Sohrab Hura has been awarded the 2025 Eye Art & Film Prize. He will receive €30,000 to support the development of a new work and a presentation at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam.
Born in Chinsurah, India, Hura lives and works in New Delhi. He started his career as a photographer after completing a master’s degree in economics at the Delhi School of Economics. In his work, which combines film, drawings, photography, sound and text, the personal often goes hand in hand with a critical view of society. In a short story accompanying his 2020 film The Coast, for instance, the artist uses a first-person narrative to question humankind’s relationship with nature. Hura has recently had solo and group exhibitions in, among others, MoMA PS1, New York (2025), Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town (2022) and Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2021).
Speaking of the artist, the jury said that ‘what makes Hura so intriguing is that he does not confine himself to a single discipline. He moves effortlessly between still and moving images, between cinematic rhythms and photo collages. His creations exist somewhere between essay and encounter, between documentary and dream. In doing so, he sharply and at times poetically reveals the contradictions and surreal nature of contemporary life – particularly in the context of South Asia – while at the same time building a visual language that resonates across the world.’
The Eye Art & Film Prize, now in its eleventh edition, is awarded annually to ‘an artist or filmmaker who is building an outstanding oeuvre with a personal vision and contributing in an exceptional way to new developments at the intersection of visual art and film’. Previous winners include Hito Steyerl (2015), Wang Bing (2017), Karrabing Film Collective (2021), Saodat Ismailova (2022), Garrett Bradley (2023) and Chia-Wei Hsu (2024).
