Exhibitions at THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY |
|---|
THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Jean-Vincent SimonetThe Keys to the Factory 17 Jun – 29 Jul 2023The Ravestijn Gallery is delighted to present "The Keys to the Factory", a solo exhibition combining works from three overlapping projects by French visual artist Jean-Vincent Simonet (b. 1991). The featured bodies of work each take cues from the artist's personal history; his family owns a printing factory near Lyon, passed down from generation to generation. Over the course of a childhood spent on site, Simonet became accustomed to the familiar choreography of the factory&#x… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Monochromatic 29 Apr – 10 Jun 2023A 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… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Fruits of Labor 11 Mar – 22 Apr 2023"Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born." - Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star 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 in the space to form a powerful ref… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Nico KrijnoThe Constellation 21 Jan – 4 Mar 2023For our first exhibition of 2023, the Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present ‘The Constellation’ – a dizzying show of vibrant works by South African artist Nico Krijno (b. 1981). In a riot of colours and meandering forms, Krijno’s abstract works consider and apply photography’s many visual codes, symbols and patterns – as part of a bid to investigate the history of the image. The playful practice of performance defines Krijno’s process throughout, inviting a closer interrogation of … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 I'M SORRY DAVE 5 Nov 2022 – 14 Jan 2023First released in 1968, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey soon became a benchmark of science fiction, offering a speculative look into a distinctly dystopian future. 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 … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 One of a Kind A 10-year anniversary show with unique pieces3 Sep – 22 Oct 2022The 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 were am… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 The Portrait 25 Jun – 3 Sep 2022What 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, portraits have always b… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Michel LamollerAnthropogenic Mass 30 Apr – 18 Jun 2022The 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 our man-altered world. Anthropogenic Mass exists somewhere in between photography and sculpture. At a distance, the works on show appear to be deadpan photographs of impossibly dense cities; akin in some ways to Andreas Gursky’s images of commerce and industr… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Exclamation Mark: a groupshow 12 Mar – 23 Apr 2022The Ravestijn Gallery proudly presents "Exclamation Mark", a group show 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 what is not we leave up to the eye of the beholder. Salim Bayri (Morocco, 1992) grew up in Casablanca and left for Barcelona in 2010 to study at the art academy. He subsequently … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth AbbenesLiterally 15 Jan – 5 Mar 2022A Stain in a Rug was MacGuffin magazine’s commission, but Scheltens & Abbenes decided to approach the theme from another angle. From a local thrift shop the artists borrowed worn-out carpets and with large sweeping gestures they tried to remove the hideous stains they carried. The soap splashes not merely freshened up some colour patches, but also caused surprising new patterns. The fleeting moments were caught by the camera’s eye and the photos featured in MacGuffin’s N… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Anja NiemiThe Rider Vol. 1 1 Nov 2021 – 8 Jan 2022A woman stands turned away from us, dressed in classic black dressage pants - hair gently gathered under her helmet by a hairnet. The sleeves of her white blouse are rolled up, torso slightly arched, shoulders together. Her leather riding boots are securely grounded beneath her, preparing to confront the dark void ahead. more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Michael Bailey-GatesA Glint In The Kindling 18 Sep – 23 Oct 2021The 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. In their intimate, often … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 The Constructed Image Anuschka Blommers & Niels SchummCortis & SondereggerJasper de BeijerKatrien De BlauwerKoen Hauser… (14)17 Jul – 4 Sep 2021The Ravestijn Gallery is delighted to announce "The Constructed Image", a group exhibition that brings together almost twenty (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, collage and its successors have constructed meaning through intervention; disassembling, reassembling, cutting, l… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Thomas KuijpersVOLUMES 8 May – 26 Jun 2021The 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 the last year, flatness has preceded everything. Whether through the screens we use for daily meetings or the news… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Philippe BraquenierEarth not a globe 23 Jan – 24 Apr 2021The Ravestijn Gallery opens the new year with the 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 a glass dome and the lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by a 150-foot-tall circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Ruth van BeekThe Nursery 20 Nov 2020 – 16 Jan 2021The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present the exhibition "The Nursery", an exhibition with new works by Ruth van Beek. In 2018, van Beek published "How To Do The Flowers", an absurdist manual of strange instructions and unfinished collages in which the building of a body was a persistent thought. Since then, the physicality and animation of lifeless matter has played an increasingly important role in her work. Using "How To Do The Flowers" as a guide, "The Nu… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Patrick WaterhouseRestricted Images Made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia4 Sep – 7 Nov 2020The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present exclusively the first gallery exhibition of Patrick Waterhouse's acclaimed series "Restricted Images", made with the Warlpiri of Central Australia. 