Prix Photo sociale 2025
Image: Marion Gronier, Quelque chose comme une araignée [Something like a spider] series.
© Marion Gronier
PHOTOGRAPHY
Marion Gronier
Prix Photo sociale
Marion Gronier is the winner of the Prix Photo sociale 2025 for her series Quelque chose comme une araignée [Something like a spider]. Formerly Prix Caritas, the award is supported by the association L'œil sensible. Marion's work in psychiatric institutions offers a new and sensitive look at the realities experienced by hospitalised people. Her photographs focus on the bodies, postures and gestures that are constrained and controlled, highlighting the reactions and resistance. Complemented by the voices and quotes of patients commenting on the photographs, this work opens up new dialogue on their experiences and sensitivities, questioning our own representations and prejudices.
Vilcek Foundation Prizes 2025
Image: Guadalupe Maravilla, Pupusa Retablo (twin), 2023. Installation view, Guadalupe Maravilla: La alegría del fuego, 2023, mor charpentier, Paris, France. Courtesy of mor charpentier.
ART
Guadalupe Maravilla
Vilcek Prize in Visual Arts
U.S.-based non-profit Vilcek Foundation has announced its cohort of prizewinners. Among the honours, artist Guadalupe Maravilla received the Vilcek Prize in Visual Arts for his sculptures, installations and performances that combine symbol, sound and ritual. His immersive and evocative works explore concepts of migration, transcendence and the human condition. Born in El Salvador, Maravilla came to the United States as an undocumented unaccompanied child at the age of 8 in 1984. His journey has shaped his life and work.
About the Vilcek Prize in Visual Arts
AD & Range Rover Awards 2025
Image: Installation view of the winning designs, AD & Range Rover Awards 2025, Institut de France, Paris.
© Karla Vinter-Koch
DESIGN
AD & Range Rover Awards
For the 4th edition of the AD & Range Rover Awards, the jury of 5 designers rewarded 5 young creators whose work, oriented towards virtuous design or material experimentation, stood out. Anne-Sophie Pailleret, in the Ultimate Chic Elegance category, awarded the prize to Sébastien Coudert Maugendre; Fleur Delesalle, in the Remarkable Design category, awarded the prize to Capucine Guhur; Richard Stevens, in the Endless Reinvention category, awarded the prize to Juliette Rougier; Dan Yeffet, in the Evolution and Innovation category, awarded the prize to Sabourin Costes and Sophie Dries, in the Timeless Impact category, awarded the prize to Chloé Leymarie.
About the AD & Range Rover Awards
2024 Korea Artist Prize
Image: Yang Jung-uk, I Once Saw a Man Who Stood Still, 2024. Wood, motor, lamp, thread, 220×300×250 cm. Courtesy of the artist. © Yang Jung-uk. Ulsan Museum of Art commission.
ART
Yang Jung-uk
Korea Artist Prize
Yang Jung-uk has been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Korea Artist Prize by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (MMCA). The judging committee highlighted Yang’s visual artistry, innovative interpretation of technology and the wide resonance of his work. Yang "renders the most human of worlds by combining exceedingly simple and ordinary images of life with beautiful dreamscapes", said Kim Sunghee, director of the MMCA. Born in Seoul, Yang Jung-uk is a visual artist whose installations and kinetic sculptures tell stories that reflect universal human sentiments among the standardisation of contemporary society.
2025 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
Image: Courtesy of Marka27 Design Studios.
ART
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez
Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
Victor ‘Marka27’ Quiñonez is the winner of the 2025 Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize, awarded for work that has made a profound social impact. Quiñonez, also known as Marka27, is an acclaimed street artist celebrated for his vibrant, multidisciplinary work that combines contemporary art, graffiti, vinyl toys, fashion and design with art activism. His large-scale murals reflect his cultural heritage and pay homage to the legacy of the Mexican Masters – Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros, collectively known as Los Tres Grandes (the three greats). Inspired by the empowerment of marginalized communities and the fight for representation, Quiñonez’s art serves as a powerful platform for social change.
About the Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize
The World Around
Young Climate Prize 2025
Image: Dayana Blanco Quiroga, Planting Totoras, Uru Uru Lake, Bolivia. © Dayana Blanco Quiroga.
DESIGN
Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali
Kenneth Uche
Amara Nwuneli
Dayana Blanco Quiroga
Young Climate Prize
The World Around has announced the winners of its Young Climate Prize, a biannual mentorship and awards program for under-25s. The four changemakers recognised by the jury are: Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali (23, Algeria), Kenneth Uche (24, Nigeria), Amara Nwuneli (17, Nigeria), and Dayana Blanco Quiroga (25, Bolivia). Their initiatives include a farm addressing rising food insecurity in a desert refugee community, a stove that reduces indoor air pollution while generating power to energy-deprived homes, a youth movement mobilizing climate action across economic divides through the development of a community park, and a conservation initiative applying indigenous ecological knowledge to restore a polluted wetland reserve.
India Art Fair 2025
Image: Forces of Nature installation in Jio Convention Center in Mumbai. Courtesy of Sid Dave.
ART
Non-Linear and Cursorama
‘Future is Born of Art’ Commission
India Art Fair held its 15th edition in New Delhi from 6 to 9 February. The ‘Future is Born of Art’ Commission, a platform to support India's young art scene, supported by BMW, was awarded to Dennis Peter and Yash Chandak, otherwise known as Non-Linear and Cursorama. Since 2018, this dynamic artist duo has redefined how we experience art, blending generative visuals, electronic music and interactive systems into immersive multimedia installations guided by algorithms. They create works that invite audiences into mesmerizing environments that dissolve the boundaries between the organic and the engineered.
