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Patrick Waterhouse & Mikhael Subotzky
'Ponte City' 24 Apr - 1 Nov 2020 Patrick Waterhouse and Mikhael Subotzky worked at Ponte City, the iconic Johannesburg apartment building which is Africa’s tallest residential skyscraper, for more than six years. They photographed the residents and documented the building – every door, the view from every window, the image on every television screen. This remarkable body... Read more -
Vincent Fournier
'Kosmic Memories' 1 May - 1 Nov 2020 Kosmic memories reveals the extraordinary totems of an imagined future civilization. It is not by chance that this science fi ction universe was born between the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1980s in the non-aligned countries of the former Russia. T he obsession with the... Read more -
Nico Krijno
'Lockdown Collages' 1 Apr - 1 Oct 2020 Nico Krijno’s latest collection of work, Lockdown Collages, were made at his farmhouse outside of Cape Town during lockdown. With his wife and two daughters away with family, Krijno made these works in acute seclusion. Yet whilst Krijno wasn’t used to the uncertain amount of time separated from his family,... Read more
Forthcoming
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Approche 2020
Solo presentation Patrick Waterhouse 13 - 15 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. In 1899, the book The Native Tribes... Read more -
Ruth van Beek
'The Nursery' 20 Nov 2020 - 30 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. In 2018, van Beek published How To Do Flowers, an absurdist... Read more
Past
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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 -
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 -
Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie
Curated by David Campany 29 Feb - 1 Sep 2020 While photography is an art form, it does not belong exclusively to the world of art. It plays significant roles in all aspects of life and culture, and it is inevitable that these will overlap, have relations to each other, and also be in tension with each other. In many... Read more -
Art Rotterdam 2020
Solo presentation Patrick Waterhouse 6 - 9 Feb 2020 The publication in 1899 of The Native Tribes of Central Australia caused a sensation in Europe. The book’s authors, telegraph-station master Francis J. Gillen and ethnologist W. Baldwin Spencer, had written in depth about the customs and traditions of the Aboriginal groups living near Alice Springs and also illustrated their... 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 -
Anja Niemi
'The Blow' 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 -
Paris Photo 2019
Solo presentation Inez & Vinoodh 7 - 10 Nov 2019 The Ravestijn Gallery presented artist duo Inez & Vinoodh at the PRISMES sector of Paris Photo 2019. A specially conceived artist book, made in collaboration with Hatje Cantz, will also be launched at Paris Photo. Inez & Vinoodh’s work is unrestricted by a singular aesthetic; allowing their approach to be... 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 -
UNSEEN 2019
Group presentation Koen Hauser / Tereza Zelenkova / Cortis & Sonderegger 20 - 22 Sep 2019 At this edition of UNSEEN Photo Festival, The Ravestijn Gallery presented three artists: Koen Hauser (NL), Tereza Zelenkova (CZ) and the artist duo Cortis & Sonderegger (CH). Whilst the sensibilities of these artists are noticeably different, they all share history, mythology and iconography as critical foundations to their work. As... 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 -
Photo Basel 2019
Duo presentation Anja Niemi / Cortis & Sonderegger 13 - 16 Jun 2019 The Ravestijn Gallery returned to Basel for the fifth edition of Photo Basel showing Norwegian artist Anja Niemi and the Swiss artistduo Cortis & Sonderegger at stand #19. Anja Niemi (b. 1976, Norway) always works alone; placing herself within her own meticulous tableaux, she constructs fictional stories where she is... Read more -
Koen Hauser
'Skulptura' 18 May - 22 Jun 2019 In this exhibition, titled Skulptura, Koen Hauser (b.1972, the Netherlands) presents an eclectic collection of photographs featuring an array of objects and sculptures, many of them existing only in his imagination before they are materialised through the help of digital technologies. In the words of author Merel Bem, “Koen Hauser... 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 -
FOAM 2019
'Zeen' 15 Mar - 5 Jun 2019 In the spring of 2019, Foam presented the largest museum solo exhibition of the artist duo Scheltens & Abbenes so far. The artists are seen as the most progressive still-life photographers in the Netherlands today. Maurice Scheltens (1972) and Liesbeth Abbenes (1970) have managed to build an international artistic practice... Read more -
Art Rotterdam 2019
