Nassim L'Ghoul
Adrian Carruthers Award
2026/27
Nassim L’Ghoul is an artist based between London and Frankfurt am Main, whose work explores themes of socio-political observations through the lens of magical realism. L’Ghoul completed a combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree (‘Diplom’) in Fine Art at the University of Art and Design Offenbach before going on to pursue a Master’s degree at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He is a scholarship holder of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service and the Frankfurter Künstlerhilfe.
L’Ghoul’s distinctive 3D animation works have been exhibited internationally, including ‘SPAM New Media Art Festival’ (Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, group exhibition, 2025), ‘Barometer of Self-Optimization’ (Klemms, Berlin, group exhibition, 2025), ‘New Geographies’ (The Tagli, London, group exhibition, 2025), ‘Do Cyborgs Dream Of Electric Sheep’ (Studio Hanniball, Berlin, group exhibition, 2024), ‘Fair Play IV’ (Olympiapark, Munich, solo exhibition, 2023), ‘Three Years Later He Was Still Dancing’ (EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin, solo exhibition, 2023), ‘soft links’ (saasfee* pavillon, Frankfurt, solo exhibition, 2023), ‘And This Is Us’ (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, group exhibition, 2023).
Adrian Carruthers Award
The Adrian Carruthers Award is a partnership between Acme and the Slade School of Fine Art, funded by Acme and the Adrian Carruthers Memorial Fund. Aiming to provide a bridge between art school and professional practice, the award includes a generous bursary, rent-free studio space and a mentoring programme. Recipients of Acme’s Early Career Awards Programme work from shared studios in order to encourage an environment of peer support and critical dialogue.
