{"id":430352,"date":"2026-05-07T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430352\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:23:14","slug":"max-mara-art-prize-for-women-awards-dian-suci-at-2026-venice-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430352\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Mara Art Prize for Women Awards Dian Suci at 2026 Venice Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMILAN \u2014\u00a0Indonesian talent Dian Suci scooped up the 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe winner was announced in a ceremony held in Venice on Thursday evening, timed with the opening of the 2026 Venice Art Biennale<\/a>, at the presence of Cecilia Alemani, the prize\u2019s curator and chair of the jury; Elia Maramotti, representative of the family that founded Max Mara<\/a> and Collezione Maramotti; Sara Piccinini, director of Collezione Maramotti, and Venus Lau, director of Museum MACAN.<\/p>\n

\n\tEstablished in 2005 by Max Mara<\/a>, the biennial prize supports and promotes emerging or midcareer artists at a crucial stage in their professional paths, offering them time and space for the creation of an ambitious project.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Searching<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tSearching Land in the Land Word, 2022.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tAs reported<\/a>, after its two-decade collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery<\/a> in London, the Max Mara Art<\/a> Prize for Women pivoted into an itinerant event starting this year, traveling to a different country with each edition under the guidance and curation of Alemani, who\u2019s also director and head curator of High Line Art<\/a> in New York and was the first Italian woman to hold the position of curator of the\u00a0Venice Art Biennale<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tEach winning artist is given the opportunity to spend a six-month residency in Italy<\/a>, organized by Collezione Maramotti and specifically tailored to the development of the project proposed to the jury. This work will be exhibited in two solo shows, including the partner institution for the edition \u2014 which in Suci\u2019s case is the Museum MACAN\u00a0in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and Collezione Maramotti in Italy<\/a>, which will acquire the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tPart of a shortlist of five finalists that included Betty Adii, Dzikra Afifah, Ipeh Nur and Mira Rizki, Suci was singled out by a jury comprising also curator Amanda Ariawan, gallerist Megan Arlin, collector Evelyn Halim and artist Melati Suryodarmo, in addition to Alemani and Lau.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Larung<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tLarung May the Blooms Be Carried Safely through the Night, 2024.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn in 1985 and based in Yogyakarta, Suci is known for her practice sitting at the intersection of domestic narratives and state political power. Drawing on her everyday experiences as a single mother, her work addresses issues connected to the political domestication of women, authoritarianism and fascism, the patriarchy and capitalism. She explores such themes through different media, including installation, painting, sculpture and video.<\/p>\n

\n\tTitled \u201cCrafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice,\u201d the project Suci proposed this time sprung from her desire to investigate the fallout of the encounter between religious artisan traditions and the capitalist system, through a comparative study of Italy and Indonesia. Her research aims to examine whether and how spirituality can endure as a form of cultural resilience even in systems permeated by market dynamics, injustice and oppression.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Is<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tIs It a Body Has No Walls and Has No Collapses, 2020.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tSite visits and work in the studio will be part of her creative research, as well as dialogues with religious communities and congregations, university professors and artisans.<\/p>\n

\n\tTo be sure, Suci\u2019s residency will start in Assisi, regarded as the city of Franciscanism nestled in Italy\u2019s Umbria region, where she will have the opportunity to discover the lifestyle of the monks living there, before traveling to Rome to attend a special mass at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica. She will then move to Lecce for an immersion in the craft and history of papier-m\u00e2ch\u00e9 via a training program designed especially for her. This will be followed by a final period in Florence to learn the technique and historical evolution of egg tempera, to acquire ancient handweaving skills and expand her knowledge of its applications in the ecclesiastic context.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Beneath<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBeneath Fingers: Echoing Through the Shadow of a Still House, 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tMax Mara Fashion Group\u2019s president Luigi Maramotti underscored how \u201cthe rich tradition of Italian craftsmanship, in all its many facets, lies at the very heart of the Max Mara Art Prize, which also aims to bring together two distinct yet complementary worlds, such as art and craftsmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am delighted to see that the first jury appointed for this new global iteration of the prize has courageously upheld and indeed reaffirmed one of its founding values through this choice. It will be interesting to see the outcomes of this exploration and the dialogue between these worlds,\u201d said Maramotti.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Nests<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNests of Memories That Shrink from Words, 2025.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA+ WORKS of ART\/Hariz Raof\/Courtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tAlemani said Suci\u2019s work impressed her for its \u201cextraordinary capacity to transform the realm of everyday domestic life into a realm of political resistance\u201d and that her practice \u201cis perfectly aligned with the core concept of this prize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe unique nature of Dian\u2019s project lies in the analytic gaze it turns on spirituality: not as an escape from reality, but as a resilient response to the invasive influences of capitalism and mass production. Her residency in Italy will be a true cultural dialogue,\u201d said Alemani.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Is<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tIs it a Body: A Field Inside a House, 2019.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis recognition offers me the opportunity to expand my research between Indonesia and Italy, and to learn from traditions and rituals that hold spirituality within the bodies that create,\u201d said Suci, underscoring her commitment \u201cto listen, to learn, and to translate these encounters into forms that honor the intimacy of human labor and the depth of cultural continuity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe artist\u2019s work is slated to be showcased in a solo exhibition at Museum MACAN in summer 2027, and at Collezione Maramotti that fall.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"I<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tI want to tell a long story. But are you able? Am I able?, 2018.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMohammad Febrian\/Courtesy of Dian Suci<\/p>\n

\n\tA private contemporary art collection, Collezione Maramotti opened to the public in 2007 at the former historical headquarters of the Max Mara company in Reggio Emilia. In addition to a permanent collection of more than 200 works from 1950 to 2019, it regularly presents new projects and commissions from international midcareer and emergent artists.<\/p>\n

\n\tPrevious winners<\/a> of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women range from, most recently, Dominique White and Emma Talbot, to Margaret Salmon in the first edition, followed by Hannah Rickards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN \u2014\u00a0Indonesian talent Dian Suci scooped up the 10th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[787,146,85,46,2971,30250],"class_list":["post-430352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-art","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-max-mara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}