theme: balance

Every season, at the end of the course block, we organise a photo exhibition as a finale to our photography courses.
The theme our photography teachers have decided on this season is: balance

Jury selection

From all the submissions a jury choose 10 works to be exhibited in the CREA hall for an entire course block. From this selection, a jury and public favourite will also be chosen, which will be exhibited for longer in large format. The photographers of the favourite works will also receive a CREA day course (in summer 2025 or block 1 of season 2025-2026) of their choice!

​Voting

There are two ways in which you can cast your vote for the public favourite:

• Use the poll: below you can find the selected pictures. Use the poll widget to cast your vote for your favourite photograph.
• Instagram stories: pick your favourite in our Insta-stories  (will be posted on Wednesday 25 June 15:00 hrs)​.

Jury selection

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1. Unsteady Tokyo by Eliska Janda
2. Op het Randje by Sanne Tromp
3. Ride and Dive and Quinty Snijders
4. Balance by Haisen Tang
5. Game of Gravity by Kimberley Harleman
6. Balance by Veronika Bejczy
7. The Edge by Sofia Moiraghi
8. Between Fire and Ice by Mario Keer
9. De Overgave by Menno Steensma
10. Balance by Lisanne van Vliet

Jury

Our jury made a selection of 10 pictures from all the submissions from this course block, from which they themselves chose a jury favourite and from which the audience may choose an public favourite.

We hereby introduce our panel:

Julia van Mourik

director The One Minutes Foundation

Julia van Mourik was born in Amsterdam in the 1970s and has built up enormous experience in the cultural sector. She started in theater and film, later working as a magazine editor, and for decades curated the artists’ evenings Lost & Found. As director of The One Minutes Foundation, she leads a network for experimental video that works closely with various arts education institutions in the Netherlands and internationally.
She is a member of the Supervisory Board of CREA, member of the Advisory Committee Presentatieinstellingen of The Council for Culture, Member of the Advisory Committee on Documentary of NPO Fonds, chair of the Advisory Committee on Project Subsidies for Culture of the city of Utrecht and advisor to Amsterdam Fund for the Arts.
She studied Publicity and Culture in Amsterdam and did residencies at Raid Projects Gallery in Los Angeles and Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.

theoneminutes.org/
lost.nl/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliavanmourik/

Dennis van Galen

CREA director

Dennis has been the director of CREA since the end of 2019. He was previously head of artistic affairs at Adelheid Roosen’s dynamic theatre organisation and before that, he was director of Youth Theatre Hofplein in Rotterdam and even managed to get a youth performance to Lowlands.

Art education is a connecting factor in his career. For instance, he was artistic director of the Theatre teacher programme at the Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance. Dennis was a (guest) teacher at various conservatoires, theatre schools in the Netherlands and abroad, the Dutch Film Academy, and worked as an art consultant for a contemporary art gallery in Sydney, Australia. 

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All submissions

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1. Carlijn Oudejans – Gebouw
2. Carina von Estorff – Balance
3. Sofia Moiraghi – The Edge
4. Sarper Okuyan – Balance
5. Muratzhan Kyranbay – Balance
6. Rosa Stolk – Yin Yang
7. Karis Colyer Patel – The delicate balance between being in the spotlight as a musician and creating in solitude
8. Mario Keer – Between fire and ice
9. Haisen Tang – Balance
10. Quinty Snijders – Ride and Dive
11. Menno Steensma – De Overgave
12. Sanne Tromp – Op Het Randje
13. Ram KRS – Balance
14. Lynn Vermeulen – Balanza
15. Lisanne van Vliet – Balance
16. Kimberley Harleman – Game of gravity
17. Soraya Nejjar – Balance
18. Jonáš Vejmelka – Balance
19. Eliška Janda – Unsteady Tokyo
20. Veronika Bejczy – Balance
21. Ella Boulan – Terugblik