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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | © Lorenzo Vitturi, Painted Agbe, Italian Leather, Coral Beads and Horn, 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
© Kevin Osepa, Pinda (Altá di pinda), 2018 | 
© Bart Lunenburg, The Tower's Memory, 2018 |
| | |  | | | Lorenzo Vitturi (b.1980, Italy) is a photographer and sculptor based in London. Formerly a cinema set painter, Vitturi brought his experience into his photographic practice, which revolves around site-specific interventions at the intersection of photography, sculpture and performance. In Vitturi’s process, photography is conceived as a space of transformation where different disciplines merge together to represent the complexities of changing urban environments. Vitturi’s latest solo exhibitions have taken place at FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, and the CNA in Luxembourg.
Kevin Osepa (CW, 1994) is a photographer born and raised on the island of Curaçao. His work revolves around his identity and the identity of Afro-Caribbean youth in a post-colonial world. The visuals he creates and the stories he tells are highly influenced by his youth. While the themes he explores are autobiographical, his work can also serve as a quasi-anthropological study. The visuals he creates and the stories he tells are highly influenced by his youth. Using different experimental techniques, he creates colourful visual stories that explore themes such as religion, African diaspora, and family.
Bart Lunenburg (NL, 1995) graduated from the HKU, University of the Arts Utrecht in 2017. Although people are not present in the photographs of Bart Lunenburg, traces of human life are always visible. Lunenburg is fascinated by the way people connect to and shape their daily surroundings. For his series Window Archive he researches the meaning of the window in our daily lives and in the history of art, photography and architecture. The window not only lets light into the room, it also functions as both a barrier and a gateway to the outside world. It separates but also connects our private lives and the one of others. The main medium Lunenburg works with is photography, although his extensive projects involve also video, drawings, scale models and installations.
Jeroen Toirkens (NL, 1971) studied Photographic Design at the KABK in The Hague and currently focuses on social documentary photography and slow-journalism, and has published extensively in national and international newspapers and magazines. In his first book Nomad (2011) Toirkens created a diverse and often poignant picture of nomadism in the 21st century. For years he has been searching for the last living nomads on the Northern Hemisphere. For his second book, Solitude: In the wake of Willem Barentsz (Lannoo, 2013) he sketched an intimate portrait of people living in solitude in the Arctic North of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, an area called the Barents Region, Europe’s last true wilderness. | | | | |
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© Flo Maak
Ruins in Reverse, 2017
Tintenstrahldruck, gerahmt
119 x 84 cm | 46 3/4 x 33 in
gerahmt: 120 x 85 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in
Auflage 4 + 1 AP | 
© Flo Maak
Rocket Science I, 2017
Tintenstrahldruck, gerahmt
119 x 84 cm | 46 3/4 x 33 in
gerahmt: 120 x 85 cm | 47 1/4 x 33 1/2 in
Auflage 4 + 1 AP |
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Kyungwoo Chun
Most Beautiful, 2016
C-Print; gerahmt
33 x 45 cm | 13 x 17 3/4 in
5 + 2 AP | 
Kyungwoo Chun
Most Beautiful, 2016
C-Print; gerahmt
33 x 45 cm | 13 x 17 3/4 in
5 + 2 AP |
| | | | | | Flo Maak's series Gravity (2017) deals with the aerospatial revolution of the 20th century and its influence on architecture and art. The central motif are plumb-bobs, archaic tools for determining the vertical line. Staged in the studio, rotated by 180 degrees, the tools turn into flying objects and become protagonists of stories as different as the one of a V2 rocket utilized to produce the first image from space, of Brancusi’s iconic sculpture Bird in Space, and of Robert Smithson’s ruins-in-reverse.
Kyungwoo Chun: Most Beautiful, 2016 Most Beautiful features workers who are invisible yet perform a task that is essential to us all: ensuring the cleanliness of the roads. After several meetings with the cleaning teams from the city of Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris, Kyungwoo Chun suggested something very new: that they close their eyes and draw the person whom they most missed during their working time. The resulting piece comprises a montage in which each drawing is shown next to photographs of a hand wearing a glove. The hand is both what directs the working tool and what serves to reveal each individual’s free, poetic spirit through this artistic commission.
