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Behind Closed Doors
Groupshow featuring Michael Bailey-Gates, Matt Lipps, Pacifico Silano, Christopher Smith, Michael Young 26 Jul - 30 Aug 2025 Read more -
'A Naturalist Guide to Magic' by Anja Niemi
Works and new book now available! 18 Apr - 30 Jun 2025 In one image, a white cowboy hat – the sole trace of a human hand – floats pasts a desert backdrop, as if carried by a swirling wind. In another, weeds creep gently across a manmade pathway, slowly threatening access to a wooden jetty stretching out on a silver lake.... Read more
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'Against the Grain'
Groupshow with Theis Wendt, Nico Krijno, Scheltens & Abbenes, Mark Nettenbreijers, Michel Lamoller and Vincent Fournier 20 - 23 Feb 2025 For centuries, the forest has served as a twilight zone for artists – a realm of possibility and a site of transformation, a source of raw materials or subject matter in its own right. In photographic history, incursions into nature’s wooded depths are a well-trodden creative path, while close observations... Read more -
'The Keys to the Factory'
Jean-Vincent Simonet 17 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 The featured bodies of work each take cues from the artist’s personal history; his family owns a printing factory near Lyon, passed down from generation to generation. Over the course of a childhood spent on site, Simonet became accustomed to the familiar choreography of the factory’s fluctuating output; used principally... Read more -
'Monochromatic'
Michael-Bailey Gates, Blommers & Schumm, Katie Burnett, Asger Carlsen, Inez & Vinoodh, Boris Eldagsen, Emile Gostelie, Nico Krijno, KYoung, Anja Niemi, Robin de Puy, Pacifico Silano, Scheltens & Abbenes, Christopher Smith, Eva Stenram, and Tereza Zelenkov 29 Apr - 10 Jun 2023 A woman in a formal white gown glances sideways, her gaze steady and her expression neutral. A set of hands – the body to whom they belong cropped from the frame – tends to the garment’s draped fabric, as if carefully fitting a wedding dress. To the rear, an older... Read more -
'Fruits of Labor'
Ruth van Beek & Mariken Wessels 11 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to bring together new work by Dutch artists Ruth van Beek and Mariken Wessels. In this exhibition, their two distinct visions are brought into dialogue. Their mutual interest in exploring the act of creation, their muses and their gestures of intervening into existing material overlap... Read more -
'The Constellation'
Nico Krijno 21 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 In The Constellation , the latest chapter in Krijno’s continuous flow of obsessive image-making, a series of motifs bleed between the featured works, from multi-coloured polkadots to vanishing still-lifes, from warped sculptures to the characteristic lines of spray-painted graffiti. For our first exhibition of 2023, the Ravestijn Gallery is proud... Read more -
'I'M SORRY DAVE'
Bownik, Philippe Braquenier, Vincent Fournier, Koen Hauser, Inez & Vinoodh, Martina Sauter 5 Nov 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 Across a sleek and clinical universe of Kubrick’s own design, the movie projected an artificial intelligence so sophisticated that it would, sooner or later, defy its creators; ‘I’m sorry Dave,’ HAL 9000 – the sentient computer – famously tells his human operator, ‘I’m afraid I can’t do that.’ Over 50... Read more -
'One of a Kind'
A 10-year anniversary show with unique pieces 3 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 When, 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 a way to hold a mirror up to the world. Instead, photography for them was a means to do more;... Read more -
Summershow 2022: 'The Portrait'
Michael Bailey-Gates, Blommers & Schumm, Koos Breukel, Asger Carlsen, FakeShamus, Inez & Vinoodh, Anja Niemi, Robin de Puy, Pacifico Silano & Patrick Waterhouse. 25 Jun - 27 Aug 2022 The human urge to immortalize its likeness is as old as the emergence of civilization: the Ancient Greek immortalized important figures in marble and stone, where Ancient Egyptian portraiture flourished from about 5,000 years ago. Before the invention of photography, painting, sculpting, and drawing were the only ways to record... Read more -
'Anthropogenic Mass'
Michel Lamoller 30 Apr - 18 Jun 2022 The exhibition Anthropogenic Mass has been extended by popular demand until June 18, 2022! The Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to present Anthropogenic Mass , the first solo exhibition of German artist Michel Lamoller with the gallery. The exhibition will comprise of unique, photographic relief works that make visible the mass... Read more -
