Collectors Art Prize recognizes outstanding achievements in contemporary art by celebrating the work of extraordinary artists whose practices are among the most innovative and influential of our time.
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ULLA is a Danish-born painter, living and working in London England. Her colourful and often soulful canvases over the years can be found in a number of collections worldwide, public as well as private. Some collections are listed under Saatchiart Collections. Several works have won prizes.
Klaus Biliczky's artistic work focuses on abstract painting and sculptural objects. His main sources of inspiration are the diverse aspects of human existence and the complex structure of our world and natural environment, as well as the ways we interact with and are shaped by them.
Raúl Vega attended Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA and the University of Florence, Italy majoring in architecture. After college, Raúl quickly turned to photography. His award-winning photographs have appeared, often as covers, in such magazines as Time, Esquire, Andy Warhol’s Interview, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Glamour, Vogue and Vanity Fair, among many others.
Gerlinde K is known for her innovative style, which often challenges the limits of traditional photography. She embraces a variety of techniques to realize her artistic vision, combining traditional photography with digital technology
His body of work embodies a finely tuned interplay of visual and emotional registers, articulated through a singular expressive vocabulary rooted in meta-modernist sensibility. Engaging in a process of abstraction and distortion, the works transform motifs drawn from lived reality into meditative explorations of form, perception, and meaning.
Tina Ritter was born in Darmstadt in 1972 and grew up in a small village. Even as a child, she loved painting and drawing and was fascinated by the works of Salvador Dalí and M. C. Escher. Today she lives and works in Darmstadt.
Volkvard find great liberation in the realization that the experience of art is strictly personal and cannot be reduced to shared rules or universal aesthetics. Since he can only vaguely guess what his viewers experience, he grants himself full freedom to paint according to his own passions—even when the source of those passions remains unknown to him.
Noémie L. Côté is an internationally acclaimed Canadian artist whose luminous, textured landscapes infuse nature’s beauty with vibrant energy. Working in richly textured oils, she transforms scenes into immersive experiences, her bold brushstrokes dispersing light into sculptural colour that uplifts and inspires.
Emerging from a background in multimedia and computer games art, Ashley Gray has been creating evocative digital imagery since 2011. Though drawing didn’t come naturally in childhood, it was during college that they discovered a compelling pathway into 3D art—first through games, then as a broader medium for expression. After completing both undergraduate and master’s degrees at Teesside University, they began crafting visual work independently, driven not by commercial demand but by a deep internal need to create.
Cuesta captures a deep emotional resonance that speaks to humanity’s role in nurturing a just and compassionate world through her integration of vibrant colors, symbolic elements, and a balance of warm and cool tones. This thematic focus highlights her dedication to exploring identity, environmental consciousness, and the strength of the human spirit.
I am Savas Deli, a contemporary artist whose works thrive in the space between abstraction and deep emotion. Growing up in a world full of cultural diversity and personal contrasts, I discovered early on that art was a way to express my inner experiences and stories.
For over forty years, Greg Stirling has been a quiet yet profound force in the world of contemporary art, a true luminary in San Jose, California’s creative scene. His work, spanning abstract and impressionist painting to kinetic sculpture, resonates with a duality of stillness and motion, of quiet contemplation and explosive energy.
Gaya Chandrasekaran’s artworks are based on the themes of Quest, Soliloquy, Rebirth, and Nirvana - each reflecting pivotal life moments and serving as an expression of her thoughts, emotions, sensations and experiences. As she reflects on and synthesises her experiences, floodgates open for new creative ideas, which she records and revisits for inspiration. Her practice is deeply influenced by the exuberant colours and intricate patterns of her childhood home in India.
Aline Pouget is a French contemporary painter who works between Paris and Blois-Chambord. Having always been drawn to the beauty and colors of nature, her transition to creating art came naturally. She began with watercolor and quickly moved on to oil painting, which gives her greater satisfaction. She paints on canvas or wooden supports.
The artist has been creative since her youth starting with artistic presents for her family and friends, creating jewellery and designing clothes for herself. During her study stay in Lagos, Nigeria she was co-owner of and designer for a lingerie production. But only her partnership with a cameraman and photographer brought her to the actual art in 2003 and taught her an enhanced vision.
In Wenger's paintings, nature and technology sometimes collide violently and with serious consequences. In “The Message,” a railroad car with a parabolic antenna pierces the pictorial space. It is overgrown with trees with sprawling branches that penetrate the pictorial space, powerful and bare.
Riitta Hellén-Vuoti (b. 1959) is a Finnish artist, living and working in Kuopio, Finland. By education she is a licensed medical specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy. She has been artistic since her youth, and started dedicating more time to painting and poetry around the year 2000.
MALO began teaching art classes at the age of fifteen: drawing, painting, and sculpture. From 1974 to 1978, the young artist was selected to participate in four creativity art camps broadcast by the French Alliance Television. Based in France and Spain, those immersions in the world of creation were dedicated to introducing a new generation of artists to the philosophical, historical, and practical aspects of arts: Grand Masters, arts and culture, literature, cinema, and poetry have also been explored.
For the artist
The work is very personal
Going through the creative process, one is never sure where each work will find its end. The artist is never sure if the work will be accepted or understood
Tamara Michel, born in Ukraine, studied in Moscow and has been living and working as a freelance artist for 30 years. She paints various pictures with oil and watercolor, has her own style, likes to experiment closely with colors, changes her style, but her love for joyful colors remains.
