A jury made up Claudine Hemmer (culture ministry), Clément Minighetti (Mudam), and Mike Bourscheid (the 2021 residency laureate), examined eight applications and made recommendations to the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which then took the final decision.

Luxembourg-born Kohl lives and works between the grand duchy and Germany. Her work comprises various forms, such as collaborations with performing arts, photo series, sculpture and audiovisual installations.  When describing her artistic ambition and motivation she says, “I am interested in the relationship between artistic creation and social reality.”

The jury in their statement on the winning project described Kohl’s expression as being “both precise and floating, playing on anchoring and dis-anchoring in space, (which) allows for free interpretation,” and praised her ability “to go beyond the photographic medium and its issues.”

Künstlerhaus Bethanien praised the Luxembourg artist for her “very individual, clear, expressive and yet subtle visual language,” being particularly fond of Lisa Kohl's photo series Shelter in its combination of performance and photographic representation.

Kohl holds a Bachelor's degree in plastic, visual and spatial Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels La Cambre, in Brussels, and graduated with honours (2017) from the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule in Halle, Germany.

In 2021, she was laureate of the Aide à la création et diffusion en photographie grant from the Centre national de l'audiovisuel (LU) and is nominated for the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff grant, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (D). And has already completed a residency in Los Angeles in 2018 at Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V.

The Künstlerhaus Bethanien residency programme offers artists the opportunity to work on and realize a project for a defined period of time.

Kohl says her “artistic research [is marked] by the strong points of flight and exile, presence and absence, place and non-place.”