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Yuko Mohri

Calder Prize

The Calder Foundation has announced Yuko Mohri as the winner of the 2025 Calder Prize. Born in Kanagawa, Japan, she lives and works in Tokyo. Yuko Mohri is acclaimed for her kinetic installations composed of reconfigured ordinary objects and machine parts. She creates these multisensory ecosystems across sculpture, installation, painting, video, and photography. Engaging with chance techniques, Mohri allows her often ephemeral assemblages to continuously evolve in response to their environments.

Image: Yuko Mohri: Compose, 2024. Installation, Japan Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: kugeyasuhide.

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Mennour Emergence

The Mennour Institute has announced the winning artists who will benefit from the third edition of its ‘‘Mennour Emergence’’ program, committed to supporting young artists in the early stages of their careers. This year’s open call was sent out to young graduates of the École des Arts Décoratifs - PSL, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Seven artists were selected, they are: Sila Candansayar, Mariama Conteh, Maximilien Curtis x Cabinet Alecoya, Cléopatra Gones, Anna Kereszty, papiyon, Apolline Regent. A group exhibition will open on April 16, 2026, at Mennour, 5 rue du Pont de Lodi, Paris.

Image: Winners · Mennour Emergence #3

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ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics

DAM Preis

The 20th edition of the DAM Preis 2026 has been awarded to Peter Grundmann Architekten for the ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, an adaptive reuse project in Berlin, Germany. The project transforms a former single-story warehouse at a freight station in Berlin-Moabit into a cultural meeting place. The jury recognized the practice's transformative approach, highlighting the use of an above-average amount of manual labor and a modest budget to encase the existing hall in a lightweight steel-and-glass structure and add an additional floor.

Image: Peter Grundmann Architekten, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin, Germany.
Photo: Yizhi Wang.

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Hyejeong Ko

Prix International de la Fondation Boghossian

Korean artist Hyejeong Ko is the laureate of the Prix International de la Fondation Boghossian. Rooted in the poetic sensibility of Asian aesthetics, Hyejeong Ko's work explores the transformation of sterling silver – a material deeply linked to both Eastern craft traditions and Western decorative arts – into objects of timeless balance and contemporary refinement. Inspired by organic forms such as dandelions, pebbles and moving water, each of her creations captures a fleeting moment in nature, giving it a tangible, lasting presence. Metal, often perceived as cold and rigid, becomes a warm, organic material under the artist's hands.

Image: © Hyejeong Ko

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Natasha Preenja

Swali Craft Prize

In partnership with India Art Fair, the Swali Craft Prize seeks to reframe how craftsmanship is perceived and practised today through a residency at the Chanakya School of Craft. For its inaugural edition, the prize was awarded to artist Natasha Preenja (a.k.a. Princess Pea), whose multidisciplinary practice explores gender, the body, and women-led narratives through sustained engagement with craft traditions. The Lotus Headed, an interdisciplinary work developed during her residency at the Chanakya School of Craft is now on show at India Art Fair 2026.

Image: Natasha Preenja, The Lotus Headed, India Art Fair 2026, Booth J01, NSIC Grounds, Okhla.

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Maruch Santíz Gómez

Premio de Arte AXA México

At ZⓈONAMACO 2026, Latin America’s leading art fair, Maruch Santíz Gómez, represented by Galería OMR, was awarded the Premio de Arte AXA México, for her work no apretar la trompa de un perrito ni darle tamal (1994). Through her artistic work, Maruch seeks to document and reclaim the Tzotzil worldview and symbolism using a minimalista esthetic language. Her projects have focused on exploring various aspects of Tzotzil culture: Tzotzil myths and beliefs that explain natural and social phenomena in various communities; community herbal medicine used to cure various ailments and illnesses; Tzotzil cuisine and clothing; and the flora and fauna of the region where she was born.

Image: Maruch Santíz Gómez, no apretar la trompa de un perrito ni darle tamal, 1994. Silver on gelatin and text in Tzotzil.