Three artists have been awarded the IKOB Feminist Art Prize 2025, established in 2019 to champion feminist art practice in a world ‘increasingly characterized by right-wing populist movements and political revanchism’.
Sandra Singh took the top prize of €3000. Singh is a German Indian artist based in Munich, whose lens-based practice explores female autonomy and migrant identity through photography, printmaking and digital installation. She is also a freelance photojournalist, published in the New York Times, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit, among others.
The Belgian artist Herlinde Raeman, awarded a prize of €2000, explores domestic and community spaces through analogue photography, constructing new archives of underrepresented contexts.
The €1500, assigned to an artist living in East Belgium, went to You Huize, an artist and fashion designer born in the Minnan region of China, who uses fashion as a relational method for examining human behaviour.
The winners were selected by an international jury including Caitlin Hennen (independent art consultant and curator), Jemima Kulumba (curator and founder of the Biennale of Women in Art, Brussels), Noor Mertens (director, Bochum Art Museum), Stilbé Schroeder (curator, casino luxembourg) and Marnie Slater (artist and winner of the IKOB – Feminist Art Prize 2022).
An exhibition of the three winners alongisde the other 8 shortlisted artists is on view at IKOB Museum of Contemporary art in Eupen, Belgium through 24 August.
