Collectors Art Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
Collectors Art Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
THE ART OF BEING HERE
Second Edition of the Collectors’ Art Prize
A dedication to presence in an age of distraction.
In a world obsessed with velocity, where the next thing is always one swipe away, we find ourselves constantly moving — but rarely arriving. Surrounded by noise, we’ve grown allergic to silence. Saturated with content, we’ve become starved for meaning. Time moves fast. Attention moves faster. But art? Art stays.
The Second Edition of the Collectors Art Prize is dedicated to presence — to the radical act of slowing down, of creating with intention, of witnessing the world without flinching. In this age of digital overwhelm and fractured focus, contemporary artists offer something quietly subversive: depth. Stillness. A space to breathe.
This prize honors creators who dare to look longer. Who resist the disposable in favor of the enduring. Whose work doesn’t beg for attention — it earns it. Through painting, sculpture, performance, installation, or digital media, they ask us to do something rare: to pause, to feel, to stay.
We live in the age of distraction. But we long for presence.
This year, we celebrate the artists who bring us back to it.
