In 2023, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain have joined forces to create the Art & Environment Prize, which will be awarded each year to a project that focuses on the fruitful and multi-faceted relationship between artistic creation and the environment.

Sharing the same sensitivity to artistic support and transmission, as well as the same commitment to art and the environment, Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain wish to encourage artistic productions that are resolutely altruistic and responsible, opening up new dialogues with nature. ‍Art& Environment Prize is rooted in the complementary philosophies that animate Lee Ufan's work and Guerlain's commitments, proposing a space for reflection based on dialogue, creation and openness to the world and rewarding the winner with a residency and an exhibition. ‍Art& Environment Prize aims to promote the work of an artist by helping him or her to shine through the joint support of its two founding entities. The Prize will be awarded each year to a work of universal scope whose philosophical depth echoes that of Lee Ufan and whose link to the environment resonates with the values defended by Guerlain. For Lee Ufan Arles and Guerlain, the aim is not so much to create a school as to develop a creative space that builds conceptual, semantic and aesthetic bridges between the work of young designers and that of Lee Ufan. The Prize will therefore be sensitive to strong conceptual projects proposing a new vision of our relationship with modernity, as well as to works with long temporalities and links to nature, the environment and materials.

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