Montreal, October 3, 2025 – Vie des arts and the Conseil des arts de Montréal are pleased to announce that Andes A. Beaulé is the winner of the 2025 Polygone Award! The award was presented to the artist on the evening of October 2 during the professional encounters, a warm and joyful event held at Fonderie Darling as part of the 19th edition of MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain.
The jury—composed this year of My-Van Dam, Eric Giroux, Jean-Michel Quirion and Dominique Sirois-Rouleau—was particularly impressed by the artist’s ability to subvert the codes of visual arts, graphic design and writing through large-format drawing, self-publishing and print media.
Rooted in feminist, queer and philosophical thinking, their approach explores marginality, emancipation, shakiness and agency in challenging established structures. Their projects are conceived as veritable tools for transformation—both individual and collective—affirming a fluid and marginal position that proposes a methodology of existence and decentering.
This approach is fully in keeping with the spirit of the Polygone Award, which aims to support diverse practices and ways of being.
We also salute the remarkable artistic paths of the two other finalists, Yen-Chao Lin and Marion Schneider, who also distinguished themselves in a pool of over fifty applicants.
Congratulations to Andes A. Beaulé!
The artist will receive a $10,000 grant from the Conseil des arts de Montréal and will be featured in an article in the next issue of Vie des arts. The award ceremony took place on October 2, 2025, at Fonderie Darling.
About the Polygone Award
Created in 2024 at the initiative of the Conseil des arts de Montréal in cooperation with the magazine Vie des arts, this award was created for visual arts artists and artists’ collectives whose professional practice fosters the acquisition of multiple types of knowledge and who show originality and consistency in their artistic intentions.
The artists and collectives may be at any stage of their career and must be credited with artistic achievements whose quality deserves to be showcased and more widely recognized. Their work must have been rarely or never presented in Montréal’s professional visual arts milieu. Whether they are self-taught artists or hail from atypical backgrounds, they must have achieved some form of recognition from their peers.
The Polygone Award also aims more broadly to promote and highlight the practices of the finalists and winner while providing tangible support for their careers. The 2025 Polygone Award marks the award’s second edition. The call for applications for the third edition will be issued in spring 2026. Further details to come.
About the Conseil des arts de Montréal
Offering a wide range of assistance, the Conseil des arts de Montréal identifies, supports and recognizes artistic innovation and creative expression in all their forms with a view to promoting Montréal artists and the organizations that create, produce and present art. Since 1956, the Conseil has been a unique catalyst for this artistic ecosystem, helping make Montréal a vibrant cultural metropolis.
About Vie des arts
Vie des arts is a French-language magazine dedicated to visual arts in Québec and Canada. Its mission is to inform and educate by providing keys to understanding and appreciating current and contemporary works of art. Talking about art: that’s what we do!
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