FRAME Awards 2024
Image: Snøhetta, Beijing City Library, Beijing, China, 2024. © Yumeng Zhu
ARCHITECTURE
Snøhetta's Kjetil Trædal Thorsen
Lifetime Achievement Award
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, cofounder of global architecture and design firm Snøhetta, has been named the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2024. Since cofounding Snøhetta in 1989, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has been behind the firm’s holistic transdisciplinary approach, combining architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, product design, graphic and digital design to create spaces truly in conversation with their surroundings. A leader in energy-positive architecture, Thorsen and Snøhetta have been talking about – and acting on – the need to reduce the built environment’s impact on the natural one long before many others.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt
Environment and Art Prize
Image: Julian Charrière, view of the group exhibition "Capítulo V: Heat" LagoAlgo, Ciudad de México (Mexico), 2024. Courtesy Perrotin. Hyundai Commission: Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu, installation view at Tate Modern, London. Courtesy Hyundai Motor.
ART
Julian Charrière
Cecilia Vicuña
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) has announced Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña as the winners of its inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize, established by the prize's namesake philanthropists. "The Schmidt Prize is a testament to the power of art to provoke dialogue and inspire action around the most critical issues of our time," said Johanna Burton, Maurice Marciano Director of MOCA. "Julian Charrière and Cecilia Vicuña are two extraordinary artists who have dedicated their careers–and lives–to illuminating the connections between environmental degradation and cultural memory. Their visionary practices, which engage deeply and distinctly with history, materiality, and society, help to reshape the way humans consider our relationships with the natural world."
About the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize
Prix Camera Clara 2024
Image: Alexandra Catière, Forêt, Pyrénées, 2019, Le souffle de l’être [The breath of being] series.
© Alexandra Catière/Adagp, Paris 2024.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alexandra Catière
Prix Camera Clara
Alexandra Catière is the winner of the Prix Camera Clara 2024 awarded for a large format camera series. Her borderless career bears witness to her desire to reach for the universal. From the former Soviet Union to France and the United States, she makes timelessness one of the major aspects of her work. Her images are those of the sensations and atmospheres she succeeds in capturing. Her winning series, Le souffle de l’être [The breath of being], brings together recent images with those from her beginnings 25 years ago. With their poetic sensitivity, the images presented embody the possibility of an elsewhere, gracefully inviting us to return to ourselves.
Prix Maison Ruinart 2024
Image: Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout, Canopée, 2024, Le Jardin de Craie [The Chalk Garden] series. Prix Maison Ruinart 2024
PHOTOGRAPHY
Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout
Prix Maison Ruinart
The sixth edition of the Prix Maison Ruinart has been awarded to the French photographic duo Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout, who, for the first time, worked in situ on superimpositions, using their own photos projected onto the chalk quarries. Awarded with the support of the Picto Foundation, the prize is given to an emerging photographer selected from the ‘Émergence’ section of Paris Photo. Following their residency in Champagne this summer, Édouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout produced Le Jardin de Craie [The Chalk Garden] series, which will be presented for the first time at Paris Photo 2024, November 7-10, at the Grand Palais.
MUNCH Award
Image: Rosana Paulino, Musa Paradisíaca, 2018. Digital printing on fabric, ink and sewing, 102 x 96 cm. Courtesy Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
ART
Rosana Paulino
MUNCH Award
The MUNCH Award was awarded for the first time to Rosana Paulino (b.1967), honouring both the artist and one of the leading voices of Black feminism and the struggle of Afro-Brazilian communities. "Rosana Paulino has contributed to some of the most important conversations about art, histories and society in Brazil and beyond. Over the course of several decades, she has radically committed her artistic practice to unpacking the violent histories and continuities of gender and race. She has created an immensely broad and poetic oeuvre of installations, drawings, artist’s books and videos. Through her teaching practice, Paulino has continuously been engaged in an intergenerational dialogue," said the jury in a statement.
Future Generation Art Prize 2024
Image: Ashfika Rahman, Behula and a Thousand Tales, 2024. Green cotton fabric, gold silk thread with metal frame. Courtesy the artist and PinchukArtCentre. © 2024. Photo: Oleksandr Piliugin
ART
Ashfika Rahman
Future Generation Art Prize
Ukraine's PinChukArtCentre has announced Bangladeshi artist Ashfika Rahman the winner of the seventh Future Generation Art Prize. Her winning work, Behula and a Thousand Tales (2024) uses photography, prints, text and sculpture to examine the role of women in society. The work is an evolution of বেহুলা আজকাল [Behula These Days] (2022–2023), which includes testimonies of violence against women living by the riverbank. Often working with communities, Rahman articulates stories that have been historically silenced, not only in Bangladesh, where Rahman is based, but also globally. Drawing inspiration from territories that have been divided and renegotiated by geopolitical powers, Rahman’s work demonstrates a commitment and focus on the ideals of community building and repair in the face of collective trauma.
About the Future Generation Art Prize
Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize 2024
Image: Sarah Brunnhuber, Stem founder and creative director, wearing Stem's edition 2 elastic wool cardigan. Courtesy Wessel & Vett Foundation
FASHION
Stem
Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize
Stem, danish zero-waste woven brand, is the winner of Denmark’s 2024 Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize. Created by textile designer Sarah Brunnhuber, the brand uses a zero-waste woven textile system to make unique garments. Based in Copenhagen, Stem prioritizes timeless design and transparency, using eco-friendly materials and techniques to minimize waste and promote sustainable fashion. As winner, Stem will receive a cash prize and a complimentary slot on the official show and presentation schedule for both the AW25 and SS26 seasons of Copenhagen Fashion Week, the coveted opening slot for AW25, and participation in Copenhagen Fashion Week’s symposium in London during London Fashion Week in June 2025.
About the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize
CFDA Fashion Awards 2024
Image: Diotima, Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Fashion Show.
FASHION
Rachel Scott
American Womenswear Designer of the Year
Rachel Scott, the designer behind Diotima, was named American Womenswear Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s annual awards. Last year, Scott took home the CFDA Awards’ Shop With Google American Emerging Designer of the Year award after launching her womenswear label just three years ago. Since Diotima’s inception, the Jamaican American designer has gained a strong and steady following for her authentic, inclusive and nuanced vision of Caribbean style through tailoring, knit dressing and sportswear with artisanal, handcrafted details, worn by Angel Reese, Ayesha Curry, Aurora James and more.
Image: Willy Chavarria, Spring 2025 Menswear Fashion Show.
FASHION
Willy Chavarria
American Menswear Designer of the Year
Willy Chavarria was named American Menswear Designer of the Year for the second year in a row. The Mexican American designer worked at a number of brands including Calvin Klein before launching his own label in 2015. He has continued to gain momentum for oversize garments and sharp tailoring led by his distinct vision of menswear that celebrates Latino heritage and influence on fashion. Luar’s Raul Lopez received the Accessory Designer of the Year award.
