Danielle van Ark

Give me Hope.

2012-02-08T11:27:00.007+01:00

In October 2012 I will have my first solo exhibition in Amsterdam, it's about diamonds and jewelry. I am doing a lot of research now and came across this great picture. 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

2012-01-12T12:02:00.004+01:00

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

2011-11-11T16:22:00.004+01:00

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

2011-11-04T05:11:00.007+01:00

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

2011-11-01T12:45:00.003+01:00

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

2011-09-20T11:46:00.001+02:00

Landscape stories

2011-09-04T09:49:00.002+02:00

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'

2011-08-26T13:34:00.014+02:00

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.

ps: still working on the grammar.

Unless You Will

2011-08-05T10:22:00.003+02:00

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

2011-08-04T22:37:00.008+02:00

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

2011-07-26T17:44:00.004+02:00

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

2011-07-17T10:23:00.001+02:00

Photofestival Rencontres D'Arles - France

2011-06-29T16:03:00.005+02:00

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

2011-06-18T10:50:00.002+02:00

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

2011-06-16T20:02:00.000+02:00

flowers and sand #3

Gallery Seelevel SUMMER SHOW

2011-06-09T19:19:00.004+02:00

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...

2011-05-24T20:59:00.000+02:00

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

Introducing my new work: 'Transience'

2011-05-10T13:57:00.001+02:00

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

2011-05-07T22:09:00.000+02:00

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

2011-05-04T11:40:00.000+02:00

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

2011-04-26T14:28:00.001+02:00

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....

2011-04-10T17:43:00.000+02:00

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/

Looking for new members for the Color Darkroom Collective

2011-04-10T17:29:00.001+02:00

Amsterdam / Holland based analogue printing photographers; the Color Darkroom Collective is looking for new members to join. Get in touch, click on the flyer for more information.

Old Hollywood

2011-04-01T09:27:00.000+02:00

Publicity still for Hitchcock's 'the Birds' taken by Philippe Halsman.

This image is coming from http://oldhollywood.tumblr.com/ a website with a crazy big collection of old movie stills. A great place to find out about classic movies as well.

RIP Elizabeth Taylor

2011-03-24T00:32:00.000+01:00

For a long time I have a fascination for this woman, not only for the great movies she's made, but probably more for her obsession with diamonds and jewelry. Richard Burton purchased a 69.42 carat diamond for her for $ 1.1 million in 1968, making it the world's most expensive diamond at the time. The diamond being renamed the Taylor-Burton diamond was sold in 1979 again to help finance her then husband John Warner's senatorial candidacy. The diamond was sold for $ 3.3 million. the NY Times published 'Elizabeth Taylor, Lifelong Screen Star, Dies at 79' today.

NRC Handelsblad column

2011-03-23T22:57:00.000+01:00

Kees Moeliker, writer and curator of the Rotterdam Natural History Museum devoted his column in NRC Handelsblad (Dutch newspaper) today to the royal otter I've acquired at the Sotheby's auction.

It's all about an otter these days....

2011-03-21T19:08:00.000+01:00

Today I've learned that the otter I've purchased at the Sotheby's royal auction, is not mounted by just a taxidermist. I've brought the otter to Jac Bouten today, to get him fixed up a little, and they freaked out that it was 'a H.H ter Meer' piece. Famous taxidermist and sculpture artist (1871 - 1934). I've found a piece of an article (in Dutch) and I was just in awe about this piece. Unfortunately it was only half of the article, and now I'm on a hunt to find the rest....
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51241011/EGM-19200101-0031

WE GOT THE OTTER!!!

2011-03-15T13:41:00.000+01:00

Dear people,

Through a really spontaneous guerilla crowdfunding action on Facebook, Twitter and an announcement on this blog, I was able to purchase our former Queen Juliana (or her mother Queen Emma's) stuffed albino otter, stuffed in 1906. I had 39 backers collected in only a day and a half!!!!!
I will pick it up somewhere tomorrow and will be transparent about in an outcome also on this blog. I will get in touch with all the backers how to go from here tomorrow or Thursday. Hopefully this action will inspire more people to do, not to thought out, spontaneous, funny actions like this. Without the help this otter would have been somewhere else, probably not so much appreciated but most of all not so much at the right place!

