exhibition Buitenplaats Beeckestijn in Velsen

Four images of the series 'Everything Fell Into the Right Hands' is shown in an exhibition where old family paintings are shown with contemporary photography and painting on portraiture. With Rineke Dijkstra, Desiree Delron, Teun Hocks and others.
On view until June 23, 2013. 


http://www.buitenplaatsbeeckestijn.nl/tentoonstelling

Not Yet Titled - 2012

 Not Yet Titled

170 x 60 x 70 cm steel, brass, etching - 2012

installation view

 140 x 105 cm ink on paper - 2012

detail

Exhibiton View: FOAM in van Loon III

 Martine Labouchere van Loon and Philippa van Loon - C print 

100 x 120 cm 

 'Untitled' - from the series 'Everything fell into the right hands'

C print 32 x 40 cm 2009/2012

 Juliette - C Print 80 x 100 cm 2006

Angus - C Print 80 x 100 cm 2005

Teenage angst - fabric 2012

 'Untitled' from the series 'Transcience' 

Duratrans in lightbox 100 x 110 cm 2011

 'the status, I can't handle the status' 

neon 2012

 'Untitled' from the series 'For Art's Sake' 

C Print 60 x 75 cm 2009

Not yet titled 

metal, brass, etching 170 x 60 x 100 cm 2012

New work

Ink on paper 140 x 105 cm

 

- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - 2012

- The Origin of the Work of Art - 2012

(exhibition view; 2 out of 4 books copied by hand, each on one piece of paper)

New work

not yet titled - 2012

RijksakademieOpen December 01 + 02

This weekend I have open studio at the Rijksakdemie.
You can find one new body of work in room K8 en an installation in K7.
If you are around go see the work of 56 artists from all around the world present their latest work.
For more information: http://www.rijksakademie.nl/ENG/rijksakademieopen/

FOAM in Museum van Loon

Solo exhibition in Museum van Loon in Amsterdam. An exhibition initiated by FOAM.
Photography and installations.

Until January 21 2013.

New Work

'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' - 2012
ink on paper 140 x 105.5 cm

MOCA office, Los Angeles

Chief curator Paul Schimmel of the MOCA has resigned from his position to become an independent curator after 22 years of working for the museum. In 2010 I photographed his office for the series 'Sorry for the mess'.

Liars - No.1 Against The Rush

Give me Hope.

In October 2012 I will have my first solo exhibition in Amsterdam. I will exhibiti a series of images that show women hands and their jewelry (amongst other work). I found this image when looking for information about diamonds.  It shows Washington post scion Edward Beale McLean and his wife Evalyn Walsh. They are the former owners of the Hope diamond, which is on view now at the Smithsonian museum in Washington DC. It's probably the second most visited artwork in a museum after the Mona Lisa in the world. The Hope diamond today's worth is estimated on $ 200 -$ 250 million.

Nominated for the Dutch National Portaitprize 2011

My picture of the architect Rem Koolhaas for NRC Handelsblad got nominated for the National Portraitprize 2011 organized by 'de Zilveren Camera'. The winner (of € 10.000) will be announced on January 22nd at the photography museum in the Hague. Click on the link to see the other 4 nominations.
http://www.zilverencamera.nl/nominaties/nationale-portretprijs/danielle-van-ark

Everything fell into the right hands

I am in New York the whole month of November photographing women for my project 'Everything fell into the right hands'. The Netherlands Foundation for the Visual Arts granted me a project grant to be able to do so. A couple of days ago I photographed the first one of hopefully many to come. Here is a polaroid (or actually Fuji instant film now) sneak peak.
If you're reading this and happen to know an older, well to do woman with great jewels, please get in touch with me. I will also be shooting in Miami the first week of December for this.

New image 'Transience' series

For some time now I have been strolling around cemeteries to find bouquets and flower arrangements on graves that are a couple of days old. Here the latest image I've made.

NY - Miami

I will be in New York and Miami until the 8th of December. Call my US cellphone, I most likely won't pick up my Dutch mobile, you can find the number here.

Bozar office, Brussels

Landscape stories

Read my interview about 'the Mounted Life' in Landscape stories #5 the animal issue.

http://www.landscapestories.net/interviews/danielle-van-ark?lang=en

'Bel Jardin'

Introducing: 'Bel Jardin', my latest series. In 2009 I received a grant from the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts to start working on this project. They support small art projects that focus on the city of Amsterdam. For the first time I've worked with text in my pictures, and I really like the outcome of it. It took me a while to get the right angle in this project because I didn't want to make 'just' beautiful garden pictures. The canal houses from Amsterdam have such a rich history that I started to dig in to stories of the previous owners of these buildings. And of course everybody has a story, one a bit darker than the other....

Click on the images to enlarge and read.

