Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg
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Press Release (Embargo November 24 2011 6:00 p.m.)
The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Association is proud to announce this year’s winning
candidates:
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The 4 Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Laureate and
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The 1 Edward Steichen Luxembourg Resident in NYC
The prize will be publicly bestowed during the official ceremony on
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November 24 2011 at MUDAM Luxembourg at 6.00 p.m. in the presence of HRH the Grande-
Duchesse of Luxembourg. The award will be handed over by special guest, Swiss
photographer, video- and installation artist Beat Streuli.
The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is a biennial incentive supporting emerging European talents
in the field of contemporary art. It was initiated to create an opportunity for young practitioners to
expand their horizon, as well as to contribute to establishing networks between international artistic
communities. A particular emphasis is put on links between the art communities of Luxembourg and
New York, where Edward Steichen gained artistic prominence.
The laureate of the Edward Steichen Award is hosted for a six months residency in New York, at the
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), the premier residency-based contemporary art
center in the United States for artists and curators around the world.
The Award is open to young contemporary art practitioners between 25 and 35 years. Candidates are
shortlisted by four Award nominators coming from museums, universities, art publishers and cultural
institutions specialized in contemporary art. The final selection is made by an international jury.
The nominating institutions for the 2011 Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg were:
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Belgium (Xavier Canone)
Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany (Markus Heinzelmann)
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain Strasbourg, France (Estelle Pietrzyk)
Galerie Beaumont Public, Luxembourg (Martine Speller)
The 2011 jury members were:
Olga Sviblova, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Russia
Dirk Snauwaert, Museum Wiels -Contemporary Art Centre Brussels, Belgium
Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum for American Art, New York, USA
A new category was added in 2011: the Edward Steichen Luxembourg Resident in NYC.
Conceived exclusively for young artists from Luxembourg, this prize offers a three months residency at
ISCP, and includes a stipend for traveling and housing expenses. The applicants must not be older
than 35 years.
The Edward Steichen Luxembourg Resident in NYC was selected upon debate by three jury members
from Luxembourg, experts in the field of contemporary art:
Danielle Igniti, Centre d’Art Nei Liicht and Centre d’Art Dominique Lang Dudelange
Paul di Felice, Independent curator and Professor at the University of Luxembourg
Christian Mosar, Independent curator
The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is a tribute to the life and work of Edward Steichen, born in
Luxembourg in 1879. The prize honors Steichen's artistic achievements as a photographer and
curator, as well as his commitment to advocating the arts and nurturing new talent.
The Award was created in 2004 to mark the 125th anniversary of Edward Steichen's birth in Bivange,
Luxembourg.
The prize was first awarded in 2005. It will be bestowed for the 4th time on November 24th 2011 in the
presence of HRH the Grande-Duchesse of Luxembourg.
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Please respect the Embargo on this information until November 24 6:00 p.m., until the prize
will be officially bestowed.
For more information, please visit our website: www.edward-steichen-award.lu
A publication about the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg and its laureates will be at your
disposition on the evening of the ceremony.
To arrange interviews with the artist, please contact Anny Bastian: 621 319 506
We thank you for your kind collaboration and hope to see you at the ceremony.
The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Association
The 2011 Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg Laureate
Maria Loboda
1979, Krakow (PL)
Lives and works between Berlin and London
Work:
Maria Loboda has a certain interest in the dilemma of obsolete material. She has an archeological
habit of digging out antiquated belief systems, or old-world logic, that she links to her upbringing in
Poland shortly before the breakdown of Socialism. In a context of renewal and turning away from an
oppressive past, objects from the “old” everyday would simply disappear. In her art she is therefore
searching for similar phenomena throughout different cultures and centuries: the memories and the
loss of others. Thoughts which were thought and then just stopped because they were proven wrong
or deceptive, like alchemy, the occult, dated design or music which was once considered outrageous.
Because she doesn’t like the weakness of nostalgia, Maria Loboda wants to give those worn out
systems their power back, like buried atomic waste, which is still radiating underneath the the surface
of a complex modern world. (from Michelle Cotton, In Conversation With Maria Loboda In Cura
Magazine, N.7, Winter 2011)
Selected exhibitions:
2011 Based in Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (D)
Dynamite Winter Palace, Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (F)
Fragmentations: Trajectoires contre nature, curated by Sébastien Pluot,
Domaine départemental de la Garenne Lemot, Gétigné, Clisson (F)
Récits anamorphiques, frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (F)
The Lake of Fire, curated by Mikkel Carl, de frie udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen (DK)
Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes et des arts et
techniques dans la vie moderne, curated by Latitudes, Galerie Meessen Declercq,
Bruxelles (B)
Somiglianze non sensibili, curated by Cecilia Canzani, Galerie Opdahl Berlin (D)
All That Is Unseen, curated by Meg O’Rourke and Caris Reid, Allan/Nederpelt Gallery,
New York (USA)
Livret i, curated by Irmavep Club, Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (F)
2010 In the Autumn the Electricity Withdraws into the Earth Again and Rests, solo show,
Krome Gallery, Berlin (D)
Stories and Stages: The New Frankfurt Internationals, Frankfurt (D)
Somiglianze non sensibili, curated by Cecilia Canzani, Galleri Opdahl Stavanger (N)
Abschüssige Heiterkeit, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Frankfurt am Main (D)
The Plurality of One, curated by Form Content, Galerie Monitor, Roma (I)
The Long Dark, curated by Michelle Cotton, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (UK)
Space Adventure, curated by Alexander Wawrzyniak and Julia Wielgus, Villa Lentza,
Szczecin (PL)
New Thoughts, Old Forms, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (D)
Es werde dunkel!, Kunstmuseum, Mülheim an der Ruhr (D)
Two Tales / degli spiriti / Other Activities, Imo Projects, with Lasse Schmidt Hansen,
Copenhagen (DK)
The 2011 Edward Steichen Resident in NYC:
Claudia Passeri
1977, Luxembourg
Lives and works between Luxembourg and Perugia
Studies
Scenography Accademia di Belli Arte di Bologna (I)
Photography Ecole Supérieure de l’Image, “Le 75”,Brussels (B)
Istituto Europeo di Design, Roma (I)
Work
Claudia Passeri’s work speaks of political commitment, and takes various aspects according to
changing contexts. It stimulates the debate around questions of sensitive topicality, twisting the
perception, casting doubt in order to open a new space of reflection and to trigger new discussions.
Exhibitions
Since 2002, Claudia Passeri’s work has been shown regularly in Belgium, France, Italy and
Luxembourg
Le Prix Mediatine 2002, Brussels (B)
Galerie Dexia at Art Brussels, 2003 (B)
First Nuit Blanche in Rome, 2003 (I)
Issues and Fontana Candida, Centre d’Art Nei Liicht, 2004 and 2008, Dudelange (L)
(Out Of) Control - BIP 2010, MAMAC Liège (B)
Campione Cap-e Ettelbrück, (L)
PRG Infinito Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (I)
Viaschengen.org in collaboration with D'Lëtzebuerger Land 2001 (L)
In 2006, she is co-founder of the public art project Agence Borderline (Luxembourg and Greater
Region, European Capital 2007)
www.claudiapasseri.com, www.borderline.lu, www.viaschengen.org