The wards ceremony took place on May 9th at the Ca'Giustinian with the participation of the Venice Biennale Committee, led by its Director, Paolo Baratta. The winner of the Golden Lion for Best Artist was the German conceptual artist Adrian Piper. Piper's work, selected by Biennale curator Okwui Enwezor for the All the World's Futures main exhibit, involved its visitors in the signing of a contract with themselves, establishing three promises, one of them being "I will do everything I say I will do". "Piper has transformed the practice of conceptual art, involving personal subjectivity—his own, his audience's, the general public's—(…), inviting them to participate in an life-long performance of individual responsibility", said the members of the jury: Sabine Breitwieser (Austria), Naomi Beckwith (USA), Mario Codognato (Italy), Yongwoo Lee (South Korea), and Ranjit Hoskote (India). Meanwhile, Armenia received the Golden Lion for Best National Pavilion, for "organiozing a pavilion based on a people's diaspora, where each artist has been able to briong forth their local specificity and their inheritance", according to the jurors. The Armenian pavilion was curated by Adelina Cüberyan von Fürstenberg and was strategically located is the venetian island of St. Lazarus of the Armenians, where the old monastery of the Greek-Catholic Mechitarist Order and a printing center, of great relevance for the Armenian diaspora, are located. This year coincides with the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, and the exhiobition was based in the recovery of what Cüberyan von Fürstenberg has called "Armenianness", sythesized in the concepts of displacement, territoriality, reconciliation, ethos, and resistance. More than eighteen artists were invited to participate, among them the Armenian-Brazilian Rosana Palazyan, and Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, of Argentinean-German-Armenian descent. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui received the Golden Lion for his career achievements, and curator Susanne Ghez, the Special Golden Lion for service in the arts. The Biennale also distinguished, with its Silver Lion award, the promising young South Korean artist Im Heung-Soon, for his Factory Complex (2014-15), a video documenting the working conditions of women in Asia. Special mentions went to Joan Jonas (USA) for her installation They Come to Us Without a Word; Harun Farocki (Germay); Massinissa Selmani (Algeria); and the Abounaddara artists collective (Syria).