the 2019 l.A.R. Resident artist

Sjoerd Knibbeler (NL) was selected as the winner of the Lucy Art Residency 2019 from over 400 applications to our Open Call. It has now become a tradition and as every year, we have also invited to Kavala for the public program the runner ups, Simone Siapenza (It) and Maria Sturm (Ro).

Sjoerd Knibbeler (1981) is a visual artist from the Netherlands, living and working in Amsterdam. He explores the human quest of discovering the world through an associative, process-driven approach to photography. The camera – in one form or another – is always present as a tool in his artistic process, which materializes in printed matter, objects, video installations and artist books. His work was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury Photographie in Hyères, France in 2015 and the same year he was selected as Foam Talent. Since then he had solo exhibitions at Foam Photography Museum, Espace Images, Dutch National Maritime Museum and Villa Noailles. Notable group exhibitions include Quickscan NL#02 at the Nederlands Fotomuseum and the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards, which included his shortlisted artist book Paper Planes. His work is part of national and international collections like Maison Européenne Photographie, Villa Noailles, Foam Photography Museum and Museum Voorlinden. Sjoerd Knibbeler teaches at the Utrecht School of Arts and is a member of the international photography collective Piece of Cake.

[Background image ©Sjoerd Knibbeler “Exploded view #139,2019” , courtesy of the artist - Portrait Image courtesy of the artist]