2025 AIA Gold Medal
Image: TenBerke, Richardson Olmsted Complex, Adaptive Reuse Project, Buffalo, NY, 2017.
© Christopher Payne/Esto
ARCHITECTURE
Deborah Berke
AIA Gold Medal
Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is the 2025 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal. Deborah Berke is a transformative figure in architecture whose career spans over four decades. From founding her practice, Deborah Berke Partners (now TenBerke), in 1982 to becoming the first female dean of the Yale School of Architecture, her journey exemplifies innovation, inclusivity and sustainability. Her practice has consistently prioritized adaptive reuse, transforming historic structures into vibrant, functional spaces. Projects like the 122 Community Arts Center in New York and the Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo illustrate her dedication to preserving and enhancing architectural heritage.
Prix CPGA – Etant donnés 2024
Image: Johanna Mirabel, Le Dernier Dimanche, 2024, oil on canvas, 210 x 180 cm.
© Galerie Nathalie Obadia and Johanna Mirabel
ART
Johanna Mirabel
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Prix CPGA – Etant donnés
Johanna Mirabel and Galerie Nathalie Obadia have been awarded the Prix CPGA – Etant donnés 2024. Organized by the Comité professionnel des galeries d'art (CPGA) and Villa Albertine, the prize is given annually to a contemporary artist from the French art scene and their exhibiting gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach. French painter of Guyanese origin, Johanna Mirabel’s paintings depict figures occupying domestic spaces that often open onto a dreamlike exterior. Childhood memories and recent experiences enter in dialogue at the heart of the pictorial surface, creating syncretic universes.
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Rosa Schapire Art Prize 2024
Image: Installation view, Lydia Ourahmane, Barzakh, Kunsthalle Basel, 2021.
© Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel
ART
Lydia Ourahmane
Rosa Schapire Art Prize
The Rosa Schapire Art Prize 2024 has been awarded to Lydia Ourahmane. Lydia Ourahmane was born in Saïda (Algeria) in 1992. At the age of nine, she emigrated with her family to the UK. She currently lives and works in London, Algiers and Barcelona. Her installations, videos, sculptures and sound works create situations and structures that have consequences beyond the walls of the institution. Exploring themes of displacement and community, her work revises how the movement of objects and people are influenced by factors such as state restrictions and invisible barriers.
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Jimei × Arles Discovery Award 2024
Image: Jia Yu, Strangers (still), nomad Gengsang Angmao and her brother, filmed in Mala Chazhui Pasture, the Gyaring Lake, 2021. Courtesy of the artist.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Jia Yu
Jimei × Arles Discovery Award
This year marks the 10th edition of the Jimei × Arles International Photo Festival, held in Xiamen, China, from November 29 to January 12. Jia Yu, with the project Strangers nominated by curator Wang Paopao, won the Jimei × Arles Discovery Award 2024. Jia Yu is a Han Chinese living in Xining, capital of Qinghai province in north-west China. The artist spent his childhood and teenage years in the Tibetan pastoral region of Yushu. Because he missed this region, he regularly travelled between Xining and Yushu. On the way, he photographed Tibetan shepherds. The Strangers project is made up of portraits of Tibetan families and photos of their daily lives taken between 2003 and 2012 during these journeys, which the artist then set out to find in order to give them their photos.
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AJ Architecture Awards 2024
Image: Surman Weston, Peckham House, London, UK, 2022. © Jim Stephenson
ARCHITECTURE
Surman Weston
AJ Architect of the Year
Surman Weston, which also won this year’s Manser Medal for its Peckham House, has been named Architect of the Year at the AJ Architecture Awards, recognised for its low-carbon buildings and celebration of construction and craft. Surman Weston was founded by Tom Surman and Percy Weston after studying at the RCA (Royal College of Art). Peckham House in south London is a triumph of hands-on experimentation and contains many ideas for modest-sized houses, wrapped up in a delightful façade of hit-and-miss brickwork. Other significant output includes the award-winning Hackney School of Food, which saw a redundant school caretaker’s house converted into a specialist food education centre for primary school children.
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The Future Perfect Prize
Image: Anina Major, Bubble, glazed stoneware, seaglass and sand, 2023. Dia. 21" x H 18".
Courtesy of Anina Major and The Future Perfect.
DESIGN
Anina Major
The Future Perfect Prize
Anina Major is the first recipient of The Future Perfect Prize. Created in celebration of TFP’s 20th anniversary, the prize is a continuation of the gallery's work in supporting emerging talent and contemporary design. Anina Major is recognised for her work, which combines ceramics and straw weaving forms indicative of her Bahamian culture. By utilizing the vernacular of craft to reclaim experiences and relocate displaced objects, Anina Major’s practice exists at the intersection of nostalgia and identity, exploring historical narrative and the location of self through the construction of objects.
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Prix Photographie & Sciences 2024
Image: Julien Lombardi, Planeta, UV 395 nm, 2024.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Julien Lombardi
Prix Photographie & Sciences
Julien Lombardi is the winner of the 4th edition of the Prix Photographie & Sciences, with his project Planeta. Supported by the Villa Pérochon, the prize is intended for a photographer on the French scene to enable him or her to finalise a project combining photography and science. The exhibition will be held at the Villa Pérochon (Niort) in autumn 2025 as part of the Fête de la Science. Julien Lombardi's winning project takes as its starting point the Apollo missions simulated in the Sonora desert in Mexico in the 1960s and 1970s, and constructs a counter-narrative of the conquest of space.
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2024 Prince Claus Impact Award
Image: Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, Anyie Mienye – We are Clay Workshop.
ART
Prince Claus Impact Award
The Prince Claus Fund Impact Award is presented biannually to six recipients whose contributions to art and culture engage their communities while addressing urgent contemporary issues. In the visual arts, this year's prize recognizes Myrlande Constant, a visual artist from Haiti, celebrated as one of the first women to work with Vodou drapo, a traditional Haitian flag art. Nguyễn Trinh Thi, a filmmaker and artist from Vietnam whose work delves into the legacies of colonialism, war and how to counteract the erasure of indigenous Vietnamese cultures. And Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, also known as crazinisT artisT, a multidisciplinary artivist, curator, mentor, and philanthropist from Ghana who has developed her practice in the sphere of performance.
