Indonesian-born artist Dian Suci has been awarded the 2025–27 Max Mara Artwork Prize for Ladies. Cecilia Alemani, curator of the prize and chair of the jury, together with representatives from the Museum MACAN, the Collezione Maramotti, and the household that based the style model Max Mara made the announcement as we speak on the opening of the Venice Biennale.
The award, established in 2005 to help mid-career girls artists, offers Suci a six-month touring residency in Italy custom-made to her profitable undertaking proposal. The residency will culminate with solo exhibitions on the Museum MACAN in Jakarta and on the Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy, which is able to purchase the brand new works.
Suci’s work, which ranges between set up, portray, sculpture, and video, often addresses how home expertise intersects with state political energy. Her proposal, titled “Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Follow,” will discover non secular traditions in Italy and Indonesia as manifested in artisanal practices.
With stays within the Italian cities of Assisi, Umbria, Rome, Lecce, and Florence, Suci will give attention to how the handcrafting of votive objects and non secular pictures features inside modern tradition as a type of resilience. “My proposal,” Suci stated in a press release, “emerges from tales of the physique and reminiscence throughout the lives and gestures of ladies artisans, whose work usually exists between devotion and survival.”
Mentioned Alemani, “Dian Suci’s work impressed me with its extraordinary capability to rework the realm of on a regular basis home life right into a realm of political resistance. Her follow is completely aligned with the core idea of this prize, whose tenth version has chosen to discover the creative panorama of Indonesia.”
