Hasselblad Award 2025
Image: Sophie Ristelhueber, Fait #20, 1992. © Sophie Ristelhueber/Adagp, Paris 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sophie Ristelhueber
Hasselblad Award
The Hasselblad Foundation has announced Sophie Ristelhueber as the winner of the Hasselblad Award 2025. Sophie Ristelhueber was born in 1949 in Paris, where she still lives and works. Places marked by conflict often make up the core of her work. Avoiding the sensational, she instead captures an emotional intensity in the silent, enduring traces of human presence and activity. A recurring theme in her artistic practice is humanity’s perpetual cycle of creation and destruction, followed by renewal. The photographs in Sophie Ristelhueber’s series are meticulously selected fragments of a larger narrative, where the viewer is invited to create the story.
Prix Emerige – CPGA 2025
Image: Mathilde Denize, Sound of Figures, 2024. Acrylic, pigment and watercolour on canvas.
Courtesy the artist and Perrotin
ART
Mathilde Denize and Perrotin
Prix Emerige – CPGA
Emerige and the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art announced Mathilde Denize and Perrotin gallery as the winners of the Prix Emerige – CPGA at ARCOmadrid 2025. Mathilde Denize was born in 1986 and lives and works in Paris. Her work stems from a desire to make sense of a fragmented present. A collector of discarded objects, she often cuts up her old paintings to weave them into new forms using found materials. In this way, new works emerge from the remnants of the past, a metaphor for the complicated existence of human beings.
Prix Amour Vivant
Image: Sacha Parent, Amas Frêne large shelf, ash wood and rye straw, OROS Editions. Aurore Piette Studio, seat from the autarky collection, driftwood frame, Gironde sediments and local plant fibres. Sediment paintings and sediment ceramics. © Aurore Piette Studio
DESIGN
Sacha Parent
Aurore Piette
Prix Amour Vivant
Supported by the Association pour un Design Soutenable, the Prix Amour Vivant celebrated its first edition and rewarded the work of Sacha Parent and Aurore Piette, whose projects reconcile design with the living world and are rooted in local territories. Sacha Parent's winning project, Paille de Seigle +++, reinvents straw furniture using raw or minimally processed materials such as rye straw and naturally stained ash wood. Aurore Piette was recognised for her Desserte Rocaille project, a collection of furniture that uses revalued sediments from the Gironde estuary, which are damaging biodiversity and the seabed.
2025 Governor General’s Awards
Image: Jin-me Yoon, Souvenirs of the Self (Lake Louise), 1991/1996. Collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Walter Phillips Gallery, TD Art Collection.
ART
Governor General’s Awards
The Canada Council for the Arts revealed the 2025 winners of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. The awards celebrate the careers of eight artists and curators working in diverse media across the country. Among the winners are the highly acclaimed decolonial history painter Kent Monkman, artist Jin-Me Yoon, whose work also reverses the colonial gaze, and emerging multi-disciplinary artist Sandra Rodriguez, who works at the cutting edge of virtual reality and mixed reality technologies.
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Madrid Design Festival 25
Image: Inside Outside Architecture, Bibilioteca degli Alberi Park, Milan, Italy, 2018. © Andrea Cherchi. Paul Smith, Fall 2025 Menswear Fashion Show. André Ricard, Tatu table lamps, 1972, Santa & Cole.
DESIGN
Petra Blaisse
André Ricard
Paul Smith
MDF Award
The winners of the Madrid Design Festival Awards 2025 are Petra Blaisse, André Ricard and Sir Paul Smith. Petra Blaisse was born in the Netherlands, in 1955. In 1991, she founded Inside Outside, a studio uniquely combining interior and landscape design, seamlessly integrating architecture, nature and textiles. André Ricard, a pioneer of industrial design in Spain, was born in 1929. He founded his own studio with a single motto: the functional improvement of objects, particularly those of everyday use, such as containers, tableware, lamps, small household appliances and letterboxes. Sir Paul Smith was born in England, in 1946. From his first shop in Nottingham, Paul Smith has grown into a global brand present in over 70 countries.
Fisheye x La Poste
Image: © Alexis Barbe
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alexis Barbe
Michel Guyllierminetti
Frédéric Murarotto
Fisheye x La Poste
A few months ago, La Poste teamed up with Fisheye to launch a photography competition, open to everyone, in which you had to send in a photograph of your post office. Far from being insignificant, this structure is a unique embodiment of a region's identity. Like a fragment, it reveals the architecture of a town, its past and its contemporary reality. The three winners are Alexis Barbe, Michel Guyllierminetti and Frédéric Murarotto who respectively photographed the post offices in La Ferté-Saint-Aubin, Manigod and Veules-les-Roses.
