Hans van manen festival

I Will Be Wolf — 2017

In December 1975 Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen made a series of black-and-white photographs capturing daily life in metropolitan Hungary. I will be Wolf brings together many of these beautiful and never-before-seen images with the editorial direction of renowned British photographer Stephen Gill. Her snapshots of commuters, grocers, chemists, café workers, and street vendors contain all the hallmarks of a bygone era, before the grip of globalisation was able to make its mark on the country. Imbued with an air of ambivalent nostalgia, the book takes its title from the poem Grief by the 20th century Hungarian poet József Attila.

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Moonshine — 2014

‘…Van Manen’s point and shoot style of photography is one of allowing imperfections in technique stand. In many of her images there is often an unearthly quality to the light; for instance the unnatural glow of the girls’ back in the book’s cover image as she runs from the camera; in an early black-and-white image of four children sitting on a sofa, the two girls in the center dissolve in the glow of the window light; fiery light leaks stain an image of a man in a coffin at a funeral.

…It is said that in the distilling of ‘moonshine’ whisky, the clearer the liquid looks the more powerful the alcohol. In Bertien van Manen’s Moonshine the opposite may be true, imperfection handled with a fierce respect and admiration has allowed for a stronger more powerful drink than few have been able to produce…’Jeffrey LaddTimeLightBox ‘…It wasn’t until I spent some time with the work that it really began resonating with me. I see my own life and family in many of these photographs.’Roger MayAppalachian photographer

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PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE COLLECTION OF (A SELECTION)

George Eastman House / International Museum of Photography USA

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam the Netherlands

The Museum of Modern Art New York USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art USA

The Baltimore Museum of Art USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Photography Tokio Japan

Maison Européenne de la Photographie Paris France

Centre national des arts plastiques Paris France

The Swiss Foundation for Photography Switzerland

Fotomuseum Winterthur Winterthur Switzerland

Fotomuseum Antwerpen Belgium

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam the Netherlands

Collection ABN-Amro / La Salle Chicago USA

Huis Marseillle Amsterdam the Netherlands

Frans Hals Museum / de Hallen Haarlem the Netherlands

La Collection Neuflize Vie France

BOOKS GROUP

2021
‘Nachbilder’ Eine Foto Text Anthologie Zürcher Hochschule und Fotomuseum Winterthur

2018
‘The Low Countries’, page 256 ‘Intimacy without Borders’ by Tineke Reijnders

2016
‘A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age’ George Eastman Museum

2016
‘Conversations 2’ Rémi Coignet

2015
‘Photography at MoMA 1960 to Now’ The Museum of Modern Art New York

2015
‘Une Collection’ MEP Paris

2015
‘The Chinese Photobook’ by Martin Parr and Wassink Lundgren

2014
‘The Photographers’ Playbook’ Aperture

2013
‘Le Regardeur’ Editions Xavier Barral

2013
‘Lost Home’ Super Labo’s Lost Home project, a set of ten artist books by Harvey Benge

2012
‘Thinking photography, Using photography’ by Jan Erik Lundström and Liv Stoltz, Centrum för Fotografi

2012
‘The Dutch Photo Book Since 1945’ by Frits Gierstberg and Rik Suermondt

2009
Fotografie in het Stedelijk de Geschiedenis van een collectie

2008
MoMA HIghlights since 1980

2007
Photographies Modernes et Comtemporaines La Collection Neuflize Vie

2007
Dutch Eyes New History of Photography in the Netherlands

2006
‘Netherlands Now, L’école du Nord’, MEP Paris

2006
‘The Photobook’, a History vol II by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, Phaidon

2006
Contemporary Dutch Photography, Kumho Museum of Art Seoul

2005
‘In Sight’ Contemporary Dutch Photography from the Collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

2003
‘Gestes’ Printemps de septembre ed. Actes Sud

2003
‘Tales from a globalizing world’ by Daniel Schwartz Ed. Thames Hudson

2003
Citibank Photography Prize 2003

East wind, west wind — 2001

‘…To penetrate the privacy of other people’s lives would take a great deal of tact anywhere. For a Dutch photographer to have found her way into the intimate corners of Chinese lives must have taken more than that. China, for all its hospitality, can be an intensely private place.It is traditionally a country of walled cities, walled palaces, walled gardens, and walled family compounds. The family is still the basic unit that dominates most Chinese lives.And Bertien van Manen has penetrated those units, to show us how Chinese live, eat, touch, talk, and sleep in private. To have done this she must have been not only tactful, put persistant, curious and symphathetic. You can tell from her photographs that she was trusted. Even if she never sees them again, you feel that her subjects are her friends.Bertien van Manen’s pictures do not have an overtly political message. She is an artist, not an activist. But the political history of China is visible in almost every photograph…’Ian Buruma

