Winners The South African artist Kemang Wa Lehulere has been named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2017. He receives €50,000 and will present his first institutional solo exhibition in Germany at the Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, next spring.
Hadrian Garrard, the director of Create London, has won the biennial Genesis Prize for his outstanding mentoring of artistic talent. Garrard has chosen to invest the £25,000 prize in a Young Curator Award.
Patrick Hough and Lawrence Lek are the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2017 winners. Each receives £20,000 to develop new moving-image works to be exhibited next spring.
The 2016 Hannah Höch Prize has been awarded to Cornelia Schleime. The biennial €60,000 prize, which is given by the Berlin state government, includes a show at the Berlinische Galerie this autumn.
The three winners of the 2016 Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent are the Iranian cartoonist Atena Farghadani, the Russian performance artist Petr Pavlensky and the Uzbek photojournalist Umida Akhmedova.
Ksynia Marko has received the Plowden Medal from the Royal Warrant Holders Association for her outstanding work in conserving British tapestries, carpets and other textiles during the past 40 years.
The Israeli-born architect and urban planner Moshe Safdie received a lifetime achievement award at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2016 National Design Awards.
The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha won the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
Reframe Iran, a film that captures the studios of Iranian artists working in the US, Canada, Europe and Iran, has won top prize at the Switzerland-based World Virtual Reality Forum 2016, making it one of the first virtual-reality art films to win a prize.
Shortlists The British artists Michael Dean, Anthea Hamilton, Helen Marten and Josephine Pryde have been shortlisted for the Tate’s 2016 Turner Prize. The artists will present works in an exhibition before the winner is announced in December.
The five museums shortlisted for the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year 2016 are Arnolfini in Bristol, Bethlem Museum of the Mind in London, Jupiter Artland in West Lothian, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and York Art Gallery. The winner of the £100,000 prize is due to be announced on 6 July.
New prize The Art Gallery of South Australia, backed by the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation, is launching a new biennial Australian contemporary art prize worth $100,000. The Ramsay Art Prize is open to artists under the age of 40, working in any medium. Submissions open in September and the winner is due to be announced next May.