The Runner Up Artists for 2022 are:
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. Since the start of the pandemic, however, we’ve decided to invite four runner-up artists and we are looking forward to meeting them in person in Kavala in 2022! The four runner-up artists in no particular order are: Alinka Echeverria, Pennie Key, Agnieszka Mastalerz and Alberto Sinigaglia!
Alinka Echeverría (b. 1981, Mexico City) is a Mexican-British artist working in multiple media. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and development from the University of Edinburgh (2004) and a postgraduate degree in Photography from the International Center for Photography (2008). Her research-based work brings a feminist and counter-colonial approach to questions of visual representation. In 2017 she presented a three part series for the BBC called The Art That Made Mexico.
Her work has been widely exhibited, including solo exhibitions at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Preus Museum, Norway’s National Museum of Photography, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, and The California Museum of Photography at UCR. In 2020, she won the MAST Foundation Prize for her work Apparent Femininity. In 2017, she was a finalist for the Prix Elysée and was selected for FOAM Museum's Talent award for Nicephora, a research project about the representation of women that she started during BMW's Art & Culture Residency at the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in 2015. In 2012, she was voted International Photographer of the Year by the Lucie Awards for Becoming South Sudan, and in 2011 was awarded the HSBC Prize for Photography for The Road to Tepeyac.
Her work is part of several public and institutional collections, including The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Musée Nicéphore Niépce, BMW Art & Culture, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Swiss Foundation for Photography.
Image : 'Fieldnotes for Nicephora' 2015-2020. Courtesy of the Artist.
Agnieszka Mastalerz - female visual artist, born 1991 and based in Warsaw, Poland.
Graduate of the Studio of Spatial Activities by Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2018), student of Candice Breitz and Eli Cortiñas at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (DAAD scholarship for 2019/20), guest by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin at the HFBK in Hamburg (2017/18).
Her main focus is mechanisms of control and processes influencing and exploiting an individual. She uses her poetic visual language to analyse restrictive rules established within intimate relationships, communities, states, or companies, and towards the natural environment.
She exhibited in eastcontemporary gallery in Milan (2022), Fabbri Schenker Projects in London, MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome (2021), Wschód Gallery in Warsaw (2020), Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw (2019), Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Fondation Hippocrène in Paris (2018), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017 - laureate of the Hestia Artistic Journey Competition).
She was a resident of Hospitalfield in Scotland (2022), Muzeum Susch in Switzerland and Artist Development Programme in EIB Institute in Luxembourg (2021), and AiR Futura, Prague (2020, Visegrad Fund).
Works of her are in Fondazione in Between Art Film by Beatrice Bulgari, Ergo Hestia Group and European Investment Bank collections, as well as in private ones.
Image: NMSNNG, video still, IV, 2022, pigment ink print Hahnemühle Bamboo 290gr., 28,12x50cm courtesy of the artist and eastcontemporary , Courtesy of the Artist
Alberto Sinigaglia (born 1984, Italy) With a background in visual arts and architecture, Alberto work investigates the iconographies rooted in collective memory and the relationship between technology and image building inventories of fragments that question our visual awareness. Sinigaglia was awarded with several prize such as Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (2014) Talent Prize (2017) Fondazione Fabbri (2017). He published two books: Big Sky Hunting (Edition du Lic, 2014) and Cables ( Skinnerboox 2022). His work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. Since 2015 he is among the editors of Genda Magazine. He works and lives between Venice and Moscow.
Image : Vanishing Sublime, 2021 , Courtesy of the Artist
Pennie Key (Penelope Koliopoulou) is an artist born in Athens. She lived in London during the 2010s and received her MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths in 2016. She was a Rijksakademie resident for the years 2020-2022 and the recipient of the Stavros Niarchos foundation award ARTWORKS 2021. Other residencies include Saari in Finland and Can Serrat in Spain. She was part of the Amsterdam Museum Night 2021, and has shown work in the U.K., Belgium and Mexico amongst others. Her biggest accomplishment to date is leading well-attended HIIT workouts for artists, 2 years in a row (and still going strong).
Image: Junior and Rah, from the installation Male Preserve, 2021, 118x168 cm, inkjet A3 print, tape, Courtesy of the Artist