Most Beautiful reflects the personal experience of each participant but also partake in the process of highlighting human relations, an area that Kyungwoo Chun tirelessly explores in his work. The project has been realized during the artist in residence at Macval- Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | LG 3000, 2016 © Inez & Vinoodh - courtesy The Ravestijn Gallery | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
Martina Sauter, Table (back), 2018 © Martina Sauter | 
Oblique; f2_25 - 2018 © Eva Stenram |
| | | | | | Inez & Vinoodh (NL, 1963 and 1961) are partners and collaborators who operate in both the art world and the fashion world simultaneously, deciding on the ideal venue for their works to appear based on its content. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin both explore the boundaries of each genre in their work. In the early 1990s, they were among the first practitioners to show the possibilities of digital-imaging technology as a creative and meaningful medium and developed a signature style of visual seduction paired with provocative narratives. They have created ground-breaking editorials for such publications as American, French, Japanese and Italian Vogue, V Magazine, Visionaire, The New York Times Magazine, The Gentlewoman, and W Magazine, as well as campaigns for Balenciaga, Balmain, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Isabel Marant, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Valentino and Yohji Yamamoto. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally including the Stedelijk Museum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Hayward Gallery in London, the Deichtor hallen in Hamburg and the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. A retrospective show titled PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING 1985-2010 began its international tour at FOAM, Amsterdam in the summer of 2010 and has since travelled to the Pavillion Bienal in Sao Paulo, the Dallas Contemporary in Dallas and Fotografiska in Stockholm.
Eva Stenram (SE, 1976) was born in Stockholm and currently lives in London where she received an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Eva Stenram's photographic practice brings together analogical archival material and digital manipulation, sifting through past and present artifacts, interacting with and re-interpreting the imagery she encounters. Her work is ultimately about being a viewer, a consumer of images. Negatives, slides, magazines, images from the Internet and photographic prints are her source of inspiration as well as working material. These photographs are sometimes scanned, sometimes re-photographed, and subsequently changed through digital, analogue or physical manipulation. By muting and mutating her material, the original functions of the photographs are disrupted and often subverted. The photographs’ exact temporal and cultural coordinates are ambivalent, generating curiosity and a desire to see.
Martina Sauter (DE, 1974) transacts ambiguous investigations into film and photography. Combining a recently taken photograph with a film still she creates unprecedented mise en scene, uncanny interiors, metaphysical in nature. Some images involve characters, others are devoid of them, revealing peripheral traces, fragments and rooms. Her work seduces the viewer in atmospheres of intrigue and suspense. The pleasure of observing, together with the emotional implications associated with the position as spectator, pervade all of Martina Sauter’s work weaving behind her images like an all-embracing law that places the conventional view of everyday things into a perspective imbued with suspense. | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Albarrán Cabrera | The Mouth of Krishna #783, 2018 | 25 x 18 cm | Pigments on Gampi paper over gold leaf | Edition of 20 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
Douglas Mandry | Unseen Sights, Cloud I, 2018
90 x 110 cm | Airbrush on C-Print | Edition of 5 & 1 AP | 
Douglas Mandry | Unseen Sights, Flower II I, 2017
64 x 51 cm | Airbrush on C-Print | Edition of 3 & 1 AP |
| | | | | | The artistic duo Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera (ES, 1969) have spent a lot of time in Japan. Their travels to the country have strongly influenced the aesthetic content of their work and the printing techniques they use. The question running like a thread throughout their work is how images trigger individual memories in the viewer. Depending on their social and cultural backgrounds and on their personal experience, viewers perceive images in completely different ways. Albarrán Cabrera see their photographs as objects in their own right: they handcraft their prints using classic printing methods, such as platinum and silver halide, or invent new ones, such as pigment prints on gold leaves, create copies that are unique in themselves. The poetic and sensual nature of these prints is proof of an unrivalled craftsmanship.