EXHIBITIONS SOLO (A SELECTION)

2022
Solo exhibition at L’appartement, Espace Images Vevey, september 2022

2022
‘Wish I Were Here’ FOMU Antwerpen — 1.4.2022 — 28.08.2022

2021
‘Archive, Bertien van Manen’ Enter Enter — A Space For Books, Designed by Hans Gremmen

2021
‘Moonshine’ Annet Gelink Gallery Amsterdam

2020
Galerie Robert Morat Berlin Germany

2020
In camera Paris France

2020
Gabriel Rolt HE.RO Amsterdam the Netherlands

2020
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ‘Beyond the Image’ Bertien van Manen and Friends

2019
‘De collectie belicht’ Nederlands Fotomuseum curated by Bertien van Manen the Netherlands

2018
‘I will be Wolf’ Gabriel Rolt Amsterdam the Netherlands

2016
In camera Paris ‘Beyond Maps and Atlases’ France

2016
Photo London ‘Beyond Maps and Atlases’ UK

2016
Post Tokio ‘Beyond Maps and Atlases’ Japan

2016
‘Beyond Maps and Atlases’ Landskrona Art Gallery Sweden

2016
Paris Photo ‘Beyond Maps and Atlases’ France

2016
Gallery Belfast Exposed, Belfast Ireland

2016
Boston Museum of Fine Arts USA

2015
Gallery Pedro Alfacinha Lisbon Portugal

2014
Paris Photo Los Angeles with Gabriel Rolt Paramount Studio’s L.A. USA

2014
Landskrona Art Gallery with Rinko Kawauchi and Nan Goldin Sweden

2013
Galerie Gabriel Rolt Amsterdam The Netherlands

2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York USA

2012
FOAM Amsterdam the Netherlands

2012
Galerie Robert Morat Berlin Germany

2011
in camera galerie Paris France

2009
LX Factory Lisbon Portugal

2008
Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich Switzerland

2008
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York USA

2008
Galerie Robert Morat Hamburg Germany

2008
Museum Ludwig Budapest Hungary

2008
Fotohof Salzburg Austria

2008
Prague Festival of Art Czech Republic

2007
Central European House of Photography Bratislava Slovakia

2006
‘Mois européen de la photographie’ CNA Luxembourg

2006
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York USA

2006
‘de Hallen’ Haarlem the Netherlands

2006
Galerie van Zoetendaal Amsterdam the Netherlands

2005
MoMA New York ‘New Photography’ New York USA

2005
Photo España Circulo de Bellas Artes Madrid Spain

2005
Walter Gropius Bau Berlin, Berlin Photofest ‘After the Fact’ Germany

2004
Photo Museum Ulm Germany

2003
Yancey Richardson Gallery New York USA

2003
The Photographers Gallery, Citibank Photographers Prize 2003 London UK

2003
Centre Photographique d’Ile-de-France Pontault-Combault France

2003
Museum Kunst Palast Düsseldorf Germany

2003
Photo España Madrid Spain

2003
Printemps de septembre Toulouse France

2002
Galerie du Jour, Agnès b Mois de la Photo Paris France

2002
‘East Wind West Wind’ Photographers Gallery London UK

1995
Photographers Gallery London UK

EXHIBITIONS GROUP (A SELECTION)

2022
‘Accrochage – Rouge’ La Petite Galerie, MEP Paris

2022
‘Le langage silencieux’ — MEP — Rencontres D’Arles, Grand Arles Express, Aix-en-Provence

2021
‘One Artist One Minute’ Fotohof Salzburg

2021
‘Paris Photo’ In Camera Galerie

2021
‘Unseen’ Gallery Annet Gelink Amsterdam The Netherlands

2020

2017
Paris Photo Robert Morat ‘I will be Wolf’ France

2017
‘Unseen’ Gabriel Rolt Amsterdam the Netherlands

2017
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam ‘I am a native foreigner’ the Netherlands

2017
Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam Jan Cremer the Netherlands

2017
Art Rotterdam (exhibitor Caroline O’Breen) the Netherlands

2016
George Eastman Museum Rochester USA

2015
Foto Istanbul Turkey

2014
in camera Paris France

2014
Paris Photo at Robert Morat ‘Moonshine’ France

2014
Gana Art Center with Boris Michaelov, Nan Goldin and others Seoul South Korea

2014
‘The Thing Itself’ Yancey Richardson New York USA

2014
‘Us and Them’ Noorderlicht Groningen the Netherlands

2014
Paris Photo at Yancey Richardson France

2013
Moscow Biennale Russia

2013
‘Lost Home’, Colette rue st Honoré Paris France

2013
Andrea Meislin Gallery New York ‘Perchance to dream’ USA

2013
Fotomuseum Winterthur ‘This Infinite World’ selection Paul Graham Switzerland

2013
Paris Photo at in camera galerie ‘Let’s sit down before we go’ France

2013
Paris Photo at Robert Morat ‘Easter and Oak Trees’ France

2013
‘From Holland with Love’ Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam the Netherlands

