Prix ellipse 2025
Image: Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Where Do We Go from Here?, How to Heal a Broken World, 2025, 11 x 1,2 m, installation using second-hand clothing.
ART
Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku
Prix ellipse
The 5th edition of the Prix ellipse focuses on Ghana's emerging art scene, around the theme of the "Butterfly Effect". This year's winner is multidisciplinary artist Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku. Born in 1994 in Accra, Ghana, he repurposes discarded textiles to create original works combining sculpture and canvas. Using dyeing and assembly techniques, he transforms used clothing into silent witnesses of past lives, questioning identity, over-consumption and colonial heritage. At the crossroads of history and sustainability, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku's work reflects on industrialization and climate change.
1 immeuble, 1 œuvre 2025
Image: Koralie Carmen Flores, Paisaia. © Studio PAM. Hugo Servanin, Objet 10. © Adagp, Paris, 2025. Photo: Olivier Ouadah. Nathalie Talec, Le Secret. © Adagp, Paris, 2025. Photo: Paul Hermelle/Seqens.
ART
Koralie Carmen Flores
Hugo Servanin
Nathalie Talec
1 immeuble, 1 œuvre
"1 immeuble, 1 œuvre" encourages the creation of works integrated into real-estate programs. This year's winners are artists Koralie Carmen Flores, Hugo Servanin et Nathalie Talec. The work by Koralie Carmen Flores is installed in a building in Biarritz. EntitledPaisaia, meaning ‘landscape’ in Basque, the work consists of two bas-reliefs in cut and painted wood. Hugo Servanin won for Objet 10, an installation of three glazed ceramics incorporating motifs created by AI from Édouard Manet's Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, which can be seen in the CB21 tower in Courbevoie. Nathalie Talec won the award for Le Secret, a monumental polyurethane sculpture of a female figure draped in gold, installed in front of one of Seqens' residences in Bobigny.
Image: Laurent Perbos, Figuier de Barbarie, 2023. © Adagp, Paris, 2025. Photo: Belin Promotion.
ART
Laurent Perbos
Prix du public
To mark the 10th anniversary of this artistic program, the French Ministry of Culture also presented a Prix du public. Via the Ministry's website, Internet users voted among six works pre-selected by the jury, chosen from creations produced over the past ten years. The vote attracted 1,678 voters, 35% of whom chose Laurent Perbos' Figuier de Barbarie. This sculpture, installed on the façade of L'Aparté residence in Toulouse, is made up of assembled tennis rackets, a reference to the ‘cactus racket’ nickname given to the prickly pear.
FRAME Awards 2025
Image: E Studio, Higold's Outdoor Furniture Showroom, China, 2024. Photo: WM STUDIO.
DESIGN
Higold's Outdoor Furniture Showroom
Winner of the month for May
E Studio's Outdoor Furniture Showroom for Higold which transforms commercial display into a museum-like journey is the FRAME Awards May winner. The project reimagines commercial space beyond typical product displays and blurs the lines between indoors and outdoors. Located at Higold's Interstellar Headquarters, the design showcases comprehensive high-end home hardware solutions through a curated, gallery-like experience that sparks reflection on the future of living.
Prix Bob Calle 2025
Image: Joan Ayrton, pendulum shift, 2024, Roma Publications.
PHOTOGRAPHY
pendulum shift by Joan Ayrton
Prix Bob Calle
pendulum shift by Joan Ayrton received the Prix Bob Calle 2025 du livre d'artiste. Joan Ayrton chose to photograph the Mauvoisin dam in Switzerland with a Tessina, a tiny camera that appeared on the market in the late 1950s, when the Mauvoisin project was nearing completion. pendulum shift is a story highly emblematic of the modern era, of dam construction in the Swiss Alps, and of a watchmaking industry that had to reinvent itself after the stock market crash of 1929 by entering the field of photography. This is a historical confrontation between two mythical engineering industries, each in its own way a generator of narratives.
ARCOlisboa 2025
Image: Installation view, Travesía Cuatro, ARCOlisboa 2025. Photo: Vasco Vilhena.
ART
Travesía Cuatro
Fundação Millennium bcp Award for Best Booth
The Madrid-based gallery Travesía Cuatro received the Fundação Millennium bcp Award for Best Booth at ARCOlisboa 2025. The winning booth presented works by Alexandre Estrela (Lisbon, 1971), Álvaro Urbano (Madrid, 1983) and Tania Pérez Córdova (Mexico City, 1979). The jury praised the creativity, innovation and quality of the winning gallery’s presentation.
