Institutions
• The European Cultural Foundation in Brussels has given the 2015 Princess Margriet Award for Culture to the Athens Biennale and the Visual Culture Research Centre in Kiev, Ukraine. The winners each receive €25,000 for their contribution to creating an inclusive Europe.
• The British Museum in London has won the first Prize for Educators for the touring exhibition Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, which was first shown in London in 2012. The award, which is given by the Morocco-based Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, recognises UK institutions and individuals promoting peaceful dialogue between civilisations.
• The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations in Marseilles is due to receive the 2015 Council of Europe Museum Prize at the European Museum Forum (13-16 May) in Glasgow.
Artists
• The German artist, film-maker and writer Hito Steyerl has won the first annual EYE Prize for art and film. The £25,000 award is given by EYE, Amsterdam’s museum of film, and the Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund.
• The artists Charles Juhász-Alvarado, Suchan Kinoshita, Alison Knowles, Malcolm Morley and Steve Wolfe have each won unrestricted grants of $12,500 as part of the 2015 Francis J. Greenburger Awards.
• The Jerwood Charitable Foundation’s third round of Jerwood Painting Fellowships have been awarded to Francesca Blomfield, Archie Franks and Dale Lewis. Each receives a bursary of £10,000. The artists are to due to present a group show at the Jerwood Space in London in May 2016, followed by a UK tour.
• Ai Weiwei and the folk singer Joan Baez are due to receive this year’s Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award in a ceremony in Berlin on 21 May.
New prize
• The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas has created an international annual award worth $100,000 for artists who have made an extraordinary impact on the understanding of sculpture. The jury—Phyllida Barlow, Lynne Cooke, Okwui Enwezor, Yuko Hasegawa, Steven Nash, Alexander Potts and Nicholas Serota—are due to convene at Tate Britain, London, in July. The winner will be named this autumn.
