March 23, 2026·News
Shortlist for the SAR Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2025
The SAR Executive Board and the RC Prize Jury are excited to announce the shortlist for the Annual SAR Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition.
The prize recognises outstanding expositions published in the Research Catalogue, highlighting innovative and critically engaged approaches to artistic research. Each year, the nominated projects reflect a wide range of practices and methods, offering insight into current directions in the field.
We would like to thank everyone who submitted nominations, as well as the jury for their careful and dedicated work in the selection process.
The winner will be announced at the 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research in Galway, taking place from 23–26 June 2026.
The shortlist
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Seen from a place, developed from a point
Annika Borg
A dice roll is the very image of randomness. Every day since September 1, 1994, the artist has rolled a set of six dice and written down the combinations.
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Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice
Elina Koivisto
Practice-led research exploring how conducting architectural practice through a feminist spatial practice framework opens possibilities for un-learning harmful habits.
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(un)Romantic / Improvising interpretation
Live Maria Roggen and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus
Explorations concerning creative interpretation and aesthetic language through improvising together as a duo.
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Design Phenomenographies for Industrial Wastelands
Monica Tușinean
Long-neglected industrial wastelands of Romania present themselves as heterotopias in need of help.
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Foot Baths for All
Julia Weber and Mayumi Arai
Artistic intervention emerging from ethnographic exploration of collective forms of life on wastelands in Switzerland.
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