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Art & Environment Prize

A unique partnership between Guerlain and Lee Ufan Arles
In 2023, Lee Ufan Arles and Guerlain launched the Art & Environment Prize, which annually honours a project that explores the rich and multifaceted relationship between artistic creation and environmental issues.

The prize offers the winning artist a customised support programme and access to a studio as part of a six- to eight-week residency, culminating in a solo exhibition at Lee Ufan Arles’ Atelier MA.

An artistic springboard in service of the environment

This unique space in the heart of Arles, both a gallery dedicated to Lee Ufan’s key works and a creative hub supporting contemporary artists, provides the laureate not only with the necessary tools to bring their project to fruition but also with opportunities to connect with relevant individuals and institutions.


The exhibition also gives the winner visibility among both local and international audiences, along with the possibility of future collaborations with Guerlain.

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Caroline Corbasson,
wins the 2024 Prize

For the second edition, Lee Ufan Arles and Guerlain awarded the Art & Environment Prize to Caroline Corbasson, selected from 551 applicants. Her work investigates our place in the universe through the lens of scientific and collective imaginaries related to astrophysics and cosmology. She is interested in a related phenomenon: the wind. The project submitted for the Art & Environment Prize aims to study this ambivalent force, which can be devastating, but can also pollinate and bring life.

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Caroline Corbasson will exhibit her work at Lee Ufan Arles’ Atelier MA during the summer of 2025.

Exhibition by the first Art & Environment prize laureate, summer of 2024

In January 2024, Djabril Boukhenaïssi completed a creative residency at Lee Ufan Arles, exploring the impact of light pollution on wildlife. The effects of light pollution include disorientation, the disruption of reproductive and hormonal cycles, and interference with nocturnal behaviours like hunting and migration, whether in seeking out the light or attempting to escape it

Exhibition by the first Art & Environment prize laureate, summer of 2024

In January 2024, Djabril Boukhenaïssi completed a creative residency at Lee Ufan Arles, exploring the impact of light pollution on wildlife. The effects of light pollution include disorientation, the disruption of reproductive and hormonal cycles, and interference with nocturnal behaviours like hunting and migration, whether in seeking out the light or attempting to escape it

Exhibition by the first Art & Environment prize laureate, summer of 2024
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Artificial lighting:
a cause of extinction

In fact, artificial light is the second leading cause of insect extinction after pesticides. Djabril focused in particular on moths in this work.

The exhibition ‘À ténèbres’ presents a series of original paintings and engravings that form a poetic exploration of contemporary nightscapes, drawing inspiration from German literature, music, and his time in Arles.

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