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.
ART
Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter
Golden Lion 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.
ART
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.
ART
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
ART
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.
2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Riken Yamamoto, Jian Wai SOHO, 2004, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
Courtesy of Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop
ARCHITECTURE
Riken Yamamoto
Pritzker Architecture Prize
Riken Yamamoto, of Yokohama, Japan, is the 2024 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Yamamoto, architect and social advocate, establishes kinship between public and private realms, inspiring harmonious societies despite a diversity of identities, economies, politics, infrastructures and housing systems. Deeply committed to the preservation of community life, he asserts that the value of privacy has become an urban sensibility, when in fact members of a community should support each other. He defines community as a "sense of sharing one space," deconstructing traditional notions of freedom and privacy while rejecting longstanding conditions that have reduced housing to a commodity with no relationship to neighbors.
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ANDAM Fashion Awards 2024
Image: Christopher Esber, Pre-Fall 2024 Fashion Show.
FASHION
Christopher Esber
Grand Prize
Christopher Esber is the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 ANDAM Fashion Awards, marking the 35th anniversary edition of the prize whose jury was chaired this year by Saint Laurent creative director Anthony Vaccarello. Based in Sydney, Christopher Esber has won over fans including Zendaya and Dua Lipa with his minimalist summer styles. Passionate about creating effortless, relaxed glamour, the designer takes a subtractive approach to design. Describing his brand he says: "The brand is embedded in structure, sensuality, and a connection to nature. The mix of all these elements really are the DNA of the brand."
About the ANDAM Fashion Awards
Turner Prize 2023
Image: Installation view of Jesse Darling at Towner Eastbourne, 2023. Photo: Angus Mill.
ART
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.
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2024
Image: Andrés Anza, I only know what I have seen, ceramics, 2023.
CRAFT
Andrés Anza
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
Mexican ceramic artist Andrés Anza is the winner of this year's LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize for his ceramic totemic work I only know what I have seen. The jury praised the work for the way it combines the "figurative and the abstract" with "architectural intention and precision". Assembled in five parts, it is constructed from refractory clay and features a dynamic composition which appears to twist, turn and fold in on itself. Thousands of tiny, spiked protrusions covering the work’s surface lend it a further amorphic quality. After the piece was fired in a kiln to give an even surface, acrylic paint was applied. This monochromatic finish allows light and shadow to further emphasise the work’s highly textured surface.
About the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2024
Image: Mohlokomedi wa Tora, 2018, Scene 2 [detail] © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lebohang Kganye
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
Lebohang Kganye (b. 1990, South Africa) is the 2024 winner of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for the exhibition Haufi nyana? I’ve come to take you home at Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2023). ‘Haufi nyana?’ meaning ‘too close?’ in Sesotho, one of South Africa's official languages, reflects the dialogue between the viewer and the artist. It touches on notions of home as heritage and identity, as well as physical and mental spaces. Lebohang Kganye’s photographic projects cross personal and collective histories. She draws from shared oral narratives and fictional texts, exploring South Africa’s layered history before, during and after apartheid and colonialism.
About the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize
LVMH Prize 2023
Image: Setchu, Spring 2025 Menswear Collection.
FASHION
Setchu
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Satoshi Kuwata’s Setchu is the winner of the 2023 LVMH Prize for Young Designers. The 39-year-old Japanese creator, stood out for his vision that includes "not only clothes, but a philosophy," said jury member Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior’s creative director for womenswear. After graduating from Central Saint Martins, Kuwata went on to work at Givenchy under Riccardo Tisci and LVMH’s now-defunct Edun label before starting his own brand. Milan-based Setchu mixes British tailoring techniques with Japanese traditions such as origami. Clients are given instructions on how to roll or fold jackets for storage and travel, using techniques inspired by kimono culture that minimise the space taken up by garments and preserve pleats and creases integrated in the design.
Hasselblad Award 2024
Image: Ingrid Pollard, Pastoral Interlude, 1987, Victoria and Albert Museum Collection. © ADAGP, Paris, 2022
PHOTOGRAPHY
Ingrid Pollard
Hasselblad Award
Ingrid Pollard, a leading British contemporary photographer and artist, is the winner of the 2024 Hasselblad Award. She was born in 1953 in Georgetown, Guyana and grew up in London. She currently lives and works in Northumberland, Northeast England. Pollard’s work interrogates and explores aspects of race and colonialism, often based on her own experiences and research. She is particularly interested in how these issues are manifested in both urban spaces and landscapes. Central to her work is a fundamental interest in photography, its technical aspects, materiality and potentials, as well as its historical use in the exercise of control and power.
Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour
l'Intelligence de la Main 2023
Image: Laissez entrer le soleil [Let the sunshine in], a piece of wood turned and sanded to a transparent finish by Pascal Oudet. © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT
Pascal Oudet
Talents d'exception
Pascal Oudet is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2023 in the section Talents d'exception for his piece Laissez entrer le soleil [Let the sunshine in], the result of a technical exploration perfected over nearly twenty years around the transparency of wood. Starting with a 70-year-old oak trunk, Pascal Oudet patiently removed the material until he obtained a diaphanous sculpture. To do this, he first created the shape of the work by turning, before letting it dry naturally, leaving nature to decide its ultimate form. The final decisive step was to sand away the softer spring rings, preserving the denser structure of the summer wood. In the light, an organic lace appears, made of alternating summer rings and the typical oak wood mesh that binds them.
Image: Detail of a piece of glass fabric created by Aurélia Leblanc, weaver and Lucile Viaud, designer.
© Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT | DESIGN
Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud
Dialogues
Aurélia Leblanc, weaver and Lucile Viaud, designer, are the winners of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2023 in the section Dialogues, for their piece Pêche cristalline. In response to a commission for chef Nicolas Conraux's restaurant in Brittany, Aurélia Leblanc and Lucile Viaud combined their know-how to give life to a glass fabric with changing reflections. Glaz sea glass, the raw material for Pêche cristalline, was created by Lucile Viaud from abalone shells and micro-algae, melted and then worked hot to produce real glass filaments several kilometers long. The duo then hand-wove them with linen to create the striking evocation of a fishing net being pulled out of the water.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main
