August 2025

By KIKE

August 12, 2025

The 2025 Étant donnés Grantees

Villa Albertine and Albertine Foundation are pleased to announce the laureates of the 2025 Étant donnés grants, a flagship program supporting contemporary art exhibitions, commissions, and curatorial research. Founded in 1994, the Étant donnés program has focused on highlighting the work

Enrique Ramírez’s work combines video, photography, installations and poetic narratives. Ramírez appreciates stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs, the mirages between dream and reality. This Chilean artist, who lives and works between Chile and France, often uses image and sound to construct a profusion of intrigues and to occupy the equilibrium between the poetic and the political. His imaginary worlds are attached to one obsessional element—his thinking starts with the sea, a space for memory in perpetual movement, a space for narrative projections where the fate of Chile intersects with grand narratives of voyage, conquest and migratory flows. His liquid images speak of the sparkle of a truth in permanent flight, the backwash of history, always repeating and never the same.