Laura Van Severen is a photographer interested in landscape representation. She develops her artistic practice in the form of long-term projects that result from traversing, connecting, observing or interacting with a specific place. In doing so, she touches upon a variety of subjects, from global logistics and waste management to local rural realities or sound (hi)stories.

In 2015, she was selected as one of ten talents by the FOMU Photography Museum in Antwerp. In 2016, she published the book Land (The Eriskay Connection), which was awarded Best Dutch Book Design. In 2021, she became part of Futures Photography after being nominated by the Triennial of Photographie Hamburg. In 2023, she received the Creación Injuve grant from the Spanish government and participated in an exchange residency between Hangar Barcelona and Kunstiftung Baden–Württemberg in Germany.

Laura lives in Barcelona, where she works as a freelance photographer, teacher, and studio manager.

︎ Photographer
︎ Barcelona, Spain

hello[at]lauravanseveren[dot]com
+34 618 624 701

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EDUCATION

2010–2013   
BA (Photography), KASK School Of Arts, Ghent, Belgium


2013–2015   
MA (Photography), KASK School Of Arts, Ghent, Belgium




EXHIBITIONS

2024. Beyond Soundscapes. Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim, Germany
2024. Se propagarán sin retorno ni distancia. Injuve Artes Visuales 22-23, Sala Amadís, Madrid, Spain

2023. El camp d’elles, Festival Revela’t, Vilassar de Dalt, Spain
2023. Nuevas topografías fotográficas. De vueltas con el paisaje, CICUS Sevilla, Spain


2022. El camp d’elles, Museu etnogràfic, Ripoll, Spain
2022. El camp d’elles, Casa de Cultura de Sant Cugat, Spain
2022. LOOP (with Ricardo Cases, Jean Marie del Moral, and others), Aba Art Lab, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2021. Strata, Sala Golferichs, Barcelona, Spain

2020. Discovery awards projection, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
2020. Premi Fotografia, Museu Palau Solterra / Fundació Vila Casas, Torroella de Montgrí, Spain

2019. The arrangement of unwanted features, Fuga/Art Photo Bcn, Barcelona, Spain

2018. Despega 2018, C Arte C, Madrid, Spain

2017. Bougie 2017, CBK Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017. Unexposed Twens 2017, CC Kapel Romaanse Poort, Leuven, Belgium
2017. Land, Galeria Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza, Spain
2017. Setba Jove 2017, Fundació Setba, Barcelona, Spain

2016. crox 521-525, Croxhapox, Gent, Belgium
2016. Bfoto Emergentes, El Moliné, Barbastro, Spain
2016. Foto Forum Brasschaat, Antverpiagebouw, Brasschaat, Belgium.

2015. TIFF Outdoor Expo, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015. Graduation 15, KASK/ School Of Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2015. Tumult In Gent, LOD muziekcentrum, Ghent, Belgium
2015. From Where We Stand, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium

2013. It’s the poetry, stupid!, Campo Santo, Ghent, Belgium


BOOKS

LAND. On the brink of some formidably complex matter (2016), designed and published by The Eriskay Connection


GRANTS / AWARDS

2024. Mentorship Grant by Centre Photographie Genève

2023. Creación Injuve, Spain
2023. Exchange Residency Hangar Barcelona–Kunststiftung Stuttgart

2021. Nominated for Futures Photography by Triennial of Photography Hamburg (Cale Garrido)

2019. Nominated for the CNA Portfolio Days by Mathieu Litt

2018. Winner portfolio reviews Art Photo Barcelona, Spain
2018. Despega Grant by UCM and C arte C Madrid, Spain

2017. Fini Concurso Internacional de la Imagen, Mexico

2016. Best Dutch Book Designs 2016 for LAND published and designed by The Eriskay Connection
2016. Bfoto Talento Emergente, Barbastro, Spain

2015. Top 10 young Belgian talent, FOMU Antwerp, Belgium



RESIDENCIES

2025. 2 month residency at La Chambre Claire (Algiers, Algeria). Organised by Jiser.

2023. 2 month residency at Kunstiftung Baden Württemberg (Stuttgart, Germany). In collaboration with Hangar Barcelona. 

2022. 3 week residency at Zwankendamme (Belgium). Organised by Kunstenplatform plan B & Uitwijken.


ARTIST TALKS

2023. Presentation. Württembergischer Kunstverein. Stuttgart, Germany
2023. Presentation. Paratext #72, Hangar. Barcelona, Spain
2023. Lecture. Strata. University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium

2022. Symposium. Transformations du paysage, manipulation de l’image. WIELS. Brussels, Belgium
2022. Debate. Image, art and gender perspectives. 3r Esquerra. Girona, Spain

2021. Presentation. Strata. Casa Elizalde. Barcelona, Spain



COLLECTIONS


20 photos from the project El camp d’elles are part of the National Archive of Catalonia after being acquired by the Government of Catalonia as part of their photography acquisition plan.  







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Laura Van Severen
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