Overview
- The jury announced the winner Thursday at the Venice Biennale opening, with Cecilia Alemani chairing the panel that chose Suci from a five-artist shortlist.
- Suci, a Yogyakarta-based artist, centers domestic life as a site of power and resistance and works across installation, painting, sculpture and video.
- Her project, Crafting Spirit: Cultural Dialogues in Heritage and Practice, examines how devotional craft and spiritual practice endure under market pressure in Italy and Indonesia.
- The six-month residency spans Assisi, Rome, Lecce and Florence, including a mass at St. Peter’s, training in papier-mâché, study of egg tempera and handweaving, and dialogue with religious communities.
- New works will debut in 2027 at Museum MACAN in Jakarta and at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, which will acquire them, reflecting the prize’s new itinerant format curated by Alemani.