Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs

De zevende Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs is op zaterdag 29 oktober uitgereikt aan Milena Naef (1991, DE).

VV What got you involved with art? SV Ever since I was young, I’ve a wide field of interest: from history to physics to biology. But above all it was drawing that captivated my the most. I love to observe, record and analyse things. Back in the day, when my father and I would go […]

Why did you choose to go to the Art Academy? “I think that my choice to become an artist has much to do with the home in which I grew up in. My parents were forever collecting and moving things. They just moved back to the Netherlands from Rome and their house, in the Netherlands, […]

Menno Vuister: You did a year of Art History at Utrecht University. How did you move from Art History to being an artist? Eric Peter: I think my choice for Art History was partly influenced by my environment. I went to a gymnasium, a form of pre-university education, and the expectation was that you would […]

AK: What is your biggest source of inspiration? MN: I’m very interested in how we are guided – choreographed – by our environment. We feel free and in control of the choices we make, and yet what we do is, in the end, always controlled by the different structures in the space we find ourselves […]

Agnes Winter: Could you tell something about yourself and why you wanted to become an artist? Halla Einarsdottir: I am Halla Einarsdottir and I’m from Reykjavík in Iceland. After high school I started playing around with photography for myself and taking some night courses in drawing and photography. I really enjoyed it and got curious […]

The six-member programme committee of Kunsthuis SYB selected 26 artists from 179 submissions. This committee, responsible for all programming at Kunsthuis SYB, consists of artists, curators and critics. And through their daily involvement they guarantee quality at Kunsthuis SYB, which offers residencies to artists with a powerfully inquisitive mind who are open to experimentation. The […]

On Saturday 8th of October the exhibition of the Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs will be open for public. The exhibition shows work of all the nominees of the Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs: Eric Peter, Halla Einarsdóttir, Machteld Rullens, Milena Naef and Sanne Vaassen.

Sanne Vaassen (1991, NL) graduated in 2013 at the Academy for Fine Arts in Maastricht, where she was awarded the Henriette Hustinxprize. After that she studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy. The showdown between internal control and external forces is the starting point and central focus of Sanne Vaassen’s work. She examines and attempts […]

Machteld Rullens (1988, NL) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2012) and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2014). Her work shows the beauty and absurdity of everyday life by combining documentary strategies with fictional elements. She draws inspiration from the mundane, which she positions and manipulates in order to […]

Eric Peter (1989, NL) graduated in 2013 from KABK, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. Having developed a performance-based practice, projects can entail installations, performances or text and video works. In his semi-anthropological and associative practice, sociopolitical subjects are being explored to question conventions in history making as well as cultural and social norms. His […]

Milena Naef (1990, DE) graduated this year at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and was awarded the GRA Award Autonomous Art 2016. Naef questions ‘existing’ structures that are inherent to herself. The work tries to create the right manifestation of the assumed duality between body and mind. She translates characteristics of a subjective experience into material, […]

Halla Einarsdóttir (1991, IS) was born in Iceland but lives and works in Amsterdam. She graduated from the graphic design department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2016. Her works are often text based with imagery and objects alongside. Reoccurring themes in her work are means of navigation, an objects narrative power and the sometimes […]

The five contestants for the Sybren Hellinga Art Prize 2016 have been selected! The jury, consisting of Bianca Stigter, Jaring Dürst Britt en Riet Wijnen, nominated the following artists: Halla Einarsdottir (1991, IS), Milena Naef (1990, DE), Eric Peter (1989, NL), Machteld Rullens (1988, NL) and Sanne Vaassen (1991, NL).

The longlist for the 7^th Sybren Hellinga Kunstprijs has been announced. SYB’s programming-commitee has selected 26 artists out of 179 entries.

This year’s judging panel consists of three members, all working in the field of the arts:
Jaring Dürst Britt, Bianca Stigter and Riet Wijnen.

Between April 1 and July 15, 2016 you can apply to participate in the 7th Sybren Hellinga Art Prize.