Prix du dessin contemporain 2025
Image: © Marguerite Hollemaert
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Marguerite Hollemaert
Prix du dessin contemporain
Marguerite Hollemaert is the winner of the Prix du dessin contemporain 2025. She is a 4th year student at the Romain Bernini, Mireille Blanc and Eva Nielsen studios. Marguerite Hollemaert will receive an endowment from the association Les Amateurs de dessins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, which will also acquire one of her works for the Beaux-Arts de Paris, to enrich the collection of contemporary drawings. An exhibition dedicated to the five finalists: Jeanne Bastien, Lenna Carleton, Marguerite Hollemaert, Zoénine Laurent-Perroto and Francisce Pinzon-Samper will be presented during the Ateliers Ouverts on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 June 2025, at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris 2025
Image: © Salomé Botella. © Léonard Berthou, White Lie (fade out), diploma. © Charlotte Menut, oil, charcoal, pastels, felt pen on canvas, 170x220 cm. © Eugénie Didier, Les Glaneurs, oil on canvas, 150x150 cm. Joseph Dhedin-Arzoumanov, Le Violoniste, 2024, © Li Cam Vega. © Maëlle Lucas-Le Garrec, Ailes jaunes, 2024. © Nathan Ghali, Et les pas s'éloignèrent.
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Prix des Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris
The association Les Amis des Beaux-Arts de Paris, founded and chaired by agnès b., awarded seven prizes to students, selected by a jury of professionals from the world of contemporary art. Salomé Botella, a 5thyear student, is the winner of the Prix agnès b. Léonard Berthou, a 3thyear student, is the winner of the Prix Thaddaeus Ropac. Charlotte Menut, a 4th year student, is the winner of the Prix du portrait Bertrand de Demandolx- Dedons. Eugénie Didier, a 5th year student, is the winner of the Prix Weil. Joseph Dhedin-Arzoumanov, a 3th year student, is the winner of the Prix Khalil de Chazournes. Maëlle Lucas-Le Garrec, a 5thyear student, is the winner of the Prix Baudry d'Asson. Nathan Ghali, a 5th year student, is the winner of the Prix des Amis.
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2025 Maria Lassnig Prize
Image: Carrie Yamaoka, purple x gray redux, 1997/2022/2024.
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Carrie Yamaoka
Maria Lassnig Prize
The Maria Lassnig Foundation has named Japanese American interdisciplinary artist Carrie Yamaoka as the winner of its 2025 Maria Lassnig Prize. Established in 2017, the honor is presented biennially in recognition of a midcareer artist. Yamaoka will present a solo exhibition at the Hamburger Kunsthalle in 2026, her first in a German institution. Carrie Yamaoka is particularly interested in flux and in the distorting of perception. Themes explored in her work include materiality, process, transformation and chance. Her identity as a queer American artist of Japanese descent also informs her work.
Ralph Saltzman Prize 2025
Image: Lulu Harrison, Thames Glass. Courtesy of Lulu Harrison.
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Lulu Harrison
Ralph Saltzman Prize
Designer Lulu Harrison won The Ralph Saltzman Prize 2025 for her project Thames Glass. Lulu Harrison is a geo alchemist glass artist based between London and Oxford, however she travels extensively working alongside glass chemists, glass studios and glass blowers across the UK and Europe to widen her creative research and collaborative work. Thames Glass is a project inspired by the idea of creating geo-specific glass using local, abundant and waste materials from one location or region. Growing up by the River Thames in Oxfordshire, Lulu was drawn to work with materials sourced from the area, including river sands, wood ashes and waste quagga mussel shells from Thames Water.
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6th VH AWARD
Image: 6th VH AWARD presentation, HEK, 2025. Courtesy of HEK. Photo: Franz Wamhof. Wendi Yan, Dream of Walnut Palaces, 2025, Single Channel Video, 10 min. 09 sec. Commissioned by VH AWARD of Hyundai Motor Group.
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Wendi Yan
Grand Prix
The VH AWARD, organized by Hyundai Motor Group, announced Wendi Yan as the Grand Prix recipient of the 6th VH AWARD, for her work Dream of Walnut Palaces. The work, a CGI film reimagining knowledge exchange between Asia and Europe in the 18th century, explores the psyche of a fictional Daoist in a Paris lab. It addresses the East-West encounter of epistemic visuality and proposes an alternative to techno-Orientalism. Yan’s work was commended by the jury for its rigorous research and diasporic lens, presenting an alternative fiction through historically informed speculative worldbuilding and sophisticated use of technology.
Villa Romana Prize 2026
Image: Charmaine Poh, still from What's softest in the world rushes and runs over what's hardest in the world., 2024. Film, 14:30. Produced by The Vega Foundation. Collection of The Vega Foundation. Installation view ‘Choose Mutation, with Photographs by Annette Frick’. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger. Installation view: Mikołaj Sobczak, Salzburger Kunstverein, 2025. Gülbin Ünlü, Nostralgia, Ausstellungsansicht, Haus der Kunst, 2025. Photo: Judith Buss.
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Charmaine Poh
Susanne Sachsse
Mikołaj Sobczak
Gülbin Ünlü
Villa Romana Prize
The Villa Romana Prize has announced the selected artists for 2026. Charmaine Poh works across moving image and performance to peel apart, interrogate and hold ideas of agency, repair and the body across worlds. Susanne Sachsse (KHI Fellow) is an artist and actress who was born and raised in East Germany, an experience that informs her artistic and political critique of nationalism and social norms. Mikołaj Sobczak is an artist based in Düsseldorf, his work draws from queer activism and alternative historiographies, being an effect of a close collaboration with historians and theorists. Gülbin Ünlü is a Munich-based artist, her work traverses genre boundaries and opens visual and sonic spaces in which memory, loss, and speculative futures intersect.
Taishin Arts Award 2024/25
Image: The 23rd Taishin Arts Award – the Grand Prize Battle City: Finale by Chang Li-Ren. Photo: Sean Wang
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Chang Li-Ren
Grand Prize
The Grand Prize was awarded to Battle City: Finale by Chang Li-Ren at the Taishin Arts Award. The project marks the end of a 14-year journey. In 2024, the artist made a full debut at MoNTUE, showcasing his entire trilogy, along with the figures, models, sets and manuscripts from the production. Using inexpensive materials and low-tech approaches, Chang challenges the notion of how artists can persist, maintain autonomy and uphold their ideals within the confines of societal norms and collective values. The jury committee states "Using ‘battle’ as a metaphor, his work conveys individual resistance against global hegemonies, media violence, and existential conundrums, offering an allegorical reflection on the complexities of our shared realities."
