AwardsJune 6, 2022
Konex Awards 2022: Visual Arts
The Grand Jury announced the 100 most outstanding personalities of the Argentine Visual Arts last decade (2012-2021), made up of quintets in twenty disciplines.
These awards will be presented on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The Grand Jury will choose from each of the 21 quintet winners the most significant trajectories to receive the Platinum Konex and the figure of the decade for the Brilliant Konex, the highest award granted by the Foundation, the latter to be awarded on November 8.
Konex Mercosur Award: Alfredo Jaar (Chile), Rosana Paulino (Brazil), and Ana Tiscornia (Uruguay).
Konex Honorary Konex Award: Joaquin Lavado (Quino).
Special Mention: Rubén Fontana and Liliana Porter.
Merit Diplomas
Painting: Max Gómez Canle, Silvia Gurfein, Gachi Hasper, Magdalena Jitrik, and Leila Tschopp.
Sculpture: Claudia Aranovich, Elba Bairon, Marcela Cabutti, Claudia Fontes, and Carola Zech.
Object: Irene Banchero, Carlota Beltrame, Daniel Joglar, Irina Kirchuk, and María Cristina Schiavi.
Fire Arts: Gabriel Baggio, Leo Battistelli, Gabriel Chaile, Nushi Muntaabski, and Débora Pierpaoli.
Drawing: Adriana Bustos, Claudia del Río, Matías Duville, Cynthia Kampelmacher, and Mauro Koliva.
Engraving: Esteban Álvarez, Lulú Lobo, Andrea Moccio, Elisa O'Farrell, and María Inés Tapia Vera.
Textile Art: Celina Eceiza, Mónica Millán, Ariadna Pastorini, Inés Raiteri, and Guido Yannitto.
Installation: Eugenia Calvo, Alicia Herrero, Julio Le Parc, Valeria Conte Mac Donell, and Adrián Villar Rojas.
Performance: Maricel Álvarez, Mariana Bellotto, Diego Bianchi, Ana Gallardo, and Osías Yanov.
Art Collectives: Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito; Croquiseros Urbanos; Etcétera; GAC - Grupo de Arte Callejero; and ONG Vergel, arte y salud.
Art in the Public Space: Elian Chali, Franco Fasoli, Marta Minujín, Marino Santa María, and Tec.
Public Space Design: Daniel Becker, CCFGM Arquitectos Asociados, Estudio a77 / Diéguez - Gilardi, Estudio Cabrera - Trlin y Martín Torrado
Architecture: Bares - Bares - Bares – Schnack, Nicolás Campodonico, Estudio del Puerto – Sardin, Monoblock, and RDR Arquitectos / Richter - Dahl Rocha.
Graphic Design: Hernán Berdichevsky, Estudio Marius, Estudio ZkySky, Martín Gorricho, and Fabián Muggeri
Industrial Design: BCK ID, Hernán Fretto, Francisco Gómez Paz, Alexandra Kehayoglou, and Cristián Mohaded
Costume Design: Gino Bogani, Mariana Cortés, Mariana Dappiano, Pablo Ramírez, and Andrea Saltzman
Humor and Comic: Max Cachimba, Sergio Langer, Delius - María Delia Lozupone, María Luque, and José Antonio Muñoz
Illustration: Mariana Chiesa Mateos, Decur - Guillermo Decurgez, Juan Manuel Lima, Gustavo Rosemffet (Gusti), and María Wernicke.
Art and Technology: Gabriela Golder, Narcisa Hirsch, Florencia Levy, Tomás Saraceno, and Mariela Yeregui
Photography: Cristina Fraire, Alberto Goldenstein, Adriana Lestido, Esteban Pastorino, and Santiago Porter.
Visual Arts Entities: Bienal Sur - UNTREF, Fundación Federico Jorge Klemm, Fundación Forner - Bigatti, and Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez.
The annual Konex Awards, this being its 43rd edition, directed by the president of the Konex Foundation, Dr. Luis Ovsejevich, the president of the Grand Jury of the Konex Awards 2022, Luis Felipe Noé and the General Secretary Matilde Marín (Platinum Konex Award 1992), was additionally formed by: Ana María Battistozzi, Florencia Battiti, Sergio Baur, Diego Bianchi, Diana Cabeza, Laura Casanovas, María Teresa Constantin, Marina De Caro, Hernán Dompé, Guillermo Fantoni, Andrea Giunta, Berto González Montaner, Miguel Harte, Juan Lo Bianco, Elena Oliveras, Emilio Rivoira, Graciela Taquini, and Juan Travnik. Following the established methodology, they chose the Konex Mercosur awards (outstanding personalities of the region); Konex of Honor (to a personality who died in the last decade); two Special Mentions (for career); and the 100 diplomas for Merit in the Argentine Visual Arts (2012-2021), selecting 5 for each of the 20 disciplines linked to the activity. In addition to this, the jury has decided to exceptionally create discipline No. 21, "Visual Arts Entities," to recognize institutions with outstanding work in the last decade.