'Exclamation Mark: a groupshow'
Salim Bayri, Nico Krijno, Matt Lipps, Mark Mahaney & Theis Wendt 12 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 The Ravestijn Gallery proudly presents Exclamation Mark: a groupshow with works by Salim Bayri, Nico Krijno, Matt Lipps, Mark Mahaney, and Theis Wendt. Five artists from different parts of the world whose work we follow and admire turning the gallery space into a curated treasure trove. What is real and... Read more -
'Literally'
Scheltens & Abbenes 15 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 While being happy with the series of revived rugs, Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes felt the photos deserved yet another context. For their upcoming show at The Ravestijn Gallery, which opens on January 15 th 2022, the photos gain a next life, this time by returning to the rugs’ three-dimensionality.... Read more -
'The Rider Vol. 1'
Anja Niemi 30 Oct 2021 - 8 Jan 2022 The Rider Vol. 1 is an ideological progression from Anja Niemi's previous series The Blow (2019), in which a female boxer has the lead role. The Blow is an allegory for struggle, and the countless number of conflicts we as humans wrestle with. As with all of Niemi’s work, the... Read more -
'A Glint In The Kindling'
Michael Bailey-Gates 18 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to announce A Glint In The Kindling, the first exhibition in Europe and at the gallery of American artist Michael Bailey-Gates. In A Glint In The Kindling , photographs are made to affirm a coming reality. Transgressing against set gender roles, Michael imagines new ways... Read more -
Summershow 2021: 'The Constructed Image'
Ruth van Beek, Jasper de Beijer, Katrien de Blauwer, Blommers & Schumm, Cortis & Sonderegger, Koen Hauser, Jaime Hayon, Inez & Vinoodh, Nico Krijno, Michel Lamoller, Simon Lehner, Jean-Francois Lepage, Matt Lipps, Sohei Nishino, Martina Sauter, Scheltens 17 Jul - 5 Sep 2021 The 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 but also be a source for something new. From Hannah Höch’s violent photomontages to Martha Rosler’s political juxtapositions, collage... Read more -
'Volumes'
Thomas Kuijpers 8 May - 26 Jun 2021 Over the last year, flatness has preceded everything. Whether through the screens we use for daily meetings or the newspapers we leaf through looking for news about tomorrow, flatness is no longer just a choice. It has become the default means to experience because of an inability to do otherwise.... Read more -
'Earth not a globe'
Philippe Braquenier 23 Jan - 24 Apr 2021 The Ravestijn Gallery opens the new year with a solo exhibition Earth not a globe by Philippe Braquenier, nominated for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2020 . The continents float on an endless ocean which somehow has a layer of rock and fire underneath it. Earth is a disc under... Read more -
'The Nursery'
Ruth van Beek 21 Nov 2020 - 16 Jan 2021 The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to announce The Nursery, a solo show by Ruth van Beek. The exhibition will comprise of new collages and manuals that have their beginnings in van Beek’s growing archive of dolls and their making. Read more -
'Restricted Images Made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia'
Patrick Waterhouse 3 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Patrick Waterhouse was born in the UK in 1981. The Restricted Images series is a collaboration between Waterhouse and the Warlukurlangu Art Centre. The works were made in the communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi which are remote desert aboriginal communities in Central Australia. The publication in 1899 of The Native... Read more -
Summershow 2020: 'The Salon Show'
in collaboration with Ingeborg Ravestijn Antiques and The Wunderkammer 13 Jun - 22 Aug 2020 The 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 and affiliated artists, hung in the style of a 17th Century salon. Today, art is often presented and seen in... Read more -
'NUDE - Arising from the ground'
Mariken Wessels 14 Mar - 30 May 2020 The exhibition Nude - Arising From The Ground by Mariken Wessels was her first solo exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery. A new book, designed by Hans Gremmen, entitled Miss Cox (Nude - Arising from the Ground) was launched during the opening. Comprising of sculpture, photography and film, and inspired by... Read more -
'An Archaelogy of Fear'
