Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery

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The Max Mara Art Prize for Women promotes and nurtures talent based in the United Kingdom, enabling artists to develop their potential and providing each winner with an opportunity to produce new works of art.  

The Prize is awarded biannually to one UK based artist who has not previously had a major survey exhibition.   Winners receive a fully funded six-month residency in Italy, based at the American Academy in Rome and the Pistoletto Foundation, Biella, as well as funding to realise a new work or works that will be exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and acquired by the Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

For each Prize a judging panel of four art-world professionals, chaired by Iwona Blazwick, devise a short-list of between three and five artists.  The short-listed artists are invited to the Whitechapel Gallery to make a presentation about their practice and the work or works they would make during or resultant from their Italian residency and funding.  

The inaugural Max Mara Art Prize [2005 – 2007] was won by film-maker Margaret Salmon and the second edition of the Prize [2007 – 2009] was won by Hannah Rickards who works with sound, video and installation.  

Max Mara Art Prize for Women  2009- 2011

The jury for the third edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women was announced on 9 September 2009 at the Whitechapel Gallery on the occasion of the special opening of new film: No, there was no red. [2009] by Hannah Rickards.  Chaired by Iwona Blazwick, the new jury comprises; Fiona Banner, Turner Prize nominated artist; Alison Jacques, Gallerist; Valeria Napoleone, Collector and Polly Staple, writer and Director of Chisenhale Gallery.

Iwona Blazwick OBE, Director Whitechapel Gallery and Chairwoman of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, has announced artist Andrea Buttner as the winner of the third Prize. Büttner, who lives and works in London and Frankfurt, was honoured at the prize giving ceremony at London’s Whitechapel Gallery on 23 March. Shortlisted artists Becky Beasley and Elizabeth Price were also in attendance.

Read the press release for the Max Mara Art Prize Announcement 2009-2011

For further information about the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, please contact Dorothea Jaffé, Project Manager Email: DorotheaJaffe@whitechapelgallery.org


      



Images: Hannah Rickards ‘Annotated texts’ 2009, courtesy of the artist; Max Mara Art Prize Announcement, 2010, photo courtesy of Marcus Dawes.