Douglas Mandry (CH, 1989) received his Bachelor's in Visual Communication and Photography with honours at ECAL University. His work questions the nature of the photographic medium itself and its relationship to perception and representation. In an ongoing exploration of geographical territory, he uses various languages from image-making history in order to question the indexical reference so often attributed to photography. His investigations aim to draw attention to the process that leads to a photograph, citing references of archetypal imagery and history of photography. By exaggerating the processes of traditional or contemporary picture making, unexpected shapes start to appear. Set into dialogue, these experimentations are an attempt to give a second meaning to pictures we already know, in expanding what photography can be. | | |
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33643, from the series Twin Infinitives, 2011 © Jory Hull |
| | | | | | Jory Hull (US, 1971) studied painting and photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Corcoran College in Washington DC. He is an acclaimed photographer, director and producer as well as a graphic designer, actively creating work for the past 24 years.
Hull’s photographs investigate and challenge our common views of everyday objects and views by altering their contexts and narratives. His project Twin Infinitives for example, offers the chance to participate in actively editing his collage work, making the viewer ultimately responsible for the final selection of the project. His projects range from fairly straightforward photojournalistic-type work to conceptual ideas based in the digital end of things. As diverse as his projects, are his means: He uses different cameras, as well as his computer to correct, composite and transform imagery. Galerie Julian Sander is the first gallery to bring this complex body of work to a greater audience. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Benyamin Reich, Siren (Rügen), 2015, inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper mounted on Alu-Dibond and framed, 47x47 cm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 
Yuval Yairi, Cypher of Cypress Tree, 2018, Inkjet print on Baryt paper, mounted on Alu Dibond, framed with museum glass, 100x95 cm |
| | | | | | | | Yuval Yairi (IL, 1961) studied visual communication at the WIZO College Haifa (1984-1988). As director of a design studio in Jerusalem (1988-1999), he has produced and directed short films and documentaries until 2004. Since 2004 Yairi devotes his work to research and artistic activity, primarily in mediums of photography and video. The subjects of Yairi's work relate to places, and his gaze, whether it's a historical place, cultural, personal or political, explores these places in the context of memory. In his current works, Yuval Yairi adopts the figure of the “surveyor” as an alter-ego, a partner for looking out at the place in which he lives, and for introspection and personal soul searching, trying to come to terms with certain chapters in his past. The surveyor’s role, which Yairi has performed for years as an aerial scout in the army, has left a deep and traumatic imprint on him, to the point of a split into two personas: the artist and the surveyor. The symbiotic relations between surveyor and artist, the conscious and the subconscious they sometimes stand for, are the motivation for creating the photograph with its stratified components. The pieces presented in this project are the product of the artist’s devoted and laborious ability to sew the quilt of time and place in order to take on the question of identity and of morality. The artist conceals hints and symbols from the surveyor’s world, though uncovering the finding of a sealed and hidden black box.
Benyamin Reich (IL, 1976) was born into a family of Rabbis from Bene Brak, Israel. Although he started already at the age of 15 to disconnect himself from the very strict world of his childhood, his background has become a driving force of his art. His search for self-realization finally brought him to photography. After his years of study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem he moved to Berlin, where he lives and works since 2009. In his still life, portrait, landscape and conceptual photography Reich attempts to contrast as well as to harmonize opposites like sensuality and spirituality, the profane and the holy, nature and humanity. Thereby modern distress and happiness unite in his works of art with the mythical sounds of forgotten sanctity, they encourage a dialogue between different but interacting cultures and ideologies, and even try to mirror the innermost stirrings of human beings. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | from the series "Mayu" © Sayuri Ichida | | | | Beyond 2020 By Japanese Photographers #6 | | | Showcasing emerging Japanese artists
This exhibition highlights contemporary work from emerging Japanese artists to an international audience. In response to the theme How best to understand the world of uncertainty, five young photographers created work exploring the challenges and opportunities that technological advancements create in present-day society. The exhibition investigates how millennials, as the newest generation of makers, use photography to reflect on today’s increasingly uncertain world.
Presented are the bold and unique works of
Sayuri Ichida | Taro Karibe | Yoko Kusano | Takeshi Mita | Kenta Nakamura | Riyo Nemeth.