Unless You Will

http://www.unlessyouwill.com/ issue # 17 just came out. This online photography journal made by photographer Heidi Ramano features contemporary photography from all over.
An extended portfolio from 'the Mounted Life' is published in this issue that you can download in pdf form. Have a look, fellow Dutch photographer Henk Wildschut is also featured in this issue with his series 'Shelter'.

the news from both sides

In 2008 I was experimenting with magazine and book tears and transparency and light. I used 'News yearbooks' from the late 60's for this. One page after another showed good and bad happenings. Holding them against the light you could see two different events merging into each other. I never passed the point of experimenting but who knows, maybe one day I will pick it up again...

Friday 29th July FOAM Pop In

Come have a Friday afternoon drink with Kim Boske, Jaap Scheeren and me
on Friday July 29 at the FOAM Pop In location at the Museumplein.
From 5 - 7/ 8ish at Gabriël Metsustraat 2-6 Amsterdam

There will be live ikabana, taxidermy, cake eating contest, photobooth at your own risk dj's etc etc. Bring something to drink, but there will also be some drinks on us.

Le Squelette Joyeux - Lumiere brothers

Photofestival Rencontres D'Arles - France

lightbox in the making...

From July 4th (my birthday :-) untill July 10th, FOAM will be present at
the Photofestival Rencontres D'Arles in France.
The program they'll bring is 'What's Next', and their home base during the festival is the Bourse du Travail at 3, Rue Parmentier in Arles. It is at the same time an exhibition space, a working studio and a place to meet and debate the future of photography. They are showing a lightbox out of my latest work 'Transience'.
http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A11/Home

Rijksakademie

As from January 1st 2012 I will start a two year residency at the Rijksakademie

please sign the petition while you're reading this. Due to government support cuts this institute is in danger for future existence.
http://www.change.org/petitions/support-the-rijsakademie-secure-the-art-of-the-future?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

flowers and sand #3

Gallery Seelevel SUMMER SHOW

I hereby invite you to come to the opening of Gallery Seelevel's SUMMERSHOW!

On view I have one new image from my latest series 'Transience'
a series on flower bouquets on fresh graves.


Summer Show | 18 juni t/m 9 juli

New, recents and classics of:
Daniëlle van Ark, Ruth van Beek, Kim Boske, Popel Coumou,
Sofie van Dam, Cassander Eeftink Schattenkerk, Eva Gjaltema,
Maarten van Schaik, Astrid Hermes, Sofie Knijff, Koen Hauser,
Annick Ligtermoet, Brígida Mendes, Ann Pettersson, Dirk Kome,
Diana Scherer, Bieke Vanhoutte, Esther Zitman

Opening: 18 juni 17.00 uur

Summer Show
Tentoonstelling: 18 juni t/m 9 juli
Locatie: Tweede Kostverlorenkade 69 1053 SB Amsterdam
Openingstijden: don - zat van 13.00 – 17.00 uur en op afspraak

Battles live at Paris's Hotel de Ville (City Hall) right up my alley, both...

Battles | Wall Street | A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Introducing my new work: 'Transience'

flowers and sand # 02 - 2011

flowers and sand #01 - 2011

On view at FOAM Pop-in Museumplein Amsterdam untill August 2011

Opening May 12 FOAM Pop-in

This Thursday, FOAM will open her doors at a temporary location, an old bank, at the Museumplein in Amsterdam.
Together with photographers Kim Boske, Sanne Pepers, Elza Jo, Jaap Scheeren, Yvonne Lacet, Anne Schwalbe and Marnix Goossens, I will present BRAND NEW work called 'Transience'. We are filling up the old workspaces with pictures and installations in individual shows.
Stop by for the opening party, May 12 between 7 and 9 or from Thursday till Sunday at Gabriël Metsustraat 2 - 6 Amsterdam.

Peter Galassi to retire from the MOMA

After 30 years of working at the MOMA in New York, Peter Galassi, chief curator of the Department of Photography is calling it a day as from July of this year. Luckily he said yes to my request to photograph his office in September of last year for my series 'Sorry for the mess'.

Vali Meyers / Ed van der Elsken

When Ed van der Elsken lived in Paris between 1950 and 1954, he met Vali Meyers and a group of bohemians. He started to photographing them, which led to the book 'Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint Germain des Prés'. They had a short affair at the time. Later in 1972 they met again and van der Elsken made a movie about her called 'Death in the Port Jackson Hotel'.
Meyers, a dancer, artist and tattoo artist was connected to the likes of Salvado Dali, Tennesse Williams and Jean Cocteau amongst many others.
She died in Australia in 2003 after a short battle with cancer at the age of 72.

http://www.valimyers.com/

images of Vali:
http://www.brixpicks.com/vali-meyers-a-9273.html#more-9273

interview with Patti Smith in Vanity Fair talking how she came across Ed van der Elskens' work and Vali Meyers.
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/04/love-on-the-left-bank-patti-smith-201104#intro

On vimeo in 3 parts:
Vali: The Witch of Positano
http://vimeo.com/10105457

a writer who draws....

I came across Austin Kleon's website and instantly became a fan.

Especially this post I like a lot:
http://www.austinkleon.com/2011/03/30/how-to-steal-like-an-artist-and-9-other-things-nobody-told-me/