Jan Rosseel 25 Jan - 7 Mar 2020 The Ravestijn Gallery presented Jan Rosseel’s An Archaeology of Fear , a body of work that reflects the artist’s enduring interest in fear’s grip on contemporary society. There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so... Read more -
'The Blow'
Anja Niemi 14 Dec 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 At first glance, Anja Niemi’s new work shows an unaccompanied woman, dressed in black and with a face that is always turned, driving to a solitary house in the desert. Here she trades her clothes for that of a boxer. The boxing paraphernalia builds upon the idea that each photograph... Read more -
'Icons'
Cortis & Sonderegger 26 Oct - 7 Dec 2019 The Ravestijn Gallery presented the first solo show in the Netherlands of Swiss artist duo Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger, known as Cortis & Sonderegger. The exhibition showed photographs from their renowned series Icons , in which the pair trawled countless books filled with the world’s most iconic photographs before... Read more -
'I See You in Everything'
Inez & Vinoodh 7 Sep - 19 Oct 2019 The 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 collaborative name Inez & Vinoodh. Without a singular theme or period, the exhibition will comprise of an array of... Read more -
'MONSANTO®: A PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION'
Mathieu Asselin 29 Jun - 31 Aug 2019 The Ravestijn Gallery hosted the exhibition Monsanto®: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselin in collaboration with guest curator Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo. The exhibition shows Asselin’s exhaustive project about the origins, methods and consequences of the destructive pesticides manufactured and used by the American chemical company Monsanto, in both a current... Read more -
'Skulptura'
Koen Hauser 18 May - 22 Jun 2019 In the words of author Merel Bem, “Koen Hauser never starts from the idea that a photo should represent reality in a direct way. As a photographer with a deeply rooted urge to create, he is therefore determined to (be able to) put reality into his own hands where photographic... Read more -
'Space Utopia'
Vincent Fournier 30 Mar - 11 May 2019 Space Utopia collects over a decade of Fournier’s work surrounding space exploration on earth. Evoking a tenacious nostalgia toward the science fiction of the twentieth century, his photographs reflect on international space travel over generations. His latest work consists of several NASA Space Centers (including Houston and Cape Canaveral) and... Read more -
'Love Me'
Robin de Puy 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 There are portraits of young people and of elderly people, of broken shopping trolleys and of worn out hands. Beautiful and ugly. But does ugly actually exist? Not in the images of Robin de Puy. She finds beauty in what others regard as unsightly. Unexpected, moving beauty is what links... Read more -
'BLEU BLANC ROUGE'
Christopher Anderson 2 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 The Ravestijn Gallery presented ‘Bleu Blanc Rouge’, an exhibition featuring new work by American photographer Christopher Anderson. In this playful and poetic series, Andersons ties images together in a stimulating way: portraits, candid moments, still lifes. They are photographs taken in passing, carefully arranged together. Some of these images tell... Read more -
'She could have been a Cowboy'
Anja Niemi 8 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Suppose I were to tell you about this cowboy who’s not really a cowboy, not in the regular sense of the term, not in the sense that she drives cattle, or rides horses, or wears cowboy hats, not yet anyway. This cowboy is imaginary but she exists, like a sculpture... Read more -
'The workers'
Scheltens & Abbenes 2 Jun - 21 Jul 2018 In the summer of 2018 The Ravestijn Gallery presented Scheltens & Abbenes’ bright and colourful series ‘The Workers’. The Dutch artist duo, consisting of photographer Maurice Scheltens (1972) and visual artist Liesbeth Abbenes (1970), show their distinctive still lives: abstract yet compelling, and with a meticulous eye for detail. The... Read more -
'THE ESSENTIAL SOLITUDE'
Tereza Zelenkova 14 Apr - 26 May 2018 ‘The Essential Solitude’ was Czech photographer Tereza Zelenkova’s first exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery. In her preferred black and white images Zelenkova presents a room and its curious inhabitant, evoking the fin de siècle movements of symbolism and decadence, to which the photographer pays homage, with references to the literature... Read more -
'The Fluid Right Edge'
