The first ten winners of fashion brand Chanel’s new Next art prize have been announced. Among those to receive €100,000 (£85,000) are poet and artist Precious Okoyomon, known for her immersive installations, and Keiken, a London- and Berlin-based collective comprising artists Hana Omori, Isabel Ramos and Tanya Cruz, working with performance, gaming and augmented reality.
Wang Bing, a filmmaker whose works examines class and economics in contemporary Chinese society and was once described by ArtReview as casting ‘a melancholy gaze on industry’s decay’, will also receive the prize money. They were nominated by an advisory board of 25 arts and cultural leaders from around the world, and then chosen from the long-list by a jury comprising artist Cao Fei, architect David Adjaye and actress Tilda Swinton.
The above winners are joined by Argentinian experimental director Eduardo Williams, South Korean composer Jung Jae-il, South Sudanese game designer Lual Mayen, Cape Verdean dancer and choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Zambian-Welsh director and screenwriter Rungano Nyoni, Germany-based director Marie Schleef and UK-based dancer and choreographer Botis Seva.
