Lucia Keidel: Förderpreis der Kulturstiftung Öffentliche Oldenburg
In the organizer's words:
This year marks the 23rd time that the Öffentliche Oldenburg Cultural Foundation's sponsorship prize has been awarded. The prestigious prize for young artists aims to support artists from the region at the start of their careers and make their works known to the public. In 2025, the prize was awarded in the category of sculpture and installation. The winner is the artist Lucia Keidel, who grew up in Oldenburg and impressed the expert jury with her fascinating sculptures and installations.
The overarching theme of Lucia Keidel's work is the relationship between humans and the natural world around them: what does it mean to live with nature and at the same time as part of it? The artist pursues this question with an interdisciplinary approach. Her artistic works combine observations, field research and scientific research, which find expression in powerful sculptures.
The works grow upwards like tree trunks and take their place in space. This can happen both indoors and outdoors. Organic forms, taken from reality and yet abstracted, come together to form vertical landscapes. The materials used, such as clay, wood, straw and seeds, create the desire to touch them with their tactile properties. Lucia Keidel therefore focuses on the intersensory relationships of ecological materials and their transformative power in the digital and physical world. She thus draws the viewer's attention to the beauty and fragility of our ecosystems in order to change the way we interact with our planet. This is also visible in her performative works, in which elements such as film, sound and movement play an important role.
Lucia Keidel studied Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Fine Arts and Scenography at the Minerva Academy in Groningen and Interdisciplinary Arts in Maastricht and currently works in her studio in Huntlosen. The jury was just as impressed by the consistency of Lucia Keidel's approach to the subject as it was by her interdisciplinary approach, her artistic realization and her strong and recognizable visual language.
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