There is already media interest by the way, Kees Moeliker columnist from NRC Handelsblad and conservator of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam saw the Twitter posts and got in touch with me to dedicate this story to his column, keep you eye open for the Saturday issue of this paper.

Regards,
Daniëlle

HELP WANTED

2011-03-13T17:14:00.000+01:00

GUERILLA CROWDFUNDING:
Help me buy our former queen Juliana's stuffed albino otter from the Sotheby's auction on Tuesday the 15th of March.
Are you in for € 6, a pack of postcards from 'the Mounted Life', € 10, picture from the series 'What's the big deal anyway' 13 x 16 cm edition 666. € 50 a picture of the actual otter shot by me. 20 x 25 cm edition in the amount of backers............I am deadly serious............

Without help I can go up to € 200. No cure no pay. email me: danielle@daniellevanark.com

And last but not least is there for me to mention that the result of Sotheby's auction of the estate of Queen Juliana and Queen Emma (or at least a small part of it) is going to charity, which one is not made public yet.

http://www.sothebys.com/app/ecatalogue/fhtml/index.jsp?event_id=30328#/r=index-fhtml.jsp?event_id=30328|r.main=lot.jsp?event_id=30328&id=337/

the New Yorker Photobooth

2011-03-10T13:18:00.000+01:00

Today an image from the series 'For Art's Sake' is featured on the Photobooth section of the New Yorker magazine website.
Put together by the photo editors of the magazine and mostly linked to a happening event of the moment.
Because it is art fair weekend in NYC, editor Jessie Wender was looking for some art (looking) related images.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/03/looking-at-art.html

Eva Braun's personal photo album

2011-03-09T19:50:00.000+01:00

'Life' shows an album on their website containing personal pictures of Eva Braun, her lover, the dogs, friends and other relatives. The pictures are very nostalgic and beautiful, and also very well composed. All made during WWII you can't help looking at these images and thinking what was going on during the pressing of the shutter button.

http://www.life.com/image/109852765/in-gallery/57511#index/0

Museum night Rotterdam at SARATIMTRUST

2011-03-02T22:11:00.000+01:00

Rotterdamse Museumnacht

Saturday March 5
location: Saratimtrust
Mauritsstraat 167
Rotterdam
08.00 - 02.00 am

curated by: Miktor & Molf + Femke Dekker

10 x 010 = 020

40 artists based in Amsterdam exhibit one or a couple of pieces of work
in a good old fashioned Salon exhibition. Work by Experimental Jetset, Parra,
Rafael Rozendaal, Wayne Horse, yours truly and many others.

Frozen Fountain

2011-02-17T13:29:00.000+01:00

Design furniture store the Frozen Fountain in Amsterdam has a long history of exhibitions from emerging artists, whether it's photography or painting or design. From today you can visit the store, when you go buy some Piet Hein Eek cabinets or Hella Jongerius ceramics and see brand new work from 'the Mounted Life' on the wall, which is also, for sale.

Tokyo Frontline Art Fair

2011-02-17T13:24:00.000+01:00

Tokyo February 17 -20 Frontline Art Fair
Foam Editions and FOAM magazine have a beautiful booth there.
Work from 'the Mounted Life' is up for view and sale (left wall in the back).
Today is the last chance to go there.

http://www.tokyofrontline.jp/en_message.html

AUCTION Christie's / Huis Marseille February 12, 2010 Amsterdam

2011-01-25T17:53:00.000+01:00

Invitation to join the auction from the Huis Marseille exhibition (Digital?)Analogue!
84 pictures by 65 acclaimed photographers are being auctioned by auction house Christie's to benefit AAP photolab.
On Saturday February 12th between 4 and 6 at Felix Meritis in Amsterdam.

click on the link to see all work and information:
http://www.huismarseille.nl/nl/nieuws/veiling

If you won't be able to attend the auction, there is a possibility fill in an absentee bid form.