2012
Paris Photo 2012 France

2012
Dutch Doc Award Tropenmuseum Amsterdam the Netherlands

2012
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam the Netherlands

2012
Centre culturel de Liège 8ème Biennale Internationale des Arts Visuels Belgium

2011
NMWA and Bank of America USA

2011
MoMA Steichen Gallery New York USA

2011
Paris Photo France

2010
Incognito Yancey Richardson New York USA

2010
Minneapolis Institute of Arts USA

2010
Fototriennale Esslingen Germany

2009
Paris Photo France

2009
Bildmuseet Umea Sweden

2008
Bucharest Biennale Romania

2007
Howard Gilman Gallery, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’/Contemporary Photographs from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York USA

2007
‘Scenes and Traces’ Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam the Netherlands

2007
‘InsideOut’ Collections of Amsterdam Institutes FOAM Amsterdam the Netherlands

2006
‘Op het tweede gezicht’ Frans Hals Museum Haarlem the Netherlands

2006
‘L’esprit du Nord’ Maison Europèene de la Photographie Paris France

2006
‘Frames revisited’ De Hallen, Frans Hals Museum Haarlem the Netherlands

2006
‘Dutch insight’ Kumho Museum of Art Seoul South Korea

2006
‘Stories, Histories’- from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Suisse

2005
‘In Sight’ Contemporary Dutch Photography’ Art Institute of Chicago USA

2005
‘Marks of Honour’ FOAM and van Zoetendaal Amsterdam the Netherlands

2005
Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles Belgium

2005
‘Récits d’une Mondialisation’ Palais des Nations Genève Switzerland

2004
Artist Opening, Museum of Modern Art New York USA

2004
‘Cold Play’ Présence Suisse Paris Photo Paris France

2004
‘Take Five’ Huis Marseille Amsterdam the Netherlands

2004
Dunaujváros ICA Budapest Hungary

2004
‘D Foto’ San Sébastian Spain

2004
‘Ce que j’ai vu’ Fondation Cartier Bresson Paris France

2004
‘LINK’ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam the Netherlands

2003
Fundación Carlos de Amberes Madrid Spain

2003
Centre national de la photographie Jeu de Paume Paris France

2003
Photos from the collection Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland

2003
‘Zwart Wit Kleur’ Amsterdams Historisch Museum Amsterdam the Netherlands

Работает [ править ]

