Past
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'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 to... 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: '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 of... 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: '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,... Read more -
'Volumes'
Thomas Kuijpers 8 May - 26 Jun 2021 The 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 objects, forming an experimental installation that brings Kuijpers’ fascination with contemporary events and their representations to its most present. Over... 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: '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 isolation. Galleries and... Read more -
Mariken Wessels
'NUDE - Arising from the ground' 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 -
Jan Rosseel
'An Archaelogy of Fear' 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 much.... 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 -
Cortis & Sonderegger
'Icons' 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 recreating... Read more -
Inez & Vinoodh
'I See You in Everything' 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 work... Read more -
Mathieu Asselin
'MONSANTO®: A PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION' 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 -
Vincent Fournier
'Space Utopia' 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 -
Christopher Anderson
'BLEU BLANC ROUGE' 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 -
Scheltens & Abbenes
'The workers' 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 -
Tereza Zelenkova
'THE ESSENTIAL SOLITUDE' 14 Apr - 26 May 2018 ‘The Essential Solitude’ is 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 -
Nico Krijno
'The Fluid Right Edge' 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 age... Read more -
Bownik
'Disassembly / Reverse' 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 of... Read more -
Philippe Braquenier
'Palimpsest' 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.... Read more -
Ferry van der Nat
'Originals' 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 -
Ruth van Beek
'The Situation Room' 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 -
Alinka Echeverria
'Becoming South Sudan' 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 -
Eva Stenram
'Offcut' 10 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 For this show at The Ravestijn gallery, Eva Stenram further explores her use of found images and what it means to be looking at them. ‘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... Read more -
The Summer Show 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 -
Vincent Fournier
'Brasilia' 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 -
Peter Watkins
'The Unforgetting' 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 -
Nico Krijno
'Under Construction' 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 -
The summer Show 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 -
Eva Stenram
'Parts' 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 -
Koen Hauser
'Tableaux' 28 Feb - 4 Apr 2015 The Ravestijn Gallery was proud to present new work by Koen Hauser (1972, The Netherlands): an open-minded quest for the simple beauty of attributes and objects stripped of functionality that will show the essence of their configuration. Koen Hauser got his first degree in Social Psychology before he graduated in... Read more -
Ruth van Beek
'New Arrangements' 8 Nov - 20 Dec 2014 The Ravestijn gallery proudly presented “New Arrangements”, an exhibition of Ruth van Beek’s kinetic photographic collages. Van Beek combines everyday, found photographs with paint, cutting or folding to inspire a unique dialogue between image and object. Collage is central to van Beek’s work, transforming her appropriated photographic images into a... Read more -
Vincent Fournier
'Past Forward' 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 -
Ferry van der Nat
'Mr. Polaroid' 1 Mar - 26 Apr 2014 The Ravestijn Gallery’s exhibition ‘Mr. Polaroid’ by Ferry Van der Nat is a playful exploration of the nude form and its transformative nature under the spell of the instant camera. Van der Nat worked for many years as a make-up artist and began to document his surroundings through Polaroid shots.... Read more -
Mark Nettenbreijers
'Rise & Fall' 13 Jan - 22 Feb 2014 ‘Rise & Fall’ is photographer Mark Nettenbreijers’ debut exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery. In this haunting series of large-scale black and white photographs, the forest becomes a rich canvas for an abstract light that captures the cycles of life and death. The forest has long been a symbol of darkness... Read more -
Darren Harvey-Regan
'Phrasings' 1 Nov - 21 Dec 2013 The Ravestijn Gallery presents the works of Darren Harvey-Regan, a photographer interested in the concept that photographs do not exist just to show things, but are physical things that become objects themselves. In 1955, Fortune magazine published, ‘Beauties of the Common Tool’, a portfolio by Walker Evans featuring pictures of... Read more -
Mikael Jansson
'Dum Dum Boys' 9 Sep - 27 Oct 2013 ‘Dum Dum Boys’ is Mikael Jansson’s powerful series of portraits featuring male rock stars with lived-in faces such as Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, David Johansen and Michael Stipe. For every photographer it must be a delight to have Iggy Pop in front of their lens as he is... Read more -
Vincent Fournier
'Post Natural History' 17 May - 30 Jun 2013 A beetle with GPS in its antenna and an insect with spring-loaded legs are part of Vincent Fournier’s cabinet of species: at first sight normal animals, who on the basis of evolutionary genetics, have miraculously transformed in order to adapt to the future’s changing environment. In the work of the... Read more -
Eva Stenram
'Drape' 9 Mar - 28 Apr 2013 The Swedish born Eva Stenram calls herself “an artist who works with photographs”. Her source materials are photographs found in (vintage) magazines, on the Internet or from family photo albums that she digitally manipulates – leading to bizarre and arresting images. For her series, ‘Retouching History’, she wanted to explore... Read more -
Atze Haytsma
'The Female Nude' 29 Sep - 28 Oct 2012 Atze Haytsma (1929) was educated to be a sculptor. At fourteen years old he started his professional career as an assistant of Geert Marree, just before the Dutch famine of 1944. After that he studied at the Applied Art School and the State Academy of Expressive Arts. He also learned... Read more