Nico Krijno 3 Nov 2017 - 3 Feb 2018 For this show at The Ravestijn Gallery, The Fluid Right Edge , Nico Krijno (1981) further develops his pioneering and avant-garde approach to photography. In a series of both colour and black-and-white images – titled sculpture and pattern studies - Krijno’s unique sensibility of being a digital painter in an... Read more -
'Disassembly / Reverse'
Bownik 16 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 In the autumn of 2017 The Ravestijn Gallery presented two series by Polish photographer Bownik, ‘Disassembly’ and ‘Reverse’ . In his work Bownik uses large format prints that perfectly fit his intellectual approach to photography, which mixes conceptual complexity with an astute sense of details and composition. Disassembly (2014) consists... Read more -
'Palimpsest'
Philippe Braquenier 8 Apr - 13 May 2017 noun pa-limp-sest \ pa-l m(p)- sest, p - lim(p)-\ : a very old document on which the original writing has been effaced and replaced with newer writing : something that has changed over time and shows evidence of that change The natural foundations of our memory are slowly collapsing. Remembering... Read more -
'Originals'
Ferry van der Nat 18 Feb - 1 Apr 2017 Dutch photographer Ferry van der Nat, formerly known as Mr. Polaroid, has done it all. He’s been a chef, makeup artist to a touring drag queen show, made wigs for Viktor & Rolf, and is a celebrated fashion editor, stylist and photographer. The word polymath doesn’t begin to describe the... Read more -
'The Situation Room'
Ruth van Beek 17 Dec 2016 - 4 Feb 2017 Ruth van Beek’s work originates in her ever-growing archive. The images, mainly from old photo books, are her tools, source material and context. Van Beek physically intervenes within the pictures. By folding, cutting, or adding pieces of painted paper, she rearranges and manipulates the image until her interventions reveal the... Read more -
'Becoming South Sudan'
Alinka Echeverria 29 Oct - 10 Dec 2016 Prior to South Sudan's independence from the Republic of Sudan in 2011, forty years of internal conflicts and two protracted civil wars had permeated the history of the country. Established in 1956 at the end of the Anglo-Egyptian colonial rule, the Republic of Sudan had its borders drawn by its... Read more -
'Offcut'
Eva Stenram 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 ‘Offcut’ consists of three works that combines the photographic with three dimensional installation. As in her previous work, Stenram uses found vintage pin-up photographs from which she makes new images. Central to this exhibition are the fabrics seen in each of the found pin-up pictures: thus attention is drawn to... Read more -
Summershow 2016
Group presentation RUTH VAN BEEK / JEAN-FRANCOIS LEPAGE / EVA STENRAM / KATRIEN DE BLAUWER / MICHAEL ETZENSPERGER 3 Jun - 3 Sep 2016 Ruth van Beek (1977) works with a growing archive of found photographic material, images are arranged in constantly changing ways. From these odd combinations and decontextualized images she makes her work. Van Beek treats the photos she collects as objects. By cutting and folding, adding shapes of watercolor painted paper... Read more -
'Brasilia'
Vincent Fournier 16 Apr - 28 May 2016 Brasília is a city composed of reinforced concrete, a paragon of the tenets of modernist architecture and city planning. Enfolded by the artificial Paranoá Lake, the city fashions a curious structural plane; a grid-like formula of post-war modernism arranged into a light curve. Brasília was constructed in the late 50’s... Read more -
'The Unforgetting'
Peter Watkins 4 Mar - 7 Apr 2016 'I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting but rather its lining.' - Chris Marker On the 15th of February 1993, my mother walked from Zandvoort beach into the North Sea to her death. 'The Unforgetting' is a... Read more -
'Under Construction'
Nico Krijno 21 Nov 2015 - 9 Jan 2016 An image of a veneer structure is composed of curved strokes and air. Brown, beige, moderately cream-peach, rose. With pleated tails the curves descend within the frame. The bent figurations are far from seamless, almost as if unsynchronized within themselves. A question follows; how does one read into this image?... Read more -
Summershow 2015
Group presentation DARREN HARVEY-REGAN / MARK NETTENBRIJERS / KOEN HAUSER / ATZE HAYTSMA 25 Jul - 29 Aug 2015 Darren Harvey-Regan (1974) experiments with the nature of the photographic and its relationship to the material world. He presents a constant interaction between the subject, its photographic representation and the material photograph itself. With ‘Metalepsis’, Harvey-Regan created an extremely precise association of images and textures, combining different perspectives and blurring... Read more -
