Events - PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award

2024

Louise Amelie · Ludovica Bastianini · Maureen Drennan · Anja Engelke · Katja Feldmeier · Nazanin Hafez · Natalia Kepesz · Frank Krems · Gerlinde Miesenböck · Huseyin Ovayolu · Laura Pannack · Lesha Pavlov · Louis Roth · Ina Schoenenburg · Xiaofu Wang · Amin Yousefi

With the vernissage of the Annual Exhibition on one of the hottest days of 2024, we also said goodbye to our long-standing jury member, the curator of photography and cinematography at the Dresden Technical Collections, Dr Andreas Krase. We thank Andreas for his many years of dedicated work in the jury meetings and in preparing the exhibitions, his clever, thoughtful manner, his humor and his immense background knowledge of contemporary portrait photography and its historical models…

Curator Dr Andreas Krase (left) and Exhibition Designer Henry Puchert (right)

2023

Joel Bolonick · Therese Debono · Sibylle Feucht · Aaron Ricketts · Sitara Thalia Ambrosio · Hermann Bredehorst · Annette LeMay Burke · Kasper Christiansen · Massimiliano Corteselli · Amilton Neves Cuna · Corina Gertz · Milan Gies · Eva Gjaltema · Andrea Graziosi · Geraldine Haas · Shinichi Ichikawa · Nancy Ludwig · Susanne Middelberg · Ekaterina Mukhortova · Michaela Nagyidaiová · Arseniy Neskhodimov · Nicola Petrara · Toni Petraschk · Lisa Pram · Ann Prochilo · Emma Sarpaniemi · Ursula Sokolowska · Cecilia Sordi Campos · Ivonne Thein · Amy Touchette · Sebastian Wells & Vsevolod Kazarin · Guanyu Xu

2022

Hannah Altman · Alfonso de Gregorio · Marina Dyakonova · Jesse Egner · Tara Fallaux · Tori Ferenc · Gabriele Galimberti · Svante Gullichsen · Ruben Hamelink · Robin Hinsch · Lise Johansson · Monika Keiler · Alexander Komenda · Frank Krems · Sean Lee · Christian K. Lee · Xiangyu Long · Quetzal Maucci · Ettore Moni · Peter Pflügler · Heja Rahiminia · Daniel Seiffert · Niv Shimshon · Jerry Takigawa · Federico Tisa · Hanne Van Assche · Rogerio Vieira · Shelli Weiler · Nina Kling

We were overwhelmed: In 2022, photographers from 50 countries applied for the PORTRAITS competition. For the first time, applications arrived from Bangladesh, Bolivia, Finland, Cambodia and Mexico.

2021

In 2021, photographers from 47 countries applied for the PORTRAITS competition, including Brazil, Israel, Iran, Syria, Australia, Japan and South Africa. For the first time, we streamed the award ceremony live.

Constanza Portnoy (AR) · Ingmar Björn Nolting (DE) · Elena Helfrecht (DE) · Ina Schoenenburg (DE) · Rafael Heygster & Helena Manhartsberger (DE) · Charlotte Sattler (DE) · Magdalena Stengel (DE) · Sandra Buschow (DE) · Yvonne Most (DE) · Yolanda del Amo (ES/US) · Manuel Frolik (DE) · Thomas Victor & Felix Adler (DE) · Jonas Dengler (DE) · Isabel Permuy (ES) · Tamara Eckhardt (DE) · Gabriele Galimberti (IT) · Andrea Frazzetta (IT) · Gabriele Micalizzi (IT) · Arianna Arcara (IT) · Steff Gruber (CH) · Tim Franco (FR/PL/KR) · Sarah Mei Herman (NL) · Natalia Kepesz (PL/DE) · Katarzyna Kalua Kryńska (PL) · Alexey Pavlov (RU) · Ashima Yadava (US)

The Residence Prize exhibition opened on June 18, 2021 at Hellerau Festspielhaus. At the same time, the works of the 2020/21 Residency Prize winner, Agata Wieczorek (Poland), were on view again in the European Center for the Arts. As in previous years, smaller satellite exhibitions also flanked the main exhibition.

The large annual exhibition of the competition took place again in the Technical Collections Dresden and featured 26 contemporary artists. Photographic positions from ten countries were on show, including the works by Yolanda del Amo (USA), Constanza Portnoy (Argentina), Sarah Mei Herman (Netherlands) and Tamara Eckhardt (Germany).

The annual theme of TOGETHERNESS had been chosen deliberately by the newly-established jury which in 2021 included the Amsterdam photographer Carla van de Puttelaar (PORTRAITS finalist 2016).

2020