Nomineringskommitté 2025 - Art for the Globe

The 2025 nomination committee supported the board in finding suitable nominees for the 2025 Art for the Globe Prize.

The committee proposed six potential awardees, from which the board selected Bigert & Bergström as this year’s awardee.

The nomination committee’s objective is to propose as many potential awardees as possible, and they have no final say in who gets the award - that decision is solely made by the board.

Andrew Merrie

Andrew Merrie is a sustainability scientist with a PhD from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University where he continues to work as the Research Liaison Officer.

During the final year of his PhD, Andrew launched the Radical Ocean Futuresproject. This is centered around four scientifically grounded multimedia narratives of potential alternate futures for the global ocean. The scenarios were built using the method of Science Fiction Prototyping, bringing together art, science and storytelling. The project includes commissioned artworks by the renowned Swedish conceptual artist Simon Stålenhag. This art-science initiative continues to create impact, has featured as part of exhibitions in London, Berlin, Helsinki, Stockholm and elsewhere and has inspired many to experiment with science fiction prototyping and engage more deeply in the future of the ocean.

Beyond the Stockholm Resileince Centre, Andrew works at Planethon, a creative agency where he holds the role of Science and Futures lead. There he focuses on applying insights from science to support sustainable transformation. Practically, this involves combining science, art, imagination, storytelling and strategy to build futures literacy and transformative capacity within companies & organisations.

Goran Kajfes

Goran Kajfes är av kroatisk härkomst och växte upp i Sverige i en familj av musiker och konstnärer. Han är sedan många år en självklar auktoritet på den svenska musikscenen. En eftertraktad sessionmusiker, turnerande artist, arrangör och producent. Goran har uppträtt med José Gonzales, Stina Nordenstam, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Lester Bowie, The Soundtrack of our Lives och många fler.

In 2024, he was appointed Artist in Residence at Stockholm Jazz Festival. He was given the honour of composing and performing the opening ceremony of Stockholm Museum of Modern Art in 2006. He's written music to several movies and produced a number of albums including Clint by Oddjob that was named Jazz Album of the Year by Sunday Times in the UK 2010.

Kajfe's debut Home (2001), where a mulitude of influences was mixed into an appealing and spicy brew established him as being at the forefront of crossover visionary electro-jazz. The sequel, Headspin (2005) won the Swedish grammy award for best jazz album for the very same reasons. The albums took Goran around the world performing with his own band. His latest solo release is the ambitious double album X/Y. Goran is also a member of free jazz group Nacka Forum.

Lukas Göthman

Lukas Göthman is a Swedish writer and artist whose artistry focuses on series of journeys, self-experienced selected realities or made up by fiction and dreams. His works are often featured as texts; short stories, a title or a phrase repeated to create an abstract composition.

Göthman investigates the visual effect of words and letters. Sentence by sentence builds an intriguing visual composition set over a monochrome of colour. Curves and impressions of varying fields of depth are realised following a simple set of self imposed rules. Other series of works investigate the landscape, creating dreamlike illusions. It is the artist's very private world of thought or emotion in which viewers are immersed through the intensity of the colour scheme and expressive texts in his works.

Lukas has been a part of dozens of exhibitions across Europe for over two decades, and his work can be found in, among other places, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden, Region Uppsala, Sweden, and EMMA Esbo Moderna Art Museum, Esbo, Finland.