Sept/Oct. 2010. Sign up for the set of new books More...Less... As of now you can sign up for the set of my upcoming books The Kaddu Wasswa Archive and Pose. This is done through the website of the publisher post-editions. Some information on the project(s) can be found in the #26 GUP magazine and the Netherlands Photo Museum, that hosts the exhibition of the Kaddu Wasswa Archive as of 30st of October. Book Launch will take place on the same day.
June 2010, Komm, mein Mädchen on a billboard More...Less... A selection of images from 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge', will be part of the exhibition Elders Landschap (website only in Dutch), that has work by nineteen international photographers presented on billboards in the landscape around St. Michelsgestel (among others Rob Hornstra, and Raimond Wouda). There will be activities such as biking routes during the summer. Check the Elders website for details. The image with this post was taken during the exhbition of the same work in Berlin, 2008.
May 2010, documentary on Dutch-Doc website More...Less...
May 2010, Things That Matter exhibition in Africa Centre More...Less... From the 22nd of May, untill 6th of Januari next year Things That Matter can be seen in the Africa Centre in Cadier en Keer in the south of the Netherlands. Things That Matter was the first photography project I did in Uganda in 2007. It was exhibited before in the Uganda Museum, summer 2009.
May 2010, Intensive Care comes to life More...Less... Thursday May 6th, 8 p.m. the exhibition of Intensive Care will be opened. It will be on display untill the 6th of June at the CBKU. Intensive Care is part of Memorylane, organised by Fotodok. Alec Soth's Dog Days Bogota is exhibited in the Flatland Gallery.
The book Intensive Care will be presented during the opening by Ingmar Heytze.
On foto8 there is a preview of Intensive Care, with some ot the poems by Vrouwkje Tuinman (in English). Please take a look.
A special edition of Intensive care will be available on the DutchSpace! exhibition in the New York Photofestival.
Februari - April 2010, Pre-ordering Intensive Care More...Less... The new book Intensive Care, with photographs by me and texts by Vrouwkje Tuinman can be pre-ordered on the website of the publisher De Jonge Hond untill the 1st of May.
'The monitor faded,
the lines cut loose.
Grey first, then white.'
On the morning of New Year’s Eve 2008 two young people met with an accident. The next week, they were buried. Since then, they have been missed. In both images and words, Intensive Care shows the inconceivable and unexpected aspects surrounding a sudden death. Photographer Andrea Stultiens recorded the hospital, funeral home and the burials. Poet Vrouwkje Tuinman writes about mourning and remembrance. The images and texts share their unsentimental, day-to-day view of death and everything it brings about. Intensive Care will be launched on the 6th of May 2010, at the opening of the exhibition, that runs until the 6th of June. More information on the exhibition will follow.
Februari 2010, Artists' Books Cooperative More...Less... As of now I am part of ABC; Artists’ Books Cooperative is a distribution network created by and for artists who make print-on-demand artists’ books. Our aim is to help artists getting their books to the people who are interested in them. We don’t sell books through this site but we make information about selected books available. Please visit the site and take a look at the books.
Januari 2010, Call for Bayimba Festival More...Less... September 2010 I will lead a workshop during Bayimba Festival in Kampala, Uganda. Ugandan / East African photographers and artists are invited to participate and apply.
Januari 2010, Quickscan #01 in Dutch Photo Museum More...Less... 'Mask' will be part of the group show 'Quickscan #01' in the Dutch Photo Museum in Rotterdam.
Januari 2010, The Greenhouse Affects More...Less... Januari 10th, 3 p.m. a groupexhibition with the title 'The Greenhouse Affects' opens in 'het glazen huis' in Amstelpark, Amsterdam. Pose, as well as Green will be shown here, next to work by Julien Grossmann, Kai-Ting Lin, Anja Masling, Petra Morenzi and Regula Maria Muller untill Januari 31st. Open Thursday/Sunday 12a.m.-5 p.m. More information will be available at Zet Foundation.
December 2009, Honorable Mention Viewbookphotostory More...Less... Intensive Care, a project I have been working on with Vrouwkje Tuinman, received an honorable mention in the ViewBookPhotostory competition. The book of the project will be presented in May. Preordering of the book will start Februari 2010. More information follows.
December 2009, Prints available through Photography Art Store More...Less... A new internet photography gallery offers two of my photographs in limited editions. Get your copy here
December 2009, Article in Cursor More...Less... The magazine of the TU Eindhoven, the last stop of the travelling exhibition of the Bouw in Beeldprijs Award, published a nice short interview in Dutch, ánd in English.
