Next to the academy and department awards, a number of prizes were again made possible through collaborations with local and national partners. Thanks to Stroom Den Haag, Heden, Schuitema Stichting, Jan Roëde Stichting, Keep an Eye Foundation and the Stichting tot Steun. For the first time this year, Waag presented the Technology & Society award. With these awards the academy hopes to stimulate KABK graduates to kick-start their professional practice and career development.

Heden Start Award

Winner: Zahar Bondar, Bachelor Fine Arts

“With rough, hard, classical materials such as metal, concrete and plaster this graduate makes compositions that are light, floating and gracious. The theatrical setting of his work is attractive, but also evokes friction, as the figures seem to be doomed to live their lives in the spotlight.”

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Jan Roëde Award

Winner: Eliza Reszka, Bachelor Fine Arts

“This artist has changed her exhibition space into a visual journey that draws the visitor right in. The story of her 13-year-old self, suddenly having to leave her home country Poland is reflected in her drawings and cut outs.”

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Paul Schuitema Award

Winner: Tijs Struijk, Bachelor Interior Architecture & Furniture Design

“Working from, and testing in real life situations, as recorded in the rough footage of the events, Club Folk convinces one of the possibilities and the attraction of Tijs’ intervention. The start of something…”

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Honourable mention: Pien Kars, Bachelor Graphic Design
Honourable mention: Filippo Maria Ciriani, Bachelor Photography

Stroom Encouragement Award

Winners:
Moe Kim, Bachelor Textile & Fashion
Christina Kordunian, Bachelor Graphic Design

"Kordunian werkt met spannende proposities en grote contrasten. Het levert fascinerende beelden op –cinematografisch, futuristisch, vervreemdend en herkenbaar tegelijkertijd. Op basis van de rijkdom in haar concept, haar vraagstelling en imaginaire vermogen voorziet de jury grote potentie voor verder onderzoek"

"Het werk van Moe Kim weet op een niet opdringerige manier ook grotere vragen op te roepen, zoals over de waarde van ambacht, technologische ontwikkeling en het invasieve karakter ervan op ons leven."

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Stroom KABK Invest

Winners:
Zahar Bondar, Bachelor Fine Arts
Eliza Reszka, Bachelor Fine Arts
Alex Avgud, Bachelor Photography
Victoria Chaushyan, Bachelor Photography

Waag Technology & Society Award

Winner: Louis Braddock Clarke, Bachelor Graphic Design

“We greatly value the investigations of the artist and the way it makes eco-societal issues public by critically applying artistic technology. We encourage Louis to further this direction of urgent research.”

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Keep an Eye Textile & Fashion Award

Winner: Stella Kim, Bachelor Textile & Fashion

The award was handed out on Friday 14 June during the EXPOSED 2019

Academy Shop Award

Winner: Jamy Osinga, Bachelor Photography

Royal Academy Awards

with thanks to Stichting tot Steun

Royal Academy Bachelor Award

Winner: Viktor Naumovski

“Ambitious and highly skilled image-maker with a keen eye for contemporary visual language. Elements as identity and cultural reference, memory and imagination are key concepts in his investigation. Viktor's work is both personal and political and holds ground in commercial, autonomous and experimental photography and film.”

Royal Academy Master Award

Winner: Jack Bardwell, Master Interior Architecture, INSIDE

“Jack brings critique in an engaging way, reflecting on the pressures of the outside world on the educational system, making us look in.”

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Thesis Bachelor Award

Winner: Risto Kujanpää, Bachelor Graphic Design

Thesis Master Award

Winner: Laura Frias Munoz del Cerro, Master Interior Architecture, INSIDE

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