"This year's recipients, who come from ten different countries and a range of disciplines, are Álvaro Urbano, Ambrose Akinmusire, Andrea Peña, Ayoung Kim, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Emeka Ogboh, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Pan Daijing, Payal Kapadia and Pol Taburet. Apart from representing the visual arts, they include a jazz trumpeter (Akinmusire), filmmaker (Kapadia) and a dancer (Da Silva Ferreira, a former elite swimmer who won Portugal's version of the reality television show "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2010 and is now an established choreographer)."
""The artists are free to use the money as they wish. There are no restrictions. The idea is to give the recipients resources, time and space to extend their practice and relationships with their peers," says Yana Peel, the president of arts, culture and heritage at Chanel. "I take direction from the avant-garde spirit of Gabrielle Chanel who worked with [Sergei] Diaghilev and [Pablo] Picasso, and believed in a non-hierarchical view of art practice.""
Chanel Culture Fund awarded ten artists €100,000 each as winners of the Chanel Next Prize 2026 alongside a two-year mentorship programme. Recipients represent ten countries and multiple disciplines, including visual artists, a jazz trumpeter, a filmmaker and a dancer. Winners are permitted to use the funds without restrictions to expand their practice, resources and peer relationships. The cohort will gather in Venice during the Art Biennale vernissage. Past prize recipients reported that mentorship and sudden financial solvency enabled greater risk-taking, larger-scale projects and stimulating cross-disciplinary collaboration.
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