LICHTER Jurys 2019
Jury Regional Feature Film Competition
Birgit Gamke
Susanne Heinrich
Jenny Schily
Jury Regional Short Film Competition
Ralph Förg
Isabel Gathof
Jonatan Schwenk
Jury VR Storytelling Award
Kai Beck
Ricarda Saleh
Peter Weiss
Jury LICHTER Art Award
Tamara Grcic
Tamara Grcic is an artist and lives in Frankfurt am Main. After studying art history and cultural anthropology, she studied fine arts at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. She has been a professor for sculpting at the Kunsthochschule Mainz since 2014. Since 1992, she has been represented in a number of solo and group exhibitions: MMK2 Frankfurt, 53. Biennale di Venezia; Fotohof Salzburg; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kunsthalle Bern; Kunsthalle St.Gallen; Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel; Bonn Kunstverein and the Portikus Frankfurt/Main.
Christina Lehnert
Christina Lehnert has been a curator at the Kunsthalle Portikus since 2018. She studied art history and philosophy in Berlin. Before accepting the post of interim director at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, she worked as a curator at the Gebert Stiftung für Kultur between 2015 and 2016. In addition, she worked as a curatorial assistant at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld.
Saul Judd
Saul Judd is a freelance curator responsible for the video art section at the LICHTER Filmfest. Within the festival, he designs the exhibitions with known artists such as Keren Cytter and Mike Bouchet. In 2011, he initiated the LICHTER Art Award. Since 2015, he curates the LICHTER International Shorts film section. Additional projects are BLANK SLATE, a publication about art, architecture, design and SCHAUT!, an exhibition at the MAL SEH’N cinema in Frankfurt from 2016 on. As a guest curator of “Double Feature”, a film serioes of the Kunsthalle SCHIRN, he presented the artist John Skoog in 2017.