Winners of the 10th edition

The AWARE Prizes 2026 are supported by the CHANEL Culture Fund. The AWARE Prize ceremony is supported by Maison Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, founded in 1772.

Soun Gui Kim, winner of the Outstanding Merit Prize
Nominated by Dilda Ramazan
Soun Gui Kim is a multimedia artist, poet, and teacher of South Korean origin who has lived in France since 1971, following her art studies at Seoul University. Initially trained as a painter, she moved beyond the medium in the 1970s through her “Plastic Situations”, participatory and open-air performances intended to take art out of museums and confront it with the elements. In the 1980s, she further developed her interest in video art, collaborating with figures such as Nam June Paik and John Cage, while drawing inspiration from both Eastern and Western philosophies, including those of Zhuang Zhou and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her practice, which explores emptiness and impermanence while advocating for a non-productive form of art, has been presented in exhibitions at the MAMAC in 1991 and Centre Pompidou in 2007 as part of the group exhibition Les peintres de la vie moderne, as well as in recent retrospectives, notably at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2019 and the ZKM Center for Art and Media in 2022.

Laura Gozlan, winner of the Nouveau Regard Prize
Nominated by Vincent Enjalbert
Trained in scenography at the University of Art and Design Helsinki, and later graduating from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Laura Gozlan lives and works in Paris. Nourished by multiple references, her films stage abrupt situations and ambiguous characters oscillating between desire and (dis)satisfaction within contrasting environments. Through a series of microfictions in which she performs herself, the artist documents the transformations of MuM, an androgynous figure navigating between different ages and altered states of consciousness. Marked by an aesthetic of prosthesis and senescence, her works blur the boundaries of the post-human body. Her work has notably been presented in solo and group exhibitions at the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in 2024, Les Bains-Douches in 2022, MO.CO. and 40mcube in 2021, FUTURA in 2020, the CAC Parc Saint Léger in 2018, and the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles in 2016.

2026 Jury chaired by Jeanne Brun
Deputy Director in charge of Collections, Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne

Jury 2026
Camille Morineau, Curator, co-founder and head of AWARE at Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne
Philippe Bettinelli, Curator in the New Media Department, Centre Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne
Myriam Mihindou, Artist, winner of the AWARE Nouveau Regard prize in 2022
Victorine Grataloup, Director of Triangle-Asterines, co-président of DCA
Salimata Diop, Independent curator
Sébastien Faucon, Director and curator at the LAM, Villeneuve l'Ascq