Inez & Vinoodh Netherlands, b. 1963 / 1961
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Lucy Fer, 2011
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Cindy Sherman - The Gentlewoman, 2019
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Lady Gaga / Leonor, 2015
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Lady Gaga / Mel, 2015
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Rianne van Rompaey / H.A.L. 9000, 2019
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Shalom in New York, 2006
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Shalom Smoking at Christiaan's House, 2006
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Hiandra Martinez, 2017
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Anyieth at Play, 2019
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Freja and Raquel with Tourists by Duane Hanson, 2009
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Lou and the Rose, 2018
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Untitled (Head 1), 2008
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Javier Bardem / New York Times Magazine, 2005
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Joan via Inez, 2005
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A Rose of Flesh, 2009
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Lady Gaga / Jo Calderone 3 - You & I, 2011
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Tulips, Chocolate Cosmos, Daisy, Anemones, 2021
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6 White poppies, 2013
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Bali - Holiday Magazine, 2014
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3 Queen Anne’s Lace, 2013
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1 Pink Peony, 1 Two Tone Carnation, 1 Sandersonia, 2013
As of 2018 The Ravestijn Gallery is excited to be representing the photographers duo Inez & Vinoodh, known for their fearless and adventurous photography that fluidly moves between art and high fashion. The Dutch, New York-based, artists Inez van Lamsweerde (1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (1961) are partners and collaborators whose practice moves between genres and media, pop-culture, fashion and art.
The duo has been exploring and pushing the boundaries of art and fashion photography for over three decades. In the early 1990's they were at the forefront of using new developments in digital technology for photography, paired with a bold aesthetic sensibility, it resulted in a signature style that was to become a world-famous brand: Inez & Vinoodh.
In their work the artists do not seem to make an a priori distinction between fashion or art, instead all of their work is part of their overarching creative vision: images (or videos) that are enticing in their aesthetic perfection, that seduce the viewer, only to draw her or him into a world where a familiar narrative might just be turned upside down, becoming provocative. In an interview Inez & Vinoodh emphasise the powers at play in their images: “for us there’s always this sense of duality, there’s always a tension between the beautiful and the grotesque, the spiritual and the mundane, high fashion and low fashion, male and female.”
While always highly polished, their images critique social norms regarding gender and sexuality, undermining these conventions as well as the prejudices they bring about.
Another aspect of Inez & Vinoodh’s power and appeal stems from the fact that every image is born out of a collaboration between two people, which emphasises the mystery of genesis behind each image. In this process, the image always comes first, only upon its creation is it decided to which realm it might belong: art, fashion, a particular editorial or an altogether different context.
Often their images are printed larger than life, enhancing their other-worldliness, such as the photographs of pop-icon Lady Gaga. The artists’ intervention of collage technique abstracts the famous star into an almost unrecognisable, ethereal muse.
This blending of techniques and their mastery of digital manipulation has had such a following in photography, becoming ubiquitous up to the point one would almost forget just how daring and cutting-edge the duo’s explorations of photography’s boundaries have been since their earliest work.
The seemingly effortless movements of the artists between editorials, videos, exhibitions, experimental montage and assemblage, are a rare thing indeed, and form the foundation for the vigorousness of the firmly established brand Inez & Vinoodh.
Inez & Vinoodh have created ground-breaking editorials for such publications as American, French, Japanese and Italian Vogue, V Magazine, Visionaire, The New York Times Magazine, The Gentlewoman, and W Magazine, as well as campaigns for Balenciaga, Balmain, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Isabel Marant, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Valentino and Yohji Yamamoto.
Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally including the Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Deichtor hallen in Hamburg and the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. A retrospective show titled PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING 1985-2010 began its international tour at FOAM, Amsterdam in the summer of 2010 and has since travelled to the Pavillion Bienal in Sao Paulo, the Dallas Contemporary in Dallas and Fotografiska in Stockholm. In 2020 their work has been on show at the Palazzo Reale in Milan curated by Francesco Bonami and at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin.