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 publ… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 The Salon Show Christopher AndersonBOWNIKPhilippe BraquenierCortis & SondereggerRobin de Puy… (19)Alinka EcheverríaMichael EtzenspergerVincent FournierDarren Harvey-ReganKoen HauserAtze HaytsmaInez & VinoodhNico KrijnoMaurice Scheltens & Liesbeth AbbenesMark NettenbreijersAnja NiemiJan RosseelMartina SauterEva StenramRuth van BeekFerry Van der NatPatrick WaterhouseMariken WesselsTereza Zelenkova13 Jun – 29 Aug 2020The 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 museums alike still favour exhibitions that give space to individual series, and whilst it has its merits, it also has its pitfalls. Seeing art on… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Mariken WesselsNUDE - ARISING FROM THE GROUND 14 Mar – 1 Jul 2020Comprising of sculpture, photography and film, and inspired by a series of Eadweard Muybridge collotypes, Wessels’ most recent work explores the motion of obese bodies and the animalistic aspects of the human form. Nude - Arising From The Ground was partly premiered at Art Rotterdam 2019, but this exhibition aims to give time and space for the entire work to be seen. In autumn 2020, the project will be part of a group show entitled Human After All: Ceramic Reflections in Contemporary Art … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Jan RosseelAn Archaeology of Fear 25 Jan – 7 Mar 2020The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present 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. Three out of four people say they feel more fearful today than they did twenty years ago. An Archaeology of Fear visualises the high costs of living in a f… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Anja NiemiTHE BLOW 14 Dec 2019 – 18 Jan 2020The Ravestijn Gallery is delighted to present the première of Anja Niemi’s all new series The Blow on Friday December 13th, 2019 from 5 - 7 PM, in the presence of the artist. Anja Niemi’s new, all black/white series shows an unaccompanied woman, dressed in black with a face that is turned away from the lens, 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 and setting… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Cortis & SondereggerICONS Reconstructing the History of Photography26 Oct – 7 Dec 2019The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present the first solo show in the Netherlands of Swiss artist duo Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger, known as Cortis & Sonderegger. The exhibition will show photographs from their renowned series Icons, in which the pair trawled countless books filled with the world’s most iconic photographs before recreating many of them through meticulous dioramas. Robert Capa’s The Falling Soldier and Henri Cartier Bresson’s Derriere la Gare Saint-… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Inez & VinoodhI See You in Everything 7 Sep – 19 Oct 2019The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present 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 selected from a colossal career that sprawls over thirty years including photographs made for Vogue Paris, New York Times Magazine, Purple and The Face. Such a myriad of work is emble… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Mathieu AsselinMonsanto®: A Photographic Investigation 29 Jun – 31 Aug 2019The Ravestijn Gallery is delighted to present Monsanto®: A Photographic Investigation by Mathieu Asselin in collaboration with guest curator Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo. This summer, The Ravestijn Gallery will host the exhibition Monsanto®: A Photographic Investigation 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 … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Koen HauserSKULPTURA 18 May – 22 Jun 2019In his new exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery, Koen Hauser (b.1972, the Netherlands) presents an eclectic collection of photographs featurng 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 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 therefor… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Vincent FournierSpace Utopia 30 Mar – 11 May 2019The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present the return of Vincent Fournier and his series Space Utopia in its new gallery. 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 presents the world&rsquo… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! 22 Mar – 24 Mar 2019“BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is not supposed to be super-smart or clever. It is a collection of some of my favourite pictures, designed to be a platform for queer and gay photography. It exists simply to show off pictures of boys,as ne art photography...Just like people have been buying pictures of sexy girls as ne art for decades. I’ve been collecting pictures of hot boys for longer than I want to tell you. I hope you’ll start collecting too and sharethe love.” - Ghislain Pascal … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Robin de PuyLOVE ME 2 Feb – 16 Mar 2019The 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 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 the photos in the exhibition LOVE ME. … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Christopher AndersonBlue Blanc Rouge 3 Nov – 22 Dec 2018The Ravestijn Gallery presents ‘Blue Blanc Rouge’, an exhibition featuring new work by the Canadian photographer Christopher Anderson. In this playful and poetic series, Andersons ties different 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 a clear story; others are less straightforward or even stray towards the abstract. By showing these divergent, isolated m… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Anja NiemiShe Could Have Been A Cowboy 8 Sep – 27 Oct 2018Suppose 