In “Artwork contemporain: l’artiste Guadeloupéenne Minia Biabiany remporte un prix de 100 000 $,” Guadeloupe La 1ère introduced that Guadeloupean-born Minia Biabiany (photograph under) received the primary $100,000 grant from the Han Nefkens Basis, in collaboration with a number of worldwide museums, for a brand new shifting picture fee centered on the environmental disaster.
Minia Biabiany is a visible artist born in Basse-Terre in 1988. After learning on the Ecole nationale des Beaux-arts de Lyon, she graduated in 2011. Since then, she has exhibited in Europe, the USA, Central America, and within the Caribbean. She notably participated within the Berlin Biennial in 2018. In 2019, she received the Prix Sciences Po pour l’artwork contemporain [Sciences Po (Political Science) Prize for Contemporary Art].
Between Mexico and Guadeloupe
Biabiany lives and works between Mexico Metropolis, in Mexico, and Saint-Claude, in Guadeloupe. She creates her works from discovered and natural supplies, and her work goals to deconstruct social or cultural histories/tales. She is especially within the illustration of cultural heritage and postcolonialism.
This primary version of the prize, supported by the Han Nefkens Basis with the Museu d’Artwork Contemporani de Barcelona, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo de Mexico, and The Bass (Museum) of Miami Seaside, centered on the theme of ecology. It helps the creation of a murals exploring humanity’s unsustainable relationship with the Earth, which can then be exhibited at collaborating establishments.
Mixing artwork and ecology
Minia Biabiany, who has exhibited on the Palais de Tokyo and on the tenth Berlin Biennale, plans to combine artwork, ecology, and pedagogy within the context of her native Guadeloupe, utilizing her challenge to focus on the political energy of “imagery poetic.” The jury congratulated her for responding to modern emergencies by a apply combining colonial histories, ecological crises, and cultural tales.
The artist says, “This grant permits me to additional discover how artwork can interact with ecology and pedagogy to impress thought and encourage change. I’m grateful for the belief of the jury and the chance to contribute to this vital dialogue.”
[Sculpture entitled “Histoire de cadence avec eau et volcan.” Minia Biabiany’s photo, courtesy of the Han Nefkens Foundation.]
Article translated by Ivette Romero. For full article (in French), see https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/basse-terre/art-contemporain-l-artiste-guadeloupeenne-minia-biabiany-remporte-un-prix-de-100-000-1480031.html
For extra on the Han Nefkens Basis, see https://www.hnfoundation.com/