Winners
The five winners of the 27th Praemium Imperiale, the Japan Art Association’s annual lifetime achievement awards, are Tadanori Yokoo (painting), Wolfgang Laib (sculpture), Dominique Perrault (architecture), Mitsuko Uchida (music) and Sylvie Guillem (theatre/film). They each receive 15m yen (around £80,000). A ceremony is due to take place in Tokyo on 21 October.
John Baldessari, Ping Chong, Ann Hamilton and Meredith Monk were among the 11 recipients of the 2014 US National Medals of the Arts and Humanities, presented by President Barack Obama last month.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of London’s Serpentine Gallery, has won the €25,000 International Folkwang Prize from the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany.
Anne Imhof has won the Preis der Nationalgalerie, a biennial award for artists under 40 based in Germany. She will have a solo exhibition at one of the Nationalgalerie museums in Berlin next year. The Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart is showing works by all four nominees (until 17 January).
The British architect David Adjaye received the 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for creative leadership. The award includes $100,000 and a campus residency.
The photographer Newsha Tavakolian is due to receive the Principal Prince Claus Award at the Royal Palace Amsterdam on 2 December. She plans to donate part of the €100,000 prize to helping Syrian and Iraqi refugees. The ten winners of the €25,000 Prince Claus awards include Latif Al-Ani, Jelili Atiku, Etcétera and Oksana Shatalova.
Shortlists
The seven nominees for Artes Mundi 7, the UK’s biggest prize for contemporary art, are John Akomfrah, Neïl Beloufa, Amy Franceschini with the Futurefarmers collective, Lamia Joreige, Nástio Mosquito, Hito Steyerl and Bedwyr Williams. Their works will be exhibited in Cardiff in October 2016, and the winner of the £40,000 award is due to be announced in January 2017.
Alicja Bielawska, Ada Karczmarczyk, Piotr Lakomy, Agnieszka Piksa and Iza Tarasewicz have been shortlisted for Views, the Deutsche Bank-sponsored €15,000 award for young Polish art. The ceremony is due to be held on 22 October at Zachęta—National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, where the associated exhibition runs until 15 November.
New prizes
The Saatchi Gallery and the Firtash Foundation have launched UK/raine, a competition for British and Ukrainian artists aged under 35. It covers five categories: installation, new media, painting, sculpture and street art. Submissions are open until 20 October. The winners of the prizes (£10,000 for each category, £5,000 for a public vote and a further £20,000 for the overall winner) are due to be announced on 23 November.