The exhibition of the 15th edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award presents proposals by Alice dos Reis, Evy Jokhova, Francisco Trêpa, Inês Brites, Maja Escher and Sara Chang Yan at MAAT Central.

These artists were selected from among around 600 candidates, appraised by a jury consisting of Catarina Rosendo (university professor and curator), Luís Silva (curator and director of Kunsthalle Lissabon) and Sérgio Mah (deputy director of MAAT and university professor).

During the exhibition, an international jury named Alice dos Reis as the winner of this edition, with an honourable mention going to Sara Chang Yan.

The EDP Foundation New Artists Award was created in 2000 with the aim of supporting and giving visibility to the production of emerging artists in the plastic and visual arts. It is recognized as one of the most important on the arts scene in Portugal. EDP Foundation New Artists Award previous winners: Joana Vasconcelos (2000), Leonor Antunes (2001), Vasco Araújo (2002), Carlos Bunga (2003), João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva (2004), João Leonardo (2005), André Romão (2007), Gabriel Abrantes (2009), Priscila Fernandes (2011), Ana Santos (2013), Mariana Silva (2015), Claire de Santa Colomba (2017), Diana Policarpo (2019) and Adriana Proganó (2022).