SPECIAL EVENT: Fri 21 Sept, 17.30 – 18.30
Beyond 2020 by Japanese Photographers #6 talk moderated by Shinji Otani | | | | | | | ING Unseen Talent Award | | | The ING Unseen Talent Award, an ongoing collaboration between ING and Unseen, offers European artists the opportunity to present their work to a global audience. Five finalists take part in the ING Unseen Talent Programme, coached by renowned British artist Isaac Julien. Their finished works are subsequently exhibited at the ING Unseen Talent Award exhibition. During the official opening day of Unseen Amsterdam, the Jury winner of the ING Unseen Talent Award will be announced having been selected by an international jury comprised of Chris Bedson (Senior Art Director, Calvin Klein), Emma Bowkett (Director of Photography, FT Weekend), Sanne ten Brink (Head Curator, ING Collection), Florian Ebner (Chief of Photography, Centre Pompidou) and Fiona Tan (internationally renowned visual artist and filmmaker). The Jury Winner will receive a production fund of €10,000, and the Public Winner, selected via online public voting, will receive a new commission for the ING Collection.
This year’s finalists are Dávid Biró (HU), Jaakko Kahilaniemi (FI), Pauline Niks (NL), Eva O’Leary (US/IE) and Alexey Shlyk (BY). | | | | | |  | | | | Untitled, from the series Debris, 2018 © Kateryna Snizhko | | | | Futures Narratives Discover the European talents of tomorrow | | | Unseen is proud to present Futures, a new photography platform that draws from talent programmes of leading photography institutions across Europe. Featuring:
Ciarán Óg Arnold (IR) | Leticia Bae (BE) | Sebastián Bejarano (SP) | Jeroen Bocken (BE) | Valeria Cherchi (IT) | Umberto Coa (IT) | Sanna Lehto (FI) | Łukasz Rusznica (PL) | Kateryna Snizhko (UA) | Yana Wernicke (DE). | | | | | | | Fujifilm Faculty 2018 | | | Unravelling the intricate paper creation process of Fujifilm
For the first instalment of Fujifilm Faculty, artist collective The Cool Couple (IT) was selected to conduct research into the nature of Fujifilm. Turning their attention to Fujifilm Original Photo Paper, the pair’s work highlights the intricacies of photo paper, the process of its creation, and what goes into creating a print from the moment an image is taken. Their completed work is on show during Unseen Amsterdam.
SPECIAL EVENTS: Daily, 12.00 - 13.30
Editing and Selection Workshop with The Cool Couple (Simone Santilli and Niccolò Benetton) | | | | | |  | | | | Shroud, Rhône Glacier, Switzerland, 2018 © Norfolk + Thymann | | | |
| When Records Melt | | | Documenting the effects of global climate change Unseen Amsterdam presents When Records Melt, set up in collaboration with Project Pressure, a charity organisation that works with artists to document the effects of global climate change. The exhibition features international artists that focus on raising awareness through a variety of photographic interpretations, depicting issues surrounding the global environment in a new and inspiring context. These artists utilise the unique characteristics of photography to engage emotions in order to incite positive behavioural change.
Featured artists are: Michael Benson (DE) | Adam Broomberg (ZA) & Oliver Chanarin (UK) | Edward Burtynsky (CA) | Peter Funch (DK) | Noémie Goudal (FR) | Simon Norfolk (NG) | Christopher Parsons (UK) and Klaus Thymann (DK)
SPECIAL EVENT: Sat 22 Sept, 17.00 – 18.30
Norfolk+Thymann in conversation with Liss Marie Andreassen | | | | | | | Grolsch Unseen Residency | | | Thomas Kuijpers investigates Stockholm's streetlife
As the recipient of the Grolsch Unseen Residency 2017, Thomas Kuijpers (NL), was housed in Stockholm to create a new body of work. Over the course of two months, Kuijpers gathered as many opinions on the contemporary problems we’re facing in Europe as well as different visions for a better world. In the resulting work, titled In Search of Something Better, Kuijpers investigates the friction that he encountered on the streets of the Swedish capital in various visual approaches. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Book Market, Unseen Amsterdam, 2017 © Iris Duvekot | | | | Book Market | | | Browse more than 70 independent publishers
Dig around at the Book Market and lay your hands on a range of rare and experimental photobooks from 76 participating independent publishers. Don’t miss our range of impromptu book launches and signings and meet the creative forces of the photobook industry. The shortlisted selection of this year’s Unseen Dummy Award will also be on show for visitors to browse through. The winner, announced on the 21st of September at 16.00, will have their photobook published by Lecturis and distributed internationally. The Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen Amsterdam and Lecturis. The Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen Amsterdam, Lecturis and Wilco Art Books.
