Max Mara Art Prize for Women

Max Mara Art Prize for Women becomes nomadic. The first partner for this exciting new phase will be Museum MACAN – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti are pleased to announce an exciting new phase of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.

The prize will take on a new geographic scope and become nomadic, travelling to a different country for each edition.

The first figure invited to curate this new incarnation of the prize will be Cecilia Alemani, Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art in New York. In accordance with Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti, Alemani will identify a different country and institution as the focus of each new edition. Together they will work with institutions around the world to systematically and structurally support the work of emerging and mid-career artists who identify as women.

The partner for the tenth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2025‒2027) will be Museum MACAN – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia. Founded in 2017, Museum MACAN is Indonesia’s first museum of contemporary art, a major institution where local and international interdisciplinary artists present their work through exhibitions and interactive public programs.

While preserving the characteristics and goals that have been its hallmark since 2005, the Max Mara Art Prize for Women is now extending its international range of action to reach important cultural landscapes that can broaden, enrich—and be enriched by—the legacy of the prize and its partners. The prize will continue to be a fundamental contribution to achieving truly equal opportunity for women artists, building bridges to other parts of the world, fostering creative diversity and offering inspiration and positive models to new generations of artists.

The jury for this edition, chaired by Cecilia Alemani, will be made up of Museum MACAN Director Venus Lau, curator Amanda Ariawan, gallerist Megan Arlin, collector Evelyn Halim and artist Melati Suryodarmo.

The beginning of this tenth edition marks the conclusion of the long, fruitful partnership that Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti have forged in the UK with Whitechapel Gallery in London, which has played a fundamental role in the prize and is renowned for its commitment to promoting both emerging and established women artists.

Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti would like to express their heartfelt thanks to Whitechapel Gallery for its invaluable contribution to the growth of the prize. Over the last twenty years, Whitechapel Gallery has worked with Max Mara and Collezione Maramotti to single out and support UK-based emerging women artists at a crucial stage in their careers, significantly boosting their visibility through a solo show at Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti.

This fruitful partnership has created an essential platform for the professional development of the winning artists, who have been provided with significant resources and the time and space to create and present a new project capable of bringing them broader international recognition.