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Eleonoor Jap Sam nominated for the Black Achievement Awards 2022

Eleonoor Jap Sam nominated for the Black Achievement Awards 2022

The nominees for the Black Achievement Awards 2022 have been announced! The Black Achievement Awards Ceremony took place on October 31st in the DeLaMar Theatre in Amsterdam.

Eleonoor Jap Sam, founder and editor of Jap Sam Books has been nominated in the entrepreneurship category. 

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Shortlist Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture 'Healing Sites'

Shortlist Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture 'Healing Sites'

The jury of the Prix de Rome has selected four entries for the shortlist for the Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture: Healing Sites from 53 anonymous entries. The Prix de Rome is the oldest and most generous award in the Netherlands for visual artists under the age of 40 and architects under the age of 35. Jap Sam Books will publish the accompanying publication. Today we will introduce you to the architects and their submission for the open call from which they were selected. 

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Remy Jungerman receives the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022

Remy Jungerman receives the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022

Image by Bram Belloni 

Amsterdam, 31 May 2022 - Visual artist Remy Jungerman receives the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022, the biggest visual art prize in the Netherlands. The jury praises the artist for the way he interweaves the cultures of the countries that define him, Suriname, the Netherlands, and the United States.

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REPRINT 'The Public Interior as Idea and Project by Mark Pimlott'

REPRINT 'The Public Interior as Idea and Project by Mark Pimlott'

From now on the second print of The Public Interior as Idea and Project by artist and designer Mark Pimlott is available for purchase! First released in 2016 and declared one of the Best books of 2016: Architecture and Design by the Financial Times.

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Shortlist Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture announced

Shortlist Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture announced

The International jury of the Prix de Rome has selected four entries for the shortlist of Prix de Rome 2022 Architecture: Healing Sites from 53 anonymous entries. The shortlist candidates are: Arna Mackic, Dividual (Andrea Bit and MAciej Wieczorkowski), Lesia Topolnyk, and Studio KIWI (Kim Kool and Willemijn van Manen).

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Critical Mass. Jasper de Beijer, exhibition in Museum Rijswijk

Critical Mass. Jasper de Beijer, exhibition in Museum Rijswijk

Jasper de Beijer, Critical Mass

The publication Critical Mass. Jasper de Beijer and the exhibition were made possible by the support of the Agnes van den Brandeler Museum Prize, jointly awarded to Museum Rijswijk and the artist.
Jap Sam Books was asked to publish the accompanying publication Critical Mass. Jasper de Beijer. We connected graphic designer Edwin van Gelder (Mainstudio) to the project to design this beautiful symbiotic publication.

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Alexis Blake winner of Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021

Alexis Blake winner of Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021

On Tuesday November 30th Alexis Blake received the Prix de Rome Visual Arts 2021 from demissionary Minister van Engelshoven of Education, Culture and Science. Blake received this award for her performance Rock to jolt [ ] stagger to ash. The award comes with a 40.000 euro cash prize and a work period at an artist at residency of choice.

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November 13 opening Prix de Rome 2021 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum

November 13 opening Prix de Rome 2021 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum

November 13th opens the the Prix de Rome 2021 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum. The four nominated artists, Mercedes Azpilicueta, Alexis Blake, Silvia Martes and Coralie Vogelaar will present new work that they have made especially for the exhibition.

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