Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Grand Prize Award Announced + People’s Choice Award Winner, Honourable Mentions & Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention Award!

2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Grand Prize Award + People’s Choice Award, Honourable Mentions & Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention Award Announced!

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– Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert, Seibert-Collection

We hope you have enjoyed our week of reveals! The Winners of each Award – Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Emerging Artist Award, Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award, Digital Art Award, Victoria Olt Gallery Drawing Award, MPB Photography Award, and RAYMAR Painting Award have now been announced. Aren’t they all incredible?

Now it’s time for the biggest reveal yet! Below we unveil the Grand Prize Award Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Honourable Mentions including the Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention, by Siebert Collection, by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert; plus the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre People’s Choice Award Winner, which saw our amazing community contribute 11,868 votes from 86 Countries!

Thank you to everyone that voted for the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize People’s Choice Award! We sincerely appreciate your opinions!

Our Thanks

We would like to once again thank the Jury Panel for giving their time and expertise this year: thank the 2025 Jury Panel, Emerging Artist category Judge Catherine K. Gyllerstrom, Collector, Art Consultant, Owner & Art Director BearWolf Books, Jana Brike (Painting Category Juror), Annie Murphy Robinson (Drawing Category Juror), Nicolas Bruno (Photography Category Juror), Amber Kowan (Sculpture Category Juror), Matthew Stone (Digital Art Category Juror), Vicki Fox, Owner of Quirky Fox Gallery (Emerging Artist Category Juror), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert of the Siebert Collection (Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention); as well as the Owners & Directors of Haven Gallery Erica Berkowitz and Joseph Weinreb.

It is thanks to all of our sponsors, these passionate representatives, particularly our major sponsors: RAYMAR, MPB, Seibert Collection; Yasha Young Projects, BearWolf Books, and Victoria Olt Gallery – that the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize is able to give artists from all over the world the opportunity to have their work seen, recognized and validated. The Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize inspires thousands of artists each year and changes the trajectory of many of these artists careers due to the exposure, recognition, and funding that the Prize provides.

Finally we would like to thank the incredible Beautiful Bizarre team for their dedication and hard work on behalf of the prize and winners all-year round.

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine will continue our work to ensure that the 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize adds even more value to artists globally. The 2026 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize will open in February 2026, so to ensure you don’t miss the news, please join our email mailing list here. If you are a brand or philanthropist that would like to become a champion of the arts by supporting next year’s Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, please email our Deputy Editor Natalia Joruk who would love to chat to you regarding how we can collaborate.

‘Reverie’ Exhibition

The winners of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize (1st, 2nd & 3rd Prize Winners of the Painting, Drawing, Digital, Sculpture and Photography Awards; and the 1st Prize Winner of the Emerging Artist Award, along with the Grand Prize Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize) will be invited to participate in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition ‘Reverie’ at Haven Gallery in Northport, New York, United States, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists!

Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize Grand Prize Award

The Grand Prize Award Winner will receive:

$10,000 USD cash, donated by our Platinum sponsors Catherine K. Gyllerstrom, MPB, RAYMAR, Yasha Young Projects, Victoria Olt Gallery, and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert.
A beautiful, specially commissioned glass art award trophy.
The opportunity to exhibit in the prestigious Beautiful Bizarre Magazine exhibition at Haven Gallery in Northport, NY, USA, alongside 70+ of the world’s best contemporary representational artists.
Exposure to a successful commercial gallery’s collector base with the opportunity to sell their work.
10 page in-depth interview editorial published in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine December 2025 issue.
Winning artwork printed in the December 2025 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial.
Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
12 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 2 million+ followers across all social media platforms).
A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.

Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize People’s Choice Award

The People’s Choice Award Winner will receive:

$1,000 USD generously donated by the Co-Founders of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. Beautiful Bizarre Magazine is a leading art magazine for contemporary artists and art lovers, featuring in-depth interviews and profiles of leading and emerging visual artists from around the world. Each issue offers informative, inspiring, and thought-provoking content, perfect for artists, collectors, curators, galleries, and anyone looking to stay up-to-date on the latest trends in the contemporary art world.
Deco Pro (Gen2) MW, generously donated by XPPen. Founded in 2005, XPPen is a leading global brand in digital art innovation under Hanvon UGEE. XPPen focuses on the needs of consumers by integrating digital art products, content, and services, specifically targeting Gen-Z digital artists. XPPen currently operates in 163 countries and regions worldwide, boasting a fan base of over 1.5 million and serving more than ten million digital art creators.
12 month social media advertising package (Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: 2 million+ followers across all social media platforms).
Exclusive in-depth interview published on the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize and Beautiful Bizarre Magazine websites + shared across Beautiful Bizarre Magazine social media.
Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.
A year’s worth of inspiration – a print subscription to Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
Plus most importantly, receive worldwide exposure for their practice.

Winner of the 2025 Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention

$3,000 USD cash, generously donated by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Seibert is an art collector, Facebook philosopher, business law professor, investor, actor in low-budget films, a fan of lively small talk and, as he emphasizes: “a very serious man”. He runs an art space in Berlin Mitte for Lowbrow, a place for cheerful encounters against the artistic mainstream.
Winning artwork printed in the December 2025 issue of Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, as part of the Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize editorial.
Profile listing [including artwork gallery] on the Beautiful Bizarre Artist Directory for 12 months. The go-to platform for artists, curators and collectors to discover exceptional artists and explore their work.

Winners & Honourable Mentions

So without further ado, it is with great pleasure and much pride that we share with you the Grand Prize Winner of the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, Seibert-Collection Honourable Mention, and the Winner of the People’s Choice Award.

2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize
Grand Prize Award Winner

Xavier Escala & Nina Murashkina

Currently resides: Spain / Ukraine

“Goddess”, Wood, ceramic, gold, brass, 87 x 92 x 44 cm

Xavier Escala and Nina Murashkina form a creative duo whose work unites sculpture and painting. Nina Murashkina (1985, Donetsk, Ukraine) trained in graphic design at Donetsk, then studied monumental painting at Kharkiv Academy, scenography at Kyiv and painting at Kraków’s Jan Matejko Academy. Her taut, symbolic painting are often populated by goddess‑like alter-egos and flora, kitsch, symbolic imagery drawn from classical, naive, and magical‑symbolist sources. In 2023 she won the A‑FAD Award for Best Design of the Year in Barcelona for “Still Waters Run Deep”. Xavier Escala, (1975, Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues, Spain), studied sculpture at Santa Isabel de Hungría and Carrara academies and trained with sculptor Aron Demetz. A laureate of the National Sculpture Prize “Excelentísima Duquesa de Alba,” he works in wood, stone and ceramics. Xavier Escala and Nina Murashkina began collaborating as a married couple around 2017, blending Murashkina’s vibrant, symbolic canvases and installations with Escala’s serene, contemplative sculptures. Their duo exhibitions include “Woman and Man” (Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021), Dreamers (Test Gallery, Barcelona, 2023), “NAXOS” Unlimited Art Gallery, Nice, France 2024 and Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Mriya Gallery, New York, 2024), where their work evoked the interplay of feminine and masculine energies.

“Goddess” (2025) by Xavier Escala and Nina Murashkina re-imagines the medieval shrine Madonna through a contemporary feminist lens. This new work, part of a series started in 2018, explores the divine within the human – a woman who becomes a vessel of feminine power. Symbolic details such as the lunar crown and feline figures reference ancient goddesses like Hathor and Cybele. It also responds to a history in which female icons were altered or erased, affirming the equal spiritual authority of women and men.