Viktoriia Oreshko, winner of the Sisley x Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Emerging Artists

Viktoriia Oreshko, a painter who graduated in 2024 with honours, is the winner of the 7th edition of the Sisley x Beaux-Arts de Paris Prize for Young Artists.

This prize, co-created by Sisley and Beaux-Arts de Paris, aims to promote emerging talent. To support the artist in her future projects and the launch of her career, Sisley is awarding her a grant and dedicating an exhibition to her next June at its Paris headquarters as part of its Trois Cinq Friedland cultural programme.

“The pictorial work of Viktoriia Oreshko, a painter of Ukrainian origin, is a true realm of liberation, where the raw imagery of war gives way to a delicate reminiscence of the present. Thus her oil paintings on canvas, just like her small-format works on wood, are by no means testimonies, but rather a spiritual means of feeling at home, of rediscovering her home and her everyday objects. Her art has become a raison d’être, a daily impetus to move forward, despite everything, in the perpetual flow of life.” - Makis Malafékas, art historian and writer.

The jury was composed of:
Christine d'Ornano, Managing Director of Sisley and Chair of the Jury
Jean-Baptiste de Beauvais, Director of Studies at the Beaux-Arts de Paris
Eva Nielsen, Artist and lecturer at the Beaux-Arts de Paris
Zoé Bernardi, Artist and winner of the 2025 Sisley Beaux-Arts Prize
Alix Dionot-Morani, Founder and owner of Galerie Crève-Cœur
David Foenkinos, Writer
Abel Abdessemed, Artist
Olivier Gabet, Curator and Head of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Louvre Museum
Benjamin Paulin, Director of Paulin, Paulin, Paulin
Frédérique Dedet, Editor-in-Chief of Les Échos Série Limitée
Pauline Laigneau, Founder of Gemmyo
India Mahdavi, Architect and designer
Lawrence Van Hagen, Curator and Collector

The winners of the six previous editions are: Carolina Orzelek (2020), Ymane Chabi-Gara (2021), Clédia Fourniau (2022), Barbana Bojadzi (2023), Nina Jayasuriya (2024) and Zoé Bernardi (2025).

Sisley, a committed patron of Beaux-Arts de Paris, supports the Via Futura programme, which is dedicated to helping students and recent graduates enter the workforce.