art & environment prize
In 2023, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain have joined forces to create the Art & Environment Prize, awarded each year to a work of universal scope whose philosophical depth echoes that of Lee Ufan. The link to the environment resonates with the values defended by the Maison Guerlain.
Sharing the same sensitivity to artistic support and transmission, as well as the same commitment to art and the environment, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain encourage artistic productions that are resolutely altruistic and responsible, opening up new dialogues with nature.
The exhibition by the first winner of the Prix Art & Environnement, Djabril Boukhenaïssi À ténèbres is presented at Lee Ufan's Espace MA Arles, from July 1 to September 1, 2024. Dealing with the disappearance of night, the artist brings together paintings and engravings produced during his residency.
2024: SECOND EDITION
With the Prix Art & Environnement 2024, Lee Ufan Arles and Guerlain wish to develop a creative space enabling conceptual, semantic and aesthetic bridges between the work of young designers and that of Lee Ufan. The Prize is therefore sensitive to strong projects proposing a new vision of our relationship with modernity, as well as to works with long temporalities and in relation to nature, the environment and materials.
Once the prize has been won, the winner will benefit from a six- to eight-week support program at the beginning of 2025, with a production space and accommodation in the heart of Arles. This "time-space" enables them to carry out their artistic project, but also to meet the people and institutions relevant to its implementation: artists, professionals from the art world and local players, as well as the general public. A member of the Lee Ufan Arles team is assigned to support the prize-winner's artistic project, through meetings with international and local artists, curators and other players.
The residency is followed by a summer exhibition of the artist's work in one of the Lee Ufan Arles spaces.