• Оле, Оле, ла Маргарита (1955)
• Качели (1956)
• Feestgericht (1957)
• Пастораль д’Эте (1958)
• Симфоническое движение (1958)
• Де Маан ин-де-Трапез (1959, музыка Бенджамина Бриттена )
• Клаар Аф! (1960)
• Концертино (1961)
• Каин ан Абель (1961)
• Эвридика (1962)
• Воет бий Стук (1962)
• Симфония в трех частях (1963; Игорь Стравинский )
• Омнибус (1964)
• Опус Тваальф (1964)
• Повторение (1965)
• Эссе на Стилте (1965)
• Метафорен (1965; Д. Лесур )
• Terugblik op Morgen (1966)
• Точка невозврата (1966)
• Вийф Шетсен (1966; Пол Хиндемит )
• Готово (1967)
• Dualis (1967)
• Без названия (1968)
• Вариоматик (1968; Леннокс Беркли )
• Три пьесы (1968)
• Соло для голоса 1 (1968)
• Квадраты (1969; З. Силассы)
• Ситуация (1970)
• Мутации (1970)
• Снипперы (1970)
• Дважды (1970)
• Grosse Fuge (1971; Людвиг ван Бетховен )
• Продолжай (1971)
• Аякабоемби (1971)
• Наклон (1972)
• Сумерки (1972)
• Opus Lemaitre (1972; И. С. Бах )
• Дафнис и Хлоя (1972; Морис Равель )
• Септет экстра (1973)
• Адажио Хаммерклавир (1973)
• Ассортимент (1973)
• Le Sacre du Printemps (1974; Игорь Стравинский)
• Квинтет (1974)
• Четыре пьесы Шумана (1975)
• Благородный и сентиментальный (1975)
• Коллективная симфония (совместно с Руди ван Данцигом и Тоером ван Шайком, 1975; музик Игорь Стравинский)
• Ebony Concerto en een Tango (1976)
• Октет опус 20 (1977)
• Lieder ohne Worte (1977)
• 5 танго (1977; Астор Пьяццолла )
• Унисоно (1978)
• Думбартон-оукс (1978)
• Премьер Гранд Трио (1978)
• Воспоминания о теле (1979)
• Живой (1979)
• Концерт для фортепиано в блейзерах (1979)
• Эйнлаге (1980)
• Пиановариаты I (1980; И. С. Бах, Луиджи Даллапиккола )
• Иззи М. (1980)
• Сарказмы (1981; Сергей Прокофьев )
• Пять рассказов (1982)
• Trois Gnossiennes (1982; Эрик Сати )
• Поза (1982; Клод Дебюсси )
• Портрет (1983)
• В и из (1983)
• Разоблаченные (1984; Клод Дебюсси)
• Биты и кусочки (1984)
• Новая программа (1985)
• Balletscènes (1985; Игорь Стравинский)
• В Корте Брук (1985)
• Корпус (1985)
• В концерте (1986)
• Открытие (1986)
• В будущем (1986)
• Лицо (видео) (1987)
• Symphonieën der Nederlanden (1987)
• Иззи ан Олли в een Hemelbed (1987)
• Сабо (1987)
• Флаги (1987)
• Мокрая пустыня (1987)
• Шейкер петли (1988; Джон Адамс )
• Звуки музыки (1988)
• Черный торт (1989)
• Мозговой штурм (1989)
• Видения беглецов (1990)
• Интермеццо для музыкантов и танцоров (1990)
• Два (1990; Ферруччо Бузони )
• Тема (1990)
• Анданте (1990; В. А. Моцарт )
• Вечнозеленые растения (1991)
• В движении (1992)
• Стенография — Шесть пьес Стравинского (1993)
• Фантазия (1993; адаптация Бузони И. С. Баха )
• Разные партнеры (1993)
• Концертант (1994)
• Композитный (1994)
• Ночь (1994)
• Польские штуки (1995)
• Дежавю (1995)
• Каммербалет (1995)
• Старик и я (1996)
• Кляйнес Реквием (1996)
• Соло (1997)
• Три пьесы для HET (1997)
• Пара (1998)
• Нулевой час (1998)
• Короткая стрижка (1999)
• Два золотых вариатона (1999)
• Пьесы Баха (2000)
• Анданте Фестиво (2000)
• Трилогия (2000)
• Два лица (2000)
• Простые вещи (2001)
• Монолог, Диалог (2003)
• Липкая штука (2003)
• Вариации Фрэнк Бридж (2005; Бенджамин Бриттен )
• Шесть пьес для фортепиано (2006)
• Мечтая о тебе (2006)
• Слезы (2008), часть In Space
• Набережная (2009)
• Без слов (2010)
• Вариации для двух пар (2012)
• Танцы с арфой (2014)
• Alltag (2014)

EASTER AND OAK TREES — 2013

‘….It is surprising to see how in essence all the qualities of her riper work are present in these family-snapshots: the lyrical looseness, the sensuality and the melancholy but also a feeling for balance and composition. They seem free, sturdy improvisations on themes, which later, in ‘A Hundred Summers a Hundred Winters’ or in ‘East Wind West Wind’ more outspokenly took shape. Of course especially the contactprints thanks to their grafic imperfections have the seductive aura of authenticity but much more interestitng is the search for form, however spontanuous and intimate the scenes may be. This is most explicitely visible in the attention for the pose. In a single case this is purposefully being created but more often it is very precisely being seen and captured in all its artless liveliness and almost painfull beauty.’Hripsimé Visser

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Archive — 2021

Since the 1970s, Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen has created intimate and poignant photographs of commonplace scenes, produced during extended trips to Europe, America, China and the former Soviet Union. Van Manen has established herself as a unique voice in documentary photography, her visual language imbued with empathy and respect for the everyday lives of her subjects. This book presents an extensive overview of Van Manen’s work, alongside diary entries and previously unpublished selections from her archive.

The book has been edited and designed by renowned Dutch designer Hans Gremmen to offer a unique insight and overview of Van Manen’s history, establishing this publication as the ultimate reference work on her oeuvre.

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Beyond Maps and Atlases — 2016

Where can it be found again,An elsewhere world, beyondMaps and atlases,Where all is woven intoAnd of itself, like a nestOf crosshatched grass blades?Seamus Heaney from the poem ‘Herbal’ in ‘Human Chain’At first, working in Ireland I wasn’t sure what I was looking for. My husband had died.I dispensed with the people and reflected on the atmosphere. I was guided by afeeling and a search, a longing for some kind of meaning in a place of myths and legends. There was mystery and endlessness at the edge of a land beyond which is nothingbut a vast expanse.Bertien van ManenAmsterdam, September 15th 2015

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