Winners The Theodora Niemeijer Prize 2016, the only Dutch prize for visual arts dedicated specifically to female artists, has been awarded to Sissel Marie Tonn. Her proposed project, Intimate Earthquake Archives, will go on show at the Van Abbemuseum on 27 September 2016. She receives prize money of €10,000.
The Iraq-born, Berlin-based artist Hiwa K has won the €10,000 Arnold Bode Prize from the city of Kassel, Germany. The prize, named after the founder of Documenta, will be presented at Kasseler Kunstverein on 3 November 2016. The artist is due to participate in Documenta 14 in 2017.
London’s Victoria and Albert Museum has been named the Art Fund Museum of the Year 2016. In 2015, the V&A recorded its highest ever visitor numbers and completed the renovation and reopening of its Europe 1600-1815 galleries. The £100,000 award is the UK’s biggest museum prize.
The winner of the Walker Art Gallery’s John Moores Painting Prize 2016 is Michael Simpson. He will receive £25,000 and his winning painting, Squint (19), will be on display at the gallery in Liverpool until 27 November.
The dancer and choreographer Adam Linder has won the Mohn Award, which is awarded by the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and is given to an exceptional artist in the museum’s Made in LA biennial. Linder will receive prize money of $100,000.
Shortlists The Royal College of Art has announced the seven architectural firms that have been shortlisted for its new £108m Battersea South campus, planned to open in 2021. The architects are Christian Kerez (Switzerland), Diller Scofidio + Renfro (US), Herzog & de Meuron (Switzerland), Lacaton & Vassal (France), Robbrecht en Daem architecten (Belgium), Serie Architects (UK/Singapore) and Studio Gang (US). The winner will be announced in October.
New prizes The Ellsworth Kelly Foundation has donated $1m to the Foundation for Contemporary Arts to establish an endowment for a new contemporary art award. The annual $40,000 Ellsworth Kelly Award will support emerging, mid-career and under-recognised artists by funding a solo exhibition of the winner’s work in a regional museum or university art gallery in the US.
The Judd-Hume Prize, named after the artist Donald Judd and the 18th-century philosopher David Hume, has been founded by leading Judd expert Peter Ballantine. The £30,000 prize will be awarded each year to an international art writer, philosopher or architect, who will take up a two-month residency at the University of Edinburgh to research the intersection between the visual arts and philosophy.
The Contemporary Austin has announced the new Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, an unrestricted $100,000 award to be given to an artist. The biennial prize will fund a solo exhibition and an accompanying publication.