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Summershow: 'The Portrait'
18 Jun - 27 Aug 2022WHAT COULD BE MORE SIMPLE AND MORE COMPLEX, MORE OBVIOUS AND MORE PROFOUND THAN A PORTRAIT? - CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The human urge to immortalize its likeness is as old as...Read more -
The Constructed Image
Groupshow 17 Jul - 5 Sep 2021The Ravestijn Gallery is delighted to announce The Constructed Image, a group exhibition that brings together nineteen ( inter)national and experimental artists who showcase photography’s ability to not only reproduce...Read more -
The Salon Show
in collaboration with Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques and The Wunderkammer 13 Jun - 22 Aug 2020The Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to announce The Salon Show, created in collaboration with Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques and The Wunderkammer. The exhibition will show over 80 works from (all) represented...Read more -
Helmut Newton Foundation | Body Performance
Inez & Vinoodh 30 Nov 2019 - 20 Sep 2020One relatively unknown work by Helmut Newton is the series of images he made of the dancers of the Monte Carlo Ballet. Taken over many years, the photos were intended...Read more -
Inez & Vinoodh
'I see you in everything' 7 Sep - 19 Oct 2019The Ravestijn Gallery presented I See You in Everything, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of the artist duo, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, better known by their...Read more
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Art Rotterdam 2022
Group presentation with Inez & Vinoodh, Nico Krijno, Michel Lamoller, Scheltens & Abbenes, and Theis Wendt 19 - 22 May 2022The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present Inez & Vinoodh (NL/US), Nico Krijno (ZA), Theis Wendt (DK), Scheltens & Abbenes (NL) and Michel Lamoller (DE)...Read more -
Paris Photo 2021
Group presentation Anja Niemi, Michael Bailey-Gates, Inez & Vinoodh and Patrick Waterhouse 11 - 14 Nov 2021During Paris Photo 2021 The Ravestijn Gallery presents 4 artists in the online viewing room: Inez & Vinoodh (US), Patrick Waterhouse (UK), Michael Bailey-Gates (US)...Read more -
Paris Photo 2019
Solo presentation Inez & Vinoodh 7 - 10 Nov 2019The Ravestijn Gallery presented artist duo Inez & Vinoodh at the PRISMES sector of Paris Photo 2019. A specially conceived artist book, made in collaboration...Read more -
UNSEEN 2018
Group presentation Inez & Vinoodh / Eva Stenram / Martina Sauter 21 - 23 Sep 2018At this edition of UNSEEN Photo Festival, The Ravestijn Gallery presents three artists: Eva Stenram, and, new to the gallery, Martina Sauter and the artist...Read more
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Fashion and Art: Inez & Vinoodh
Derek Blasberg, Gagosian Quarterly Magazine, October 11, 2021 -
(Re)constructing reality and (Re)imagining photography
Simona Marani, Fotografare, August 21, 2021 -
EXHIBITION REVIEW: THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE
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MODES OF FABRICATION
Rachel Segal Hamilton, Aesthetica Magazine, August 2, 2021 -
EEN BEVALLIG BEEN LIGT LOS OP DE BANK, ALS EEN VONDST UIT EEN CRIME SCENE
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Met schaar en Photoshop
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Wallpaper: Inez & Vinoodh
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Document Journal: Inez & Vinoodh
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Vogue
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Welt am Sonntag
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032c
December 9, 2019 -
Photographie
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BOF
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W Magazine
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Vogue
October 29, 2019 -
Italian Vogue
October 4, 2019 -
FD Persoonlijk
October 3, 2019 -
Vogue | Inez & Vinoodh in The Ravestijn Gallery
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Het Parool: Tentoonstelling fotografie Inez & Vinoodh in The Ravestijn Gallery
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Metropolis M
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Handelsblatt
September 5, 2019 -
L'Oeil de la Photographie
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MENDO
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Interview by Antonia Nessen
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New York Times
December 31, 2013
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Ruth van Beek, Scheltens & Abbenes, Inez & Vinoodh | The Garden of Delight
July 1 - July 31, 2021 June 24, 2021The Garden of Delight is an exhibition in public space commissioned by the Netherlands Embassy in Budapest. Throughout July, 25 Citylight posters will present the...Read more -
Inez & Vinoodh on 'Pretty Much Everything'
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Inez & Vinoodh launch Double Dutch
BY STEFF YOTKA for Vogue December 8, 2020By Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin’s count, more than half of the holiday gifts that exchange hands each year end up in the trash....Read more
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Art Rotterdam 2022
Group presentation with Inez & Vinoodh, Nico Krijno, Michel Lamoller, Scheltens & Abbenes, and Theis Wendt 19 - 22 May 2022The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present Inez & Vinoodh (NL/US), Nico Krijno (ZA), Theis Wendt (DK), Scheltens & Abbenes (NL) and Michel Lamoller (DE)...Read more -
Paris Photo 2021
Group presentation Anja Niemi, Michael Bailey-Gates, Inez & Vinoodh and Patrick Waterhouse 11 - 14 Nov 2021During Paris Photo 2021 The Ravestijn Gallery presents 4 artists in the online viewing room: Inez & Vinoodh (US), Patrick Waterhouse (UK), Michael Bailey-Gates (US)...Read more -
Paris Photo 2019
Solo presentation Inez & Vinoodh 7 - 10 Nov 2019The Ravestijn Gallery presented artist duo Inez & Vinoodh at the PRISMES sector of Paris Photo 2019. A specially conceived artist book, made in collaboration...Read more -
UNSEEN 2018
Group presentation Inez & Vinoodh / Eva Stenram / Martina Sauter 21 - 23 Sep 2018At this edition of UNSEEN Photo Festival, The Ravestijn Gallery presents three artists: Eva Stenram, and, new to the gallery, Martina Sauter and the artist...Read more