The full list of publishers taking part in Book Market 2018 is now available online.
As Unseen Amsterdam 2018 draws closer, it’s time to start filling you agenda. With over 65 book signings and launches taking place in the Book Market alone, we have highlighted a selection of book launches that are not to be missed. | | | | | | | Living Room | | | Encounter discussions and presentations about contemporary photography
Join us in the Living Room our vibrant speakers programme, and listen to an engaging series of panel discussions, presentations and talks with artists, photography specialists and industry creatives. Co-curated this year by Futures and Aperture, the Living Room aims to ignite fresh conversations on the most pressing themes in contemporary image-making. The Living Room is an Unseen Foundation initiative.
Read more about the Living Room programme here. | | | | | |  | | | | Untitled, from the series The Long Thing, 2017 © Alessandro Calabrese/ VIASATERNA | | | | On-site Projects | | | Through various on-site projects visitors to Unseen Amsterdam can come into contact with a variety of artists and their methods. Alessandro Calabrese (IT) will invite visitors to become co-creators of his project The Long Thing: Re-assembling Images, which investigates the theme of authorship in surprising ways. As part of Unseen’s philosophy to support artists in the early stages of their careers, Unseen Amsterdam has also invited Six Academies to present work by graduating talent whilst showing similarities and differences across the European visual landscape:
6 Academies
Futures Talent Pool
When Records Melt Walk
The Long Thing
The Library Project | | | | | | | CO-OP | | | Explore, interact and immerse yourself in the stories of 12 pioneering collectives
Make your way to CO-OP and come into contact with 12 international collectives participating in the second edition of CO-OP's programme. In order to increase the representation of artist-run initiatives and collectives worldwide, CO–OP encourages artists to present challenging works of art, dynamic presentations and new ways for them to sell their artworks. This year, the collectives tackle themes such as authorship, mass tourism, migrant stereotyping and education. Curated by Lars Willumeit, CO–OP is an Unseen Foundation initiative.
This year’s collectives are 280A (AT), Böhm Kobayashi (DE), Depression Era (GR), Fotoromanzo Italiano (IT), Imagenred (SP), KLAYM (CI/CH) London Alternative Photography Collective (UK), (Music For) Eggplant (FR), Migrant Image Research Group, Tokyo Photographic Research (JP), Upominki (NL) and Yaounde Photo Network (CM).
Learn more about the participating collectives here and read interviews with the participating collectives on our stories page.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday 21 September
14.00-15.00: Workshop: London Alternative Photography Collective
17.30-18.45: Discussion: Klaym & Yaounde Photo Network
20.00-21.00: Concert: (Music for) Eggplant
Saturday 22 September
12.30-13.15: Talk: Böhm Kobayashi
14.00-15.00: Workshop: Imagenred
17.30-18.45: Discussion: Depression Era & Migrant Image Research Group
Sunday 23 September
12.30-13.30: Workshop: Fotoromanzo Italiano
14.00-15.00: Workshop: London Alternative Photography Collective
All Special Events take place at the artist collectives' booths and CO-OP's workshop space. | | |
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C-type print, 112 x 150 cm, Edition of 7
© Anja Niemi The Ravestijn Gallery | | | Amsterdam Open Gallery Night
Saturday, 22 September 2018, 20.00 - 22.00 | | | | | | On Saturday the 22nd of September, a selection of local galleries and institutions will open their doors from 8-10pm to celebrate contemporary photography. Travel through the lively streets of Amsterdam by night, immersing yourself in a range of exhibitions that challenge and reinvent the medium of photography.