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 trapped inside a block of marble waiting for her line of flight, waiting for the sculptor to start chiseling away at the stone. by Lena Niemi *more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth AbbenesThe Workers 2 Jun – 21 Jul 2018This Summer The Ravestijn Gallery presents 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 works are a mix of studio photographs and images from the series "Trailer", consisting of flowers painted on vans from floral transportation … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Tereza ZelenkovaThe 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 n de siècle movements of symbolism and decadence, to which the photographer pays homage, with references to the literature of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and JK Huysmans. Together, the still lives, nudes, and portraits are a highly captivating inquiry into the cycle… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Freudenthal/VerhagenAbsorptions 19 Feb – 31 Mar 2018The Dutch duo, Carmen Freudenthal and Elle Verhagen, continue their collaboration of almost three decades with a series of new work, in which they further explore the boundaries of photography and the possibilities for the creation of visual illusions. Known for their unique visual language and their pioneering approach towards the medium of photography, The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present their second solo show ‘Absorptions’. Whereas the anecdotical has always been a strong … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Nico KrijnoThe Fluid Right Edge 4 Nov 2017 – 3 Feb 2018For his upcoming 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 oversaturated with images is strongly present. Krijno, a sculptor as well as a photographer, previously presented Under Construction, a collection of digitally manip… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 BOWNIKDisassembly / Reverse 16 Sep – 20 Oct 2017This autumn The Ravestijn Gallery presents 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 images of plants and flowers, reminiscent of 19th century taxonomy and botanical drawings, as well as classical still life paintings. The plants… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Philippe BraquenierPALIMPSEST 8 Apr – 1 Sep 2017The natural foundations of our memory are slowly collapsing. Remembering as a basic human activity is turning into an underrated exercise. This is because more and more information is externalized on portable devices, hard drives and online cloud services. Mankind’s burgeoning desire is to rescue every bit of information from obscurity and safeguard scien-tific and cultural knowledge. Yet, to do so means that we are becoming increasingly de-pendent on technology and digital media. T… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Ferry Van der NatORIGINALS 18 Feb – 1 Apr 2017Dutch 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 Victor & Rolf, and is a celebrated fashion editor, stylist and photographer. The word polymath doesn’t begin to describe the energy he has for life. Like Andy Warhol before him, it’s his intimate and provocative Polaroids of male muses, turned into a book Mr. published by MENDO, that define him as a true artist.… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Ruth van BeekThe Situation Room 19 Dec 2016 – 4 Feb 2017Ruth 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 universe that lay within them. Merely by suggestion, van Beek triggers the imagination, and therefore the discomfort, of the viewer: passive human hands are animated… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Alinka EcheverríaBecoming South Sudan 29 Oct – 10 Dec 2016Prior 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 very European predecessors with little concern to the cultural and ethnic reality of the region. South Sudan’s independence allowed the borders to be reconfigured to extent. Regardless, the … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Eva StenramOffcut 10 Sep – 22 Oct 2016For her upcoming 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 which she makes new images. Central to this exhibition are the fabrics seen in each of the found pin-up pictures: thus attention is drawn to the background and surroundi… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 The Summershow 2016 4 Jun – 3 Sep 2016THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Vincent FournierBrasilia16 Apr – 28 May 2016THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Vincent FournierBrasilia 18 Apr – 28 May 2016Brasília 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 from scratch according to the blueprints by the urban planner Lucío Costa, landscape designer Roberto Burle Marx and the architect Oscar Niemeye… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Peter WatkinsThe Unforgetting4 Mar – 8 Apr 2016THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Peter WatkinsThe Unforgetting 5 Mar – 8 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, Peter’s mother walked from Zandvoort beach into the North Sea to her death. The Unforgetting is a series of works that explores the texture of personal memory, and is told through photography and sculpture and is presented in installation form. It is a series of works made up of remnants, exp… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Marie José JongeriusThe Magic Tree 16 Jan – 27 Feb 2016The Southwestern United States has always been the setting for dreams. Pioneers and prospectors, engineers and industrialists, orange- and oil farmers, filmmakers and photographers: they made the trek west to seek their fortune. A few succeeded, millions stranded prematurely. Every attempt left new marks in this mythical landscape spanning from the Pacific Ocean to the mountain tops of Sierra Nevada down to the Mojave Desert. In 1999 the Dutch photographer Marie-José Jongerius (1970) lef… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Nico KrijnoUNDER CONSTRUCTION 21 Nov 2015 – 9 Jan 2016The Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to present ’Under Construction’, Nico Krijno’s first solo exhibition in Europe. 