Biennale Arte 2024
Image: Anna Maria Maiolino, Indo e Vindo [Coming and Going], installation view, Biennale Arte 2024. Photo: Marco Zorzanello. Nil Yalter, Topak Ev (1973), Exile is a Hard Job (1977–2024), installation view, Biennale Arte 2024. Photo: Matteo de Mayda.
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Anna Maria Maiolino
Nil Yalter
Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia -Stranieri Ovunque [Foreigners Everywhere]. Anna Maria Maiolino's site- specific installation Indo e Vindo [Coming and Going](2024) is part of the series Terra Modelada (1993–2024). Her focus on the notion of ‘modelled earth’ connects the construction of form to manual labour and highlights the natural cycle of the clay. Nil Yalter presents two iconic works dealing with the theme of migration, Topak Ev(1973) which refers to the tents made by the nomadic Bektik community in Central Anatolia and Exile is a Hard Job (1977–2024), named using the words of Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet.
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.
Image: Mataaho Collective, Takapau (2022), 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Polyester hi-vis tiedowns, stainless steel buckles and j-hooks. Site specific reconfiguration, Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa. 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. 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.
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023
Image: Tarik Kiswanson, The Wait (2023), installation view, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023, Centre Pompidou, Paris. Resin, fiberglass, paint, stainless steel, 270 x 222 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost
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Tarik Kiswanson
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Tarik Kiswanson is the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023. Born in Sweden in 1986, Tarik Kiswanson comes from a Palestinian family who had to leave their country for North Africa and then Jordan. Notions of uprooting, regeneration and renewal are at the heart of the work of the artist, who lives and works in Paris and Amman, Jordan. His project for the Prix Marcel Duchamp deals with the question of exile and the construction of identity, combining the ovoid shapes of the cocoons from the Nest series, pieces of furniture, the video The Fall or even the voice of his mother telling her arrival in Scandinavia.
Turner Prize 2023
Image: Installation view of Jesse Darling at Towner Eastbourne, 2023. Photo: Angus Mill.
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Jesse Darling
Turner Prize
Jesse Darling is the winner of the Turner Prize 2023. Born in Oxford in 1981, he lives and works in Berlin. Jesse Darling has often combined industrial materials with everyday objects to explore ideas of the domestic and the institutional, home and state, stability and instability, function and dysfunction, growth and collapse. The acknowledgment of a shared vulnerability inherent in both the individual and the collective body are important considerations in his practice. The jury commended his use of materials and commonplace objects to convey a familiar yet delirious world. Invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power.
Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain
Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2024
Image: Amir Nave, La comédie humaine, 2019. Collage and pencil on paper, 24 x 15.5 cm. Courtesy IN SITU – Fabienne Leclerc. Photo: Aurélien Mole. Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain
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Amir Nave
Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Amir Nave is the winner of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2024. Amir Nave works obsessively, spiritually, even almost mystically, on the human being, seen in an infinite temporality. The artist endlessly wonders who we are and where we are going. By following the movements of Amir Nave's figures, or ‘creatures’, the viewer embraces a part of human passions. Initially interested in landscapes or insects, looking for parallels between our species and theirs, the shapes then evolved into ‘creatures’, calling on the most buried pasts as much as possible futures. Sometimes drawn by a body, a head or an entity, they live and activate.
About the Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain
Prix AWARE 2024
Image: Mystère I : Hermaphrodite endormi/e, space view, 12th Paris Biennale, Musée d’art Moderne, 1982. © Klonaris/Thomadaki
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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
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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.
Prix ellipse 2024
Image: Nobel Koty, 02 - Voile series, 2024. 130 x 110 cm, acrylic on canvas.
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Nobel Koty
Prix ellipse
Nobel Koty is the winner of the fourth edition of the Prix ellipse, dedicated this year to emerging Beninese creation. Nobel Koty, from Cotonou, Benin, was born in 1988. Through self-portraiture, the young artist transcends the superficial to explore in depth the various emotional layers inherent in the human being, inviting the viewer to join him on this intimate journey. His works are refuges where human fragility is revealed without artifice, capturing moments of vulnerability that resonate deeply with our own experiences. Each canvas is an invitation to reflect on the human condition, encouraging us to explore our own emotions and better understand the world around us.
2025 Nasher Prize
Image: Otobong Nkanga, Unearthed – Sunlight, 2021. Installation view third floor Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2021. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of the artist
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Otobong Nkanga
Nasher Prize
Otobong Nkanga is the winner of the 2025 Nasher Prize. The Antwerp-based artist was born in Kano, Nigeria in 1974 and grew up in Lagos and Paris. Over the past 20 years she has been producing evocative works that speak to migration and her own movement in the world, the exhaustive use of planetary resources and the interconnectedness of people and the land. Her enigmatic art, which relies on extensive research into the places it inhabits, frequently uses raw materials such as minerals, metals, stones and plants to elicit new meanings, stored memories and emotional connections for her audience.
