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Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg

A biennial incentive supporting emerging European talents in the field of contemporary art. The prize was first awarded in 2005.

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is a tribute to the life and work of Edward Steichen, born in Luxembourg in 1879. The prize honors Steichen's artistic achievements as a photographer and curator, as well as his commitment to advocating the arts and nurturing new talent. The Award was created in 2004 to mark the 125th anniversary of Edward Steichen's birth in Bivange, Luxembourg. The official a

nnouncement was made by Luxembourg Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research, Mr François Biltgen, on January 24th 2005 in Clervaux, coinciding with the anniversary of another remarkable event: the opening of Steichen's milestone exhibition The Family of Man at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in 1955. It will be bestowed for the 4th time on November 24th 2011. The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg is conceived as a cross-cultural, artistical and educational bridge between Luxembourg and New York, the city which would become the home of Edward Steichen.

17/06/2026

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg supports two emerging European artists every two years, giving them the means to live and work abroad. ✨

Each laureate spends time in residence at ISCP in New York, immersing themselves in the city’s international art community and building connections beyond Luxembourg.

Our newsletter follows that journey closely: studio updates, reflections from the artists, and interviews along the way.

👉 Subscribe via the link in our bio or here www.tinyurl.com/subscribeESAL

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17/06/2026

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg supports two emerging European artists every two years, giving them the means to live and work abroad. ✨

Each laureate spends time in residence at ISCP in New York, immersing themselves in the city’s international art community and building connections beyond Luxembourg.

Our newsletter follows that journey closely: studio updates, reflections from the artists, and interviews along the way.

👉 Subscribe via the link in our bio or here tinyurl.com/supportESAL

ISCP The Estate of Edward Steichen

10/06/2026

Marianne Villière () is currently in residence at La Maison Forte (). Together with Nicolas Pasquereau (), she is presenting Motifs de rencontres: L’art des abordages, running from 1 to 21 June. The project brings together two artists whose practices share an interest in participatory forms, alternative pedagogies, and attention to the present moment.

“Today, what are we raising a glass to?” Visitors chose their answer on a label attached to a drink, toasting to friendship, to social justice, and more.

01/06/2026

Ten years ago, Max Pinckers received the Edward Steichen Award.

His practice sits at the boundary between documentary and staged fiction. Rather than positioning himself as a neutral observer, Pinckers affirms his presence in the work. He frames and directs the world around him, raising questions about what we accept as real and how photography constructs that reality.

Since 2015, has continued developing his practice across a range of projects, taking him to Thailand, the United States, North Korea, and Kenya, among others. In each case, he has questioned the objectivity of documentary photography, expanding his image-making to include performance, restaging, and other subjective perspectives.

One of those projects is 2020-MMXX, made in Rome during the pandemic. Commissioned by the Capital of Rome, the work uses multiple cameras firing simultaneously to photograph the same staged scene from different angles. Each perspective reveals something the others cannot. There is no single privileged view, no decisive moment. Time, in Pinckers’s hands, is layered and overlapping rather than fixed.

26/05/2026

The next Edward Steichen Award ceremony will soon take place. In the months leading up to it, we are raising funds to support and develop the programme.

The award is partly funded through private contributions. There is no minimum amount. Individuals, collectors, foundations and companies can support contemporary art practice directly via the link in bio.

If this feels relevant to you or someone in your network, feel free to share.

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18/05/2026

Since 2005, the Edward Steichen Award has recognised artists such as , , , and most recently and . The residency at ISCP New York was made possible through the award.

For many laureates, this recognition came at an important moment. It offered visibility, but also time and resources to continue their work.

You can support this. Individuals and organisations can contribute directly to the award and to the conditions that make this work possible. Link in bio or here: www.tinyurl.com/supportESAL

11/05/2026

The Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg has supported artists working in photography and contemporary art since 2005. Over the years, it has enabled laureates to develop new work, take part in international residencies and build practices beyond Luxembourg.

This year, we are asking for your support to continue this work.

Whether you follow contemporary art as an individual or support it through an organisation, every contribution counts.

Link in bio or here: www.tinyurl.com/supportESAL

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14/04/2026

During her residency at , took a side trip to Wisconsin. It turned into something she describes as a search rather than a research.

Her destination was Belgium, a small town in Ozaukee County on the western shore of Lake Michigan, home to the Luxembourg American Cultural Society. Around a third of Luxembourg’s population emigrated to the United States in the mid-19th century, driven by poverty, famine and lack of work. Many settled in the Midwest, where Luxembourg names still appear on church registers and cemetery headstones.

What she found there pointed as much to the present as to the past. Since Trump’s first presidency, requests for Luxembourg citizenship from Americans claiming Luxembourg ancestry have risen sharply. Luxembourg law allows descendants to reclaim nationality going back to the country’s founding, without a language test, a path that remains closed to many people living in Luxembourg today.

Clio describes the trip as following a curiosity she didn’t yet fully understand. She came back without conclusions, but with questions she intends to keep.

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