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Dian Suci is the winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2025–27). She will embark on a six-month travelling residency in Italy.
Max Mara, Collezione Maramotti and Museum MACAN are pleased to announce, along with prize curator Cecilia Alemani, that Dian Suci (b. 1985 in Kebumen, Indonesia) has been named winner of the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
The award, which was established to support and promote emerging or mid-career artists at a crucial stage in their professional paths, will offer Dian Suci a six-month travelling residency in Italy, organized by Collezione Maramotti and specifically tailored to the development of the project Suci proposed to the jury.
The project proposal with which Suci won the prize is titled Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice. It springs from her desire to explore the fallout of the encounter between religious artisan traditions and the capitalist system, through a comparative study of Italy and Indonesia.
With the guidance of experts in specific fields and through research, site visits and work in the studio, Suci will explore the silent flow of spirituality moving through bodies, hands, and materials, even within the process of mass production and commoditization. The artist will dialogue with religious communities and congregations, with university professors, with artisans and other artists who will guide her in her research and her acquisition of the technical skills necessary to create these new works.
This experience will culminate in a solo show at Museum MACAN in Jakarta in the summer of 2027; it will be presented again that autumn in Reggio Emilia, Italy, at Collezione Maramotti, which will acquire the works.
Discover the residency program and the winning project!
