Prize

Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025

Premio Collective Castello di Rivoli 2025

We are happy to announce that Adji Dieye (Milan, 1991) is the winner of the second edition of the Collective International Art Award for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Thanks to the purchase made by Collective Members, the work Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, becomes part of the Museum’s permanent collection, as a donation.

Adji Dieye was selected by a commission composed of the Director of the Castello Francesco Manacorda, the Deputy Director and Chief Curator Marcella Beccaria and the Curator Marianna Vecellio, starting from a wide range of works created by Italian and international artists proposed by Collective Members. Andro Eradze (Georgia, 1993) and Agnes Questionmark (Rome, 1995) are the other two finalists of the second edition of the Award.

Adji Dieye’s practice develops at the intersection of image, urban spaces and cultural memory. Through the use of archival materials, or those relating to advertising and architecture, the artist investigates how national epistemologies are formed and transformed, questioning the visual and ideological structures that shape collective identity and the sense of belonging to it.

The winning work, Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, is composed of an iron structure on which is mounted a long silk sheet printed with fragments of images from the National Iconographic Archives of Senegal and the artist’s personal archive. The work reflects on the gestures that have crossed and subverted colonial institutional spaces, through a visual alternation of corporeal and architectural details. In this work, Dieye invites us to question the concept of the archive as a place of symbolic authority, selection and removal, rather than pure conservation.

“The award to Adji Dieye,” Marcella Beccaria and Marianna Vecellio declare, “recognizes the ability of this young artist to look critically at the ways in which the legacy of the past and the construction of memory influence the understanding of the complex present in which we live.”

The work will be visible to the public from September 25, 2025 at the Castello di Rivoli, in conjunction with Inserzioni, a new program curated by Francesco Manacorda focused on new commissions for the Museum.

Adji Dieye (Milano, 1991) è la vincitrice della seconda edizione del Premio d’arte internazionale Collective per il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Grazie all’acquisto effettuato dai Soci di Collective, l’opera Culture Lost and Learned by Heart: Butterfly, 2021, entra a far parte della Collezione permanente del Museo

ADJI DIEYE vince la seconda edizione del Premio d’arte internazionale Collective per il Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea ed entra nelle Collezioni del Museo

Adji Dieye vince Collective per il Castello di Rivoli 

Rivoli, Adji Dieye vince la seconda edizione del Premio d’arte internazionale Collective


PHOENICIA VIDEOART PRIZE 2017

Phoenicia Video Art Prize 2017

The Phoenicia Hotel Beirut is happy to announce that Rebecca Russo, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, has selected Mario Daou’s “Northern Lights” video as the Winner for Video Art III: Free Your Mind.
All Art Works will be exhibited in a special Art Show at the Videoinsight® Foundation in Spring 2018.

Following is the conclusion from Rebecca Russo for each video Art Work.

Mario Daou – “Northern Lights” 2017

RR : “It contains a lot of energy, motion, power. The amount of colours is explosive. The artwork shows one shot the Life, the Science, the Art. It transmits happiness, joy, cheerfulness. It is amazing, chromo therapeutic, magic.”

Elie Fahed – “How Does It Feel To Miss Someone” 2017

RR : “It’s a performative work. It touches the soul, activates the reflection, promotes identification, and involves the spectator. It has a rushing rhythm. It’s powerful, gorgeous.”

Loukman Nassredine – “Suppression” 2017

RR : “It’s so psychoanalytic; it deeply represents the memory process, the amnesia, the forgetfulness, the elaboration of the loss, the unconscious removal. It has a very high Videoinsight® Impact; it’s perfect for Art Therapy applying the Videoinsight® Method. Everybody needs to remove something.”

Jeroen Kramer – “Untitled 305” 2017

RR : “It is very poetic, romantic, pictorial, and meditative. The black and white choice is original, the technique is sophisticated.”

Mamad Mossadegh – “The Breeze” 2016

RR : “It’s very delicate, fresh, and light. It promotes the meditation, the relaxation. It raises the pain, opens the hearth, and stimulates the Well-being.”

MARIO DAOU Northern Lights 2017

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ELIE FAHED How Does It Feel to Miss Someone 2017

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LOUKMAN NASSREDINE Suppression 2017

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JEROEN KRAMER Untitled 305 2017

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MAMAD MOSSADEGH The Breeze 2016

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Phoenicia Beirut in collaboration with Rebecca Russo, President of the Videoinsight® Foundation, announces VIDEO ART III: FREE YOUR MIND

For its third successful year, Phoenicia Hotel is continuing to support the arts through the launch of VIDEO ART PROJET III: “FREE YOUR MIND” on September 21th 2017, in collaboration with Rebecca Russo, President of Videoinsight® Foundation. This new exhibition of five pieces of contemporary video art is being held in the Phoenicia lobby and is open to the general public. Guests of the Phoenicia have the added luxury of being able to view a comprehensive selection of video art from the Videoinsight® Foundation via the exclusive dedicated Video Art channel available complimentary in all rooms. VIDEO ART PROJECT III: FREE YOUR MIND features new art works from a competition run by Phoenicia Hotel and the Videoinsight® Foundation, and seeks to inspire and encourage local artists in Lebanon in the future. The competition winner will be announced beginning of October and will have their video work showcased at the Videoinsight® Foundation in Italy, as well as receiving a weekend stay at the Phoenicia. Artists interested in taking part in future competitions are invited to email videoart@phoeniciabeirut.com. VIDEO ART PROJECT III: “FREE YOUR MIND” is a continuation of Videoinsight® Foundation’s vision and commitment to Video Art, exhibiting the results from the previous competition, and further enhances the Phoenicia’s reputation as an art hotel that not only features many world-class works throughout its premises, but also seeks to support artists in Lebanon and the region.

ELIE FAHED How Does It Feel to Miss Someone 2017

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LOUKMAN NASSREDINE Suppression 2017

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JEROEN KRAMER Untitled 305 2017

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MAMAD MOSSADEGH The Breeze 2016

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MARIO DAOU Northern Lights 2017

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