MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2024

Image: Monia Ben Hamouda, installation view of MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2024, curated by Giulia Ferracci, MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, 2024 - 2025. Photo by Luis Do Rosari, all Courtesy of Fondazione Maxxi, Rome, Monia Ben Hamouda, Milan and ChertLüdde, Berlin.

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Monia Ben Hamouda

MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE

Monia Ben Hamouda is the winner of the MAXXI BVLGARI PRIZE 2024. Her work, Theology of Collapse (The Myth of Past) I-X, created on the occasion of the prize, will become part of the MAXXI Museum’s Collection. The work consists of ten laser-carved iron panels with motifs inspired by Islamic calligraphy and mosques and reworked by the artist using Al. Painted using mixed media including fragrant spices, the panels are installed on the gallery’s back wall, creating a collapsing effect that evokes the fragility of contemporary identities. Monia Ben Hamouda's practice draws on her Italian and Tunisian roots and cultural syncretism, the artist reinvents certain established aesthetic canons through a process of sign contamination.

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Mennour Emergence #2

Image: Exhibition view, Ruoxi Jin, REGRETS, Beaux-arts de Paris, 2024. Photo by Jiayun Deng.

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Mennour Emergence

The Mennour Institute has announced the six winning artists who will benefit from the second edition of its ‘‘Mennour Emergence’’ program, committed to supporting young artists in the early stages of their careers. They are: Matias Agafonovas, Zoé Bernardi, Clémence Gbonon, Amine Habki, Ruoxi Jin and Nicolas Lebeau. They will receive a grant for the production of their works, as well as full support in all the stages of the exhibition process (curating, production, logistics and communication). The group exhibition will be held from March 26 to May 10, 2025, at Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris.

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Elles & Cité 2025

Image: Sylvie Bonnot, Corps de brume (Chutes du Vieux Broussard, Guyane), 2024. B&W photograph, silver gelatine transposed onto Fabriano paper. © Sylvie Bonnot

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Elles & Cité

The Mennour Institute has announced the six winning artists who will benefit from the second edition of its ‘‘Mennour Emergence’’ program, committed to supporting young artists in the early stages of their careers. They are: Matias Agafonovas, Zoé Bernardi, Clémence Gbonon, Amine Habki, Ruoxi Jin and Nicolas Lebeau. They will receive a grant for the production of their works, as well as full support in all the stages of the exhibition process (curating, production, logistics and communication). The group exhibition will be held from March 26 to May 10, 2025, at Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris.

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Résidence Gulbenkian & Thanks for Nothing 2025

Image: Lizette Chirrime, The African dream, 2021. Mixed media on canvas, 169 x 146 cm.

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Lizette Chirrime

Résidence Gulbenkian & Thanks for Nothing

Lizette Chirrime is the winner of the Résidence Gulbenkian & Thanks for Nothing – Création et Engagement, to be held in Paris in May and June 2025. The residency welcomes a Portuguese-speaking artist from Africa whose committed artistic practice addresses social and environmental themes, while encouraging the inclusion of audiences with little access to culture through co-creation workshops. Lizette Chirrime was born in 1973 in Maputo, Mozambique. She creates large-scale textile works on canvas, composed of abstract forms made from collage. Chirrime's approach and her palpable use of art as a therapeutic and spiritual tool, reinvent notions of representation and human nature.

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Luxembourg Photography Award 2025

Image: Lend me your Eyes © 2024 Carine Krecké

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Carine Krecké

Luxembourg Photography Award

Carine Krecké is the winner of the Luxembourg Photography Award 2025. Her Perdre le Nord project will be exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2025. Carine Krecké is a Luxembourg artist and author with an interdisciplinary approach combining art, literature and geopolitics. Her work addresses themes such as mass surveillance, war, violence and terrorism through long-term investigations. Investigative methods such as open-source data analysis and geospatial intelligence are questioned and even subverted in documentary projects that blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, truth and lies, past and present, and even between the status of author and protagonist.

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FoRTE #6

Image: Clément Courgeon, Mal aux rayures, 2024, Frac Île-de-France, Les Réserves, Romainville. © Martin Argyroglo

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FoRTE #6

Rosario Aninat, Flora Bouteille, Diane Chéry, Clément Courgeon, Jérémie Danon, Gabriel Fontana, Gala Hernández López, Marylou, Silina Syan and Lise Thiollier are the 10 winning visual artists of FoRTE #6. The FoRTE (Fonds régional pour les talents émergents) project, set up by the Région Île-de-France in 2017, aims to make the region more attractive to young artists. Their work can be seen in an exhibition at the Frac Île-de-France, Les Réserves in Romainville until 15 February. FoRTE #6 plunges visitors into a ‘meta-world’, a space beyond our immediate perceptions, where technology, ecology and the exploration of new media are intertwined, with the aim of reflecting on the way we perceive and inhabit the world.

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Fondation Taylor – Grand Prix 2024

Image: Moreno Pincas, Jus de fruits, 2011. Oil on canvas, 130 x 162 cm.

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Moreno Pincas

Grand Prix Léon-Georges Baudry

Moreno Pincas was awarded the Grand Prix Léon-Georges Baudry 2024 by the Fondation Taylor. Moreno Pincas, born in Sofia in 1936, is a Franco-Israeli painter who emigrated to Israel in 1949. In these dense, lively scenes, the many characters are the fruit of careful observation of a world rewritten by the artist, where the real and the imaginary mingle. All is movement in these moments of life captured in an expressive, light drawing, served by a colourful palette.

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