Steph Huang is the winner of Boscolo Collection Art Prize 2024/2025
Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with the BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, is pleased to announce the Boscolo Collection Art Prize, an extension of the current activities of the Boscolo Collection Art Program 2024/2025. The prize acknowledges the patronage role assumed by the Boscolo Collection over the past three years of the program and is designed to support deserving young international artists.
The Boscolo Collection Art Program, which runs from 2021, is hosted in Boscolo hotels in Nice and Lyon. It aims to create a new cultural hub for the two cities and their region by presenting a series of contemporary art exhibitions held in the two venues that showcase a diverse spectrum of international artists and galleries. The program, complemented by side events and an artist residency, contributes to the local cultural scene and artistic debate and creates a unique experience for hotel guests.
The Boscolo Collection Art Program intends to take hospitality services to a new level:
Art is a powerful and surprising medium, capable of stimulating creativity and curiosity, provoking the right questions, questioning the existing by breaking conventional thinking, encouraging shifting points of view, facilitating a corporate cultural integration and becoming an antenna tuned to the future, anticipating scenarios and behaviours.
(Roberto Boscolo)
In keeping with the forward-thinking of the Boscolo Collection Art Program 2022/2023, Roberto Boscolo, in collaboration with BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, is proud to announce the winner of the Boscolo Collection Art Prize 2024/25
Boscolo Collection Art Prize directly expresses Roberto and Angelo Boscolo’s commitment to promoting the excellence of hospitality services with an Italian matrix but with a cosmopolitan approach at an international level. Boscolo Collection Art Prize aims to support young contemporary art and promote it beyond the narrow confines of the “art system.”
Steph Huang is the winner of the Boscolo Collection Art Prize 2024/2025. The second and third place winners are Matthias Odin and Stefano Cescon.
Steph Huang will be awarded a one-month residency at the spaces of Boscolo Nice Hotel & Spa in September 2025 with a production prize to conduct the same. One of their works submitted in the application phase will also be acquired by Roberto Boscolo, thus becoming part of the Boscolo Collection. This illustrious collection boasts names among the best-known masters of the 20th century.
From April 2025 to October 2025, her works will be exhibited as part of Boscolo Collection Art Programme, curated by BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory, along with the works by the second and third place winners.
Boscolo Collection Art Prize aims to promote the value of the young international art scene from multiple points of view: exhibition, collecting, and patronage. In addition to the acquisition of the work, Boscolo Collection strongly believes that the opportunity offered to the winner to carry out a period of residency and bring to completion together with the other two prizewinners an exhibition project in one of the corporations awarded as the most illustrious of the city and the Italian-French hotel industry can have a significant impact of promoting the same.
The artists were selected by a jury chaired by Roberto Boscolo. Members of the jury were:
Roberto Boscolo – Owner of the hotel and co-founder of the Boscolo Collection Art Programme, dedicated to integrating contemporary art into cultural spaces. Committed to supporting emerging talent through exhibitions and residencies. Agostino Pesce – General Director of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Nice, fostering economic and cultural ties between Italy and France, and promoting Italian businesses abroad.
Noam Alon – Curator and Art Critic based in Paris, PhD fellow at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He has curated exhibitions worldwide, contributing to contemporary art discourse.
Alexandre Chastel – Founder of Artquire, a company financing art collectors through innovative leasing solutions. His expertise in the art market connects collectors with leading galleries.
Hugo Giacometti – Managing Partner at Artquire, expanding commercial networks in Paris and across France. He brings a dynamic perspective to the evolving art market.
Benoit Doche de Laquintane – Founder of the Collection Benoit Doche de Laquintaine launched in Bordeaux in the 2000s, this private collection gathers 200 works by French and international artists, with some on loan at institutions like CAPC Bordeaux and Serralves Foundation Porto. Benoit co-founded the fonds de dotation DLD, which supports artists, galleries, and the SOLARIS residency.
Steph Huang (b.1990, Taiwan) lives and works in London. She received her MA in Sculpture from Royal College of Art in 2021. Recent solo exhibitions include Lili Deli, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, TW, 2025; There is nothing old under the sun, esea contemporary, Manchester, UK, 2024; Property for Sale, Hong Foundation, Taipei, TW, 2024; Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK, 2024; There Is Nothing Old Under The Sun, Standpoint London, UK, 2024; The Water that Bears the Boat, E-WERK Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, 2024; I will see you when the week ends, Public Gallery, London, UK, 2023; Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022; Deep Shallow, Volt, Eastbourne, UK, 2022; A Great Increase In Business Is On Its Way, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK, 2022. In 2023, Huang was awarded the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award and was a recipient of The Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award. In 2022, Huang was awarded the Grand Prize at the Taipei Art Awards.
Matthias Odin (b. 1995 in Lyon, France). Lives and works in Paris, France. Matthias Odin is an artist based in the Ain department of France, whose work incorporates partipcipatory and curatorial dimensions.
A 2023 graduate of the Cergy School of Fine Arts, he has exhibited and collaborated with various independent spaces and institutions in France, such as the Frac Corsica (Corte, FR), the IAC (Villeurbannes, FR), the Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR), La Graineterie (Houilles), Treize and Glassbox (Paris, FR), Pauline Perplexe (Arceuil, FR), Car 14 (Marseille, FR), La Station (Nice, FR), the Louis Senlecq Museum of Art and History (L’Isle-Adam, FR), and abroad, such as the Palazzio San Giuseppe (Bari, IT), the Keiv Gallery and Okay Space (Athens, GR), and the Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), among others. He will be exhibiting in May at the Frac Île de France. He is also one of the founding and active members of the Ygreves collective, with whom he has curated and co-curated heterotopic exhibitions in abandoned, liminal, and interstitial architectures to reveal their underlying narratives.
Stefano Cescon was born in Pordenone in 1989. After graduating with honours in Decoration from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, he focused his artistic research on discovering the expressive potential of beeswax.
He is an emerging artist, working in Venice (Italy), particularly known for his wax works between sculpture and painting, characterised by multiple coloured layers. The research he has developed in recent years is based on the dialectical relationship between specular elements: the balance between surface forces (lateral and frontal) and tonal transitions. Where form is constrained or contained in a geometric structure, wax acts as a counterbalance capable of restoring softness and expressiveness to the final result.