KANE ART PRIZE 2025
Winners Announced
First Prize Award
Title: Mujina
Year: 2023
Medium: Silicone, pigment, foam, cotton, metal
Dimensions (H W D): 48 x 170 x 60 cm
Review:
"Skin-like textiles estrange the tactile logic of sculpture, dissolving the boundaries of sensation. Through a refined and restrained gesture, the artist quietly tears open a personal landscape of despair, where opulence and violence become inseparably entwined."
Second Prize Award
Title: Thinprep Cytologic Test
Year: 2025
Medium: Toilet, Plastic, Resin, Acrylic, Metal, Soap, Pearlescent Transparent Tulle, Metallic, Medical Examination Gloves, Wood, Rotating Motor
Dimensions (H W D): 120 × 60 × 80 cm
Review:
"Employing a detached, readymade aesthetic, the installation constructs a scenography devoid of human figures, articulating the normalized disciplining and violation of the female body within systems of institutionalized medical care."
Third Prize Award
Title: Are we two strangers now?
Year: 2025
Medium: Digital photography
Dimensions: Variable
Review:
"Meticulous digital technique, paired with a powerful metaphorical charge, reveals the emotional textures of the individual within contemporary anxiety. Alienation has become the norm; there is ultimately no place left for us to retreat or conceal ourselves."
Third Prize Award
Title: I haunt myself
Year: 2025
Medium: Single-Channel Video
Duration: 11'06''
Review:
"Through a poetic and fragmentary narrative structure, the work interrogates how digital technologies reshape memory. When personal recollection becomes quantum-entangled with digital archives, distinctions between truth and fabrication collapse into indeterminacy."
Third Prize Award
Title: A Deep Breath
Year: 2024
Medium: Acrylic painting on canvas
Dimensions: 122.5 x 147.0 cm
Review:
"The generative body is re-narrated through the monstrous and unsettling face of the Other. With deliberately sparse and open brushwork, the artist overturns the sanctified purity of the Madonna as defined by Raphael, replacing it with a collective female unconscious shaped by silence, repression, and latent terror."
Honorable Mention
Volcano (2025)
Home is a dwelling path (2025)
Moral Machine (2025)
Entropia (2025)
Jury's Choice
Disconnected memories (2023)