ALBADA JELGERSMA» Lijnbaansgracht 318
Nature of Particles (artist duo Arja Hop & Peter Svenson and Karen Lee Williams) Allard Pierson Museum» Oude Turfmarkt 129
The World in Colour: Colour Photography before 1918 BredaPhoto» & Noorderlicht Groningen» Laurierstraat 53 & 76
The Edge of Emerging Contemporary Photography Cargo in Context» Haparandadam 8
FERNWEH by Annaleen Louwes C&H Gallery» Tweede Kostverlorenkade 50
New Work by Bas van Wieringen Docking Station» IJpromenade 2
Shunyo Raja by Arko Datto Flatland Gallery» Lijnbaansgracht 312-14
The Silent City by Paolo Ventura | | | | | |  | | | Two granny pines, Scotland, February, 2017
from the series Borealis,
© Jeroen Toirkens/Kahmann Gallery | | | Kahmann Gallery» Lindengracht 35
Borealis: Halfway by JEROEN TOIRKENS & JELLE BRANDT CORSTIUS Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen »Hazenstraat 27
With and Without You by Jacob aue Sobol iMPACT DOC» Keizersgracht 166
Current Transformations Within The Field of Documentary In4Art»Nieuwe Keizergracht 54
Studies by Roman Moriceau ISO Amsterdam» Isolatorweg 17
A Really Fake Future Looiersgracht 60» Looiersgracht 60
Seeing Without Seer BEYOND 2020» Machinegebouw, Westergasfabriek
By Japanese Photographers #6 Melkweg Expo» Marnixstraat 409
My Feeder is a Photographer Nieuw Dakota & TAAK» Ms. van Riemsdijkweg 41b
Een Negatieve Ruimte (A Negative Space) | | | | | |  | | | | #243, from the series Mouth of Krishna, 2013 © Albarrán Cabrera BILDHALLE» | | | |
Park Hotel» Stadhouderskade 25
Solo Exhibition Albarrán Cabrera Sir Adam Hotel» Overhoeksplein 7
Artists Talk: Anne Geene and Diana Scherer Stigter van Doesburg» Elandsstraat 90
Solo Exhibition Peggy Franck Tesla Store» Pieter Cornelisz Hooftstraat 29HS
Artist Talk: Artist Collective 280A The Merchant House» Herengracht 254
Young French Artists Remix (Photography) The Ravestijn Gallery» Westerdoksdijk 603-A
She Could Have Been A Cowboy by Anja Niemi | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Champagne Suite, 2015 © Juno Calypso / Courtesy of the Foam Collection | | | | Amsterdam City Programme | | | | | | In addition to all activities at the Westergasfabriek, Unseen Amsterdam presents the City Programme in which visitors can experience photography at leading institutions across the city. The programme will include a series of inspiring and challenging exhibitions and initiatives that push the boundaries of photography in unexpected ways.
LOADING... WORKS FROM THE FOAM COLLECTION: Focusing on the future, Foam’s outspoken collection of roughly 550 pieces contains work that highlights the complexity of contemporary photography. PAUL MPAGI SEPUYA – DOUBLE ENCLOSURE: In his first European solo exhibition, Paul Mpagi Sepuya (US) references a homo-erotic visual culture, exploring the productive and critical power of longing with an intimate visual strategy.
THE WORLD IN COLOUR: COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE 1918: The historical, colourful and often poignant pictures of Albert Kahn’s (FR) project Les Archives de la Planète. Striving for world peace, Kahn hired photographers to capture the world in colour at the start of the 20th century – a stark contrast to the horrors of the World War that soon broke out.
RYOJI IKEDA: A key figure in electronic music as well as a visual artist, Ryoji Ikeda’s (JP) work often depicts the invisible structures and data that govern our lives. In his site-specific exhibition, the exhibition space will be filled with overwhelming audiovisual works of art based on elementary phenomena such as silence, space, time and the (in)finite.
STUDIES BY ROMAN MORICEAU: Exclusively for Unseen Amsterdam, French artist Roman Moriceau presents his latest works. His research and experimentation with unexpected silk-screen techniques creates work that becomes hybrid, dynamic and transformable over time.
Artist Talk at 20.30 on 22nd September 2018.
SEEING WITHOUT SEERSEEING WITHOUT SEER: A group show, organised in collaboration with art cooperative Radical Reversibility, exploring alternative ways of looking, thinking and image-making. Twelve exhibiting artists employ lens-based works in unexpected ways, usurping the viewer from the central position to which s/he has become accustomed.