NOWNESS

2010-12-14T10:58:00.001+01:00

Today I have a feature on the website Nowness. Never before shown or published new material from 'the Mounted Life' is shown here. As a big fan of this LVMH owned website I am happy that they thought the work is great.
http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/12/14

Experimental Jetset - Logo

2010-12-11T14:33:00.001+01:00

A few years ago already, Experimental Jetset, a graphic design studio based in Amsterdam designed my name/logo. They are the original designers of the most ripped of t shirt ever! I think it is really cool and I am really proud of it. The Dutch pronunciation makes me put an umlout on the e. They gave it an extra subtle dot that represents the holes in 35 mm film. How great is that?!

Ikono platform Brussels, December 5th 2010

2010-11-24T11:24:00.000+01:00

Ikono, a platform for photography has a busy schedule the first week of December.
The launch of View magazine # 18, an opening by Noor images
and on the 5th of December there will be a projection series of work
of about 30 photographers. Starts at 5 pm with a projection show of the
Noor photographers.
'the Mounted Life' will be shown around 6.30

http://www.ikono.be/projections

(digital?)ANALOGUE! exhibition Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

2010-11-22T20:50:00.000+01:00

group exhibition on the analogue photography lab AAP

with; Rineke Dijkstra, Dana Lixenberg, Liza May Post, Jacqueline Hassink, Charlott Markus and about 60 other photographers.

Digital? Analogue!

Opening Saturday the 27th of November
Huis Marseille Amsterdam from 5-7pm
27 nov. 2010 - 27 feb. 2011

http://www.huismarseille.nl/en/exhibition/digital-analogue

Destroyed evidence Daegu Photobiennial

2010-11-15T19:35:00.000+01:00

Today I've received these images in my inbox. Sad but awesome at the same time. The pictures I had up at the Photobiennial in Korea were printed over in Korea and we came to the agree that they would be destroyed after the show because they do not belong to the edition and were not printed under my supervision.

Photo Off - Paris

2010-11-08T18:48:00.000+01:00

November 18 - 21 FOAM Editions will be present at the Photo Off
'the young and upcoming photographers art fair'
go check out their booth when you're around.
http://www.photooff.com/en_images.html

Toko at her home in LA for Subbacultcha

2010-10-29T22:56:00.000+02:00

Daegu Photobiennial, Korea

2010-10-04T10:27:00.000+02:00

This week I am in Korea for the Daegu Photobiennial 2010. It is massive! The website is finally up in English so go there for a moment and see all the works and who's in the biennial. The Helsinki school have their own section in the show and it looks great. Walter Niedermayer has his own room, also beautiful! www.daeguphoto.com

FOAM Editions and 'the Mounted Life'

2010-09-13T00:50:00.000+02:00

I don't think I've ever posted that for about two years now, ten pictures out of 'the Mounted Life' series are for sale at FOAM Editions, the gallery of the photography museum in Amsterdam. They come in an edition of 10, unframed. Other photographers who's work you can buy are Daido Moriyama, August Sander, Malick Sidibé and Kim Boske.

Daegu Photobiennial 2010

2010-09-12T18:52:00.000+02:00

In two weeks I will be in Korea for the Daegu Photo biennial showing work from 'the Mounted Life' series.
http://www.daeguphoto.com/kor/exhi/thema_sec_09.asp

NEW: Series on the 'hidden' gardens of the Amsterdam canalhouses

2010-09-04T02:48:00.000+02:00

I am still looking for gardens on the canals so tips are much appreciated! This series is made possible by the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst

Caribou after their Lowlands festival show

2010-09-04T02:21:00.000+02:00

NEW NEW NEW

2010-07-30T23:07:00.001+02:00

BUY NOW: POSTCARD PACK OF 10 'the Mounted Life'

2010-07-28T18:54:00.000+02:00

Postcard pack of 10 from 'the Mounted Life' series. Order and support the progress of the series.
€ 7,- postpaid world wide. Paypal and will ship within two days. Buy now button top of this page on the right side.

Zwarte Cross festival preview

2010-07-26T21:43:00.000+02:00

more later.......

Host Gallery London, Photo8 summershow 2010

2010-07-26T19:18:00.000+02:00

'Untitled' (Polar bear 01) 2010 taken at the storage rooms of the Vienna Natural History Museum.

