A woman in a formal white gown glances sideways, her gaze steady and her expression neutral. A set of hands – the body to whom they belong cropped from the frame – tends to the garment’s draped fabric, as if carefully fitting a wedding dress. To the rear, an older woman rests a weathered hand on the younger woman’s shoulder; the expression she wears is more sombre – a mother preparing to let go of her soon-to-be-married daughter, perhaps? Where a palette of black, w…

The Ravestijn Gallery is thrilled to announce "One of a Kind", a specially conceived exhibition to mark and celebrate the gallery’s 10 year anniversary. To reflect this unique occasion, the exhibition will bring together a selection of new and, unique and previously unseen works, each made a by a different artist the gallery represents or has worked with in the past. When, in 2012, Narda van ‘t Veer and Jasper Bode founded "The Ravestijn Gallery", they…

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait? - Charles Baudelaire 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 someone’s appearance. However, po…

The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to announce A Glint in The Kindling, the inaugural European exhibition of American artist Michael Bailey-Gates. A Glint in The Kindling will bring together photographs from artist’s growing oeuvre to introduce a new audience to their belief in a world where gender, identity and sexuality are boundless conditions. Michael Bailey-Gates uses photography to dissolve the binary world and affirm new ways of being that are in perpetual motion.…