MILAN.- The winner of the €10,000 award will be selected through an Open Call among proposals submitted by galleries participating in the 2025 edition of miart, the international fair of modern and contemporary art in Milan.
The awarded artist will have the opportunity to create their work at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, assisted by its skilled artisans. The selection will be made by a jury including Cecilia Alemani, Nikola Dietrich, Dr. Jelena Trkulja, and the President of Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Bernabò Visconti di Modrone as Jury President.
The artist's project was selected, from the many received during the Open Call, with the following motivation:
The jury of the third edition of the Matteo Visconti di Modrone Award unanimously awarded the artist Ruth Beraha (Milan, 1986). The sculpture proposed by the artist, an upside-down eagle with its head stuck into a pedestal, represents not only the ultimate symbol of power, the eagle, which is subverted, but above all an alternative "absent" dimension—the head of the eagle that is not there but remains latent, raising a series of questions and inquiries about the symbol of monuments and power today, while also forcing us to confront our times. The award will provide the artist with the opportunity to work with bronze for the first time, a material she has not yet explored, and to embark on a journey of experimentation and discovery with the foundry, adding value and unexpected elements to the proposed project.
Ruth Beraha (Milan, 1986). Ruth Beraha’s research investigates vulnerability and violence of relations, and how we perceive and are perceived by the other. Her work has recently been exhibited at Fondazione Trussardi, Milan; XXVII Gubbio Biennale; Straperetana; MAXXI Museum, Rome; GAMec, Bergamo; MACRO Museum, Rome; Trafo, Szczecin; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Mimosa House, London; MUFOCO, Cinisello Balsamo; Museo della città, Livorno; Arte in Memoria Biennal of Contemporary Art, Rome; MAMbo Museum, Bologna; Ca' Rezzonico Museum, Venice; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan. In 2022 she has been a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2023 she won the Conai Prize; in 2020 she won the New York Prize and has been Associate Research Scholar, Columbia University, New York (2020-2022). She has been artist in residence at ISCP, Brooklyn, New York (2020-2022); Nuovo Forno del Pane, MAMbo, Bologna (2020-21); Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2017-18). Dolce o violenta che sia is her latest solo show curated by Caterina Avataneo, currently on view at Ncontemporary Milan; her works will also be exhibited this year at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen and Museo Ettore Fico in Turin.
