Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023
Image: Tarik Kiswanson, exhibition view Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023, Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Wait, 2023. Resin, fiberglass, paint, stainless steel, 270x222x100 cm. Courtesy of the artist and carlier l gebauer, Berlin/Madrid © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost
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Tarik Kiswanson
Prix Marcel Duchamp
The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2023 has been awarded to Tarik Kiswanson. Born in 1986 in Halmstad, Sweden, the artist whose family is originally from Palestine draws inspiration from several cultures. After studying in London, he lives and works in Paris and Amman. He is represented by the gallery carlier | gebauer (Berlin) and the Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg, Beirut). 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. His practice explores subjects linked to memory and heritage, temporality and belonging, but also more broadly to transformation and metamorphosis. The notions of uprooting, regeneration and renewal are at the heart of his work.
Turner Prize 2023
Image: Installation view of Jesse Darling at Towner Eastbourne, 2023. Photograph: Angus Mill.
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Jesse Darling
Turner Prize
Jesse Darling, a Berlin-based artist known for sculptures that stand in for unstable bodies is the winner of the Turner Prize 2023. His recent practice encompasses sculpture, installation, text and drawing. The jury commended his use of materials and commonplace objects like concrete, welded barriers, hazard tape, office files and net curtains, to convey a familiar yet delirious world. Invoking societal breakdown, his presentation unsettles perceived notions of labour, class, Britishness and power.
2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: David Chipperfield Architects, Amorepacific Headquarters, Seoul, Korea, 2010-2017.
Photo courtesy of Noshe and the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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Sir David Alan Chipperfield
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Sir David Alan Chipperfield CH has been awarded the 2023 Pritzker Architecture Prize, his profession’s highest honor. "Subtle yet powerful, subdued yet elegant, he is a prolific architect who is radical in his restraint," the jury said in a statement. With a career spanning over four decades, Chipperfield has worked across various typologies, geographies and scales. From his initial projects in England such as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames or fashion designer Issey Miyake's London store to the current restoration of the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice, there remains a consistent thread, his reverence for history and culture. David Chipperfield Architects' works constantly stitch contemporary architecture into the fabric of both pre-existing built and natural environments.
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Biennale Architettura 2023
Image: Demas Nwoko, Dominican Chapel, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1977. (Image credit: Andrew Esiebo)
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Demas Nwoko
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Demas Nwoko, Nigerian born artist, designer and architect, is the recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Architettura 2023. Demas Nwoko was at the forefront of Nigeria’s Modern Art movement. As an artist, he strives to incorporate modern techniques in architecture and stage design to enunciate African subject matter in most of his works. "The profound desire to blend and synthesise, rather than sweep away, has characterised Nwoko's work for over five decades. He was one of the first Nigerian makers of space and form to critique Nigeria’s reliance on the West for imported materials and goods, as well as ideas, and has remained committed to using local resources.", said Lesley Lokko in a statement.
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2023 Hasselblad Award
Image: Carrie Mae Weems, Kitchen Table Series, 1990. © Carrie Mae Weems
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Carrie Mae Weems
Hasselblad Award
Carrie Mae Weems is the winner of the 2023 Hasselblad Award, making her the first African-American woman to win the prestigious honour. Over nearly four decades, Weems has explored the subjectivity of personal and global history through a racial and feminist lens. Her oeuvre spans multimedia installation, video and performance, but she’s most celebrated for her photography, which has a sparse composition that belie complex ruminations on familial and romantic entanglements. The Kitchen Table Series (1990), considered a seminal body of contemporary photography, stars Weems herself and is set at a kitchen table. As the tableaux is rearranged with a cast of lovers, friends and family, she’s both the protagonist and perpetual observer, "a guide into circumstances seldom seen," according to Weems.
Prix AWARE 2023
Image: Stills from Voiliers et coquelicots by Rose Lowder, 2001. © All rights reserved by the artist / Courtesy of Light Cone
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Rose Lowder
Prix d’honneur
Rose Lowder is the winner of the Prix d’honneur 2023. Though known for her work in experimental cinema, Rose Lowder is also a visual artist and pioneer of a global and ecological approach to artistic creation. She lives in Avignon, where she co-founded and continues to curate programmes for the Archives du film expérimental. From 1996 to 2005, she was an associate professor at the Université Paris 1 where she taught the history, theory and aesthetics of experimental cinema. In focussing her research on visual perception in relation to the cinematographic means of expression, Lowder concentrated on the different ways one can modify the graphic and photographic visual features of the image as it transforms in time. She was nominated by Salma Mochtari.
RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
Image: Mæ Architects, John Morden Centre, London, United Kingdom, 2021. © Jim Stephenson
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John Morden Centre by Mæ
RIBA Stirling Prize
The John Morden Centre by Mæ has been named winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023, awarded to the UK's best new building. An inspiring example of architecture enabling elderly living without isolation, the John Morden Centre has been designed to encourage connection and movement among residents, supporting healthier and longer lives. This 300-year-old residential and nursing facility has been given a new lease of life with treatment rooms, a hair salon, nail bar, events space and wellbeing facilities in a beautiful setting in Blackheath, London.
Prix Women In Motion 2023
Image: Rosângela Rennó, Untitled (drama queen family), Nuptials series, mixed media, 2017.
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Gabriela Carrera.
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Rosângela Rennó
Prix Women In Motion
Kering and Les Rencontres d'Arles awarded the Prix Women In Motion 2023 to the Brazilian photographer Rosângela Rennó. Born in 1962 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, she currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Interested in "the way the system tries to erase or manipulate links with the past", the photographer appropriates and transforms archival photographic material into an art installation or a book of photography. Her work is a detailed exploration of time, of forgetting, and the social and psychological changes that affect memory.
