Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Joan Miró Award 2023

The Vietnamese artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen is the winner of the eighth edition of the Joan Miró Prize, which this year is awarded by the Joan Miró Foundation in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). The jury has valued "the social, political and environmental commitment of his work, which addresses difficult issues related to history, collective memory and the impact of colonialism through rigorous and poetic artistic projects where the artist combines moving image and sculpture”. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is responsible for endowment of the prize and the production of the monographic exhibition that Tuan Andrew Nguyen will star in 2024 at the Joan Miró Foundation.

Marko Daniel, Director of the Joan Miró Foundation, and Alexandros Kambouroglou, Global Director of Programs at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), have announced the artist awarded with the 2023 Joan Miró Prize. Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam , 1976) has been honored in this eighth edition of the prize, which is awarded every two years and which on previous occasions has recognized the artists Olafur Eliasson (2007), Pipilotti Rist (2009), Mona Hatoum (2011), Roni Horn (2013), Ignasi Aballí (2015), Kader Attia (2017) and Nalini Malani (2019).

The jury for the 2023 Joan Miró Award is made up of Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates; Katerina Gregos, Artistic Director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens, Greece; Haeju Kim, Chief Curator, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Ann-Sofi Noring, former co-director of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, and member of the board of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, and Marko Daniel, director of the Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona.

The jury reached a consensus to award Tuan Andrew Nguyen and highlighted "the extraordinary commitment, depth and imagination of his production, qualities that directly connect him with the values that characterized the work of Joan Miró" .

Specifically, in their statement, the jury of the 2023 Joan Miró Prize praises "the social, political and environmental relevance of his projects, which are always presented with a highly unique artistic vision. His subtlety allows him to address some of the most difficult episodes of modern history with a playful and poetic clarity at the same time."

Tuan Andrew Nguyen is an artist from Ho Chi Minh City (also called Saigon) who lives and works in this city of Vietnam. The Joan Miró Foundation has explained that his works explore "the capacity of memory to become a form of political resistance. His practice is fueled by research and commitment to communities that have faced trauma caused by colonialism, war and displacement." Through his exploration of memory, Nguyen investigates "the erasures that the colonial project has applied to certain realities". He works with various techniques and his projects usually combine moving image and sculptures.

With the award of the Joan Miró Prize 2023, in addition to receiving a financial endowment of 50,000 euros, Tuan Andrew Nguyen will star in a monographic exhibition at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona in 2024, produced in collaboration with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The award is completed with an award designed by renowned Barcelona designer André Ricard, who to create it was inspired by the spirit and identity of Joan Miró and his Foundation. With this design, Ricard wants to reflect the will to innovate and the dynamism of the prize and the artist who gives it its name.