In a shared commitment to celebrating the dialogue between art and humanitarian action, the Geneva Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross, HEAD, the AHEAD Foundation and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum are joining forces around the Art Humanity Prize.

Created in 2015, this Prize annually distinguishes HEAD graduates whose work explores the connections between artistic creation and humanitarian issues. For its eleventh edition, the Museum is fully partnering in the project and will host the Art Humanity Prize laureate in residence in its new space, L'Atelier. This evolution marks an important turning point: the Prize now offers the artist a participatory residency at the heart of international Geneva, culminating in the creation of a collective work destined to join the Museum's collections. This approach reaffirms the partners' commitment to promoting dialogue between art, humanity and civic participation.

On Friday 30 January 2026, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum hosted the official Art Humanité Prize ceremony. Three awards were presented:

Residency Prize: Marc-Arthur Sohna
Public Prize: Lola Rust
International Prize: Mohamad Khamis

The Museum's Atelier, which is exhibiting the five finalists' projects until 1 March 2026, will then welcome Marc-Arthur Sohna for a participatory residency from 3 March to 31 August 2026.

A shared commitment to art and humanitarian action
In a shared commitment to celebrating the dialogue between art and humanitarian action, the Geneva Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD - Genève), the AHEAD Foundation and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum have joined forces around the Art Humanité Prize.

Created in 2015, this Prize recognises each year artists who have graduated from HEAD and whose work explores the connections between artistic creation and humanitarian issues. For its eleventh edition, the Museum became fully involved in the project by welcoming the Art Humanité Prize winner in residence at its new space, The Atelier. This evolution marks an important turning point: the Prize now offers the artist a participatory residency at the heart of international Geneva, resulting in the creation of a collective work with audiences, destined to join the Museum's collections. The co-created work also addresses the Museum's core question: how does humanitarian action concern all of us, here and now?

In 2025, the Prize winner, Zahrasadat Hakim, the Museum's first artist in residence, created a collaborative tapestry woven over six months with Museum visitors.

The finalists' exhibition at The Atelier
For this anniversary edition, The Atelier is presenting for the first time the projects of five HEAD graduates who reached the final. The public can discover their installations from 9 December 2025 to 1 March 2026 in a free-access exhibition.

Trained in Geneva, these artists each explore in their own way the concepts of sharing, commitment and collective experimentation. Their proposals sketch out the approaches they could potentially develop during a future residency at the Museum.

Tablets were made available to allow visitors to vote for their favourite project until 28 January 2026. Lola Rust won the Public Prize, which was announced at the 30 January ceremony.

The International Prize
In 2025, the Art Humanité Prize introduced a new category: the International Prize, awarded by HEAD - Genève and the ICRC in partnership with an art school located in a country where the ICRC is operational. This edition inaugurates a collaboration with the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), University of Balamand.

Open to ALBA students, the Prize is awarded by a jury composed of representatives from HEAD - Genève, the ICRC delegation in Lebanon, the Museum and ALBA. The winner is invited to present their work during the collective exhibition of Art Humanité Prize finalists at the Museum, and to spend a week in Geneva to participate in the award ceremony and a programme of artistic and cultural encounters.

Mohamad Khamis is the winner of this first edition of the International Prize.

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