DP23, Installation view. Photo: Flavio Pescatori
The 2023 edition of the DuchyPrize is conceived as an observatory on national and international artistic individualities and is rooted in the relationship that exists between the individual and the cosmos, where the universe is seen as an agglomeration of bodies viewed from a single vantage point.
Winners

Adji Dieye who received the Contemporary prize with Untitled Black, Culture Lost and Learned by Heart (2022);

Friedrich Andreoni won the Academy prize with the installation I Was So Wrong (2021);

Tomaso De Luca received a special mention from the Collector's Board;

Wisrah Villefort won the Residency Award, in collaboration with IRIS Residency Project - Los Angeles, California.

Jury

Julieta Aranda
Nerina Ciaccia
Luigi Fassi
Stéphane Ibars
Bernardo Mosqueira

Collector’s Board

Fabio Agovino
Valter Cassandro

Marco Ghigi
R F Jefferies
Marcelle Joseph
Federica Maria Bianchi
Enea Righi e Lorenzo Paini
Rebecca Russo
Anastasia Sgoumpopoulou
Roberto Spada

Selected artists

Contemporary

Alfredo Aceto, Ambra Castagnetti, Mateusz Choróbski, Paolo Ciregia, Marilisa Cosello, Daniele Costa, Tomaso De Luca, Pamela Diamante, Adji Dieye, Andro Eradze, Kyriaki Goni, Corinna Gosmaro, Julie Grosche, Diego Gualandris, Rodrigo Hernández, Helena Hladilová, Francesco João, Maria Laet, Jieun Lim, Eleonora Luccarini, Edson Luli, Alix Marie, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Sybil Montet, Terrence Musekiwa, Andrea Nacciarriti, Raffaela Naldi Rossano, Judith Neunhäuserer, Mila Panic, Vasilis Papageorgiou, Silvia Rosi, Giuliana Rosso, Andrea Sala, Davide Sgambaro, Davide Stucchi, Xavier Robles de Medina, Sofie Tobiášová, Wisrah Villefort, Liao Wen, Shafei Xia

Academy

Friedrich Andreoni, Luca Campestri, Giuseppe Di Liberto, Gala Hernández López, Matteo Lisanti, Rachele Montoro, Agnes Questionmark, Flavia Spasari, Matteo Trentin, Alla Zhyvotova.

Prizes

Specifically, the prize for the Contemporary section, aimed at all artists, national and international, with no age limit, sees an acquisition prize of €10,000. The Academy prize, aimed at students enrolled at Academies and Art Institutes, national and international, public and private, consists of a sum of €1,000. Also awarded, as in every edition of the DucatoPrize, is a special mention from the Collector's Board, which singles out a deserving artist selected by the committee of collectors. In addition to this year's novelties, a Residency Prize is established in collaboration with IRIS Project, an artist residency in Venice Beach, Los Angeles - California that will bring Villefort to Los Angeles for a one-month period in 2024.