Winner Spotlight
Winner Spotlight celebrates a selection of outstanding artists recognized through NEW ROAD 2 ART exhibitions and competitions. Each featured artist represents excellence in creativity, originality, and artistic vision.
Merete de Kruyf
First Place Winner
International Women’s Day 2026
German contemporary artist recognized for atmospheric figurative works that explore identity, memory, and the emotional space between presence and absence.
AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK
Awarded in International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026
About the Artist
Merete de Kruyf is a German contemporary artist whose work explores states of transition, memory, identity, and psychological presence through layered figurative compositions. Combining historical imagery with personal photographic material, she creates tactile surfaces enriched by painterly interventions and delicate linear elements. Her restrained blue palette, subtle textures, and fragmented figures evoke spaces where meaning remains open and emotional resonance unfolds gradually.
AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK
Virtual Solo Exhibition
Following her award, Merete de Kruyf was invited by NEW ROAD 2 ART to present a dedicated virtual solo exhibition, showcasing a curated selection of her artworks to an international audience.
The exhibition celebrated her artistic achievement while highlighting her distinctive figurative practice through a professionally curated virtual presentation.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW
A selection of installation views from Merete de Kruyf’s virtual solo exhibition presented by NEW ROAD 2 ART.
Eva Lewarne
Third Place Winner
International Women’s Day 2026
Canadian painter and photographer known for expressive figurative paintings exploring womanhood, emotion, identity, and cultural memory.
AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK
Awarded in International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Eva Lewarne is a Canadian painter and photographer, born in Poland and a graduate of the Ontario College of Art. Her work has been exhibited extensively in Canada and internationally and has been recognized in numerous exhibitions and publications, including the Gold List Artists 2024 by Art Market Magazine.
Working in her distinctive Expressive-Modern Figurative style, Eva portrays women as symbols of strength, emotion, and cultural identity. Through expressive compositions enriched with subtle humour, her paintings reflect the many moods, joys, and challenges of everyday life.
AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK
Virtual Solo Exhibition
Following her award, Eva Lewarne was invited by NEW ROAD 2 ART to present a dedicated virtual solo exhibition, showcasing a broader selection of her artworks to an international audience.
This exhibition celebrated her artistic achievements while introducing her expressive figurative practice to collectors and visitors from around the world.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW
A selection of installation views from Eva Lewarne’s virtual solo exhibition presented by NEW ROAD 2 ART.
Angelina Pajkovic
Second Place Winner
International Women’s Day 2026
Serbian emerging multidisciplinary artist exploring identity, self-perception, feminism, and the human condition through performance, photography, text, and installation.
AWARD-WINNING ARTWORK
Awarded in International Women’s Day Exhibition 2026
About the Artist
Angelina Pajkovic is a Serbian emerging artist and a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of New Media. Through performance, photography, and text, she explores the intersections of personal struggle, social pressures, and self-perception. Her work examines bodily transformations as symbols of inner conflict while raising broader questions of ethics, feminism, consumer society, and human existence. Her practice aims to create visual and conceptual works that encourage reflection and invite audiences to reconsider their role within contemporary social processes.
About Award-Winning Artwork
Prey for Me
Prey for Me explores the suffocating pressure of confinement through an installation combining hanging photographic prints and a vacuum-sealed presentation. The work reflects the experience of feeling trapped, immobilized, and reduced to a product. Through this metaphor of physical restriction, Angelina Pajkovic examines objectification, self-worth, and the psychological consequences of living within an enclosed and oppressive reality.