Seletti Wonder Award

The first Seletti Wonder Award has been assigned to Vadim Fishkin, presented by the Gregor Podnar gallery, Vienna. Promoted by Seletti, the prize recognises a research practice that proposes an original gaze on reality through innovative and transversal languages. The artist will receive a financial contribution to their research and will work with Seletti to develop a special project, which will be presented at Artissima 2027.

Jury: Eva and Franco Mattes, Artists, Brescia and New York, Ilenia Paneghini, Chairman RETI Spa – Collector, Busto Arsizio, Marisa Passera, Radio Host, Milano, Maria Chiara Valacchi, Art Journalist and Curator, Milano.

“The jury of the Seletti Wonder Award 2026 assigns the prize to Vadim Fishkin, represented by Gregor Podnar gallery, for the work Lighthouse. In a fair that submerges us in visual stimuli, what captures our attention is the intermittence of a light bulb. In a historical moment in which the impact of artificial intelligence on our lives pushes us to question ourselves on what remains profoundly human, art offers us an answer. For years, the work of Vadim Fishkin has explored the relationship between technology and the fragility of life, observing and recording it with a disarming simplicity. His research transforms everyday phenomena into extraordinary experiences, interweaving art and science with a lateral gaze on reality, capable of revealing what often escapes us. Science here is at the service of poetry. And perhaps it is precisely there, in this encounter, that something profoundly human pulses. Lighthouse is a work that, with a simple beat of light, reminds us that wonder is something profoundly alive.”