Belvedere Art Award 2024

Rabbya Naseer was granted the Belvedere Art Award by an international jury on May 13, 2024. The biennial award for contemporary art was presented for the second time by Vendome Projects and the Belvedere. Local and international experts determined the awardee: in a two-stage selection process, each of the five nominating jury members identified two emerging artists with a connection to Austria. In a second step a five-member selection jury determined the winner of the award. Age, gender, and nationality did not play a role in the selection process. The Belvedere Art Award is endowed with 20,000 euros. In addition to the prize money, the award winner receives a solo exhibition at the Belvedere 21 and an accompanying publication.

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Jury statement

The selection of Rabbya Naseer was based on her impressive artistic quality and her special methodology. Rabbya Naseer's work opens up an intimate space that she creates together with her audience and that addresses the economy of time. In her process-based practice, she questions the modes and models of representation and visibility in the contemporary art system as well as in society at large. Rabbya Naseer addresses invisibility as a way of exploring temporary structures, subversive moments and spaces of freedom. She reflects on immediate contexts and situations, often as a dialog partner, a storyteller, setting up situations that generate and leave traces with a particular form of poetry. The artist works on different levels, taking into account the respective context and reacting to it. In doing so, she poses urgent and new questions that are of particular relevance to the jury in a time of rapid and complex technological and social change. The jury is pleased to unanimously award this prize to Rabbya Naseer.

Biografie

Porträt von Rabbya Naseer
Portrait of Rabbya Naseer
Photo: Atif Ali

 

Born in 1984 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, lives and works in Vienna and Lahore. From 2002 to 2006, she studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and from 2008 to 2010, she completed her master’s degree in art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a recipient of the Fulbright scholarship. Naseer is known for her interdisciplinary and collaborative practice, predominantly with Hurmat ul Ain (since 2007), and teaches at renowned institutions, including NCA and BNU in Lahore (since 2010), Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia (2015 & 2017), and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where she is currently enrolled in the PhD-in-Practice doctoral program. Her works have been exhibited internationally, including in the USA, UK, Dubai, and Australia.

Nominated artists

Nominated artists

Rawan Almukhtar

Born in 1991 in Baghdad, Iraq, lives and works in Vienna.

Gleb Amankulov

Born in 1988 in Minsk, Belarus, lives and works in Vienna.

Abdul Sharif Oluwafemi Baruwa

Born in 1975 in London, lives and works in Vienna.

Rehema Chachage

Born in 1987 in Dar es Salaam, Tansania, lives and works in Vienna and Dar es Salaam.

Rabbya Naseer

Born in 1984 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, lives and works in Vienna and Lahore.

Naomi Rincón-Gallardo

Born in Raleigh, USA to Mexican parents in 1979, lives between Mexico City and Oaxaca.

Miriam Stoney

Born in 1994 in Scunthorpe, UK, lives and works in Vienna.

Esther Strauß

Born in 1986 in Zams, Austria, lives and works in Vienna, Linz, Tyrol and London.

Sophie Thun

Born in 1985 in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Vienna.

Sophie Utikal

Born in Tallahassee, USA, grown up in Mainz, Germany, lives and works between Berlin and Vienna.

Nominating jury

Anette Baldauf

Sociologist, professor for methodology and epistemology and co-director of the artistic research program PhD in Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Robert Gabris

Artist, winner of the Belvedere Art Award 2022, Vienna

Jen Kratochvil

Curator and Educator, Vienna and Prague

Hana Ostan Ožbolt

Curator, Ljubljana and Vienna

Nina Tabassomi

Director Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck

Selection jury

Andrea Bellini

Director Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva

Fatima Hellberg

Director of Bonner Kunstverein and Appointed Director of mumok Vienna

Andreja Hribernik

Director Kunsthaus Graz

Stella Rollig

General Director Belvedere Museum

Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein

Initiator Belvedere Art Award, curator and art historian, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna