The 10th edition

OVNi 2024 Award Winners

Newsletter #12

Nice has 3 giant screens: the sky, the sea and OVNi !

On Saturday November 30, the OVNi Awards ceremony took place at the Théâtre National de Nice in the presence of Muriel Mayette-Holtz, director of the TNN, and Robert Roux, deputy mayor of Nice in charge of culture.

Cosmopolis Prize at the West End hotel

This year’s Cosmopolis Prize jury was chaired by :

Jean-Paul Felley, Art Historian and Curator, Director of the Biennale du Son and EDHEA.

Jury members were drawn from the international world of art and the moving image:

Ismaïl Bahri, artist

Agnieszka Gratza, art critic, editor, publisher

Marco De Mutiis | Fotomuseum Winterthur

François Fauchon, collector, director of CHE

The evening was an opportunity for the OVNi jury to award a prize to one of the nine artists involved in the Cosmopolis project, for their video proposal presented at the West End Hotel. The OVNi Cosmopolis Prize, supported by the Centre de Haute Energie de Nice, entitles the winner to €5,000 in creative support. The Prize extends OVNi’s reach, by honoring international artists represented by cultural institutions in their respective countries.

Loukia Alavanou (Centre Culturel Hellénique) – BANANALAND & Kiss Forever

Ivan Argote (Ambassade de Colombie) – Levitate

Guy Betouene (Laboratorio, Suisse / Cameroun) – Décristallisation de l’écriture

Ethel Lilienfeld (Centre Wallonie Bruxelles) – EMI Project

Martin Molina Gola & Maria Nikiforova (Centre culturel du Mexique en France) – Los Plateados

Yvon Ngassam (Yaounde Photo Network) – Lolodorf, une histoire coloniale

Jean Julien Pous (Centre culturel coréen) – Mouvement

Alex Sirous (Centre culturel d’Ukraine) – I am your amplifier

Tonis Jurgens (Centre culturel de l’Estonie) – Sleep with pointing

Winner of the Cosmopolis 2024 OVNi Prize

Sud Emergence Prize at the Grimaldi hotel

The Prix OVNi Sud Emergence is awarded each year to an emerging artist from the South of France, this year extended to Occitania.

This year’s jury was chaired by Christine Van Assche, art historian, curator and initiator of the Centre Pompidou’s New Media Collection, Alexia Abed, critic, researcher and member of AICA, with Jean-Marc Prevost, director of the Carré d’Art de Nîmes, Marie-Ann Yemsi, director of the Villa Arson art center, Marie Cozette, director of the CRAC Occitanie, Sally Bonn, author, art critic and Stephanie Ayraud, director of the MAC Marseille.

For this year’s edition, 10 talents were selected following the call for projects launched in the spring, to present their works at the Hôtel Grimaldi for a chance to win a €2,000 creative grant and a one-month writing residency at the Hôtel WindsoR (The Prize is supported by the Cercle des Amis d’OVNi).