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Here are the winners of the HKU Awards 2024
- 19 September 2024
The winners of the HKU Awards 2024 have been announced during the official opening of the academic year, on Thursday 19 September. The jury, consisting of renowned professionals in the world of arts, selected four winners. Lucy Azatyan, Katharina Busl and Naomi Voet received the HKU Awards, and Junior Joseph Kwasi Appiah was given the HKU Utrecht City Prize. The award also comes with a financial sum of 5000 euros.
Here are the winners of the HKU Awards 2024
Each year, HKU assigns three prizes to students who have gradauted that year at a bachelor or master course of HKU. This year's HKU Awards were given to the remarkable graduation projects of Katharina Busl (Fine Art), Lucy Azatyan (Photography) en Naomi Voet (Image and Media Technology). They received the awards from Femke Rotteveel, director of Fotodok.
Winner HKU Utrecht City Prize
From all the nominees, the jury also chose one winner for the HKU Utrecht City Prize. This award is an acknowledgement for the importance of art and culture for the city of Utrecht and its inhabitants, and serves to promote the cultural diversity and development of Utrecht. This year's prize was handed to Junior Joseph Kwasi Appiah (Fine Art and Design in Education) by Saskia Kluitmans, deputy director of Cultural Affairs at the local government of Utrecht.
Katharina Busl - Bliss Domain
HKU Fine Art
“An immersive artwork of total area experience, with colours, scents, sound, movement. A combination of industrialism, with the exactly fitting grids and the apt application of technology, with artistry: like the blue water we walked over. Wat a sublime multi-dimensional exercise."
Lucy Azatyan - Echoes of Home
HKU Media – Photography
“Through her aesthetic and emotional imagery, her questions about identity, memory and experiences of displacement transcend the traditional conventions. Lucy chooses unique perspectives and framings that pulled us into her story.”
Naomi Voet - Mother’s Child
HKU Media – Image and Media Technology
“A nine-minute animation where you can see and sense the love, time and attention that was put in its creation. The film offers a glimpse in the life of mother Mary and her adult son Murphy, whose mental and physical limitations cause him to need permanent care."
Junior Joseph Kwasi Appiah - R.E.C.L.A.I.M.
HKU Beeldende Kunst - Fine Art and Design in Education
“Junior makes a clear message in his performance and in the ‘cave’ that he created: you may be yourself. Everything is self-created, from the music to the clothing. His self-expression is uniting and offers marginalised groups the power to reclaim the stage, as he himself calls it.”
Read the full jury reports and see all the nominees of the HKU Awards 2024 on this page.
During the graduation festival Exposure, the jurt reviewed all the nominated works, with the HKU profile in mind. In their judgement, they had special attention for the quality, excellence, craftsmanship, innovation, creativity, applicability, and interdisciplinarity ofeach work
The jury members are:
Femke Rotteveel (jury chair), director Fotodok
Carolien de Boer, senior policy advisor Fine Art & Art in Public Space, Utrecht
Ralph Keuning, freelance art curator
Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer, director Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Kevin Osepa, photographer and film maker
Kika Sprangers, saxophone player and composer
Xavier Vandamme, director Oude Muziek
Margriet Vollenberg, director Organisation in Design