These awards will be presented on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The Grand Jury will choose from each of the 21 quintet winners the most significant trajectories to receive the Platinum Konex and the figure of the decade for the Brilliant Konex, the highest award granted by the Foundation, the latter to be awarded on November 8.
Konex Mercosur Award: Alfredo Jaar (Chile), Rosana Paulino (Brazil), and Ana Tiscornia (Uruguay).
Konex Honorary Konex Award: Joaquin Lavado (Quino).
Special Mention: Rubén Fontana and Liliana Porter.
Merit Diplomas
Painting: Max Gómez Canle, Silvia Gurfein, Gachi Hasper, Magdalena Jitrik, and Leila Tschopp.
Sculpture: Claudia Aranovich, Elba Bairon, Marcela Cabutti, Claudia Fontes, and Carola Zech.
Object: Irene Banchero, Carlota Beltrame, Daniel Joglar, Irina Kirchuk, and María Cristina Schiavi.
Fire Arts: Gabriel Baggio, Leo Battistelli, Gabriel Chaile, Nushi Muntaabski, and Débora Pierpaoli.
Drawing: Adriana Bustos, Claudia del Río, Matías Duville, Cynthia Kampelmacher, and Mauro Koliva.
Engraving: Esteban Álvarez, Lulú Lobo, Andrea Moccio, Elisa O'Farrell, and María Inés Tapia Vera.
Textile Art: Celina Eceiza, Mónica Millán, Ariadna Pastorini, Inés Raiteri, and Guido Yannitto.
Installation: Eugenia Calvo, Alicia Herrero, Julio Le Parc, Valeria Conte Mac Donell, and Adrián Villar Rojas.
Performance: Maricel Álvarez, Mariana Bellotto, Diego Bianchi, Ana Gallardo, and Osías Yanov.
Art Collectives: Belleza y Felicidad Fiorito; Croquiseros Urbanos; Etcétera; GAC - Grupo de Arte Callejero; and ONG Vergel, arte y salud.
Art in the Public Space: Elian Chali, Franco Fasoli, Marta Minujín, Marino Santa María, and Tec.
Public Space Design: Daniel Becker, CCFGM Arquitectos Asociados, Estudio a77 / Diéguez - Gilardi, Estudio Cabrera - Trlin y Martín Torrado
Architecture: Bares - Bares - Bares – Schnack, Nicolás Campodonico, Estudio del Puerto – Sardin, Monoblock, and RDR Arquitectos / Richter - Dahl Rocha.
Graphic Design: Hernán Berdichevsky, Estudio Marius, Estudio ZkySky, Martín Gorricho, and Fabián Muggeri
Industrial Design: BCK ID, Hernán Fretto, Francisco Gómez Paz, Alexandra Kehayoglou, and Cristián Mohaded
Costume Design: Gino Bogani, Mariana Cortés, Mariana Dappiano, Pablo Ramírez, and Andrea Saltzman
Humor and Comic: Max Cachimba, Sergio Langer, Delius - María Delia Lozupone, María Luque, and José Antonio Muñoz
Illustration: Mariana Chiesa Mateos, Decur - Guillermo Decurgez, Juan Manuel Lima, Gustavo Rosemffet (Gusti), and María Wernicke.
Art and Technology: Gabriela Golder, Narcisa Hirsch, Florencia Levy, Tomás Saraceno, and Mariela Yeregui
Photography: Cristina Fraire, Alberto Goldenstein, Adriana Lestido, Esteban Pastorino, and Santiago Porter.
Visual Arts Entities: Bienal Sur - UNTREF, Fundación Federico Jorge Klemm, Fundación Forner - Bigatti, and Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo de Rodríguez.
The annual Konex Awards, this being its 43rd edition, directed by the president of the Konex Foundation, Dr. Luis Ovsejevich, the president of the Grand Jury of the Konex Awards 2022, Luis Felipe Noé and the General Secretary Matilde Marín (Platinum Konex Award 1992), was additionally formed by: Ana María Battistozzi, Florencia Battiti, Sergio Baur, Diego Bianchi, Diana Cabeza, Laura Casanovas, María Teresa Constantin, Marina De Caro, Hernán Dompé, Guillermo Fantoni, Andrea Giunta, Berto González Montaner, Miguel Harte, Juan Lo Bianco, Elena Oliveras, Emilio Rivoira, Graciela Taquini, and Juan Travnik. Following the established methodology, they chose the Konex Mercosur awards (outstanding personalities of the region); Konex of Honor (to a personality who died in the last decade); two Special Mentions (for career); and the 100 diplomas for Merit in the Argentine Visual Arts (2012-2021), selecting 5 for each of the 20 disciplines linked to the activity. In addition to this, the jury has decided to exceptionally create discipline No. 21, "Visual Arts Entities," to recognize institutions with outstanding work in the last decade.
