Best Booth Prize
A new prize Art Antwerp is launching to reward the gallery that brings the most cohesive and convincing artistic vision and presentation.
Discover the jury members of the Best Booth Prize 2024:
The key evaluation criteria include the artistic value of the booth project, as well as diversity, inclusion, and relevance. This professional jury will nominate the winning gallery, who will receive a prize of €2,500, which will be awarded during the opening day of the fair on Thursday 12 December.
Elisa De Wyngaert
Curator at MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp
Elisa De Wyngaert is an art and fashion historian. Since 2015, she has been a curator at MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp where she has curated different exhibitions and publications merging fashion and contemporary art, including ‘SOFT? Tactile Dialogues’, ‘E/MOTION – Fashion in Transition’, ‘MIRROR MIRROR – Fashion & the Psyche’, ‘ECHO. Wrapped in Memory’, ‘Masquerade, Make-up & Ensor’.
Maurice Funken
Director of NAK – Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in Aachen
Maurice Funken started working at NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein in 2015. At the beginning of 2018 he was appointed artistic director of the Kunstverein. NAK not only assumes a core function for the local art scene, but is also recognized internationally as an innovative platform for contemporary art and its discourses. As director and curator for over 30 exhibitions at NAK, he has worked with artists such as Xavier Mary, Julia Scher, Egan Frantz, Nora Turato, Markus Saile, Thomas Dozol, Frankfurter Hauptschule, Kate Davis, Stefan Marx, Soufiane Ababri, Evan Ifekoya, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Monty Richthofen, Joëlle Dubois, Jody Korbach and Marion Baruch. Simultaneously, he has expanded the Kunstverein’s programme to include multidisciplinary pop-cultural positions such as Fischerspoooner and Lars Eidinger in the past few years, stretching the idea of presumed boundaries of contemporary art and what the Kunstverein as an institution can be.
Besides his position in Aachen, he’s been a lecturer at RWTH Aachen University and frequently curates exhibitions on a freelance basis for other art spaces. Funken studied art history at RWTH Aachen University and the University of York.
Joseph Kouli
French collector
Joseph Kouli, a collector based in Paris, understood one day that contemporary art was not a field reserved for those with the three forms of capital (economic, cultural, and social), but rather a realm of objects and practices that, because they were contemporary to him, were both economically and culturally accessible. Started by accident in 2006, and connected to artists of his generation who depict the “époque” in which he lives, the collection is now rich with nearly 200 works. It has been loaned regularly (to events like the Venice Biennale, Hammer Museum, FRACs, etc.) and has been the subject of dedicated exhibitions in art centers.
Portrait photo by Nicolas Giraud
Charlotte Martens
Senior Curator at Kunsthal Rotterdam
Charlotte Martens is curator, producer and consultant for exhibitions and art commissions. She works for museums, presentation institutions and artists. Martens is a graduated art historian (University of Leiden, North Carolina State University Raleigh, USA). She also studied restoration at Delft University of Technology and art and culture management at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
For more than a decade she was an exhibition maker and project manager at Atelier van Lieshout (AVL). She has worked with and for artists on major international exhibitions, both in the public indoor and outdoor space. She has built an extensive international network. Giving a presentation from A-Z is Martens’ strength. She has set up exhibitions in various art disciplines and in public space. Since 2022 she works as a senior curator at the Kunsthal Rotterdam that is built in 1992 by Rem Koolhaas.
Portrait photo by Lenny Oosterwijk
