Turner Prize 2021
Image: Array Collective installation shot, The Turner Prize 2021 Exhibition,
The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, England.
© David Levene, courtesy The Turner Prize
ART
Array Collective
Turner Prize
The jury awarded the Turner Prize to Array Collective for their hopeful and dynamic artwork which addresses urgent social and political issues affecting Northern Ireland with humour, seriousness and beauty. They were impressed with how Belfast-based Array Collective were able to translate their activism and values into the gallery environment, creating a welcoming, immersive and surprising exhibition. For the first time, this year's Turner Prize jury selected a shortlist consisting entirely of artist collectives and artist-run projects:
Array Collective, Black Obsidian Sound System, Cooking Sections, Gentle/Radical and Project Art Works.
Gold Art Prize
Image: Maia Ruth Lee, DICTATION, Fabric Bandages on canvas, Language of Grief,
MCA Denver, February 26 - August 22, 2021.
ART
Jes Fan
Maia Ruth Lee
Candice Lin
Moved by the Motion
Miljohn Rupert
Gold Art Prize
The inaugural winners of the Gold Art Prize, which will award five AAPI and Asian diaspora artists every other year, are Jes Fan, Maia Ruth Lee, Candice Lin, Moved by the Motion and Miljohn Ruperto.
Jes Fan, whose work is on view in the 2021 New Museum Triennial in New York, is known for including organic matter in sculptures that mull identity and queerness. Maia Ruth Lee focuses on language and systems in her sculptural installations. At the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Candice Lin is showing an installation that asks viewers to consider cats’ perspectives on the world. Moved by the Motion is an artist group that has created performances and sound installations that are themselves about collaboration. Miljohn Rupert makes videos, animations, and photographs that expose the shaky nature of truth.
Architecture Drawing Prize 2021
Image: "Fluid Strata" by Filippa Dafni, joint winner in the hybrid category.
ARCHITECTURE
Antonio Paoletti
Filippa Dafni
Boji Hu
Zachary Higson
Architecture Drawing Prize
This year the Architecture Drawing Prize has been exceptional in the number and strength of student submissions it has attracted across its three categories for entry: hand-drawn, hybrid and digital. The winning drawings for all three categories are by students.
The winner of the hand-drawn category is "Reconfiguring Addis Ababa's Narratives" by Antonio Paoletti.
This year there are two joint winners in the hybrid category that highlight originality and flair in combining different drawing techniques. The judges were equally impressed by "Fluid Strata" by Filippa Dafni and "(Un)homeliness" by Boji Hu.
The digital category winner is "Site(s) of Flux" by Zachary Higson.
About the Architecture Drawing Prize
AR Emerging Architecture awards 2020
Image: Carles Enrich Studio, Landscape adaptation of the walled enclosure and chapel of Jorba Castle, Jorba, 2019-2020. © Adrià Goula
ARCHITECTURE
Carles Enrich Studio
AR Emerging Architecture awards
Barcelona-based practice Carles Enrich Studio has won the AR Emerging Architecture awards 2020. The jury commended the way Carles Enrich Studio’s work reconnects history with the future and understands heritage as infrastructure: "something dynamic and appropriated rather than museumified". The studio’s work focusses on interventions in historical landscapes in Catalonia. The judges applauded the studio’s approach to existing context, commenting, "It is about reinterpreting rather than reconstructing, and it takes a certain form of freedom – and a lot of persuasive power – to do it successfully."
About the AR Emerging Architecture awards
Freelands Award 2021
Image: Jacqueline Poncelet, Dunraven 11, 2010. © Jacqueline Poncelet
ART
MIMA with artist Jacqueline Poncelet
Freelands Award
MIMA - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - has won the sixth annual Freelands Award, to host a solo exhibition by artist Jacqueline Poncelet (b.1947, Liege, Belgium). A survey of her 50-year practice, including ceramics, sculpture, painting, textiles and aspects of her large-scale architectural work, will take place at the gallery in 2024. New commissioned works will engage with the manufacturing traditions of the region, which include linen production, rag-rugs and steelwork.
Prix Studio Collector 2021
Image: Younes Ben Slimane, "Nous le savions qu'elles étaient belles, les îles", 2021, film, 16 min.
Production Le Fresnoy – Studio national. © Younes Ben Slimane.
MOVING IMAGE
Younès Ben Slimane
Prix Studio Collector
Born in 1992, Younès Ben Slimane, Tunisian visual artist, architect and director was awarded the Prix Studio Collector 2021, by collector Guillaume de Saint-Seine, for his short film "Nous le savions qu'elles étaient belles, les îles".
Initiated by French video art collectors Isabelle & Jean-Conrad Lemaître in 2007, the prize rewards an artist from Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing). The winning work is then selected for the "Panorama" exhibition, an annual creation meeting at Le Fresnoy. Every year, the winner is chosen by a collector or a curator appointed by the Lemaître.
About the Prix Studio Collector
Sony World Photography Awards
Image: Edward Burtynsky, "Saw Mills #2, Lagos, Nigeria", 2016.
© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Flowers Gallery/Nicholas Metivier Gallery.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Edward Burtynsky
Outstanding Contribution to Photography
Photographer Edward Burtynsky was born in 1955 of Ukrainian heritage in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet.
"I am very excited to accept this award. My work over the last 40 years has given me the privilege to see the world, understand the problems that we are facing, and bear witness to it all with my camera." said Edward Burtynsky.
