Jiyan Düyü’s new video artwork “Heaven must be like this” has been shown during the ‘Harvest 2023’ exhibition in the compartment of the Lakeside Collection in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Jiyan Düyü (1995) graduated from the Audio-Visual department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2022. With her video installation and graduation film “Birds Fly Back” she won the Lakeside Collection Award and the Wildcard of the Dutch Film Fund. Her new work “Heaven must be like this was created by combining the two awards.”

In “Heaven must be like this” Leonel, Cachupa and Cucada share life with each other. The three friends talk about cars, their children and the loss of their parents.

In 2021 the Lakeside Collection Award has been founded and for the first three years the collection is committed to presenting the award to one of the participants of the Best of Graduates exhibition, organized annually by Galerie Ron Mandos and supported by the Ron Mandos Young Blood Foundation. Both the gallery and the foundation are admired for supporting young artists unconditionally. The Best of Graduates is an exhibition of the graduation work of the most talented students of accredited Photography and Fine Arts courses of the Dutch art academies of each year.

Yearly the winner of the Lakeside Collection Award will be granted an artist-in-residence program in the private compartment of the Lakeside Collection in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, including financial support of EUR 5.000,- and guidance during this period. With this award, the Lakeside Collection aims to support and provide visibility for young, local and contemporary artists. Creating a long term relationship with the artists is an important anchor of the program.