Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico Prize

The Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico Prize, promoted by Fondazione Oelle, has been awarded to Sofía Salazar Rosales, presented by ChertLüdde gallery, Berlin. Created in 2022, the prize is addressed to the contemporary artistic researches of the “Souths of the world”, through the visual arts, photography, video, sound art and other languages, including literature. The fifth edition of the prize offers the artist the opportunity to take part in a residency in Sicilia, dedicated to the development of a project that explores the contaminations between languages and contemporary cultures of the Mediterranean. The project will subsequently be presented in one of the exhibition venues of the Foundation.

Jury: Caterina Riva, Director, MACTE Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Termoli, Alberto Salvadori, Director and Founder, Fondazione ICA, Milano.

“The research of Sofía Salazar Rosales concentrates on how objects can show and contain social, political and economic contexts, linked in particular to the circulation of people and goods. The artist’s works present themselves as a synthesis of different meanings and stories, without neglecting their own roots. For these characteristics of hers, we held that Sofia Salazar Rosales is the ideal artist for the Oelle – Mediterraneo Antico Prize and for a period of research in Sicilia.”