Solo presentation Mariken Wessels 7 - 10 Feb 2019 Mariken Wessels’ new project — comprising sculpture, photography and film — focuses on the obese body in motion and the animalistic aspects of the human body. The artist found original inspiration for her new work in a photogravure she had acquired from Muybridge’s photo series Human and Animal Locomotion, namely... Read more -
Robin de Puy
'Love me' 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 The portraits in this exhibition have nothing in common at first glance. From a model named Birk on his way to fame to Randy, an adolescent boy who grows up in Ely, Nevada. There are portraits of young people and of elderly people, of broken shopping trolleys and of worn... Read more -
Approche 2018
Solo Presentation Ruth van Beek 9 - 11 Nov 2018 Ruth van Beek ( Zaandam, 1977 ) Lives and works in Koog aan de Zaan, The Netherlands. She studied photography at The Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, and graduated in 2002. Ruth van Beek’s work originates in her ever growing archive. The images, mainly from old photo books, are her... Read more -
Robin de Puy
Solo presentation at Bonnefanten Museum / Netherlands 6 Nov - 10 Dec 2018 In 2015 portrait photographer Robin de Puy (NL 1986) travelled across America on a motorcycle. During this trip an intimate portrait emerged in text and image of both herself as of the persons portrayed. In Ely, Nevada she found Randy. He rode past – fast – but in the split... 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 -
UNSEEN 2018
Group presentation Inez & Vinoodh / Eva Stenram / Martina Sauter 21 - 23 Sep 2018 At this edition of UNSEEN Photo Festival, The Ravestijn Gallery presents three artists: Eva Stenram, and, new to the gallery, Martina Sauter and the artist duo Inez & Vinoodh. While the sensibilities of these artists are different, they all make use of collage in their work. The Ravestijn Gallery approaches... Read more -
Anja Niemi
'She could have been a cowboy' 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 -
Photo Basel 2018
Duo presentation Vincent Fournier / Alinka Echeverria 12 - 17 Jun 2018 Photo Basel is Switzerland’s first and only international art fair dedicated to photography based art. Photo Basel brings together galleries from around the world in a unique, authentic setting. For its collectors, visitors or buyers – Photo Basel is an active platform which fosters the dialog between all actors of... 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 -
Tereza Zelenkova
'A snake that dissapeared through a hole in the wall' 6 Apr - 24 Jun 2018 According to an old Slavic legend, a snake inhabits people’s homes and brings happiness and prosperity to the household. This ‘snake housekeeper’ was traditionally welcomed with a bowl of milk on the threshold. The story is one of the many folk tales from the Czech Republic which Tereza Zelenkova (1985,... Read more -
Alinka Echeverria
Duo presentation at Preus Museum / Norway 18 Mar - 3 Sep 2018 The official opening of these two exhibitions that celebrate Mexico: “Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-93)” and “Alinka Echeverría: The Road to Tepeyac” was opened at Preus Museum on Sunday March 18th 2018. The historic exhibition with the images of Lola Álvarez Bravo is the result of the cooperation between Preus Museum... Read more -
Photofairs 2018
Group presentation SCHELTENS & ABBENES / RUTH VAN BEEK / EVA STENRAM / MONA KUHN 23 - 25 Feb 2018 PHOTOFAIRS are dedicated to presenting fine art photography and moving image from leading international galleries and their artists in dynamic and cutting-edge destinations around the world. Through a highly curated approach, PHOTOFAIRS provides an elegant and vibrant environment for both established and new collectors. This is the first time for... Read more -
Art Rotterdam 2018
Duo presentation Jan Rosseel / Darren Harvey-Regan 8 - 11 Feb 2018 The Ravestijn Gallery presented two artists at Art Rotterdam 2018; Belgian story teller Jan Rosseel and English artist Darren Harvey-Regan. JAN ROSSEEL (BE 1979) Tintin au Congo is Hergé’s second album of cartoons in the series ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ about a Belgian investigative journalist reporting on world affairs. Tintin’s... Read more -
Approche 2017
Solo Presentation Eva Stenram 9 - 12 Nov 2017 Eva Stenram’s 'Décor' showcases work from her Ravestijn Gallery exhibition 'Offcut'. The exhibition continues to investigate the ways in which we look at and experience found erotic photography, and explores strategies for interacting with and challenging this particular photographic history and culture. 'Décor' follows on from a number of artworks... 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 -
UNSEEN 2017
Duo presentation Ruth van Beek / Nico Krijno 22 - 24 Sep 2017 The Ravestijn Gallery presented all new works from two of its artists at UNSEEN Amsterdam: Ruth van Beek and Nico Krijno. Both artists’ preoccupations lie with the possibility of making a truly new image. They question the connotations of surface and meaning by engaging their images in unexpected conversations, both... 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 -
