Hyundai Motor Group Declares Grand Prix Recipient and Exhibitions of the sixth VH AWARD

• Hyundai Motor Group premieres 5 commissioned artworks of the 6_^th VH AWARD screening at HEK (Home of Digital Arts) in the course of the week of Artwork Basel

• Artist Wendi Yan was awarded the Grand Prix for Dream of Walnut Palaces, a computer-generated imagery movie exploring data trade between Asia and Europe within the 18_^th century

• The 6_^th VH AWARD exhibition might be held in Korea, China, Austria, and Singapore, exploring transcultural and transhistorical views

Hyundai Motor Group introduced 5 newly commissioned artworks of the 6_^th VH AWARD, together with the Grand Prix recipient, on the premiere screening in Basel on June 17 in the course of the Artwork Basel week, in partnership with HEK (Home of Digital Arts).

Wendi Yan was introduced because the Grand Prix recipient for Dream of Walnut Palaces and acquired a further grant of $25,000. This paintings is a computer-generated imagery movie reimagining data trade between Asia and Europe within the 18th century. Exploring the psyche of a fictional Daoist in a Paris lab, it addresses the East-West encounter of epistemic visuality and proposes an alternative choice to techno-Orientalism.

Yan’s work was recommended by the jury for its rigorous analysis and diasporic lens, presenting another fiction via traditionally knowledgeable speculative worldbuilding and complex use of expertise. The jury comprised Christl Baur, Head of Ars Electronica Pageant; Sabine Himmelsbach, Director of HEK (Home of Digital Arts); Martin Honzik, Curator and Artist; Sook-Kyung Lee, Director of The Whitworth; and Roderick Schrock, Curator and Govt Director of Eyebeam.

“The VH AWARD developed as a particular platform for exploring transcultural and transhistorical views within the ever-changing panorama of Asia,” mentioned DooEun Choi, Artwork Director of Hyundai Motor. “The finalists for the 6_^th VH AWARD invite us to mirror on the rising context of Asia via the lens of people and machines, previous and future, actuality and virtuality, and particular person and collective identities.”

New artworks discover the complexities of up to date society

On June 17, the 5 artists of the 6_^th VH AWARD—Lêna Bùi, HUDA x MUNGOMERY, Tianyi Solar & Fiel Guhit, Wendi Yan, and Inhwa Yeom—had a panel dialogue with the jury, delving deeply into their artworks. Their new commissioned works discover the complexities of up to date society, triggering new views on historical past, mythology, identification, and expertise.

Lêna Bùi’s dream(machine, human) presents a non-linear narrative on people and machines that may be learn as machine-salvaged fragments of human reminiscences or a mythology of human demise and metamorphosis.

In Inside Tirta, HUDA x MUNGOMERY delves into the mythology of Princess Mandalika and ecological urgency, in search of what we should sacrifice to maintain nature.

Within the semi-fictional brief movie 40 Epochs, Tianyi Solar & Fiel Guhit discover the center of identification, non secular displacement, and the unseen labor behind the voices that engender human-like applied sciences.

Inhwa Yeom’s Struggle Dance displays on Asian ladies’s entanglement between manufacturing and replica, love and care, drawing from the Korean delusion and the pure phenomena of sundog and moondog.

The 6^th VH AWARD begins international exhibitions

The 6_^th VH AWARD begins its international outreach with upcoming exhibitions on the Imaginative and prescient Corridor of Hyundai Motor Group College, Mabuk Campus in Yongin, South Korea, and Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, China, each opening on June 18, adopted by a screening occasion and public program on the Ars Electronica Pageant in Linz, Austria, in September, and one other exhibition throughout Singapore Artwork Week 2026 in collaboration with the Nationwide Arts Council Singapore.

Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating rising media artists who have interaction with the context of Asia and push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to mirror on how we perceive ourselves and each other in relation to the previous, current, and future. The 7_^th VH AWARD will begin an open name within the first half of 2026.

As a part of its dedication to the humanities, Hyundai Motor Group has established long-term partnerships with international artwork establishments and has supported artists and curators via open calls and different initiatives since 2014.