Young French Artists Remix (Photography): Fully conscious that our image-making gaze is a product of social powers and unconscious desires, the six participants masterfully redeploy photographic indexing and iconographic currency to offer an idiosyncratic take on real experience.
| | | | | |  | | | | Film still of Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3, 2015 © Korakrit Arunanondchai / CLEARING | | | Borrowing its title from áp vong, the Vietnamese ritual of invoking the dead, UnAuthorised Medium evokes the 'ghosts' and 'glitches' in the archive. Through a range of artistic practices, thirteen emerging and internationally established artists who have deep connections to Southeast Asia disrupt dominant systems of knowledge to engage with the historical and much-contested paradigms of this Asian subregion. Admission is free for Unseen wristband holders.
EEN NEGATIEVE RUIMTE (A NEGATIVE SPACE): Through a myriad of visual practices and investigations focused on prison walls, Lucas Lenglet (NL) examines the concepts of inclusion and exclusion as he aims to get a better understanding of places that are essentially inaccessible.
GÜNTHER FÖRG–A FRAGILE BEAUTY: This major survey of German artist Günther Förg’s (1952– 2013) work embodies the oeuvre of a rebellious artist who was critical, witty and penetrating exploration of the canon of modern art.
KOOS BREUKEL / SON Acclaimed Dutch portrait photographer Koos Breukel has been photographing his eldest son, Casper, since he was born in 2000. The resulting series of intimate portraits, spanning over the last 18 years, not only depicts Casper in various phases of his life but also reflects on the bond between father and son.
JULIEN SPIEWAK: CORPS DE STYLE: Julien Spiewak (FR) presents a new series of humorous, subjective and stylised images in dialogue with the art, furniture, space and history of Museum Van Loon. | | | | | |  | | | | Boikanyo Nkoane, 2017 © Jamal Nxedlana | | | JAMAL NXEDLANA: Visual artist Jamal Nxedlana (ZA) shines a light on the figures that are currently shaping South Africa’s cultural scene.
SOLO EXHIBITION ALBARRÁN CABRERA: Borrowing from ancient mythology to create visual metaphors in their images, artistic duo Angel Albarrán (SP) and Anna Cabrera (SP) use imagery to stir up individual memories among viewers.
With her new project FERNWEH, Dutch photographer Annaleen Louwes explores the human condition by mixing up both old and new work, photography and moving images. With this mixture she tries to create an atmosphere of mortality, ambiguity and temporality. By doing this Louwes tends to discover an unexpected relationship between the old and the new. Admission is free for Unseen wristband holders.
This workshop and exhibition Politics of Boredom attempts to approach boredom as a travelling concept across different fields and contexts. Aiming for an interdisciplinary analysis within media, feminist and literary studies as well as affect and political theory, the event explores the different environments that boredom is situated in. Admission is free for Unseen wristband holders.
The countercultures of the 1960s and ‘70s are at the heart of Jim Campers’ (BE) first solo exhibition, Forward Escape Into The Past in Amsterdam. Referring to the anarchist social criticism of Theodore Kaczyncki (also known as “the Unabomber”) and several theories about the history of psychedelics, the exhibition reveals how the radical ideas of the past have remained relevant in the 21st century. Admission is free for Unseen wristband holders. | | | | | |  | | | | Antillean Tutu, 2018 © Kevin Osepa | | | In My Feeder is a Photographer, several invited photographers share their favourite recipes, illustrating the colourful stories that accompany them. From food that cures your hangover to cocktails that get that party started - grab your favourite image and cook your dishes in the comfort of your own home! Admission is free for wristband holders.
Anastasis is the latest immersive site-specific intervention by Giorgio Andreotta Calò (IT). By placing red film and plexiglass in front of the towering windows of the Oude Kerk, Calò radically alters the lighting within in the church — creating conditions similar to a photographic darkroom.
Inspired by the tapestries of Dutch artist Elma Beks (1926-2014), textile-based designers Karen Huang (TW) and Jason Page (US) present A Really Fake Future, envisioning a future where traditional textile handicrafts are replaced by automated production and digital representation as a result of artificial intelligence. Admission is free for Unseen wristband holders. | | | | |
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Galleries Unseen Photo Fair 2018