Opening on the 26th of July the Photo8 Summershow 2010 . In the exhibition a brand new image of 'the Mounted Life'
http://www.foto8.com/new/online/photo-stories/1238-foto8-summershow-2010

26 July - 4 September 2010
HOST Gallery,
1-5 Honduras Street,
London, EC1Y 0TH, England

Photographing 'de Zwarte Cross'

2010-07-13T14:19:00.000+02:00

Via 'Centrum Beeldende Kunst Gelderland' (Center for the Arts Gelderland) I will be photographing a festival called 'de Zwarte Cross' (the Black Cross) this week for the Province of Gelderland. The result will be installed in the provincehouse of Arnhem and next year enlarged at the festival itself.
The festival is a mix between Lowlands/ Coachella - Mad Max and the local fair.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJZ6FhIu3s0&feature=fvw

Tour de musee d'Histoire Naturelle France

2010-07-13T12:53:00.000+02:00

Just got home from photographing another four Natural History Museums. Luxembourg, Grenoble, Aix en Provence and Paris! Discovered a new favorite place in the world:
museum de la chasse et de la nature, a museum dedicated to the esthetics of hunting. Trophy heads, rifles and 18th century paintings by the likes of Breughel. You can also find some contemporary art by artists like Mark Dion and Jeff Koons. New images follow soon.

Art Amsterdam

2010-05-29T15:59:00.000+02:00

27 - 30 May, RAI Amsterdam with FOAM Editions

Article Kunstvlaai (Dutch)

2010-05-20T08:30:00.000+02:00

http://www.kunstvlaai.nl/2010/2010/05/saratimtrust-niet-de-kunstvlaai/

www.hyperallergic.com artblog noticed a thing or two.....

2010-05-17T15:47:00.000+02:00

http://hyperallergic.com/6015/w-magazine-rip-off-2/

Signed by Rineke Dijkstra, Wim T. Schippers and Danielle van Ark

2010-05-17T15:26:00.000+02:00

Kunstvlaai (Artpie) bookshop 15th of May 4 - 6, for two hours Rineke Dijkstra and Wim T. Schippers where signing other peoples work, mostly books. Natasa Heydra bought my picture and had it signed by the two of them. Classic.

New image 'the Mounted Life' taken in Strassbourg

2010-05-16T19:06:00.000+02:00

Kunstvlaai/ Artpie Amsterdam

2010-05-16T19:01:00.001+02:00

SaraTimTrust, an artcollective from Rotterdam asked me to do a show with them in their booth at the Kunstvlaai at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam opening May 15 - 23. We created an artfair booth in an artfair booth.
I borrowed these images from the more then great Trendbeheer website, hope that's ok.

At the bookstore you can, only this week, buy a print (signed & numbered) for € 5,-

Melissa after her Melkweg, Amsterdam April 13 show.

2010-04-18T10:16:00.000+02:00

Feature on Russian website

2010-03-22T21:31:00.000+01:00

http://www.lookatme.ru/flows/fotografiya/posts/88012-fotograf-daniel-van-ark

European tour.

2010-03-20T22:13:00.000+01:00

March 15 - 27
Switzerland, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Germany
photographing
8 Natural History Museums, 2 Contemporary Art Museums

New 'Sorry for the mess' images - series about contemporary art museum directors and curators offices.

2010-03-10T15:58:00.000+01:00

now that's an office.....

2010-03-10T15:52:00.000+01:00

Sneak preview

2010-03-05T13:45:00.000+01:00

Tour de L'Europe part 1

2010-02-26T23:05:00.000+01:00

Workpictures:

Natural history museums
Frankfurt
Strasbourg
Brussels
Maastricht

finishing 'the Mounted Life'

2010-02-19T09:46:00.001+01:00

Monday's the start of 'le grande tour de L'Europe', starting in Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Brussels and Maastricht this week, followed by Italy, Russia, Hongary, England and many more... I'll put on pictures from the road.

2010-02-15T20:57:00.000+01:00

GUP magazine/ Streetlab exhibition

2010-02-12T09:08:00.000+01:00

GUP magazine and Streetlab collaborate on an exhibition about music photography.
On view four portraits of the series 'After the Lights go out..'

