Simone Fattal Receives PIAC 2025

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Simone Fattal receives Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco’s International Contemporary Art Prize (PIAC) 2025

First awarded in 1965, the International Contemporary Art Prize (PIAC) acknowledges recent work proposed by the Artistic Council following consultation with international experts (art critics, curators, theorists, collectors, institutions directors, or independent venues, etc.).

The 2025 PIAC was presented to Simone Fattal for her installation Sempre il mare, uomo libero, amerai!, 2023. Awarded every three years since 2005, the prize is endowed with €75,000 and funding for the production of new work.

^{Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Until we became fire and fire us, 2023-ongoing.}
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Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco also awarded a Research Grant (Bourse de Recherche) aiming to support an artist, collective, art historian, or institution, in ongoing or upcoming research linked to the Mediterranean region. The 2025 recipients are Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme for their work Until we became fire and fire us (2023-ongoing).

The Research Grant is endowed with €10,000.

Presided by HRH the Princess of Hanover, Princess Caroline of Monaco, with Björn Dahlström, Vice President, and Cristiano Raimondi, Artistic Director, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco’s Artistic Council is composed of Barbara Casavecchia, Manuel Cirauqui, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Christine Eyene, Petrit Halilaj, Mouna Mekouar, and Christodoulos Panayiotou.

The prize ceremony, which took place on 14 October at Monaco Opera’s Salle Garnier, also paid tribute to its late Vice President, the highly esteemed curator and museum director Marie Claude Beaud (1946-2024).

Past PIAC recipients include Christine Sun Kim (2022), Arthur Jaffa (2019), and Rosa Barba (2016).