Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents 2025
Image: How do you feel © Joel Quayson
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joel Quayson
Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels
pour Jeunes Talents
Joel Quayson has been awarded the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents 2025 for his short filmHow do you feel. A visual artist and photographer, he has been a student at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague since 2023. Accompanied by an insistent, recurring voice-over that continually asks him about his state of mind, Joel Quayson’s images vibrate with true sincerity and palpable personal courage. How do you feel is the illustration of a personal quest, of a journey taken before our eyes by a man for whom images are more than a medium, and are a real reason to live. By talking to us about himself with such sincere lucidity, Joel Quayson manages to touch on a universal theme.
About the Prix Dior de la Photographie et des Arts Visuels pour Jeunes Talents
Praemium Imperiale 2025
Image: Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010, MoMA, New York.
Courtesy the Marina Abramović Archives. Photo: Marco Anelli.
ART
Marina Abramović
Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture
Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture. Abramović was honoured for her boundary-pushing work exploring the relationship between artist and audience. Her recent solo exhibition at London’s Royal Academy of Arts marked the first time a woman occupied the entire gallery in the institution’s 250-year history. In Manchester this October Abramović will premiere Balkan Erotic Epic, a large-scale performance blending ritual and tradition and featuring over 70 performers.
Image: Peter Doig, Night Bathers, 2019. Oil on linen, 200 x 275 cm. Courtesy Peter Doig.
ART
Peter Doig
Praemium Imperiale for Painting
Scottish painter Peter Doig has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Painting. The former Turner Prize nominee was recognised for his dreamlike, evocative works. Widely recognized as a leading figure in the ‘New Figurative Painting’ movement, Peter Doig has, over a career spanning more than three decades, redefined the expressive potential of painting. His upcoming exhibition, House of Music, opens at London’s Serpentine in October, featuring new paintings alongside a sound installation.
Image: Eduardo Souto de Moura, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal, 2009.
Courtesy of Souto de Moura Arquitectos. Photo: Luís Ferreira Alves.
ARCHITECTURE
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Praemium Imperiale for Architecture
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture. His work spans a wide range of building types and scales, from private homes to public buildings, characterized by a focus on materiality, structure and a strong relationship to site. Notable projects include the Estádio Municipal de Braga, carved into a former quarry; the Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, known for its terracotta-hued volumes; and the Cultural Center of Viana do Castelo, designed to look more like a machine than a building.
2025 RIBA National Awards
Image: Young V&A / AOC Architecture and De Matos Ryan. © Hufton & Crow
ARCHITECTURE
RIBA National Awards
The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the 20 winners of the 2025 RIBA National Awards, recognising the most significant contributions to architecture across the UK. From the Isle of Wight to Scotland and Northern Ireland, this year's winning projects represent a wide range of typologies and scales. Housing developments like Appleby Blue Almshouse and Hazelmead, Bridport Cohousing are designed to support community living and social connection, while initiatives such as HMP & YOI Stirling and Hope Street in Southampton rethink justice-related infrastructure with a focus on care and rehabilitation. Alongside these, sensitive conservation efforts, such as the restoration of Elizabeth Tower in London and Fairburn Tower in Scotland, highlight the continued relevance of heritage work.
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Résidence Laine et Création 2025
Image: Lucy Orta, Antarctic Village – No Borders, 2007. Ephemeral installation of Antartic village, North, South East and West villages accross the Antartic Peninsula from March to April 2007, various dimensions. Photo: Thierry Bal / Dirección Nacional del Antártico, © Lucy & Jorge Orta, © ADAGP, Paris.
ART
Lucy Orta
Résidence Laine et Création
ADAGP, Casa de Velázquez and Mobilier national have come together to highlight Spain's know-how and tradition in the wool sector by setting up a support scheme enabling a visual artist on the French scene to benefit from a three-month research and production residency at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. This year's winner is Lucy Orta for her project Bayt Al’ Shar [fiber house]. The artist envisages a return to a nomadic way of life, following an extreme scenario of ecological and social crisis. She will create a tent-sculpture conceived as a shelter directly inspired by the lifestyles of nomadic Bedouin tribes. Lucy Orta draws on their practice of animal fiber spinning, vegetable dyeing and weaving to rethink our habitats and our relationship with our environment.
About the Résidence Laine et Création
Foam Paul Huf Award 2025
Image: Ongoing War, 2023 © Myriam Boulos
PHOTOGRAPHY
Myriam Boulos
Foam Paul Huf Award
Myriam Boulos is the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2025. Myriam Boulos consistently elevates personal searching into something universally resonant, within the pressing context of war and political conflict within her home country of Lebanon. Her work shows how people who live outside dominant norms still manage to find one another within a social system that would rather render them invisible. Commenting on her work, the jury stated: "Myriam Boulos’ work is a powerful statement of personal agency and freedom amidst political tension, revolution and war. Her work speaks to the imagination of personal power and presence, reclaiming the image and redirecting repressive gazes toward the strength of inner desires and resistance."
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in
Urban Design 2025
Image: MASS, Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus, Bugesera, Rwanda. Photo: Iwan Baan
ARCHITECTURE
MASS
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) announced that the 15th Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design has been awarded to MASS for the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) campus in Bugesera, Rwanda. With Rwanda’s population expected to double by 2050, RICA will help ensure the nation’s future food security by educating the next generation of farmers and agricultural leaders in developing healthy, sustainable food systems. Promoting biodiversity, ecological conservation and community participation, the campus design reinforces the experiential approach to learning at the heart of RICA’s curriculum.
