Spain National Architecture Award
Image: Cube I Office Tower, Guadalajara (Mexico), 2002-2005. Carme Pinós - Scenarios for Life.
© Duccio Malagamba.
ARCHITECTURE
Carme Pinós
Spain National Architecture Award
Carme Pinós set up her own studio in 1991 after winning international recognition for her work with Enric Miralles. Since then, she has worked on many projects ranging from urban refurbishments and public works to furniture design, while devoting time to teaching. Her work has been widely exhibited, the Centre Pompidou acquired the scale models of the Caixaforum Zaragoza in Spain, the Hotel Pizota in Mexico, and the Maison de l’Algérie of Paris. The model of the Cube I Tower currently belongs to the collection of New York’s MoMA.
About the Spain National Architecture Award
AKB & SAVVY
Contemporary Commission Prize
Image: Jean-Ulrick Désert, "Negerhosen2000".
ART
Jean-Ulrick Désert
Wi Di Mimba Wi
Jean-Ulrick Désert, a visual-artist born in Haiti, is the inaugural recipient of Wi Di Mimba Wi, the AKB & SAVVY Contemporary Commission. AKB Stiftung and SAVVY Contemporary have teamed up to launch this new and long-term commission grant for artists of colour based in Germany. Jean-Ulrick Désert’s artworks vary in forms such as public billboards, actions, paintings, site-specific sculptures, video and objects and emerges from a tradition of conceptually engaged practices. Well known for his "Negerhosen2000" performances and his "Burqa Project" as a response to 9-11, his practice may be characterized as visualizing "conspicuous invisibility".
About the AKB & SAVVY Contemporary Commission Prize
Design Museum's
Ralph Saltzman Prize
Image: ‘Concur’, chair and stool designed by Mac Collins and manufactured by Benchmark
for Discovered, an initiative by Wallpaper* and AHEC.
DESIGN
Mac Collins
Ralph Saltzman Prize
Mac Collins is the first recipient of the Ralph Saltzman Prize, a new annual design award celebrating emerging product designers. Mac Collins is known for his afrofuturistic carpentry pieces and first rose to prominence with his throne-like Iklwa chair, designed when he was still a student. In the years since graduating, Collins has been committed to designing and making narrative-rich and impactful furniture and objects. His work often explores the African diaspora and his own Afro-Caribbean heritage, whether creating a homage to Senufo stools or naming Iklwa after the short spear used by the Zulu.
About the Design Museum's Ralph Saltzman Prize
ARCA Prize
Image: Still from ‘Paper & Glue’ documentary by JR, 2021. Courtesy of ARCA.
ART
‘Paper & Glue’
by JR
ARCA Prize
‘Paper & Glue’ by acclaimed French artist JR has won the top prize at Uruguay’s inaugural arts film festival, ARCA. It is a feature-length documentary that follows the artist around the globe as he builds some of his most monumental projects, challenging perspectives and uniting communities through his thought-provoking work. From early illicit graffiti videos captured on Paris rooftops at night, to the US-Mexico border, to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, to a current collaboration at a California supermax prison, the film follows JR as he turns these communities inside out, turning images of residents into eye-catching and immersive art installations.
Bourse de Recherche-Création
"Réinventer la photographie"
Image: Margot Gaches, Brèche - vue de l'exposition ... des mondes, d'ailleurs.
Château d'Arsac, 2021. © Didier Monrepaux.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Andrés Baron
Margot Gaches
Bourse de Recherche-Création
"Réinventer la photographie"
Dedicated to the conservation, experimentation and dissemination of photographic know-how, the Collège International de Photographie (CIP) offers a research-creation grant whose objective is to project pre-digital knowledge and techniques into the post-photographic context.
Andrés Baron's project, "Animated fantasies", will explore "the notion of background and the creation of sets combining analog and digital techniques, fixed and moving images".
Margot Gaches's project, "Potential Worlds", will develop research around photographs taken in resin and set in motion.
About the Bourse de Recherche-Création "Réinventer la photographie"
Défilé HEAD 2021
Image: Tennessy Thoreson, "When I grow up, I want to be a superhero",
HEAD Bachelor collection, 2021. © Nicolas Schopfer.
FASHION
Tennessy Thoreson
Bachelor Bongénie Award
HEAD x Eyes on Talents Award
For his Bachelor collection, Tennessy Thoreson showed powerful and flamboyant women silhouettes that dazzled the jury and the public. The superheroines of his collection "When I grow up, I want to be a superhero" were doubly rewarded with the Bachelor Bongénie Award and the HEAD x Eyes on Talents Award. The jury stated: "The collection shows bold pattern making skills and design in celebration of wearing your true colors. Tennesy Thoreson has strong storytelling skills that deliver, with humour and wit, a powerful message about current social issues around gender identities."
