Because of her outstanding contribution to contemporary sculpture, Otobong Nkanga has received the Nasher Prize. The Nigerian-Belgian artist will receive $100,000 and an exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas in 2025.
Since 2015, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, has awarded the Nasher Prize, which carries a $100,000 prize. Now, Nigerian-Belgian artist Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974) received the award, which comes with a solo exhibition at the museum in two years. In explaining why, Director Jeremy Strick said: »The work of Otobong Nkanga makes manifest the myriad connections—historical, sociological, economic, cultural, and spiritual— that we have to the materials that comprise our lives. Delving deeply into the variegated meanings these materials take on, Nkanga’s work makes clear the essential place of sculpture in contemporary life.«
Nkanga is the first winner of the new biennial format. This change was made to give the laureates more time to prepare new works and the museum more time to produce a printed monograph. The nine-member jury this year included Pablo León de la Barra, a curator at the Guggenheim New York; Rashid Johnson, U.S. artist; and Yuko Hasegawa, director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa.
Water connects the different series of works by artist Christine Keruth. In her new catalog flow to vision, she presents a detailed overview of her work from recent years, which offers surprising insights into the seemingly ordinary theme of water.
55 photographers are exhibiting at the National Portrait Gallery this year in the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize show. The prize went to Steph Wilson. The exhibition can be seen in London from November 14.
Robert Frank was an influential photographer of the 20th century. In Robert Frank: Mary's Book, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston presents a very personal photo book from the artist's younger years. The show opens on December 21.
The lively, dynamic and concentrated formal language of sculptor Mathias Kadolph has so far manifested itself primarily through his material, wood. Now, for the first time, he has had miniatures cast in bronze in an edition of twelve sculptures each. These convey essential impressions of his formal ideas and open up to new impulses for our perception.
