Five of the world’s most renowned artists – El Anatsui, Bernardine Evaristo, Jia Zhang-Ke, Anne Lacaton and Dianne Reeves – will each mentor an outstanding emerging artist, as participants in the 2023–24 cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The mentors and their protégés, who come from across the globe, will spend the next two years in creative collaboration.
The Rolex mentoring programme was established in 2002 to aid in the transmission of artistic knowledge and craft from one generation to the next. It exemplifies Rolex’s pursuit of excellence, symbolised by the word “Perpetual”. The initiative has paired 63 of the world’s greatest artists with an equal number of highly talented younger professionals from around the globe.
In keeping with the Rolex tradition of encouraging individual excellence, younger artists of exceptional promise – the protégés – are given the rare opportunity to spend
