The Runner Up Artists for 20/21 were:
There is a tradition in L.A.R. that in addition to the winner of the residency, we also invite the top two runner-up artists to attend and participate in the Lucy Art Residency Talks public program in Kavala. This year, due to the postponement of the residency, we’ve decided to invite four runner-up artists and we are looking forward to meeting them in person in Kavala in 2021! The four runner-up artists in no particular order are: Stefanie Moshammer, Elian Somers, Grzegorz Stefański and Mårten Lange!
Stefanie Moshammer is a Visual Artist, born in Vienna in 1988. After graduating from Fashion School Vienna, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design & Photography at University of Art and Design in Austria and she attended the BA in Advanced Visual Storytelling at the Danish School of Media and Journalism. In 2015 Stefanie Moshammer published her first book “Vegas and She” (by Fotohof edition), followed by “Land of Black Milk” (by Skinnerboox, 2017), and “Not just your face honey” (by Spector Books, 2018). Stefanie has been selected as a Foam Talent in 2016. 2017 she has been nominated for the ING Unseen Talent Award and she won the C/O Berlin Talent Award. This resulted in a nomination for the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2018 and in receiving the Outstanding Artist Award from the Federal Chancellery of Austria. Stefanie Moshammer’s work has been published in various print & online publications, including i-D, Wallpaper Magazine, Zeit Magazin, M Le magazine du Monde, New York Magazine, VICE, Purple Fashion Magazine, DAZED & many more. Her work has been exhibited throughout galleries, museums and fairs around Europe, the US and China, among others at: Foam Amsterdam, C/O Berlin, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Photo London, Red Hook Labs, Fotografiska New York, WestLicht Museum. Stefanie Moshammer’s work springs from her direct experience of the world and explores the relationship of straightforward observation and the poetry of personal impressions.
Image : Grandfather looking, From the series Grandmother said it’s okay, 2017 © Stefanie Moshammer
Elian Somers (Sprang-Capelle, NL, 1975) lives and works in Rotterdam. With a background in visual arts and architecture, Elian Somers investigates the urban and utopian landscape and the ways its ideological foundations and histories are manifested and interpreted. In recent years she has been working on projects as A Stone from the Moon (2015-ongoing), One and Another State of Yellow (2013-2017), Border Theories (2009-2013), California City (2010- 2012) and Droom als er ooit een was / A Dream if Ever There Was One (2006-2008). In these long-term, research-based projects she is in search of constructed realities and truths, hidden and virtual histories, and the utopian experiment. Multiple realities, histories and truths intermingle in her works. Elian Somers’ works have been shown at various exhibitions, amongst others Border Theories (solo) at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam, NL (2013), Utopian Dreams at TENT, Rotterdam, NL (2016), Learning from… Rotterdam at Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, DE (2012), Behind the Billboard, MK Galerie, Berlin (DE) and Concrete Dreams (duo), Foam, Amsterdam, NL (2010). The works have regularly been published as artist books, in art, photography and architecture magazines, and at online platforms. In 2017 the artist book One and Another State of Yellow (FW: Books) was launched and in 2013 the book Border Theories (FW: Books) was published.
Image : A Stone from the Moon – Ecumenopolis, From the project A Stone from the Moon, 2015-2021 © Elian Somers
Grzegorz Stefański, born in 1983 in Czluchow (PL), lives and works in London and Warsaw. Author of multi-channel installations, films, photographs and performances. His artistic practice is located at the nexus of psychology, choreography and film, primarily concerned with identity and the politics of embodiment. The themes he has investigated include post-patriarchal masculinity and vulnerability, micro-choreographies of violence and care, private history recorded in one's body and the legacy of European cinematography. In 2017 he won the Ivan Juritz Prize in London and the Grand Prix at the Biennale of Young Art in Poland. In 2020 he received Stuart Croft Foundation Award.
He concluded his artistic education at The Slade School of Fine Art in London and Mirosław Bałka’s Studio of Spatial Activities in Warsaw. Before attending art school, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy, run music radio show and made his artistic debut in with solo exhibition during Cracow Photomonth Festival in 2010.
His works have been exhibited and screened at the Louvre Museum (2019), HKW Berlin (2019), Whitechapel Gallery in London (2018), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2018), Ujazdowski Castle Centre of Contemporary Art (2018), Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016), Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome (2014) and the NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1 in New York (2010). He has collaborated, among others, with Nowy Teatr in Warsaw (2016), National Museum in Warsaw (2017), and Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Cracow (2018).
Image © Grzegorz Stefański
Mårten Lange (born 1984, Gothenburg, Sweden) is an artist working on a wide range of topics including nature, technology and the urban environment. He has published several books, including Citizen(Études Books, 2015), Another Language (MACK, 2012), The Mechanism (MACK 2017) and Chicxulub (self-published, 2016). Lange studied photography in Sweden, Japan and the United Kingdom. His work has been shown internationally, most recently at Foam in Amsterdam, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
Image : Resting man, From the series The Mechanism, 2017 © Mårten Lange,
