Max Mara Art Prize for Women - An exciting new phase
Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti are pleased to announce an exciting new phase of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women!
While preserving the characteristics and goals that have been its hallmark since 2005, the Max Mara Art Prize for Women will take on a new geographic scope and become nomadic, travelling to a different country for each edition.
The curator of the prize is Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York. In accordance with Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti, Alemani will identify a different country and institution as the focus of each new edition, and together they will work to support the work of emerging and mid-career artists who identify as women.
The partner for the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is Museum MACAN – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Jakarta), Indonesia’s first museum of contemporary art founded in 2017, a major institution where local and international interdisciplinary artists present their work through exhibitions and interactive public programs.
The prize will continue to be a fundamental contribution to achieving truly equal opportunity for women artists, building bridges to other parts of the world, fostering creative diversity and offering inspiration and positive models to new generations of artists.
The beginning of this tenth edition marks the conclusion of the long, fruitful partnership that Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti have forged in the UK with Whitechapel Gallery in London, which has played a fundamental role in the prize and is renowned for its commitment to promoting both emerging and established women artists.
Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti would like to express their heartfelt thanks to Whitechapel Gallery for its invaluable contribution to the growth of the prize.