Open call studio visit Eefje Ludwig and Michelle Kasprzak on 9, 12 and 13 May 2022
Informatie in Nederlands: klik hierOn Monday 9 (both of them), Thursday 12 (Eefje) and Friday 13 May (Michelle) Eefje Ludwig and Michelle Kasprzak, guest curators Noorderlicht Internationaal Fotofestival 2023, will visit the studios of The Hague artists.
You can apply until Monday 25 april 2022
If you are interested in a studio visit by Eefje Ludwig or Michelle Kasprzak you can sign up until Monday 25 april 2022 via the following link:
Please include a brief motivation (in English). All entries will be sent to the two curators along with a few suggestions from Stroom. They will make their personal selection of artists to visit. You will only receive notice if you have been selected for a studio visit.
Short biographies
Eefje Ludwig (b. 1982) is an independent Dutch photography curator, mentor and advisor currently based in The Netherlands. She holds a Masters in Educational Sciences (University of Amsterdam, 2006) and studied photography at the Institut Catalan d'Estudis Fotogràfics in Barcelona, Spain. From 2008 till 2016 she worked as a project manager and a manager of the education department at World Press Photo. During those years she developed, fundraised, coordinated and curated different training projects, publications and exhibitions in the field of photojournalism and visual storytelling in the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America. For many years she led the Joop Swart Masterclass. Since she started working indepently in 2016 she collaborated with PHmuseum as the Education Manager and Curator, was Artistic Director of Festival Photoreporter en Baie de Saint-Brieuc in 2017, is founding member of the Transformations project as well as the international photographers' collective and agency MAPS. More recently she assisted in curating the retrospective show and accompanying catalog of Chas Gerretsen in collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum (2021). She is currently working as a guestcurator for Noorderlicht Festival 2023. In 2019 she founded The Forest Bathing Circle aiming to reconnect people to nature through artistic expressions and nature connection practices. She has been a member of different juries and nominating committees. Next to that she mentors photographers from around the world, aiming to support them in their careers and bringing out to the world stories that matter.
Links to relevant projects:
Moving On (concept, project coordination and editing)
Retrospective show Chas Gerretsen for Nederlands Foto Museum
Guest curator for Noorderlicht 2023 (in progress)
Michelle Kasprzak is an established contributor to the field of digital culture as a curator, educator, writer, and artist. Michelle has curated exhibitions and public programmes for organizations such as Future Flux Festival, V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, ZERO1 Biennial, Cornerhouse, New Media Scotland, and others. Her writing has appeared in HOLO, Volume, Public, Spacing, Rhizome, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She is a sought-after moderator and event host, working most recently with Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam) and The New Institute (Rotterdam).
Currently Michelle is Guest Curator at the Noorderlicht Festival 2023, Research Lecturer at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, and supervising graduating students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She has also designed and delivered courses for Master's students, at both Design Academy Eindhoven and the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam). She also co-edits Commissioned Critique, an essay series for the Sandberg Instituut, with Rosa te Velde. Michelle recently completed her PhD in Digital Media within the UT Austin | Portugal CoLab (supervisors: Sandra Silva (University of Porto) and Chris Csíkszentmihályi (Cornell University).
https://about.me/mkasprzak
https://michelle.kasprzak.ca
Eefje Ludwig (b. 1982) is an independent Dutch photography curator, mentor and advisor currently based in The Netherlands. She holds a Masters in Educational Sciences (University of Amsterdam, 2006) and studied photography at the Institut Catalan d'Estudis Fotogràfics in Barcelona, Spain. From 2008 till 2016 she worked as a project manager and a manager of the education department at World Press Photo. During those years she developed, fundraised, coordinated and curated different training projects, publications and exhibitions in the field of photojournalism and visual storytelling in the Middle-East, Africa and Latin America. For many years she led the Joop Swart Masterclass. Since she started working indepently in 2016 she collaborated with PHmuseum as the Education Manager and Curator, was Artistic Director of Festival Photoreporter en Baie de Saint-Brieuc in 2017, is founding member of the Transformations project as well as the international photographers' collective and agency MAPS. More recently she assisted in curating the retrospective show and accompanying catalog of Chas Gerretsen in collaboration with the Nederlands Fotomuseum (2021). She is currently working as a guestcurator for Noorderlicht Festival 2023. In 2019 she founded The Forest Bathing Circle aiming to reconnect people to nature through artistic expressions and nature connection practices. She has been a member of different juries and nominating committees. Next to that she mentors photographers from around the world, aiming to support them in their careers and bringing out to the world stories that matter.
Links to relevant projects:
Moving On (concept, project coordination and editing)
Retrospective show Chas Gerretsen for Nederlands Foto Museum
Guest curator for Noorderlicht 2023 (in progress)
Michelle Kasprzak is an established contributor to the field of digital culture as a curator, educator, writer, and artist. Michelle has curated exhibitions and public programmes for organizations such as Future Flux Festival, V2_ Institute for Unstable Media, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, ZERO1 Biennial, Cornerhouse, New Media Scotland, and others. Her writing has appeared in HOLO, Volume, Public, Spacing, Rhizome, and numerous exhibition catalogues. She is a sought-after moderator and event host, working most recently with Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam) and The New Institute (Rotterdam).
Currently Michelle is Guest Curator at the Noorderlicht Festival 2023, Research Lecturer at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, and supervising graduating students at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. She has also designed and delivered courses for Master's students, at both Design Academy Eindhoven and the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam). She also co-edits Commissioned Critique, an essay series for the Sandberg Instituut, with Rosa te Velde. Michelle recently completed her PhD in Digital Media within the UT Austin | Portugal CoLab (supervisors: Sandra Silva (University of Porto) and Chris Csíkszentmihályi (Cornell University).
https://about.me/mkasprzak
https://michelle.kasprzak.ca
About the studio visiting program
Since 2006, on a regular basis Stroom invites curators, artists and critics from The Netherlands and abroad to visit the studios of artists in The Hague. These studio visits offer an opportunity for artists to present their work and receive contructive feedback on their practice. The program also aims is to strengthen and broaden the artists' network.May: Julia Mullié, independent curator, program maker and collector
July: Angels Miralda Tena and Mateo Chacon-Pino, guest curators for a group exhibition at RADIUS CCA
