Prix dessin Fondation Guerlain | Prix Drawing Now | Icelandic Art Prize | Wagner Arts Fellowship | Eurasia Moving Image Commission | Foam Talent
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Prix dessin Fondation Guerlain | Prix Drawing Now | Icelandic Art Prize | Wagner Arts Fellowship | Eurasia Moving Image Commission | Foam Talent
2026-03-30 10:06:00
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Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporainDaniel & Florence Guerlain 2026artRenie SpoelstraPrix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporainDaniel & Florence GuerlainDutch artist Renie Spoelstra is the winner of the Prix de dessin de la Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain 2026. An award that celebrates her passion for charcoal landscape drawing. Renie Spoelstra spends long hours in nature, in her native country, but also in North America, in Canada or Peru, then renders vast expanses always devoid of human presence, yet filled with a mysterious aura, in the infinite nuances of gray and deep, charcoal-like, vibrant blacks. "The idea is not to draw realistically, but rather from within... to feel the flora, then to show it in the right way. To thus arrive at the very essence of the subject," she explains.Image: Renie Spoelstra, Remaining Snow, Iceland series, 2018, charcoal on paper, 200 x 300 cm.Private collection. © Renie Spoelstra.About the Prix de dessin Fondation d’art contemporainDaniel & Florence Guerlain Prix Drawing Now 2026artChloé VanderstraetenPrix Drawing NowChloé Vanderstraeten, represented by the Traits Libres Gallery (Paris), is the winner of the Prix Drawing Now 2026. Her work uses paper and drawing as tools for a unique exploration of the body and space. Chloé Vanderstraeten develops a practice in which paper becomes material, volume and architecture. Using various iconographic sources, including scientific sketches, medical treatises, astronomical charts and diagrams, she creates forms that unfold in space, combining cutting, folding and construction. Using techniques of pattern-making, weaving and tiling, she creates paper envelopes for the body, producing plays on scale that spark the imagination. Her drawing becomes structure, almost sculptural.Image: Chloé Vanderstraeten, Colonne II, 2025, paper cutting and folding, 70 x 35 x 500 cm. Commissioned by FRAC Amiens. © Chloé Vanderstraeten and Traits Libres Gallery. Photo: Irwin Leullier.About the Prix Drawing Now Icelandic Art Prize 2026artFinnbogi PéturssonArtist of the YearFinnbogi Pétursson (b. 1959) has been named Artist of the Year for his exhibition Skjálfti [Quake] at the LÁ Art Museum. It was sincere and consisted of an installation in a darkened space, featuring a reflective wall surface, a light from the ceiling, an urn on a pedestal, and seismic waves. Reflections and rhythmic, all-encompassing sounds captivated the viewer and prompted meditations on the power of nature, immortality, transience, and what happens when death comes knocking at the door. From the beginning, Finnbogi Pétursson has mixed sound with visuals in his installations and has expanded his works into the realm of music and even performance art.Image: Exhibition view, Finnbogi Pétursson, Skjálfti [Quake], LÁ Art Museum, Hveragerði, Iceland, 2025.About the Icelandic Art Prize 2026 Wagner Arts FellowshipartTomashi JacksonLucy KimYu-Wen WuWagner Arts FellowshipThe Wagner Foundation has announced Tomashi Jackson, Lucy Kim, and Yu-Wen Wu as the winners of its 2026 Wagner Arts Fellowship, awarded annually to mid-career or established artists in the Boston area who are engaged with social change. Jackson lives in Cambridge, in works that are frequently layered and three-dimensional, she explores themes of segregation and systemic oppression. Kim, who was born in South Korea, also lives in Cambridge. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses painting, sculpture, and biological media; she employs distortion as a way of deconstructing how we see what we see. Looking to her own experience as an immigrant, the Taiwan-born, Boston-based Wu investigates concepts of global migration, displacement, and identity through large-scale drawings, videos, and site-specific installations.Images: Exhibition view, Tomashi Jackson, Across The Universe, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (May 2025 – March 2026). Photo: Alex Barber. Installation view, Lucy Kim: Mutant Optics, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 2024. Photo: Jueqian Fang. Yu-Wen Wu, Reigning Beauty, 2025. UV ink on polyvinyl, 16 x 36 feet. Courtesy of the artist.About the Wagner Arts Fellowship 2026 Eurasia Moving Image CommissionartTekla AslanishviliEurasia Moving Image CommissionTekla Aslanishvili has been selected for the Han Nefkens Foundation’s Eurasia Moving Image Commission 2026. This major international commission involves the creation of a new video work for the collections of four museums. Tekla Aslanishvili is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and essayist based between Berlin, Tbilisi and Vienna. Her work reflects on the intersections between history, geopolitics and infrastructure for transport and energy. She often adopts an interdisciplinary perspective by collaborating with researchers and develops experimental documentary formats after an extensive research phase.Image: Tekla Aslanishvili, Scenes from Trial and Error (still), 2020. © Tekla AslanishviliAbout the Eurasia Moving Image Commission Foam Talent 2026photography Foam TalentFoam has announced its 2026 Foam Talent selection, representing an extraordinary new wave of image-makers shaping the future of photography. Hailing from 22 different countries, the 30 selected artists demonstrate a strong commitment to storytelling across a variety of photographic expressions. Through the use of powerful visual language, their works often connect to a notion of belonging – the search for a safe space, whether found within the home, family, community, or a sense of place, is an underlying thread that surfaces in different ways.Images: The Zuljanah is ready, 2019 © Nad E Ali. Wenhao, 2025 © Ramona Jingru Wang. Farren, 2024 © Farren van Wyk. A house with no roof #17 © Sara De Brito Faustino. 13.homeless © Ammar Yassir. The Doom of Chiron, 2022 © Alvin Ng.About the Foam Talent
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