LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025
Image: Kunimasa Aoki, Japan, Realm of Living Things 19, terracotta.
CRAFT
Kunimasa Aoki
LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize
This year’s LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize was awarded to Kunimasa Aoki for the piece Realm of Living Things 19. The jury chose the work for its honest expression of the ancestral coil process and how the material is expressed in its raw, unfinished form. The anamorphic clay work explores the ways in which the material distorts and cracks when force is applied. Gravity, time and pressure were used to take clay to the limits of its material possibilities. Thin coils of clay were repeatedly stacked, moulded and compressed into layers, then the work was fired in an electric kiln until it began to burn and smoke. The piece was then coated with a decorative finish made of soil, glue and pencil marks.
Image: Nifemi Marcus-Bello, Nigeria, TM Bench with Bowl, recycled aluminum.
Studio Sumakshi Singh, India, Monument, copper and nylon.
CRAFT
Nifemi Marcus-Bello
Studio Sumakshi Singh
Special Mention
A first Special Mention was awarded to Nifemi Marcus-Bello for the piece TM Bench with Bowl. Created from reclaimed aluminium, the jury appreciated the simplicity of the raw material, combined with geometric forms which creates a quiet yet powerful statement on consumerism. A second Special Mention went to Studio Sumakshi Singh for the piece Monument. This piece is a life-size reimagining of a column from a 12thcentury colonnade in Delhi where the jury noted the poetic contrast between the work’s strong presence and its delicate structure.
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Eye Prize 2025
Image: Exhibition view, Sohrab Hura: Mother, MoMA PS1, New York (10 October 2024 – 17 February 2025). Photo: Steven Paneccasio.
ART
Sohrab Hura
Eye Prize
Indian artist Sohrab Hura is the winner of the 2025 Eye Art & Film Prize, awarded annually by Eye Filmmuseum to an artist or filmmaker whose work innovatively bridges visual art and cinema. Hura received the award for the powerful way in which he captures today’s surreal reality in images. The jury praises the way the artist moves smoothly between photography, film and painting to explore a wide range of themes – from violence, inequality and religion to mental health, his own family life and the distortion of reality through the digital flow of images.
Moving Image Commission 2025
Image: Shireen Seno, Big Boy, 2012. Courtesy Han Nefkens Foundation
ART
John Torres and Shireen Seno
Moving Image Commission
Artists John Torres and Shireen Seno (b.1975, 1983, Philippines) have been chosen as winners of the third Han Nefkens Foundation, Mori Art Museum, M+, Hong Kong and Singapore Art Museum – Moving Image Commission. According to the jury their proposal, A Cure for Colonial Amnesia, demonstrates their longstanding commitment to world-building through filmmaking, addressing profound themes of labour, memory and resistance. The work, which harmonizes sound, archives and space, invites us to explore how historical reflections are woven into the socio-political landscapes and daily lives of individuals.
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2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize
Image: Alana Perino, Dad and Samuel, 2024.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Alana Perino
Aperture Portfolio Prize
Alana Perino is the winner of the 2025 Aperture Portfolio Prize. In the Florida island town of Longboat Key, the photographer crafts a haunting story of family and memory. Perino’s winning series Pictures of Birdsportrays a home upended by loss, suspended between memory and dream. As Eli Cohen writes: "Pictures of Birds does not shy away from the idea that spirits dwell in this home, and in many ways, the photographs take comfort in their presence."
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Bee Awards
24th Triennale Milano International Exhibition
Image: Lebanon Pavilion, installation view of the 24th International Exhibition, Inequalities. © Alessandro Salettae Piercarlo Quecchia - DSL Studio. Courtesy of Triennale Milano.
ARCHITECTURE
Lebanon Pavilion
Best Pavilion
The 24th International Exhibition of Triennale Milano explores the theme of Inequalities, continuing Triennale Milano's tradition of addressing urgent global issues through the lenses of art, architecture and design. The Bee Awards were presented to recognize selected contributions across the exhibition. The Best Pavilion Award was presented to the Lebanese Pavilion for the exhibition and from my heart I blow kisses to the sea and houses. Curated by Ala Tannir, the exhibition documents the rehabilitation of a French-Mandate era house in Ain el Mraisseh, damaged during the Beirut Port explosion in August 2020.
Image: We the Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, installation view of the 24th International Exhibition, Inequalities. © Alessandro Salettae Piercarlo Quecchia - DSL Studio. Courtesy of Triennale Milano.
ARCHITECTURE
Two Faces of the Same Coin by
Laura Kurgan, Dan Miller, Adam Vosburgh
Best Original Project
The Award for Best Original Project was given to Two Faces of the Same Coin by Laura Kurgan, Dan Miller and Adam Vosburgh. The work is a multimedia installation that explores the interdependent relationship between humans, bacteria and the built environment. Presented within the exhibition We the Bacteria. Notes Toward Biotic Architecture, curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, the work contributes to a broader inquiry into the historical and ongoing entanglements between microbial life and architecture. The exhibition traces this relationship from the Neolithic era to the present, proposing that architecture has always been shaped by—and in turn shaped—the microbial ecologies it houses.