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 artist to create a new photographic language. Photography that reflects the e… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Freudenthal/VerhagenBlue Is The Color Of Your Yellow Hair 16 Oct – 14 Nov 2015The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present ‘Blue is the Color of your Yellow Hair’, Freudenthal/Verhagen’s first solo exhibition at The Ravestijn Gallery. This exhibition is a culmination of a twenty-five year collaboration between Carmen Freudenthal and Elle Verhagen. In their work they are always searching for ways to expand the definition of photography, moving between art and fashion imagery, pursuing cultural relevancy. Their visual language is, over the years, diverse in d… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Mona KuhnPrivate 12 Sep – 10 Oct 2015The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present ‘Private’, Mona Kuhn’s first solo exhibition in The Netherlands. Mona Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969 and is of German descent. She received her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is an independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute. Kuhn is well known for her large-scale nude photographs with a very… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Jean-François LepageRecycle (Prelude) 30 May – 18 Jul 2015The Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to announce "Recycle (Prelude)" by Jean-Francois Lepage, an evocative new series of deconstructed and metamorphosed photographs from the artist’s image archive. Over the course of his career on the cutting edge of fashion photography, Lepage interrupted his photography by engraving, cutting or drawing on top of his original film. With these interventions in hand, Lepage has now pushed the border of photography further by fastening together dispa… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Koen HauserTABLEAUX 2 Mar – 4 Apr 2015The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam is proud to present new work by Koen Hauser (1972, The Netherlands): an open-minded quest for the simple beauty of attributes and objects that, stripped of a functionality, will show the essence of their configuration. Koen Hauser first got his degree in Social Psychology before he graduated in Photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. This combined background, of social studies and art, serves as an explanation for his exploratory vision with which he… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Ruth van BeekNew Arrangements 10 Nov – 20 Dec 2014The Ravestijn gallery is proud to present “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 newly tactile object, both concrete and illusory. The works form a tension between what the viewer readily sees and what … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Vincent FournierPast Forward 8 Sep – 31 Oct 2014In September 2014, Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to present 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 facilities in different locations around the world. Images of gleaming shuttle and satellite equi… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Ferry Van der NatMR. POLAROID 3 Mar – 26 Apr 2014The Ravestijn Gallery’s upcoming 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. Recently his approach has evolved into a more formal and sustained engagement with this flexible medium, and ‘Mr. Polaroid ’ showcases the exciting middle ground… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Mark NettenbreijersRise & 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 and dread, but also of contemplation. Nettenbreijers captures both of these opposing elements in a process that is at once spiritual and scientific. ‘Rise &am… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Mikael JanssonDum 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 renowned, like Kate Moss, for having an incredible force of energy, with a willingness to experiment. Pop has built up a reputation for being photographed in ‘crazy’ scenarios, for example, for … more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Vincent FournierPost Natural History 17 May – 30 Jun 2013A 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 French photographer, Vincent Fournier, science features prominently. Since visiting the Palais de la Découverte in Paris as a young boy, the wonders of the world, such as astronomy,… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Eva StenramDRAPE 11 Mar – 28 Apr 2013The 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 a personal fantasy: “what would it be like to be the same age as your parents?” Using photographs from her family album, Stenram d… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Anuschka Blommers & Niels SchummDelusions 19 Jan – 3 Mar 2013“What is this?” or “Something doesn’t make sense here” are often heard reactions on the photos of Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm. In their work the photographic duo intends to put the viewer off balance. In ‘Delusions’, The Ravestijn Gallery presents a selection of thirteen optical illusions from the oeuvre of Blommers & Schumm wherein confusion is omnipresent. A recent series of four misleading stills for the erotic paperback magazine &lsquo… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Rose HartmanIncomparable: women of style 3 Nov – 23 Dec 2012Rose Hartman Incomparable: Women of Style with an introduction by Alistair O’Neill ACC Editions 9781851496990 Hardback € 38,00 300 mm x 237 mm 160 pages, 200 colour illustrations Features more than 100 photographs, including rare vintage silver prints developed by Hartman in her home studio, as well as a group of never-before-seen images of New York City’s underground style icons. Chronicling a world of beauty and style, photographer Rose Hartman has captured fashion’s t… more THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Atze HaytsmaSolo Exhibition30 Sep – 28 Oct 2012THE RAVESTIJN GALLERYNLTHE RAVESTIJN GALLERY +31 (0)20-5306005 info@theravestijngallery.com Mon-Sat 12-17 Solo Exhibition |
