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Otobong NKANGA, In Partitions, Scaffoldind Series, 2018. Courtesy of the artist.
The Art Eco-Design Awards ceremony was held on Monday, April 28, 2025, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. The award encourages and s artists committed to eco-responsible and sustainable creations. The patron of this third edition is artist Otobong Nkanga (Galerie In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc).
Founded by the Art of Change 21 association in 2023, the Art Eco-Conception Award aims to raise awareness of environmental and climate issues within the art scene. Created on the belief that artists are accelerators of change and have a role to play in raising awareness of the ecological transition, the award recognizes 12 visual artists each year who are concerned about their environmental impact.
This innovative award has established itself as a benchmark for environmental issues in the contemporary art sector. It offers winners three days of at the Palais de Tokyo, delivered by experts in the environment, carbon, low-tech, and eco-design, as well as artists experimenting with ecological practices. This year's featured artists are Théo Mercier and Xavier Veilhan. Each winner also receives a €1,000 grant.
Artists' expectations for environmental knowledge and training in the artistic field are growing. More and more artists are engaging in a creative approach that is aware of the major climate upheavals of our time. They are all questioning the means of production that allow them to be consistent with the ethical challenges of sobriety and impact reduction. These three days of exchange and learning are a unique opportunity for the winners to imagine alternative production strategies for eco-deg a work of art. The program's objective lies in a shared desire to find technical and creative solutions to the ecological crisis and anticipate the major changes to come. The ambition of these days is to artists in changing their benchmarks, stimulating new creative paths, and questioning new paths to take.
Founded in 2014 by its president, Alice Audouin, the Art of Change 21 association is a pioneer in the relationship between contemporary art and the environment. Sponsored by artist Olafur Eliasson, the association works internationally to reduce the environmental impact of contemporary art. It promotes, unites, and leads a community of committed artists with the vision of "The Artist as a Stakeholder," a concept born from the Symposium initiated and led by Alice Audouin at UNESCO in June 2004. This Symposium marked the first dialogue between three separate worlds: NGOs, businesses, and artists, on the issue of current environmental and social issues. The association programs exhibitions and major actions during major events such as the Climate COPs—from COP 21 to the present—and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) World Congress. Art of Change 21 is also behind the international participatory project Maskbook (with 7000+ participants in 30+ countries).
With this third edition of the Prize, Art of Change 21 continues its program of actions initiated more than 10 years ago for an ecological transition in the cultural sector. Among the experts ing the winners this year is Emmanuelle Paillat (Mutans firm), a carbon expert, who introduces artists to calculating the carbon footprint of a work. To share the lessons learned from this extraordinary , Art of Change 21 will publish in 2025, in partnership with ADEME, a guide on eco-design for artists.
The 2025 edition of the Eco-Design Art Prize has shortlisted 36 artists from 534 applicants. The 12 winning artists are: 6b1430
Credit: Portrait of the 12 winners of the 2025 Eco-design Art Prize @saywho
- Dana-Fiona Armour ()
- Younès Ben Slimane (Tunisia)
- Tiphaine Calmettes ()
- Grapain Collective ()
- Alice Guittard ()
- Chloe Jeanne ()
- Mehdi-Georges Lahlou ()
- Gohar Martirosyan (Armenia)
- Lou Motin ()
- Lionel Sabaté ()
- Ugo Schiavi ()
- Hugo Servanin ()
The 2025 Prize jury is made up of 12 leading figures in the fields of art and the environment: 3n1h4o
- Clément Delépine, director of Art Basel Paris
- Guillaume Désanges, President of the Palais de Tokyo
- Catherine Dobler, founder and director of the LAccolade Foundation
- Karine Duquesnoy, senior official for ecological transition and sustainable development at the Ministry of Culture
- Louise Hayward, director of the Lisson Gallery in London
- Anna Labouze and Keimis Henni, founders and directors of Artagon and artistic directors of Magasins Généraux
- Valérie Martin, head of the Citizen Mobilization and Media department at ADEME
- Arnaud Morand, exhibition curator and artistic director of Afalula
- Otobong Nkanga, artist and patron of the Prize
- Emmanuel Tibloux, director of the School of Decorative Arts
- Fabien Vallérian, Director of Art and Culture at Maison Ruinart
The Prize is chaired by Alice Audouin, founding president of Art of Change 21 and ed by the Ministry
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