Carina Hesper

conceptual - crossover - photography

As a nomad in the visual arts, free from judgment, I create worlds that connect. Similarities are interesting, differences are not. By traveling to hidden layers, you learn endlessly from each other.
I am a conceptual image maker who focuses on multi-sensory projects that are strong in content and visually correct in execution; contain a certain beauty. For each project I look for the appropriate visual language, which is usually located at the intersection of visual art, photography and new, interactive media.

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    • Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Dream and Deed Foundation

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Hollyhock Foundation

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Mondrian Fund

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • MAD Academy Copenhagen

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Implement PPO

    • 2021
      Scholarship

    • Hollyhock Foundation

    • 2018
      Scholarship

    • Josine de Bruyn Head Fund

    • 2015
      Pricing

    • Jury Prize European Design Awards

    • 2017
      Pricing

    • Gold Medal Miscellaneous Print, European Design Awards

    • 2017
      Pricing

    • Shortlist The Power of Rotterdam

    • 2014
      Pricing

    • Shortlisted Offprint Dummy Award, UNSEEN Amsterdam

    • 2012
      Pricing

    • Shortlist René Coelho Price, NIMK, Amsterdam

    • 2008
      Pricing

    • The Best Dutch Book Designs, shortlist

    • 2022
      Pricing

      Collection

    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    • 2020, New York, USA
      Collection

    • Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library

    • 2020, United States
      Collection

    • Columbia University

    • 2020, New York, USA
      Collection

    • Youlhwadang Book Museum

    • 2020, South Korea
      Collection

    • Dutch Photo Museum

    • 2017, Rotterdam
      Collection

    • Jack Ginsberg Center for Book Arts

    • 2020, Johannesburg, SA
      Collection

    • National Library of Luxembourg

    • 2020, Luxembourg
      Collection

    • Boston Athenaeum

    • 2021, Boston, USA
      Collection

    • Royal Library

    • 2017, The Hague
      Collection

    • PRATT Institute Library

    • 2020, New York, USA
      Collection

    • ING Art Foundation

    • 2017, Amsterdam
      Collection

    • AKZO Nobel Art Foundation

    • 2017, Amsterdam
      Collection

    • National government art collection

    • 2019, The Hague
      Collection

    • Center for Book Arts

    • 2019, New York, USA
      Collection

    • ,
      Publication

    • Cool Pears: The children's book

    • 2021
    • children's book
    • Cool Pears Foundation - Carina Hesper & Annette Behrens
      Publication

    • Like a Pearl in my Hand

    • 2017
    • artist's book
    • The Eriskay Connection - Carina Hesper
      Publication

    • 50 Faces

    • 2012
    • artist's book
    • own management - Carina Hesper