Daniela Ortiz

At Artissima 2024, Daniela Ortiz has won the third edition of the OELLE MEDITERRANEAN ANTIQUE PRIZE, promoted by the OELLE Foundation since 2022. The prize aims to promote contemporary artistic research, particularly from the "Global South," in the field of visual arts, through an artist residency conceived as a cultural exchange between Sicily, the Mediterranean, and the winner's country of origin. At the end of the residency, an exhibition will be produced and organized, which will be hosted in one of the Etnea Foundation's exhibition spaces. Daniela Ortiz (Cusco, Peru, 1985) is a Peruvian artist who has always been committed to investigating the complex systems of political, economic, and cultural power that govern the world, and in particular the institutional mechanisms that inflict violence on the populations of the Global South.

The award to Daniela Ortiz, presented at Artissima by the Laveronica gallery of Modica, was assigned by a jury of authoritative representatives of important cultural institutions

International: Katerina Gregos, director, EMST The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Grazia Quaroni, director, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris; and Caterina Riva, director, MACTE Museum of Contemporary Art of Termoli, Termoli.

Artisssima 2024

Artissima is the leading international Italian contemporary art fair: a privileged observatory of the best research in the visual arts and a major cultural event, attracting the interest of the general public and the press. The Fondazione Oelle Mediterraneo Antico Award is an experiential format dedicated to the navigating artists of the third millennium, designed to enhance contemporary artistic research in the visual arts, photography, video, sound art, and more: initiatives conceived as cultural journeys through Sicily.