Bogdan Ablozhnyy Receives the 2025 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award

Camden Art Centre and Frieze have announced Bogdan Ablozhnyy as the recipient of the 2025 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award at Frieze London 2025. Ablozhnyy, represented by a.SQUIRE, London, will realise a solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre in 2026.

The annual Emerging Artist Award, which debuted at Frieze London 2018 and is now in its seventh year, offers invaluable critical exposure to an emerging artist, concurrent with their first show at a London institution. Previous recipients include Nat Faulkner, Jack O’Brien, Marina Xenofontos, Tenant of Culture, Julien Creuzet and Wong Ping. 

The 2025 Award was selected by a panel chaired by Martin Clark (director, Camden Art Centre), with Gina Buenfeld-Murley (curator, Camden Art Centre) and Kim McAleese (director, Edinburgh Art Festival). A group of UK and international patrons have generously supported the Prize, including lead supporter Alexandra Economou.

Clark said: ‘This award, now in its seventh year, has proved to be such a vital springboard for artists at a key moment in their career. We’re thrilled to be awarding this year’s prize to Bogdan Ablozhnyy, whose elegant and exacting booth was a standout for the judges this year. We’re extremely excited to see what he will develop for the exhibition at Camden next year.’

Ablozhnyy said: ‘I’m extremely honoured to be awarded the 2025 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award and deeply grateful for the recognition for my work. I’m thrilled to be able to work with such an inspiring institution and to create an expansive dialogue with the team that extends beyond new ways of thinking and seeing.’

Archie Squire, Founder of a.SQUIRE said, ‘I’m overjoyed on Bogdan’s behalf that such a mysterious and surgically precise practice will have the forward-looking curatorial spotlight of Camden Art Centre, and can’t wait to see where he takes things at this expansive scale.’

About Bogdan Ablozhnyy 

Bogdan Ablozhnyy (b.1994, Russia) received a Meisterschüler degree in Fine Arts from Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, and is currently completing graduate studies at the University of California, Riverside. Selected exhibitions include Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (solo, forthcoming); a. SQUIRE, London (solo, forthcoming); nièce, Nice/Paris (forthcoming); Emmanuel Layr, Vienna (2025); a. SQUIRE, London (2025); Mink, Frankfurt am Main (2025); Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (2024); Baleno International, Rome (2024); Capc musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2022–2023); Elvira, Frankfurt am Main (2021); and Baleno International, Rome (solo, 2021). He lives and works in Los Angeles.

About Camden Art Centre

For over 25 years Camden Art Centre has been committed to supporting and nurturing artists in the formative stages of their careers. The Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award at Frieze continues this work, building on more than 30 years of significant early-career exhibitions by artists including Walter Price, Zeinab Saleh, Mohammed Sami, Jonathan Baldock, Mike Nelson, Veronica Ryan and Martin Creed. Previous recipients include: Wong Ping (2018); Julien Creuzet (2019); Tenant of Culture (2020); Marina Xenofontos (2022); Jack O’Brien (2023) and Nat Faulker (2024) who will exhibit at Camden Art Centre from 15 January to 22 March 2026.

Further Information

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^{Main image: Bogdan Ablozhnyy, The Case of Paranoia, 2025. Leather glove, wooden hand, Brownie Junior Six-20. 14.5 x 10.5 x 30.8 cm}