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Mori Art Award 2026artKatayama MariGrand PrizeKatayama Mari is the Mori Art Award 2026 inaugural Grand Prize winner. Established by the Mori Contemporary Art Foundation, the award supports mid-career Japanese artists. Grand Prize winner Katayama Mari explores the possibility of extending the boundaries of her own body with strength and affirmation, working with analog photography and handcraft practices such as embroidery and needlework. Her recent work tree of life suggests an ambitious new direction. Katayama's practice is expected to transcend cultural and social boundaries through the fusion of powerful imagery and a strong conceptual framework.Image: Katayama Mari, caryatid #011, 2024. © Katayama Mari, courtesy of Mari Katayama Studio and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris.About the Mori Art Award Visa d’or OnlinephotographyToby BinderVisa d’or OnlineToby Binder is the inaugural winner of the Visa d’or Online for his work Divided Youth (Belfast, Northern Ireland). The Visa d'or Online were designed to complement the festival's support for photographers throughout the year. Toby Binder was born in Esslingen (Germany) in 1977. A socially committed documentary photographer, he focuses on disadvantaged and marginalised communities as part of long-term projects. He often adopts the point of view of young people.Image: Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2025. A group of teenagers gather on a wasteland in Ravenhill to celebrate the night of 11 July. © Toby BinderAbout the Visa d’or Online Foundation for Contemporary Arts2026 Grants to Artists Awardsart Grants to Artists AwardsThe Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) announced the twenty-four artists who will receive its Grants to Artists Awards. These unrestricted awards recognize experimental artists working in Dance, Music/Sound, Performance Art/Theater, Poetry, and Visual Arts, and provide financial support for increased freedom in their lives and practices. The 2026 grantees include artists such as visual artist Teresa Baker, whose process-oriented abstractions combine artificial materials and natural materials drawn from her Mandan and Hidatsa tribal heritage, in her exploration of materiality as a representation of people, culture, and landscape. Baker will be participating in the Whitney Biennial opening in March.Image: Teresa Baker, Containing Space, 2025, buffalo hide, acrylic, yarn, AstroTurf,300 x 150 cm, 118 x 59 in.About the Foundation for Contemporary ArtsGrants to Artists Awards Prix Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation 2026artDany AlbiachPrix Francis Bacon MB Art FoundationThe fifth Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation grant, given to an artist who has graduated from the Villa Arson, has been awarded to Dany Albiach. Dany Albiach was born in 1999 and lives and works in Lyon. He graduated from Villa Arson in 2024, and is developing a multidisciplinary artistic practice. Through drawing, photography, sculpture and silkscreen, Dany explores notions of trace, memory and the reactivation of the past, questioning the materiality of images and their ability to construct narratives. At the heart of his compositions are fragments of his own memory, family archives and fiction. His approach gives rise to sensitive, silent works that invite us to rethink the continuity of time.Image: Dany Albiach. Untitled, 2024, graphite, silkscreen on wood, 100 × 57 × 4,5 cm. Untitled, 2024, four-colour process on wood on wood, 100 × 10 × 4 cm. Untitled, 2024, graphite, silkscreen on wood,100 × 46 × 4 cm. © Antoine Aphesbero/Villa ArsonAbout the Prix Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation Fonds de production artistique Enowe-Artagonart Fonds de production artistique Enowe-ArtagonThe Fonds de production artistique Enowe-Artagon rewards six projects for 2025. For the fifth year running, this initiative is supporting artists whose work addresses environmental issues. The artists behind the winning projects are all emerging artists. They work in music, theatre, dance, sculpture, design, film, installation, and performance. In the visual arts, the winning project is Joachim Monvoisin's Ingénue project, combining the visual arts and sailing to create a sailboat sculpture.Image: Ingénue © Joachim MonvoisinAbout the Fonds de production artistique Enowe-Artagon Grand Prix RPBB 2026photographyMurat YazarGrand Prix RPBBMurat Yazar is the winner of the Grand Prix des Experts des Rencontres Photographiques de Boulogne-Billancourt 2026. A Kurdish photographer born in Urfa, in eastern Turkey, in 1978, and trained in photography in Istanbul, Murat Yazar has developed an independent photographic approach, nourished by his travels in the Middle East, the Caucasus and Europe. His work questions the border as an imposed line and as a human experience, with the ambition of bringing together rather than separating, celebrating details, differences and commonalities in a single visual narrative.Image: Shadows of Kurdistan series © Murat YazarAbout the Grand Prix RPBB Zooms Japan 2026photographyYuji TannoZooms JapanYuji Tanno is all about gentleness and time, repairing the earth and taking things one step at a time. We live together with those who welcome us, in a shared rhythm. In Shindo-Fuji, the artist is inspired by the Buddhist concept that the human body and the earth it inhabits are one. In the intimacy of the inhabitants of Kusunoki, a village in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, he captures moments of everyday rural life. "Their rhythm of life, in harmony with nature, contrasts with a society obsessed with speed and consumerism, subtly suggesting the possibility of reconnecting with the land. This work documents their daily lives, but also raises questions for the future. How can we choose to live in relationship with the earth? Can we shape our own lives, rather than submit to a system established by others?" Yuji Tanno.Image: Shindo-Fuji series © Yuji TannophotographyMia HamaZooms JapanIt is in the backstreets of the Japanese capital, or in its surrounding towns, that Mia Hama takes her incongruous stance. Everywhere she goes, people are busy going about their daily lives. Who is the stranger here: the one who runs after his life without looking back, or the one who takes the time to gently mock it? "It's about staging myself in an ordinary place, not creating a totally unusual set. I hope that the audience will appreciate these little quirks and shifts," she admits. With its bright, colourful hues, her Everyday life is wonderful series is a desire to shift reality and the gaze, to draw attention to things that don't go as planned.Image: Everyday life is wonderful series © Mia HamaAbout the Zooms Japan
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