Utopi·e

Overview

Utopi·e is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting gender equality in the visual and performing arts. Through exhibitions, public programmes, and research-based initiatives, it supports LGBTQIA+ artists whose practices engage with questions of inclusion, embodied experience, and respect for difference.

Each year, the Utopi·e Prize awards ten artists from LGBTQIA+ scenes, highlighting emerging practices engaging with contemporary social issues. For its fourth edition, the ten laureates—including nine individual artists and one artist duo—were brought together in an exhibition at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in October 2025, developed around the idea of tenderness as a gesture of insubordination: not as the opposite of violence, but as another way of responding to it through affect, friction, intimacy, and dissidence.

Following this first presentation, the laureates of the 4th Utopi·e Prize will be exhibited at 193 Gallery in Paris in July 2026, alongside five artists represented by the gallery, and one invited artist, whose practices similarly explore gender, identity, and self-representation.

Utopi·e Prize laureates (4th edition) :

Priscilla Benyahia, Laura Bottereau & Marine Fiquet, Léna Fillet, Haonan He, Félixe Kazi-Tani, Élodie Martial, Giancarlo Pirelli, Valentin Ranger, Camille Soualem, Zoé Tullen.

In conversation with works by :

Hyangmok Baik, April Bey, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Shinji Nagabe, Kenny Nguyen, H·Alix Sanyas.