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Deepwater Horizon, 2021
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Results (Grid), 2021
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Amazon (Bon)fire, 2021
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Collection of Charity Records, 2020 - ongoing
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Burst (Continuous Light), 2021
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An Extra Pair of Eye, 2021
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CREDIBLE_SOURCE, 2021
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France, 2020, 2021
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Notes From a Meek, 2021
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Personal Note, 2021
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Real Dear, 2021
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This Is Where It Happens (part 2) , 2021
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Triad, 2021
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Block A , 2019
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Blue an Yellow Circle I (yellow/blue), 2018
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Blue an Yellow Circle II (red/white/blue), 2018
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EuroSpin, 2019
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From the series 'Go Jihadis!' , 2015 - ongoing
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Radical Verse (I suppose) , 2018
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Screens, 2019
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This is an Attempt to Make an Equalized Registration of a Protest on a Sunny Stockholm Afternoon, 2018
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Tubed Trees, 2020
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VOTE, 2020
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White flag / Black flag, 2016
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Wordcloud #1: Jihad Q4 2014 (Explanatory Clippings), 2015
Thomas Kuijpers (b. 1985, the Netherlands) is a visual artist whose work explores the role of contemporary medianarratives within our perception of the actual world.
Thomas Kuijpers sees the world as something fluid, manipulated, constructed. Rather than adhering to the idea that it can be experienced objectively, his work reveals the world’s slippery nature and the forces that perpetually shape it — newspapers, television, the internet, politics, adverts, social media, technology, products and more. For Kuijpers, the world is always perceived through or influenced by something. Truth is dependent on who, what, where, when and how, and we are never impartial.
Kuijpers’ investigative works start with his daily experience of current events, happenings that rapidly become a kaleidoscope of diverse, overlapping, conflicting perspectives — including his own. Each event is copied and pasted indefinitely through an endless media landscape, and it is these copies — images, articles, conversations, videos, memorabilia, quotes — that Kuijpers habitually collects over years, forming archives of competing realities.
Acting as artist, editor, anthropologist and collector simultaneously, he scrutinises and rearranges his archives until the structures of our media-saturated world are uncovered. Kuijpers then assembles his findings into new constellations, often taking the form of experimental, multimedia installations, inviting us to be aware of the illusions and rhetoric that mould our everyday lives. Ironically, it is only through Kuijpers’ obsession with the minute parts of the world that we see just how fragile it is as a whole.
Thomas Kuijpers completed his MFA Photography in 2011 at AKV St. Joost (Breda, the Netherlands) and has been exhibited at institutions, fairs and galleries internationally including: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Foam, Amsterdam; Krakow Photo Month, Krakow; Fotopub Festival, Novo Mesto; Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall, London; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Red Hook Labs, New York City and MASP, São Paulo amongst others. In 2017, he was nominated as a Foam Talent and his latest book, Hoarder Order (Fw: Books, 2020) was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards 2020.
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AG | Thomas Kuijpers
'Souvenir' 10 Sep - 8 Oct 2022In de tentoonstelling Souvenir komt het werk van verschillende kunstenaars samen die de camera gebruiken in een poging bijzonderheden uit de alledaagse werkelijkheid te bewaren. Om te proberen vast te...Read more -
'One of a Kind'
A 10-year anniversary show with unique pieces 3 Sep - 22 Oct 2022When, in 2012, Narda van 't Veer and Jasper Bode founded The Ravestijn Gallery, they were amongst the few galleries in the Netherlands who felt photography was more than simply...Read more -
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie Mannheim | Thomas Kuijpers
'Volumes' 19 Mar - 25 May 2022Shaping Data Shaping Data explores how the widespread use of digital technologies affects our physical bodies, frames our opinions, and alters human interactions. We spend lots of our time with...Read more -
PopInnArt | Thomas Kuijpers
'When The Twins Were Still Beautiful' 11 - 12 Sep 2021Popinnart organiseert in het weekend van 11 en 12 september, na 1,5 jaar lockdown, weer een grote tentoonstelling. De enorme industriële hal van 1000m2, een verstopte parel in hartje Oud-Zuid,...Read more -
Noorderlicht 2021 | Thomas Kuijpers
'Volumes' 7 Aug - 3 Oct 2021THE MAKEABLE MIND Curator: Paulien Dresscher | Junior curator: George Knegtel Departing from photography, the 28th edition focuses on the entire spectrum of the image, both analogue and digital: from...Read more -
'Volumes'
Thomas Kuijpers 8 May - 26 Jun 2021The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present Volumes, the inaugural solo exhibition of Thomas Kuijpers with the gallery. Volumes will consist of new photographic works, videos, sculptures, etchings and archival...Read more -
Unfair 2020 | Thomas Kuijpers
‘Opt for change’ 3 Jul - 23 Aug 2020Every edition, they show 40 solo presentations with the most recent, unprecedented work of the best upcoming and established artists of today and tomorrow and present an extensive program with...Read more -
Noorderlicht 2019
19 Nov 2019The 26th edition of the Noorderlicht International Photo Festival examines the social tensions created by international mega corporations with their enormous accumulation of capital and influence on national and global...Read more -
Mucho Mas! | Thomas Kuijpers
'Decor' 30 Oct - 30 Nov 2018Decor is an experiment by Thomas Kuijpers, departing from the way images to him most of the time are incapable of transmitting emotions on a deeper level, because they are...Read more -
Ruimtekoers Festival Arnhem 2017
15 - 25 Nov 2017The third edition of the Ruimtekoers Festival took place in Arnhem. With art exhibitions, theater, music and dance performances, workshops and lectures, created by professionals as well as city dwellers,...Read more -
FOAM 2017
FOAM Talent 1 Sep - 12 Nov 2017This year Foam presents - for the first time - the Foam Talent exhibition in Amsterdam. The presentation highlights the work of 20 international artists, consisting of countless subjects and...Read more -
Museum Arnhem 2016
'Millenials' 8 Oct 2016 - 29 Jan 2017With ‘Millennials’, Museum Arnhem showed work by ten artists, most of them belong to the generation that is referred to in the media as Millennials: born after 1980. Millennials are...Read more -
FOAM 2015
'When the Twins were still beautiful' 18 Dec 2015 - 31 Jan 2016It all started with a painting by an unknown artist depicting the iconic image of the Twin Towers. The description only said ‘painted before 2001’. When visual artist Thomas Kuijpers...Read more -
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2014
'On the move' 24 Aug 2014 - 18 Jan 2015Amsterdam, August 19, 2014 — The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam will open the cultural season with On the Move , an exhibition that explores new developments in photography. It is the...Read more -
Unseen Residency 2018