Opening February 12, 20.00 - 00.00
Meneer de Wit
Postjesweg 2
Amsterdam

http://www.streetlab.nl/#/agenda/31

R.I.P. Jay Reatard

2010-01-15T18:52:00.000+01:00

The very very sad news got to me that on January 13th Jimmy Lee Lindsey jr. aka Jay Reatard died in his sleep in his hometown Memphis at only 29 years old. I can not even say how much this effected me and what a shock this was. I am grateful though that I got the opportunity to portrait him for my project 'After the Lights go out' after his Eindhoven show of last year. A very strong, sincere portrait that shows how much energy he always put in his live shows. I've send him a selection of images and he personally preferred this one and I totally agree on that.

Bidoun magazine

2009-12-18T13:59:00.000+01:00

Portfolio on 'For Art's Sake' and 'What's the big deal anyway' in Bidoun magzine # 19.
Bidoun, made in NYC, features work that is made in the or by Middle Eastern artists.
Some of the selected images were taken during Art Dubai 2008.

Studie for 'Everything Fell Into the Right Hands'

2009-12-12T00:35:00.000+01:00

Shot during ArtBasel Miami 2008, study for my new body of work 'Everything Fell Into the Right Hands'.

Opening this Saturday in Trouw, Amsterdam premiéring new series 'Everything fell into the right hands'

2009-12-10T22:05:00.000+01:00

opening Seelevel in TrouwAmsterdam

Seelevel Photo Gallery nodigt u van harte uit voor de opening van de tentoonstelling RENDITION op zaterdag 12 december vanaf 20.00 in TrouwAmsterdam! Zes toonaangevende fotografen, Daniëlle van Ark, Popel Coumou, Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Sofie Knijff, Annick Ligtermoet en Charlott Markus, geven hun visie op het thema het creëren van een nieuwe werkelijkheid.

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Locatie: TrouwAmsterdam, Wibautstraat 127, 1091 GL, Amsterdam
Datum opening: zaterdag 12 december
Tijd opening: vanaf 20.00
Looptijd tentoonstelling: 12 t/m 22 december 2009
Openingstijden: dagelijks van 12.00 – 22.00 uur (zon en ma gesloten)
DJ's opening: Risada & The Relights
De tentoonstelling wordt geopend door Rommert Boonstra, fotograaf, dichter, publicist, curator en ėėn van de samenstellers en schrijvers van Beyond Photography, een recente uitgave van uitgeverij Voetnoot over de fotografie van de verbeelding in Nederland en Belgie vanaf de jaren 80.
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Voor meer informatie neem contact op met:
Caroline O'Breen (06-124 64 574) of Manon Funcke (06-238 908 18)
look@seelevel.nl * www.seelevel.nl* Rendition

Sight Unseen

2009-11-24T10:25:00.000+01:00

Great new website by Jill Singer and Monica Khemsurov, two former I-D magazine editors.
'Sight Unseen takes readers inside the worlds of design, art, fashion, food, photography, and other creative disciplines. Through revealing interviews, first-person accounts, and behind-the-scenes documentation of process, Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things'.

They made a wonderfull piece on the birth and evolution of 'the Mounted Life'.

Jeff Tweedy - Wilco - Paradiso, Amsterdam after show Nov. 11

2009-11-20T21:53:00.000+01:00

Everything fell into the right hands

2009-11-20T18:29:00.000+01:00

New body of work in the making of older female hands with their juwellery.

pre- 'the Mounted Life' pictures

2009-11-10T19:27:00.000+01:00

Rio Vista, California

2009-11-10T12:19:00.000+01:00

Found this on Youtube, (maybe turn of the sound....)

http://www.fostersbighorn.com/index.html

Brendan Benson

2009-11-07T10:14:00.000+01:00

After show, Melkweg Amsterdam november 4th

Plan B opening Rebecca Stephany

2009-10-16T14:38:00.000+02:00

Plan B is an independent gallery in Amsterdam run by artist Tarja Szaraniec. These pictures were taken at the opening of Rebecca Stephany for the assignment I am working on for the city archive of Amsterdam.

