art & environment 2025 prize

Lee Ufan Arles and Maison Guerlain have joined forces to create the Art & Environment Prize, awarded each year to a work of universal scope whose philosophical depth echoes that of Lee Ufan.

With the Art & Environment 2025 Prize, Lee Ufan Arles and Guerlain aim to develop a creative space that will build conceptual, semantic and aesthetic bridges between the work of young designers and that of Lee Ufan. The Prize is therefore sensitive to strong projects proposing a new vision of the relationship with modernity, as well as to works with long temporalities and a relationship with nature, the environment and materials.

After winning the prize, the winner will benefit from a six- to eight-week support programme at the beginning of 2026, with a production space and accommodation in the heart of Arles. This ‘time and space’ will enable them to carry out their artistic project, but also to meet the people and institutions involved in its implementation: artists, professionals from the art world and local players, as well as the general public. A member of the Lee Ufan Arles team will support the winner throughout the process, meeting with international and local artists, curators and other players. The residency is followed by a summer exhibition of the artist’s work in one of the Lee Ufan Arles spaces.

Depending on the availability of the winning artist, the residency will take place between January and the end of March 2026 and the exhibition will run from July to the end of September 2026.