Artissima 2021, here are all the award-winning works: who are the prize winners

All the prizes for the 2021 edition of Artissima, the international contemporary art fair in Turin, now in its 28th year, have been awarded.

The twenty-first edition of the Illy Present Future Prize, supported by illycaffè since 2001 and awarded to the project deemed most interesting in Present Future, the section Artissima dedicates to emerging talent, goes to Diana Policarpo. The artist is presented by Lehmann + Silva Gallery in Porto. The prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Aaron Cezar, director of the Delfina Foundation in London; Hou Hanru, artistic director of MAXXI Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo in Rome; and Kathryn Weir, director of MADRE Museo d’Arte Donnaregina in Naples, with the following motivation: “A strong current sense of systemic crisis has pushed several artists of the post-1980 generation toward research-based approaches that distort this system from a historical perspective by trying to develop alternatives. In her practice Diana Policarpo weaves seemingly opposing perspectives and conceptual frameworks, intelligently mobilizing various strategies and media, from text to video, through sound and spatial arrangement. The artist creates environments in which the audience is invited to explore the hallucinatory worlds she evokes. In her work, the members of the jury recognize one of the key currents in contemporary art practice.”

The award, which for twenty-one editions has accompanied Artissima in the discovery and enhancement of emerging talent, has featured Shizuka Yokomizo (2001), Padraig Timoney (2002), Phil Collins (2003), Manuele Cerutti (2004), Michael Beutler (2005), Sergio Prego (2006), Patricia Esquivias (2007), Mateo Tannatt (2008), Luca Francesconi (2009), Melanie Gilligan (2010), Dina Danish (2011), Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa/Vanessa Safavi/Santo Tolone (2012), Caroline Achaintre and Fatma Bucak (2013), Rachel Rose (2014), Alina Chaiderov (2015), CéChile B. Evans (2016), Cally Spooner (2017), Pedro Neves Marques (2018), aaajiao (2019) and Radamés “Juni” Figueroa (2020).

The second edition of the Carol Rama Prize, sponsored by Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte and awarded to the artist who interprets, through her research and work, the ideal of unconventional female creativity and artistic freedom that Carol Rama embodied and transmitted, goes to Ivana Spinelli. The artist is presented by Galleriapiù of Bologna. In its second edition, the prize was awarded to the artist by an international jury composed of Vittorio Calabrese, director of Magazzino Italian Art in New York; Jean-Marc Prevost, director of Carré d’Art-Musée d’Art Contemporain in Nimes; and Letizia Ragaglia, director of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz, with this motivation: “The task of the jury of the Carol Rama Prize was to identify a female artist whose work stands out for its communicative power and narrative impact. The jury awarded the second edition of the prize sponsored by the Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte to Ivana Spinelli because she has been analyzing the relationship between body and language through her practice for 20 years. In particular, the artist, through rewriting and redesigning, reappropriates an archaic language that revolves around the figure of a deity. The language of a protohistoric, egalitarian and matriarchal society is brought into the present through sculptures, drawings, canvases and performative actions up to digital forms of communication.”

In 2020, the Carol Rama Prize was awarded to Zehra Dogan, presented by Prometeo Gallery Ida Pisani, Milan, Lucca, who decided to allocate the entire sum of the award to set up an art workshop in the Turkish city of Mardin.

The first edition of the VANNI #artistroom Prize, launched by the VANNI eyewear brand and awarded to the artist under 35 whose work is deemed to offer an original look at reality, opening, as a lens would, an unexpected and surprising horizon, goes to Catalin Pislaru. The artist is presented by Nir Altman Gallery in Munich. The prize was awarded by an international jury composed of Arthur Arbesser, designer, Marco Sammicheli, director of the Triennale Museum of Italian Design in Milan, and artist Marinella Senatore with this motivation: “The jury assigns the VANNI #artistroom Prize to Catalin Pislaru whose imagery entertains fruitful relations with the visual culture of twentieth-century Europe, particularly Russian. Moreover, the plastic component of the pictorial action is ready for the leap of three-dimensionality. In the work one can perceive the potential of constructive applications in which the compositional architecture of the image has a marked object versatility. The material culture, the skill with which he works with wood and aluminum, the bold sense for color, convinced the jury in awarding the prize to the Moldavian artist based in Germany.”

The second edition of the Tosetti Value Prize for Photography, supported by Tosetti Value - The Family office and awarded to the artist whose photographic work is considered particularly interesting for understanding the socio-historical and economic situation of our globalized world, goes to Fatma Bucak. The artist is presented by Peola Simondi Gallery in Turin. The prize was awarded to the artist by an international jury composed of Walter Guadagnini, director of CAMERA Italian Center for Photography in Turin, Daphne Vitali, curator of EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Raed Yassin, artist, and Giulia Tosetti. This is the motivation: “The Tosetti Value Prize for Photography goes to Fatma Bucak an artist whose photographic, performance and video work investigates current sociopolitical issues addressing in particular conflicts in Turkey and border issues. Her powerful and emblematic photographs capture today’s tensions by reconsidering issues of history making, memory, witnessing and identity.”

The first edition of the Tosetti Value Prize for Photography, supported by Tosetti Value - The Family office was awarded to Raed Yassin, presented by Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery in Dubai, whose work Tosetti Value - The Family office acquired for its Corporate Collection.