Obits' Rick Froberg

2009-10-13T16:50:00.000+02:00

After their show at the Vera, Groningen on October 1st

Juergen Teller opening Lehman Maupin New York Sept. 10

2009-10-04T14:21:00.001+02:00

W magazine

2009-10-03T17:11:00.000+02:00

Three months after the group show 'Dutch Seen' opened in New York (I showed a part of the series 'For Art's Sake'), W magazine features a fashion story that Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin (who were also part of the show) shot in and around galleries and museums.
First picture is mine, the rest is theirs, I'll let the images speak for itselves.

2009-09-25T12:25:00.000+02:00

Beginning of 2010 I will start finishing the project 'the Mounted Life'. With the help of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts I will photograph the storage rooms of 16 European Natural History Museums and finish this series that I started in 2006 and photographed 13 museum for so far.

2009-09-22T15:55:00.000+02:00

Aperture gallery in New York has a group show up called 'Nature as Artifice: New Dutch landscape in Photography and Video'. Featuring work by Hans Aarsman, Wout Berger, Marnix Goossens and many more Dutch photographers. The key picture of the show, the one they advertise this exhibition with is a picture that comes back in my own work. Edwin Zwakman's picture of two 'apartment buildings' is also featured in one of my pictures from the 'Sorry for the Mess' series (curators and museum directors offices). The original photo is up on the wall in the director of the Paviljoens office, as you can see in my image.

POP UP STORY

2009-09-11T15:33:00.000+02:00

Tonight is the opening of the Pop Up store organized by Streetlab and ARBC, curated by Femke Dekker from MyLittleUnderground. For four days, this store located at the Chelsea market on 9th avenue and 16th street in New York and will show and sell works by various Dutch visual artists such as Parra, Shoe and the Experimental Jetset as well as clothes from designers L E W and And Beyond. I have four pictures up and for sale from the series 'After the lights go out'. Come on by, Amstel light will be complimentary served ofcourse....

Dexter's making out with Iggy

2009-09-03T23:19:00.001+02:00

My good friend and great photographer Patricia Schimmel send me this video of her cat Dexter who's making out with a picture I took of Iggy Pop. She just had it framed.

back in 2004....

2009-08-24T15:51:00.000+02:00

Yeah Yeah Yeah's tour with the Locust in the UK 2004...

Countess Laïla d'Ansenbourg for NRC Weekblad

2009-08-17T12:31:00.000+02:00

the Strange Boys

2009-07-31T12:45:00.000+02:00

Singer/ guitarplayer of the Stange Boys, Ryan Sambol at Rotown, Rotterdam July 22nd for the After the Lights go out series.

Dumpster flowers at the cemeteries of Paris

2009-07-29T21:44:00.000+02:00

2009-07-20T13:01:00.000+02:00

Celebration of the purchase of the Koetshuis at Museum van Loon

2009-07-17T19:02:00.000+02:00

Last chance to go to the Designhuis in Eindhoven

2009-06-24T19:39:00.000+02:00

June 30th Designhuis in Eindhoven will have to close its doors. Maybe they will continue under new management but nothing is sure yet. So only a few days to go to visit the beautiful exhibition 'Archeology of the Future' curated by Li Edelkoort with three images of the Mounted Life series. Here the article what went 'wrong' (in Dutch).
http://www.nrc.nl/kunst/article2278865.ece/Designhuis_in_Eindhoven_gaat_sluiten

Art crowd buffet

2009-06-24T19:32:00.000+02:00

Dutch Seen, New York Rediscoverd at the MCNY links

2009-06-16T19:34:00.001+02:00

The opening of the Dutch group exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York was a blast, so many friends came out that I thought I was at my own (non-existing) wedding. A lot of people took pictures and wrote something about it. I put some links up from press and bloggers.

http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2009/06/review_dutch_seen_at_museum_of_the_city_of_new_york.html

http://www.brianrose.com/journal/2009/06/new-yorkmuseum-of-city-of-ny.html

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31353

http://www.onculture.eu/story.aspx?s_id=892&z_id=28

http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/1184/DOSSIER-FOTOGRAFIE/article/detail/248398/2009/06/16/New-York-door-Nederlandse-ogen.dhtml (dutch)

and last, some pictures of the opening:

http://www.richardkoek.com/dutchseen2009/

Studie on people positioning themselves while looking at art in a museum part II

2009-06-02T21:54:00.001+02:00

New York Times introduction exhibition MCNY

2009-05-30T13:49:00.000+02:00

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/28/magazine/dutch-audioss/index.html?th&emc=th