Anja Niemi
'The woman who never existed' 4 - 27 May 2017 The Woman Who Never Existed by Anja Niemi was inspired by the words of the pioneering Italian actress Eleonora Duse. Eleonora worked the international theatre stage alongside Sara Bernhardt in the early 20th century. In contrast to Bernhardt's outgoing personality, Duse was introverted and private, rarely giving interviews. She once... 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. Remembering... Read more -
Art Paris Art Fair 2017
Duo presentation Alinka Echeverria / Nico krijno 30 Mar - 2 Apr 2017 This was the first time for The Ravestijn Gallery to show at the Art Paris Art Fair. After Asia, Art Paris Art Fair continues in its commitment to bring to light emerging art scenes. This year Africa is guest of honour. The Ravestijn Gallery presents two young and upcoming artists... 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 -
Art Rotterdam 2017
Duo presentation Robin de Puy / Mona Kuhn 9 - 12 Feb 2017 This was the second time for The Ravestijn Gallery at the Art Rotterdam Art Fair. The Ravestijn Gallery presented two artists, each with their own link to America: Mona Kuhn and Robin de Puy. Mona Kuhn (BRA/USA 1969) is best known for her large-scale, dream-like photographs of the human form.... 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 -
UNSEEN 2016
Duo presentation Jan Rosseel / Scheltens & Abbenes 23 - 25 Sep 2016 The Ravestijn Gallery returned for the third year to Unseen Photo Fair’s fifth anniversary edition, this time with two new artists; Dutch still life artists Scheltens & Abbenes and Belgian visual storyteller Jan Rosseel – both presenting new and unseen works. On the surface, Scheltens & Abbenes and Jan Rosseel’s... 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 -
Art Rotterdam 2016
Solo presentation Nico krijno 11 - 14 Feb 2016 Nico Krijno (1981) grew up in a small town in South Africa, before leaving for Cape Town to pursue his career in photography and film. With a background in theatre and experimental video, his practice has a performative nature. Krijno has been considered one of a small international wave of... 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 -
UNSEEN 2015
Group presentation Ruth van Beek / Nico Krijno / Darren Harvey-Regan 18 - 20 Sep 2015 Unseen, the international photography fair and festival focused on new photography, will take place from the 18th to the 20th of September 2015 at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek. With 54 international galleries, Unseen Photo Fair highlights the most recent developments in contemporary photography by presenting emerging talent and unseen work by established... 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 -
Photo London 2015
Group presentation Ruth van Beek / Eva Stenram / Darren Harvey-Regan / Jean-Francois Lepage 21 - 24 May 2015 Photo London was a major international photography event that took place at Somerset House, in the heart of London, from 21-24 May 2015. Please check Artnet's top ten booths at Photo London 2015 here! ArtDependence wrote this! And ItsNiceThat posted this! 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 -
Anja Niemi
'Darlene & Me' 15 Jan - 10 May 2015 In her series Darlene & Me Norwegian photographer Anja Niemi explores the relationship we have with ourselves. The idea behind the series was born when Niemi happened to find a suitcase from 1959. The suitcase once belonged to a beauty counselor, and although the make-up in the suitcase appears to... 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 -
UNSEEN 2014
Group presentation DARREN HARVEY-REGAN / FREUDENTHAL/VERHAGEN / EVA STENRAM / MARK NETTENBREIJERS 18 - 21 Sep 2014 Unseen is the international photography fair focused on undiscovered photography talent and unseen work by established photographers. Unseen, the fair with a festival flair, will take place from 18 to 21 September 2014 at Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek. 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 -
Anja Niemi
'Starlets' 4 - 29 Jun 2013 The Ravestijn Gallery proudly presented Anja Niemi Starlets from 4-29 June 2013. This follows hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed and commercially successful show Do Not Disturb. In Starlets, Niemi continues to combine the self-portrait with the idea of the staged narrative. The images are like film stills... 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 -
Anja Niemi
'Do not disturb' 27 Mar - 21 Apr 2012 The images continue the artist's relationship with interiors, this time hotel rooms. “I merge myself into the interior of rooms” Niemi has said in regard to some of her earlier works. For her latest project Niemi fled briefly, abandoned her life as a Norwegian woman, mother of two, committed life... Read more
