Announcement of the jury for KG＋SELECT 2026. The jury will visit the exhibition by the 10 finalists and choose one winner of the KG＋SELECT Award.
KG＋SELECT 2026 Jury
Andréa Holzherr
Andréa Holzherr (born in 1964 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Paris as a cultural director, publicist and curator. She studied at the Ecole du Louvre Paris as well as at the Sorbonne.
She has been working since 2003 as the global cultural director and curator for Magnum Photos, Paris and is responsible for promoting the Magnum Archive through active exhibition work in collaboration with international museums, cultural institutions and photo festivals. Before, she worked at the Maison Européene de la Photographie in Paris as assistant curator to the director.
Andréa Holzherr has curated numerous exhibitions, among others Bang Bang, Tatort Kunst 2012 at Haus der Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Mythos Kindheit 2010 at the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen,
the Haus für Kunst Uri and the CCA, Palma de Mallorca; Elina Brotherus: The New Painting 2006 at the Finnish Museum of Photography, and Stella Polaris 2006 at Paris Photo.
In September 2013 she was the responsible curator for the 5. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg in Germany and in 2023 Ernest Cole House of Bondage in collaboration with Anne-Marie Beckmann.
Her publications include such titles as Close Enough (2024), Eve Arnold Homage (2012), Helsinki School (2005-2011), George Rodger Unterwegs (2009), Elina Brotherus (2005), as well as numerous publications in specialized contemporary photography magazines.
Andréa Holzherr is on the board of directors of the Fond de Dotation Magnum Paris as well as a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
Thyago Nogueira
Thyago Nogueira is the head of the Contemporary Art Department at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, and founding editor of ZUM magazine, published by IMS. He has curated numerous exhibitions such as Zanele Muholi: Courageous Beauty (2025), Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle (2018-2024), Daido Moriyama: A retrospective (2022-2025), Miguel Rio Branco: Dreamt Words… (2022), William Eggleston’s The American Color (2015). He has chaired the Hasselblad Award in 2019 and contributed to numerous publications and prizes worldwide.
Lucille Reyboz
Born in 1973, Lucille Reyboz began her journey with photography in West Africa, where she spent a part of her childhood. She first travelled to Japan whilst working with Salif Keita, accompanying him when he was invited to collaborate on Ryuichi Sakamoto’s opera LIFE (1999). A portrait photo grapher, Reyboz also produced numerous record covers for labels such as Blue Note and Verve. While developing a prolific photographic practice, she exhibited her work worldwide, most notably the series Batammaba
Bâtisseurs d’Univers at Visa pour l’Image (2001), Source at Phillips de Pury, New York (2007), and Belles de Bamako at CHANEL Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2011). She has published several books, inclu ding Batammaba Bâtisseurs d’Univers (Gallimard, 2004), Source (Éditions de la Martinière, 2007), Belles de Bamako (Éditions de la Martinière, 2011) and Impressions du Japon (Éditions de la Martinière, 2013), co-authored with novelist Keiichiro Hirano. Reyboz lives
and works in Kyoto, where she co-founded and co-directs KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, alongside Yusuke Nakanishi, in 2013, and KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival in 2023.
Yusuke Nakanishi
Lighting director, co-founder and co-director of KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival and KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival. Born in 1968, Yusuke Nakanishi is a lighting artist who travels the world, expressing his impressions of light and shadow from memory. He has worked as a lighting director for feature films, stage productions, music concerts, fashion shows and interior design projects. He also created the Eatable Lights object series
and has exhibited installations at the Hara Museum, the School Gallery Paris and Nuit Blanche Kyoto. Nakanishi lives and works in Kyoto, where he co-founded and co-directs KYOTOGRAPHIE International Photography Festival, alongside Lucille Reyboz, in 2013, and KYOTOPHONIE Borderless Music Festival in 2023.with Lucille Reyboz.
*Yuri Yamada has withdrawn from her role as a jury.
KG＋SELECT Award
10 artists will be selected from among the applicants and invited to exhibit their works at an assigned venue (location to be announced later). The selected artists will each receive a grant of ¥200,000 to help cover the costs of producing their works. A catalog of the exhibited artworks will be produced and the exhibition will be widely publicized via various media in Japan and abroad.
The judges for KG＋SELECT 2026 will visit the exhibits and select one Award winner. The winner will receive a grant of ¥500,000 to support for create of new work and to produce an exhibition for the official program of next year’s KYOTOGRAPHIE 2027.
KG＋SELECT Group Exhibition
Period: 2026.4.18 Sat.—5.17 Sun.
Admission FREE