Adham Faramawy has won the Circa Prize 2025. Their nomintated work 'A Proposal for a Parakeet's Garden was shown at Picadilly Circus on 1 September 2025. The winner of the prize was announced on the 13 October 2025 and was selected by a distinguished jury including Björk, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michèle Lamy and Ebony L.Haynes.
In response to the CIRCA 20:25 manifesto, REFUGIA, 30 finalists were selected by the CURATORS’ CIRCLE including Amal Khalaf, Ben Broome, and Samantha Ozer. Deriving from over 25 countries, including Brazil, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates, the 30 finalists represent a diverse array of perspectives on reworlding, transformation and the creation of ecosystems for resistance.
Spanning performance, short films, AI-generated pieces, animation, fiction, and documentary, the finalists of the CIRCA PRIZE 2025 reimagine refuge through the body, memory, the migration of birds, and speculative and imagined topographies. Through a walk or dance that refuses conformity, refugia takes many forms. It can be the slow weaving of a community across borders, a ritual that protects fragile futures, or an archive of songs and seeds passed down through generations.