I am in New York till June 12th

2009-05-28T19:34:00.001+02:00

Exhibition NAIM Bureau Europa

2009-05-25T22:49:00.000+02:00

The exhibition 'Stuffed' (including three images of the Mounted Life series) will be a part of the exhibition NL=Nieuwe Luxe curated by Alexander van Slobbe. At the NAIM Bureau Europa (former NAI Maastricht). Opens on the 26th of May.

Danielle van Ark

Give me Hope.

Nominated for the Dutch National Portaitprize 2011

Everything fell into the right hands

New image 'Transience' series

NY - Miami

Bozar office, Brussels

Landscape stories

'Bel Jardin'

Unless You Will

the news from both sides

Friday 29th July FOAM Pop In

Le Squelette Joyeux - Lumiere brothers

Photofestival Rencontres D'Arles - France

Rijksakademie

Gallery Seelevel SUMMER SHOW

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

Introducing my new work: 'Transience'

Opening May 12 FOAM Pop-in

Peter Galassi to retire from the MOMA

Vali Meyers / Ed van der Elsken

a writer who draws....

Looking for new members for the Color Darkroom Collective

Old Hollywood

RIP Elizabeth Taylor

NRC Handelsblad column

It's all about an otter these days....

WE GOT THE OTTER!!!

HELP WANTED

the New Yorker Photobooth

Eva Braun's personal photo album

Museum night Rotterdam at SARATIMTRUST

Frozen Fountain

Tokyo Frontline Art Fair

AUCTION Christie's / Huis Marseille February 12, 2010 Amsterdam

NOWNESS

Experimental Jetset - Logo

Ikono platform Brussels, December 5th 2010

(digital?)ANALOGUE! exhibition Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

group exhibition on the analogue photography lab AAP

with; Rineke Dijkstra, Dana Lixenberg, Liza May Post, Jacqueline Hassink, Charlott Markus and about 60 other photographers.

Opening Saturday the 27th of NovemberHuis Marseille Amsterdam from 5-7pm27 nov. 2010 - 27 feb. 2011

http://www.huismarseille.nl/en/exhibition/digital-analogue

Destroyed evidence Daegu Photobiennial

Photo Off - Paris

Toko at her home in LA for Subbacultcha

Daegu Photobiennial, Korea

FOAM Editions and 'the Mounted Life'

Daegu Photobiennial 2010

NEW: Series on the 'hidden' gardens of the Amsterdam canalhouses

Caribou after their Lowlands festival show

NEW NEW NEW

BUY NOW: POSTCARD PACK OF 10 'the Mounted Life'

Zwarte Cross festival preview

Host Gallery London, Photo8 summershow 2010

Photographing 'de Zwarte Cross'

Tour de musee d'Histoire Naturelle France

Art Amsterdam

Article Kunstvlaai (Dutch)

www.hyperallergic.com artblog noticed a thing or two.....

Signed by Rineke Dijkstra, Wim T. Schippers and Danielle van Ark

New image 'the Mounted Life' taken in Strassbourg

Kunstvlaai/ Artpie Amsterdam

Melissa after her Melkweg, Amsterdam April 13 show.

Feature on Russian website

European tour.

New 'Sorry for the mess' images - series about contemporary art museum directors and curators offices.

now that's an office.....

Sneak preview

Tour de L'Europe part 1

finishing 'the Mounted Life'

GUP magazine/ Streetlab exhibition

R.I.P. Jay Reatard

Bidoun magazine

Studie for 'Everything Fell Into the Right Hands'

Opening this Saturday in Trouw, Amsterdam premiéring new series 'Everything fell into the right hands'

Sight Unseen

Jeff Tweedy - Wilco - Paradiso, Amsterdam after show Nov. 11

Everything fell into the right hands

pre- 'the Mounted Life' pictures

Opening Saturday the 27th of November
Huis Marseille Amsterdam from 5-7pm
27 nov. 2010 - 27 feb. 2011