The Silver Lion for the most promising young artist of this year’s Venice Biennale went to Hassan Khan, who works and lives in Cairo. Khan presented Composition for a Public Park, a multilayered sound piece on a series of speakers in the gardens at the north end of the Arsenale.

The jury for the prizes was made up of Francesca Alfano Miglietti, a Milan-based curator; Manuel J. Borja-Villel, the director of the Reina Sofia in Madrid; Amy Cheng, a Taipei-based curator; Ntone Edjabe, a journalist and DJ from Cape Town; and Mark Godfrey, the senior curator of international art at Tate Modern in London.