'Parts'
Eva Stenram 9 Mar - 28 Apr 2015 Eva Stenram’s Parts uses 1960's pin-up photographs as its source material. The pictures are digitally altered, obliterating most of the model and leaving only a leg intact. The resultant mood is macabre – the severed limb does not entice and the original photograph's erotic effect is turned on its head.... Read more -
'Tableaux'
Koen Hauser 28 Feb - 4 Apr 2015 Koen Hauser got his first degree in Social Psychology before he graduated in Photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. This combined background of social studies and art serves as an explanation for his exploratory vision with which he approaches the world: an autonomous view on things that he then... Read more -
'New Arrangements'
Ruth van Beek 8 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 Collage is central to van Beek’s work, transforming her appropriated photographic images into a newly tactile object, both concrete and illusory. The works form a tension between what the viewer readily sees and what appears to hide in plain sight. By introducing an additional overlay to photographic work (usually painted... Read more -
'Past Forward'
Vincent Fournier 6 Sep - 31 Oct 2014 In September 2014, The Ravestijn Gallery presented photographer Vincent Fournier’s work from his uncanny series ‘Space Project’ and ‘The Man Machine’ (2012). Shown for the first time in the Netherlands, these two series consider space and technology as still undiscovered countries on Earth. With ‘Space Project’, Fournier photographs space training... Read more -
'Mr. Polaroid'
Ferry van der Nat 1 Mar - 26 Apr 2014 Van der Nat worked for many years as a make-up artist and began to document his surroundings through Polaroid shots. Recently his approach has evolved into a more formal and sustained engagement with this flexible medium, and ‘Mr. Polaroid ’ showcases the exciting middle ground between backstage and the studio.... Read more -
'Rise & Fall'
Mark Nettenbreijers 13 Jan - 22 Feb 2014 ‘Rise & Fall’ takes the viewer into the silence and fragility of the natural world. Each photograph presents a tangled, intricate view of the forest. Nettenbreijers photographs trees, branches, underbrush and sky that simultaneously blend into one another and sharply contrast within a spectrum of greys and blacks. Nettenbreijers photographs... Read more -
'Phrasings'
Darren Harvey-Regan 1 Nov - 21 Dec 2013 In 1955, Fortune magazine published, ‘Beauties of the Common Tool’, a portfolio by Walker Evans featuring pictures of ordinary hand-made tools, such as a ratchet wrench and a pair of scissors. Harvey-Regan first constructed a montage of Evans’s images to make new forms. He then sourced matching tools, cut them... Read more -
'Starlets'
Anja Niemi 4 - 29 Jun 2013 In Starlets , Niemi continues to combine the self-portrait with the idea of the staged narrative. The images are like film stills with herself playing all the characters - a 'ne-man band', she always works alone. The stories are loosely told so as to leave room for interpretation. Niemi states... Read more -
'Post Natural History'
Vincent Fournier 17 May - 30 Jun 2013 In the work of the French photographer, Vincent Fournier, science features prominently. Since visiting the Palais de la Découverte in Paris as a young boy, the wonders of the world, such as astronomy, space travel, geology, biology and physics, have continued to fascinate him. These preoccupations are featured in his... Read more -
'Drape'
Eva Stenram 9 Mar - 28 Apr 2013 For her series, ‘Retouching History’, she wanted to explore a personal fantasy: “what would it be like to be the same age as your parents?” Using photographs from her family album, Stenram digitally inserted herself as a twenty year old seated next to her mother in a bar, as though... Read more -
'Delusions'
Blommers & Schumm 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2013 In ‘Delusions’, The Ravestijn Gallery presents a selection of thirteen optical illusions from the oeuvre of Blommers & Schumm wherein confusion is omnipresent. A recent series of four misleading stills for the erotic paperback magazine ‘Baron’ gave rise for the show. Here the viewer might be confronted with his own... Read more -
'The Female Nude'
Atze Haytsma 29 Sep - 28 Oct 2012 Where he used to work with stone, he now, because of his age, works only with wax. But it has always been about the shape of a woman’s body. Photographing women became an essential part of his life. He always photographs his women naked. Atze sees clothing as a kind... Read more
