The Jury for 2019 was:
Raphaëlle Stopin a graduate from the Sorbonne Paris (history of art), is a French curator and writer. For the past sixteen years, she has been curator in charge of the photographic section for the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography where she aims to promote emerging photographers and in the frame of which she has exhibited the works of historical figures and names of the new scene Appointed Director for the Centre photographique in Rouen, Normandy in 2015, she builds there an exhibition programme which pays tribute to singular photographic signatures, telling an artistically committed story of our world. She has previously served as guest curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, UltraLounge Selfridges, the FNAC Photo Galleries, the Experimental Section of the Photomonth, Krakow, Poland. She regularly takes part in juries, portfolio reviews and lectures. She was appointed art director of the 2018 HSBC Photography prize.
George Manginis is academic director of the Benaki Museum in Athens.He studied archaeology at the University of Athens and at SOAS / University of London, where he was awarded a PhD on the history of Mount Sinai. Since 2001 he has been teaching history of Byzantine art , Islamic art and Chinese art. He has participated in archaeological excavations in Greece, Cyprus and the Sinai. He has worked in the Hellenic Children’s Museum as collections manager and director of resource centre, in the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sophia, London as archivist and curator, in the Archaeological Museum of Ioannina as exhibition text supervisor and in various United Kingdom museums as development consultant. In 2013 he was a Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University. He has published scholarly articles on Cypriot prehistory, Islamic art and architecture, Sinai studies, Chinese ceramics, and the Greek and Armenian diasporas. In 2016 he published two books: Mount Sinai: A History of Travellers and Pilgrims and China Rediscovered: The Benaki Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics.
Nadine Wietlisbach is the director of Fotomuseum Winterthur since January 2018. She devises exhibitions, publications and other discursive formats in the fields of contemporary photography and art. From 2015 till 2017 she was the Director of Photoforum Pasquart Biel/Bienne, following her post as a curator at the Nidwaldner Museum in Stans, where she was responsible for all contemporary art exhibitions and publications, as well as presentations of the museum’s collection from 2012 till 2015. In 2015, she won the Swiss Art Award 2015 (critique, publication, exhibition section) and was curator in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. She also founded the independent art space Sic! Raum für Kunst in Lucerne in 2007. Besides her interest in the diversity of photographic media, she is particularly interested in the rapidly expanding nature of photographic technology and its discourse.
Portrait : © Anne Morgenstern
Verena Kaspar-Eisert has been curator at KUNST HAUS WIEN. Museum Hundertwasser since 2014. She studied art history in Vienna with a focus on contemporary fine arts andphotography. Her professional career began at Galerie Knoll and Galerie Krinzinger and she freelanced in numerous exhibition projects from 2003. 2005 to 2011 she was exhibition manager and curator at Kunstraum
Niederoesterreich in Vienna. From 2011 to 2014 she was director of the Galerie OstLicht, in addition from 2012
to 2014 she was director of the Fotomuseum WestLicht, Vienna. She is an expert in portfolio reviews, lectures on photography and is a member of various juries.
Recent exhibitions include “Elina Brotherus. It´s Not Me, It´s A Photograph”, cur. together with Bettina Leidl, and „Oliver Ressler. How To Occupy A Shipwreck“,
Portrait : © Eva Kelety
VOID is a project fully dedicated to photography. Found in 2016, Void is an independent publisher, an alternative exhibition space in the heart of Athens. #Void is a non-profit organization, and its goal is to publish established and up-and-coming artists both from Greece and abroad, as well as invest funding on education projects in Greece. ( https://void.photo/ )
They co-run The aSynecdoche Kavala 1+1=3 Workshop together with artists Klara Källstrom and Thobias Fäldt for our 2018 program.
Recent publications include: Except the Clouds / Beyond the Mirror / Oscurana / MEAT / The Splitting of the Chrysalis & the Slow Unfolding of the Wings / HUNGER .
VOID are Sylvia Sachini, João Linneu and Myrto Steirou .
Nikolas Ventourakis is an artist living and working between Athens and London and is the first artistic director of the Lucy Art Residency. He is a non-voting member of the Jury. His practice situates in the threshold between art and document, in an attempt to interrogate the status of the photographic image. Ventourakis completed an MA in Fine Art (Photography) with Merit at Central Saint Martins School of Arts (2013) and is the recipient of the Deutsche Bank Award in Photography (2013). He was selected for Future Map (2013), Catlin Guide (2014) and Fresh Faced Wild Eyed (2014) in the Photographers Gallery as one of the top graduating artists in the UK. In 2015 he was a visiting artist at CalArts with a FULBRIGHT Artist Fellowship and a fellow in New Museum’s IdeasCity.. He was shortlisted for the MAC International and the Bar-Tur Award. Recently he has exhibited in FORMAT Festival, Derby; the NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, the Mediterranean Biennale of Young Artists 18 and the parallel program of the Istanbul Biennale.
