Joanna Piotrowska

Infos

Award Ceremony

October 6, 2023, 6 pm
Exhibition space Camera Austria

Laudatio (in English language)
Mirela Baciak

The award will be presented by Günter Riegler, City Councillor for Cultural Affairs.

Music: Sun People

Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023

Joanna Piotrowska

Description

The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz, which is awarded biennially, will be bestowed on Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985 in Warsaw, PL, lives and works in London, GB) in 2023. The jury founded their decision to honor Joanna Piotrowska with this award on the following statement:

“We are pleased to announce that Joanna Piotrowska has been selected as the recipient of the Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023. In making their decision, the jurors of this year’s prize responded to the artist’s ability to evoke the uncanniness of our relationships to our bodies, to architecture, and to one another. With a distinctive and recognizable visual language, Piotrowska’s images consistently make the experience of photography strange—an accomplishment that is all the more worthwhile for her masterful use of the medium. The jurors additionally highlighted the generative tension produced between Piotrowska’s black-and-white images and her inventive installation techniques which, in engaging with color, consistently animate the experience of photography in new and unexpected compositions. The jury gave rigorous consideration to the equitable distribution of funding and the impact that this prize would have on its recipient’s practice and career. We look forward to seeing how the support and recognition offered by this award will influence the next chapters in Piotrowska’s already noteworthy body of work.”

Jury
Orit Gat, art critic, London
Mitch Speed, art critic, Berlin
Nadine Weixler, artist and chairwoman Fotohof Salzburg
Koshik Zaman, art critic, editor C-print. A journal about contemporary art, Stockholm
Christina Töpfer, editor-in-chief, Camera Austria International

The Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz was established in 1989 and is bestowed every two years on an artist who has published a noteworthy contribution in the magazine Camera Austria International and has made an important contribution to contemporary photography. The prize-money is Euro 15,000.

Joanna Piotrowska’s work has been published in Camera Austria International no. 146/2019 and accompanied by a text by Alexander García Düttmann.

Insights

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Award ceremony
    Camera Austria Award
 for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2023
    Joanna Piotrowska
    Photo: Natascha Reiterer

  • Porträt Joanna Piotrowska. Courtesy: the artist.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2016. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2015. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2015. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2017. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Untitled, 2014. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Enclosure XII, 2018. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

  • Joanna Piotrowska, Enclosure XXIV, 2018. Courtesy: the artist & Southard Reid, London; Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon; Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw.

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