The second edition of the FPT for Sustainable Art Award, sponsored by FPT Industrial with the intention of generating an encounter between sustainability, innovation and art, goes to Lennart Lahuis. The artist is presented by Dürst Britt & Mayhew Gallery, The Hague. The FPT Prize for Sustainable Art was awarded to the artist by an international jury consisting of Diana Campbell Betancourt, director of the Samdani Art Foundation, Dhaka; Krist Gruijthuijsen, director of the KW Berlin Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and Antje-Britt Mählmann, director of the Kunsthalle St. Annen in Lübeck, with the following motivation: “Lennart Lahuis’s installation at the Dürst Britt & Mayhew gallery is a poignant example of how context and materiality are manifested in a multi-layered process of what is considered ’sustainable.’ Lahuis dialogues with Dutch modernist poet and painter Willem Hussem, a highly influential figure in the Netherlands but unknown abroad. Hussem’s colorful abstract paintings are juxtaposed with crates, placed roughly right in front of the paintings and used to transport Lahuis’s work. A display of industrial products reveals a system in which words evaporate through water. When is it that we feel change in the air? (When is it that we feel change in the air?) could have been adapted from one of Hussem’s poems, which trace the ephemeral and poetic complexities of history (art) in our ever-changing everyday environment.”

In 2020, the prize was awarded to artist Renato Leotta, presented by Madragoa Gallery, for a work from the “Mare” series that the company later acquired. The work recalls reflections dear to FPT Industrial, which, oriented toward the design and production of engines for the industrial sector (vehicles, machinery, generators) and for the nautical world, consolidates with this project its constant attention to environmental sustainability and in particular the protection of the seas.

The twelfth edition of the Ettore and Ines Fico Prize, sponsored by MEF Museo Ettore Fico in Turin and aimed at promoting and enhancing the work of young artists through an acquisition, goes to Mimosa Echard and Namsal Siedlecki. Mimosa Echard is presented by Galleria Martina Simeti, Milan. Namsal Siedlecki is presented by Magazzino, Rome. The artists, distinguished for their creative poetics and research at the international level, were selected by Andrea Busto, president and director of the MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, and the Museum’s Artistic Direction. The works acquired are Un bout de toi, Salomon of 2020 by Echard and Mva Cha 1 by Siedlecki.

In recent years the prize has been awarded to: Alessandro Scarabello (The Gallery Apart of Rome in 2020), Gugliemo Castelli (Francesca Antonini of Rome and Rolando Anselmi of Berlin/Rome in 2019), Georgia Sagri (Anthony Reynolds of London in 2018), DavidDouard (Chantal Crousel of Paris in 2017), Gian Maria Tosatti (Lia Rumma of Milan/Naples in 2016), AnneImhof (Isabella Bortolozzi of Berlin in 2015), Lili Reynaud-Dewar (Emanuel Layr of Vienna/Rome in 2014), Petrit Halilaj (Chert of Berlin in 2013), Luca Trevisani (Pink Summer of Genoa in 2012), Rä Di Martino (Monitor of Rome in 2011) and Rossella Biscotti (Ida Pisani of Milan in 2010).

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The first Xiaomi HyperCharge Award, sponsored by global technology leader Xiaomi in recognition of the artist under 35 whose research best communicates the charge that innovation and culture can instill in contemporary society, goes to Gillian Brett. The artist is presented by C+N Canepaneri Gallery in Milan and Genoa. The prize was awarded by the jury composed of Antonio Carloni, Intesa Sanpaolo’s Directorate of Art, Culture and Historical Assets, Stefano Collicelli Cagol, independent curator, Davide Lunardelli, Head of Marketing at Xiaomi Italy, and Elisa Sighicelli, artist, with this motivation: “The Xiaomi HyperCharge Award jury unanimously decided to award Gillian Brett’s research for her ability to re-imagine the use of discarded technological materials by giving them a new dimension, which is both critical and aesthetic. By reassembling broken and damaged screen components, thus unusable for their initial work, the artist recycles them through an abstract language, recharging them with new meanings. With humor and intelligence, Gillian Brett creates works that reference the everyday rethought from an ecological and science fiction perspective.”

In its first edition, the Xiaomi HyperCharge Prize was created in correspondence with Xiaomi HyperCharge RestART, a project developed by the company and aimed at promoting culture as a natural energizer that can quickly recharge the mind and spirit. On the occasion of the launch of the new smartphone in Italy, a team composed of 7 students and alumni from the Department of Visual Arts at NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was selected by Ilaria Bonacossa, mentor of the project. The team was invited to “recharge” through a series of Masterclasses held by top Italian exponents in the fields of cinema, design and fashion, and then produce creative videographic content that came to life in the exhibition “Sensi Digitali” presented within Artissima.

Finally, new acquisitions by the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT: once again this year the foundation has renewed its support for Artissima - Internazionale d’arte contemporanea, proceeding with the acquisition of 12 new works created by artists that will implement the foundation’s historic Collection and will be granted on free loan to the two main museums in Turin. Five selected works by Micol Assäel, Giuliana Rosso, Francis Offman and Gokula Stoffel will be destined for the curatorial projects of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, while seven works by Chiara Camoni, Pesce Khete and Davide Sgambaro will enrich the exhibition proposals of GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna di Torino.

The works acquired in favor of Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea are Iken (opinion) by Micol Assäel (2020), Finché quel che fantastichiamo è stato by Giuliana Rosso (2020), two Untitled by Francis Offman (2021) and Fogo by Gokula Stoffel (2021). Works acquired for the benefit of GAM are Sister#1 by Chiara Camoni (2020), three Untitled by Pesce Khete (2021), Parapparaparapappara (113C 3 HAG N10) #1 and #3 and I push a finger into my eyes (kiss, kick,kiss) #2 by Davide Sgambaro (2021).

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Artissima 2021, here are all the award-winning works: who are the prize winners

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