International Prize for Printmaking – Edition 2026

1964 France

Since the 1990s, Françoise Pétrovitch has been shaping some of the most powerful work on the French art scene. Among the many techniques she uses - ceramics, glass, washes, painting, printmaking and video - drawing holds a special place. In a constant dialogue with the artists who preceded her, and measuring herself against the unavoidable motifs of “grande peinture” - Saint-Sébastien, still lifes, etc. -Pétrovitch reveals an ambiguous world, willingly transgressive, playing with conventional boundaries and escaping all interpretation. Intimacy, fragments, disappearance, the themes of the double, transition and cruelty run through her work, which is populated by animals, flowers and beings, and whose atmosphere, alternately bright or nocturnal, rarely leaves the viewer unscathed.

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Visual artist born in Brussels in 1960.

Works mainly in relief etching on linos and erasers.

Professor of etching and lithography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Watermael-Boitsfort from 1988 to 2021. From 1991 to 2000, taught several courses at the International Summer Academy of Wallonia (AKDT). Member of the artists' collective Razkas and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium, in the Arts class.

Winner of several prizes, including the Prix de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée from the Communauté française de Belgique in 1989, she regularly exhibits in Belgium and abroad and her work can be found in many public and private collections.

Author of several artist's books in a personal capacity, she is also at the initiative of many collective editions (in particular for her students). Her collaborations with authors are numerous. These include André Balthazar, Michel Bernard, Christine Caillon, Ben Durant, Eddy Devolder, Corinne Hoex, Jacques Izoard, Caroline Lamarche, Bernard Legaz, Serge Meurant, Amélie Nothomb and Colette Nys-Mazur.

Marica TAKINON Born in Shizuoka, Japan and lives in BrusselsGraduated - École nationale supérieure des arts visuels (ENSAV) de La Cambre in engraving and the printed image- Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Liège in sculptureTeacher of engraving - École nationale supérieure des arts visuels (ENSAV) de LaCambre (2016-2017)Professor of engraving - Académie Royale des Beaux- Arts de Liège (2005 - 2012)Professor of lithography - Ecole des arts d'Ixelles (2015-2016)Professor of engraving - Académie des arts visuels de Molenbeek (2013-14)Professor of fine arts - Aoyama University in Tokyo (1998-1991)Winner of the René Depas Prize for engraving (2000)Participation in numerous group and solo exhibitions - Centre de la Gravure, Musée d'Art Moderne de Liège, Vila Nova de Cerveira in Portugal... Jury member - Prix de Gravure René Carcan (2025), Ecole des arts d'Ixelles (2017),Académie des arts visuels de Molenbeek(2014), Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts deLiège (2013, 2014, 2016)

INDIA/BE, 1972°

An architect, draughtswoman and artist of Indian origin, she has been teaching architecture and drawing at ULB's La Cambre-Horta Faculty of Architecture since 2009. In 2005 she co-founded the non-profit organisation Ordradek Résidence in Brussels, where she has regular exhibitions.