Evens Arts Prize

Lisbon-based choreographer and dancer Marlene Monteiro Freitas was awarded the Evens Arts Prize, in recognition of the singular and compelling force of the choreographic worlds she creates and her rich and layered scrutiny of European cultural traditions and their legacies.

A Special Mention was awarded to visual artist Andrea Büttner, whose work composes and dismantles relationships between cultural registers, philosophical and aesthetic traditions of Western modernity, and European histories of fascism and exploitation.

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Artist and choreographer Eszter Salamon received the Prize for her ambitious and uncompromising work that explores what has been forgotten, excluded and repressed in Western consciousness.

A Special Mention of the Jury was awarded to composer Éliane Radigue in recognition of her unique and pioneering path, in constant quest of the attunement with the world.

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Artist and filmmaker Els Dietvorst became laureate for her work, a contemporary parable confronting timeless questions of life, struggle, and the figure of an outsider.

Read about the recent retrospective of the artist's work at M HKA in Antwerp.

Artist collective Artway of Thinking was distinguished for initiating collective creative processes, where the artist gets actively involved in the process of social change.

Choreographer Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez won the Prize for their important contribution to European contemporary dance, and their social and cultural commitment at both local and international levels.

Artist Sven Augustijnen was lauded for his body of work that challenged the traditional codes of documentary practice and questioned recent European colonial history, its underlying narratives and current political practices.

Artist Agnieszka Podgórska was distinguished for her work on the body as a 'first language' in our relationship with others, as a prerequisite for living together.

In the framework of its 10th anniversary, the Evens Foundation pursued the reflections that accompanied the Evens Arts Prize to develop the Floating Territories project, linking the contemporary art biennials of Istanbul, Athens and Venice. Artists, curators, philosophers and cultural activists were invited to explore the responsibilities and limits of art in the context of a Europe in motion.

Read more about the Floating Territories project.

The Foundation launched a contest for short film screenplays, aimed at young directors from Europe and the Middle East, so as to create spaces for dialogue between these two cultural territories. The prize, awarded to Nassim Amaouche, Ula Tabari and Timon Koulmasis, enabled the creation of three short films, which were critically acclaimed and won awards at international film festivals.

The inaugural Evens Arts Prize was awarded to Sylvie Blocher with the collective Campement Urbain. The prize recognized their reflection on the significance and the possibilities of artistic interventions in the public space.

Intishal Al Timimi, Arab Film Festival, Rotterdam | Bart De Baere, M HKA Museum for Contemporary Art, Antwerp | Pierre Bal-Blanc, CAC, Bretigny | Manuel Borja-Villel, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid | Tanya Barson, Tate Modern, London | Andrea Bellini, Castello di Rivoli, Turin | Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels | Lynne Cooke, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid | Catherine David, Witte de With Rotterdam | Ann Demeester, De Appel, Amsterdam | Ekaterina Degot, Steirischer Herbst, Graz | Paul Dujardin, Bozar, Brussels | Elvira Dyangani Ose, Showroom, London | Jacob Fabricius, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö | Silvia Fanti, Live Arts Week /Xing, Bologna | Lars Henrik Gass, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | artist Jochen Gerz | Cristina Grande, Serralves Foundation, Porto | Laurent Jacob, Festival de Cannes, Ciné Fondation | curator Hou Hanru | Hicham Khalidi, Van Eyck Institute, Maastricht | Maria Lind, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm | Emma Lavigne, Centre Pompidou, Metz | Andrea Lissoni, Tate Modern | Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Ujazdowski Castle, Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw | Frank Madlener, IRCAM, Paris | philosopher Marie José Mondzain | Joana Mytkowska, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw | curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist | Mark Peranson, Locarno Film Festival | Nataša Petresin-Bachelez, Contour Biennale 9, Mechelen | artist Michelangelo Pistoletto | Jan Raes, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Maria Ines Rodriguez, Musac, Leon | Tiago Rodrigues, Teatro National Dona Maria II, Lisbon | Eva Sangiorgi, Viennale, Vienna | Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de With, Rotterdam | Christophe Slagmuylder, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna | Dirk Snauwaert, Wiels, Brussels | Alistair Spalding, Sadler’s Wells, London | Christa Spatt, Tanzquartier, Vienna | Jaroslaw Suchan, Art Museum, Lodz | Virve Sutinen, Tanz im August Festival, Berlin | Igor Toronyi-Lalic, London Contemporary Music Festival | Marc-Olivier Wahler, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

*The positions listed applied at the time of the participation in the prize.