Winners
• The jury of the 56th Venice Biennale awarded the Golden Lion to Adrian Piper for best artist and the Republic of Armenia for best national pavilion. El Anatsui won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, and the Silver Lion for a promising young artist went to South Korea’s Im Heung-Soon.
• The second open-
submission Frieze Artist Award, supported by the Luma Foundation, was won by Rachel Rose. She receives a £20,000 budget to create her site-specific project, a scale model of Frieze London, for the fair in October.
Rachel Rose. Photo: courtesy of Frieze
• The winners of the 2015 Absolut Art Award are Frances Stark, for works of art, and Mark Godfrey, for art writing. Each receives a cash prize of €20,000 and a budget to develop a new project: €100,000 for Stark’s “pedagogical opera” and €25,000 for Godfrey’s anthology of 1960s and 1970s African-American art.
• Lawrence Weiner was awarded the 15th Roswitha Haftmann Prize for lifetime achievement. The SFr150,000 (£103,000) award, which was presented at the Kunsthaus Zürich on 21 May, is the most valuable in Europe.
• Samson Young won the first BMW Art Journey, based on his presentation in the Discoveries section of Art Basel Hong Kong in March. He will cross five continents, documenting “exceptional and historically resonant bells”, to create works.
• The Egyptian artist Basim Magdy is Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2016. He will have his first institutional solo show at the Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle in Berlin next spring.
• The Swiss Federal Office of Culture awarded the 15th Prix Meret Oppenheim for Swiss art and architecture to the artists Christoph Büchel and Olivier Mosset, the curator Urs Stahel and the architects Staufer/Hasler. The winners will each receive SFr40,000 (£27,000).
Shortlists
• Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel, Nicole Wermers and the design collective Assemble are the four nominees for the Turner Prize 2015. The winner of the £25,000 award is due to be announced on 7 December at Tramway, Glasgow.
• The six UK museums shortlisted for the Art Fund’s £100,000 Museum of the Year 2015 prize are the Imperial War Museum, London, the Tower of London (Historic Royal Palaces), the Whitworth, Manchester, the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Dunham Massey, Altrincham, and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The winner is due to be announced at Tate Modern on 1 July.