Prize winners masters

• Lucrecia Wang Jaramago (autonomous design)
• Elke Peetroons (graphic design)

• Isabel Brems (textile design)

Every year, Flanders DC and UA award a prize to a fashion student. The prize goes to the graduating student who best translates their creative vision into a mature collection. The student wins participation in the Responsible Fashion Management Summer School of the University of Antwerp i.c.w. IFM Paris.

• Jessica Francesca Van Winckel (fashion) with the collection 'UNVEILING IDENTITIES'

The Roger De Conynck Fund was established in 2012 by the King Baudouin Foundation. It aims to train young photographers to help them develop their professional careers. Roger De Conynck was a philanthropist with a particular fondness for photography and the creative eye of professional photographers.

• Daniil Zozulya
• Awa Gaye

Commission: Filip Rathé (chair), Ezra Veldhuis (visual artist and performing artist), Danielle Van Zuijlen (artistic coordinator Kunsthal Gent), Jana Coorevits (visual artist), Jef Declercq (exhibition maker, writer, gallery worker), Giliam Ganzevles (designer, researcher), Liene Aerts (secretary)

The committee would like to start by saying how much they appreciated the way and energy with which all the practices were introduced to them by you. So herewith a final thank you for accepting the open invitation to personally guide us through the work, Ine Vanlitsenborgh, Anouck Voisin, Arno Camps, Arjen Everts, Emma Van den Berghe, Eva Jacobs, Nicolas Peeters, Martijn De Meuleneire, Karlien Wittouck, Seppe-Hazel Laeremans, Sofie Roelants, Fiene Zasade and Joshua Smits, Anaïs Kaboré, Gitte Le Bruyn and Pingkan Polla!

It was decided to divide the Horlait-Dapsens into three equal parts.

• Fiene Zasada en Joshua Smits (drama)
• Seppe-Hazel Laeremans (graphic design)
• Emma Van den Berghe (fashion)

Legates from KASK & Conservatorium are awarded by the jury that selected the work for Horlait-Dapsens.

• Nicolas Peeters (visual arts)
• Anouck Voisin (graphic design)
• Eva Jacobs (textile design)

Gitte Le Bruyn (animation film)

Being overwhelmed by news images of pain, propaganda or oppression is an experience we are all familiar with. At times, Gitte makes this experience overwhelmingly tangible in her animated film. A person sits at a table in a room, reads a newspaper and is swept from there — at a brutally fast number of frames per second — into a world. A wordless, apocalyptic black-and-white world of ever-more disappearing images in frames, a randomness of events grabs at the throat, but does not become graspable for that reason. They flash by too quickly to really grasp. This kind of frustrating feeling corresponds to reality. The film's justified criticism and sensitivity is contained in not wanting our empathy for the other to disappear. It explicitly resists this by adopting a radical ‘spontaneous intention’ of sketched, atmospheric painting and succeeds in doing so. The commission praises the way she employs the disorienting and dystopian possibilities of animation. You sense a virtuosity in her hands, in the relationship between image and sound... (in collaboration with Karen Willems), in manoeuvring through the world as an artist and dragging us into it. From the film emanates a political attention to our current reality that is subtle, yet sharp and telling. And therefore a must-see.

Karlien Wittoeck (grafisch ontwerp)

Karlien created a book about a remote village where all the residents live in a kind of endlessly repeating circle. This circularity translates into a multi-layered graphic novel with an open binding and a certain weight. Despite the changing perspectives and landscapes, the characters seem stuck in their form and story. Karlien works so precisely on the montage of text and image, on the rhythm of browsing, on recurring patterns, that the result after revisiting and revisiting the book is not the better understanding of the thing, but turns out to be just the opposite. The red and green, often distorted dice are there to turn the book over whenever a strategy or motive would become clear. The book title Usance is the first ‘clue’: habit, reliability and narrative and how to play them off intelligently so that the viewer suspects untrustworthiness and therefore starts flipping through the book again and again. The extra attention therefore given to something like this one book stands out and deserves recognition. We also praise the drawing style and the focused, simple presentation of this one object on a plinth in a small room looking out on a window, but above all the way all the above was balanced against each other.

• Mattia Gobbo (jazz/pop)
• Bavo Buys (drama)

• Jolan Decaestecker (music production)

For five years, inside and outside the walls of this conservatory, Jolan developed in his very own and tasteful way into an original, versatile and authentic musician. This artistic quest was sometimes accompanied by the necessary doubt and critical reflection, but this never stopped him from continuing to communicate clearly, being open to feedback and striving for the highest achievable goal. Knowing him, he will receive this prize very modestly and somewhat shrugging his shoulders, but he is no less deserving of it, as the conclusion of a wonderful career and the start of all that is yet to come musically.