, When I was the sky itself, detail, 2023. Shaped and decorated by hand – biscuit porcelain with colored pigments, 90 x 35 x 22 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Alfonso Artiaco.
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Diego Cibelli
Premier Prix
Diego Cibelli lives and works in Naples, Italy. With a centuries-old tradition in Naples, ceramics is now his preferred medium. Ceramics have played an important role in Italian art, from Fontana to a generation of young artists seeking to redefine the territories of this medium. Diego Cibelli possesses this attentive and sensitive eye for the peripheral, the marginal, to create intriguing installations that are part of the present while drawing inspiration from the forms and traditions of the past. They are suspended between myth and reality, where rituals and everyday objects take on new meaning.
Fuorisalone Award 2024
Image: Lasvit, Re/Creation, Palazzo Isimbardi, 2024 Milan Design Week. © Lasvit
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Re/Creation - Lasvit
Fuorisalone Award
Lasvit's Re/Creation is the winner of the 2024 Fuorisalone Award. Presented at Palazzo Isimbardi during the 2024 Milan Design Week, Re/Creation is a monumental outdoor fused glass installation designed by Art Director Maxim Velcovsky, which redefines the relationship between glass and architecture and invites visitors to experience the magic of Lasvit's creations and the boundless possibilities of glass.
