The Swedish artist Lap-See Lam has gained one of many artwork world’s largest prizes, the Lise Wilhelmsen Artwork Award, which comes with $100,000 money.
As a part of the prize, Lam additionally receives an exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, a non-public museum positioned in Høvikodden, Norway, with an accompanying publication. The museum will even purchase one in all her works.
The award jury says in a press release: “Lap-See Lam’s work investigates narratives and mythologies surrounding the Cantonese diaspora in Europe, significantly in Sweden. By way of digital media, sculpture, and immersive installations, she explores themes of cultural heritage, illustration, and identification.”
Lam represented the Nordic International locations on the sixtieth Venice Biennale in 2024 and can have exhibitions on the PHI Basis for Modern Artwork in Montréal and at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, later this yr. For her first solo exhibition within the US on the Swiss Institute in New York in 2023, Lam, whose mother and father ran a Chinese language restaurant in Stockholm, created an immersive video set up that makes use of imagery drawn from 3D scans she made from Western-style Chinese language eating places.
The Lise Wilhelmsen Artwork Award was established by Arne Wilhelmsen and his household in reminiscence of his late spouse Lise Wilhelmsen, who died in 2019. Arne Wilhelmsen was the chairman of the Norwegian industrial funding firm Anders Wilhelmsen & Co. AS. Throughout her lifetime, Lise acquired works for her late husband’s firm, Royal Caribbean Cruises.
“Within the autumn of 2018, Paulina Rider Wilhelmsen, Lise Wilhelmsen’s daughter-in-law, prompt establishing an artwork award programme in Lise’s identify in collaboration with Henie Onstad [museum],” says a press release. Rider Wilhelmsen was a choose together with Michelle Kuo, the chief curator at massive and writer on the Museum of Fashionable Artwork, New York, and Elvira Dyangani Ose, the director of MACBA, Barcelona.
Earlier prize winners embrace Kuwait-based Alia Farid in 2023, El Salvador-born Guadalupe Maravilla in 2021 and Otobong Nkanga of Nigeria in 2019.
