Brazilian artist Laura Lima wins biggest international award for visual art in the Netherlands

The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht in the Netherlands, announced that Brazilian artist Laura Lima (1971, Governador Valadares, Rio de Janeiro) is the winner of the Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art (BACA) 2014. The BACA consists of a sum of 50,000 Euros, a publication and a solo exhibition in the Bonnefantenmuseum in autumn 2014. This exhibition will be presented in the museum from 26 September 2014 to February 2015 and will then travel to the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires in Argentina in spring 2015.

Laura Lima laureate Bonnefanten Award for Contemporary Art 2014

The Bonnefantenmuseum has been presenting the BACA every two years since 2000. The award is a tribute to a living artist with an exceptional oeuvre and a demonstrable influence on other artists – a real artists' artist. The BACA 2014 was awarded unanimously to the Brazilian artist Laura Lima by the international selection committee for the 2014 edition, comprising: Alfred Pacquement (Honorary Director of the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris), Cristiana Tejo (independent curator, Recife), Ivo Mesquita (director of the Pinacoteca, São Paulo) Victoria Noorthoorn (director of the Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires) and Stijn Huijts (director of the Bonnefantenmuseum).

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