The Chantal Crousel Gallery is pleased to announce that Mona Hatoum has been awarded the prestigious Joan Miró award in recognition for her work.

The jury was unanimous in their decision to award the 2011 Joan Miró Prize to Mona Hatoum because she “has pioneered in opening up art practices to non-Western realities while showing the connections between Western high culture and transnational political and cultural events. After Hatoum, the art world has become a far more open and less self-centred arena, a process that is still in expansion and consolidation. Hatoum’s commitment to human values of concern to all cultures and societies is similar to Miró’s view of mankind after his experience of three devastating wars”.

 

Upon learning of the jury’s decision, the artist declared: “I am extremely honoured to have been chosen as the recipient of this year’s Joan Miró Prize. Reading the Jury’s statement was a heartening experience. I am sincerely grateful for their very appreciative comments and appraisal of my work and for attributing a great  significance to my contribution to the art world”.

 

Mona Hatoum has exhibited her work at the world’s most important museums and centres of art such as the MoMA, in New York, the Tate, in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, in Paris. Her exhibition at Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, which will be held in June 2012, will also be sponsored by Obra Social “la Caixa”.