TAA 2011, the Benelux edition

Auke de Vries (AKV St. Joost, Breda) won the TAA 2011. Quinten Leon (Sint Lukas, Brussels) won the TAA For Best Foreign Film. Sarah Bijlsma (ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem) won this year’s Public Choice Award

The nominations for the TAA were selected by a group of authorative experts: Yasmina Aboutaleb, journalist, wrote for CJP magazine and NRC Handelsblad a.o.; Merel Bem, art critic De Volkskrant; Joost Daamen, programmer IDFA, Paradocs a.o.; Stephane Kaas, video editor Hard//Hoofd, online magazine for art and journalism, independent director; Hicham Khalidi, director TAG; platform for modern audiovisual art in The Hague; Noor Mertens, editor Tubelight, guest curator NEST; Sandra Smets, freelance art critic for NRC Handelsblad a.o.; Angelique Spaninks, director MU exhibition space for contemporary art and visual culture, Eindhoven; Joost de Vries, art editor De Groene Amsterdammer and writer; Kerstin Winking, assistant curator Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

An international jury selected the winners:
Foreman Bart Rutten, curator of visual art Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Olof van Winden, new director of the Netherlands Media Art Institute; Kevin Muhlen, director of Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, and Carolyn van Liefland, established film distributor and head of programming at Wolff Cinema.

Nominees TAA 2011:
Sarah Bijlsma – ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem
Dóra Hargitai – AKV St. Joost, s’Hertogenbosch
Charlotte Lagro – Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht
Johannes Langkamp – ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Enschede
Christine Maas – Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Marleen Özgür & Emmanuel Adjei – Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
Sunil Sital – Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam
Willem Sluyterman van Loo – Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague
Lex Vesseur – Academie Minerva, Groningen
Auke de Vries – AKV St. Joost, Breda
Idzi Wagemans – Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Nominees TAA for Best Foreign Film 2011:
Michiel Bollen – Media, Arts, Design Faculty, Genk
Ruben Desiere – Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten, Gent
Robert Frankle – Luxembourg
Quinten Leon – Sint Lukas, Brussels
Kate Maveau – Rits Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel

16.07 – 21.08 Exhibition TAA in TENT Rotterdam
24.08 – 25.09 Exhibition TAA in Melkweg Mediaroom, Amsterdam