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
Nil Yalter
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter received 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 ‘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.
2024 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Image: Riken Yamamoto, Jian Wai SOHO, 2004, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Courtesy of Tomio Ohashi
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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Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024
Image: Detail of the installation by Gaëlle Choisne for the exhibition of nominees for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024, Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Centre Pompidou, Bertrand Prévost.
ART
Gaëlle Choisne
Prix Marcel Duchamp
French-Haitian artist Gaëlle Choisne has won the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024. Choisne was born in 1985 in Cherbourg and now works in Paris. She is represented by Air de Paris, Romainville (Grand Paris). She was nominated for the prize alongside Abdelkader Benchamma, artist duo Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain, and Noémie Goudal. The Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 exhibition is on now through 6 January 2025 at Centre Pompidou in Paris. In the exhibition, Choisne presents her installation L'Ère du Verseau [The Age of Aquarius] (2024), which includes structures made of cork, large painted panels and video projections. She describes the work as "an island, an archipelago, a place where different realities accumulate to be reinvented and repaired".
Turner Prize 2024
Image: Installation view of Jasleen Kaur, Alter Altar at Tramway, Glasgow 2023. Courtesy of Tramway and Glasgow Life. Photo: Keith Hunter
ART
Jasleen Kaur
Turner Prize
Jasleen Kaur received the Turner Prize 2024 for Alter Altar, her exhibition at Tramway in Glasgow. Kaur's work celebrates the Scottish Sikh community by transforming everyday objects into symbols of cultural memory and collective identity. Highlights include a red Ford Escort draped in a giant doily, automated worship bells, the quintessential Scottish soda, Irn-Bru and a self-playing accordion. The jury noted the considered way in which Kaur weaves together the personal, political and spiritual in her exhibition, choreographing a visual and aural experience that suggests both solidarity and joy.
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.
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ANDAM Fashion Awards 2024
Image: Christopher Esber, Spring 2025 Ready-to-Wear Collection.
FASHION
Christopher Esber
Grand Prize
Christopher Esber is the Grand Prize winner of the ANDAM Fashion Awards 2024, 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 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."
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RIBA Stirling Prize 2024
Image: Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis, Elizabeth Line, London, UK, 2022. © Hufton + Crow
ARCHITECTURE
Elizabeth Line by Grimshaw, Maynard,
Equation and AtkinsRéalis
RIBA Stirling Prize
The Elizabeth Line, London’s new transport network, designed by Grimshaw, Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis has been named as the winner of the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize. The Elizabeth Line is the result of a remarkable collaboration between architects, engineers and designers. Together they have designed a highly-inclusive, cohesive transport system that has already evidenced its social, environmental and economic value. Connecting Reading and Heathrow to Essex and South East London, the development spans 62 miles of track and 26 miles of tunnels, a complex and expansive undertaking accommodating 700,000 passengers every weekday.
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.
2024 LVMH Prize
Image: Hodakova, Fall 2024 Ready-to-Wear Collection.
FASHION
Hodakova
LVMH Prize for Young Designers
Hodakova won the 2024 edition of the LVMH Prize for Young Designers, receiving the award from Dior ambassador and special jury member Natalie Portman at a ceremony at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Sweden-based Ellen Hodakova Larsson is dedicated to building the first fully sustainable fashion house in the world and changing people's mindset. Establishing her namesake brand in 2021, she champions craftsmanship by choosing existing products and transforming them into luxury pieces. Working with discarded pieces compels her to focus on quality, potential and craftsmanship.
Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour
l'Intelligence de la Main 2024
Image: Console Pseudosphères by Nadège Mouyssinat. © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT
Nadège Mouyssinat
Talents d'exception
Nadège Mouyssinat is the winner of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2024 in the section Talents d'exception for her piece Console Pseudosphères, an almost hypnotic work composed of a forest of porcelain cones reflected in a mirror, giving the impression of floating in space. Following four years of creation, from conception to completion, the work was designed to evoke emotion, the visual disturbance gives the viewer a sensation of almost spiritual lightness, with the curves of the cones mirroring the curves of the hyperbolas, which tend towards infinity.
Image: Tresser l'ombre [Weaving the shadow] by Catherine Romand, basket maker and Clémence Althabegoïty, designer. © Julie Limont for the Fondation Bettencourt Schueller
CRAFT | DESIGN
Catherine Romand and Clémence Althabegoïty
Dialogues
Catherine Romand, basket maker and Clémence Althabegoïty, designer, are the winners of the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main 2024 in the section Dialogues, for their piece Tresser l'ombre [Weaving the shadow], a woven wicker shade, as futuristic as it is poetic. The shade is designed to provide protection from the sun, but also to track the position of its rays in order to identify the seasons, like an immersive sundial. For Tresser l'ombre, the duo first called on Pascal Descamp, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, who defined the sun's trajectories in the Touraine region using a series of algorithms.
About the Prix Liliane Bettencourt pour l'Intelligence de la Main