November 2009, Pose on American Suburb X More...Less... Here is a nice reading of Pose, on a very interesting photography blog
November 2009, Art Migration Identity in Oude Kerk Amsterdam More...Less... Until the 6th of December the complete IFAA 2008 exhibition is on display in de Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, including two of my works.
Oktober 2009, looking for a publisher for 'Pose' More...Less... It has been a week or two now since I received the paper copy of the blurb book version of 'Pose', the work that also won the Dutch 'Bouw in Beeld Award'. And, well... I think the design would be pretty spectacular. After some enhacements and a different way of printing that is. By a real designer for instance, maybe a nice essay, and with another binding and better paper.
So. Now I am looking for an interested publisher. Know any? Please contact me
Sept. 2009, photography book now contest More...Less... A book version of Pose, the work that earlier this year won the Bouw in Beeldprijs, is first runner up in Blurbs' photography book now contest. A pretty impressive jury chose one overal winner, three category winners and then three first runners up, from among 2400 applicants. Pose, and two other books (masks and the boys and girls inside mount fiji) can be bought directly from blurb, just follow the links. It is by far not as nice as the special edition, but a lot more affordable...
July 2009, Things That Matter in Ugandan Press More...Less... Two articles on the Things That Matter project exhibition in the Uganda Museum that lasts till next weekend were published in the two major English newspapers in the country. Here and here are the online versions. Images from the project can be found here and here. The work will be shown in the Netherlands in the Africa Museum in Cadier en Keer May-November 2010.
June 2009, bouw in beeldprijs photography award More...Less... At the opening of the exhibition of the 'Bouw in Beeldprijs 2009' in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen, I was announced as this years winner, for the new work 'Pose, Ugandan Images'. The very nice exhibition with work from all ten nominees will be on display here untill july 16th, and will later travel to Maastricht and Eindhoven.
To see a preview of the work check the album, to view or/and buy a copy of the special edition go to books.
June 2009, kerkdorp-polderdorp in Fw: exhibition PhotoEspana More...Less... Fw: would like to invite you for the exhibition
Pages, una nueva generación de libros de fotografía
The exhibition is part of the official program of PhotoEspana 2009, and is situated in the -for this occasion- empty library of the Fundación Antonio Saura, Casa Zavala in Cuenca.
The exhibition shows publications, videoworks and photos of:
Raymond Taudin Chabot / Jaap Scheeren / Mieke Woestenburg / Bob van der Vlist / Andrea Stultiens / Paulien Oltheten / WassinkLundgren / Rob van Hoesel / Rob Philip / Annelies Goedhart / Vanessa van Dam + Martine Stig / Ringel Goslinga / Petra Stavast / Niels Stomps / Melanie Bonajo + Kinga Kielczynska / Antje Peters / Erik van der Weijde / Linda Maria Birbeck / Rob Hornstra / Eva Marie Rødbro / Koen Hauser / Charlotte Dumas / Geraldine Jeanjean / Anouk Kruithof / Monique Scuric / Ilse Frech / Nickel van Duijvenboden / Thomas Manneke / Magdalena Pilko / Cuny Jansen / Vivianne Sassen / Wytske van Keulen
The publication 'Pages, the Cuenca Edition' will be presentated and available on this venue. The exhibition takes place from June 3 through July 26 in the Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca (Spain).
Special thanks to:
Nederlands Fotomuseum (Frits Gierstberg and Claudia Küssel), PhotoEspana, Fundación Antonio Saura, Pilar Blanco, Ambassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Madrid (Christel Coolen), the Mondrian Foundation.
June 2009, 'Komm, mein Mädchen' on television More...Less... While the book of 'Komm, mein Mädchen in die Berge' is about to be sold out, and the special edition, with one of the original slides is still available from 25 books, another edition was made on the occasion of the exhibition in Schmiede-Fotografie in Hamburg. Fifteen images from the series on a television, or, as the Gallery owner calls it 'Bildbetrachter'. It is an edition of 80, for €29,-- each. Get one at Schmiede or its website!
May/June 2009, 'mein Mädchen' on the road... More...Less... The installation of 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge' is exhibited in three different countries in May.
In the Lodz fotofestiwal in Poland, from 7th till 31st of May.
In the Netherlands the Foundation for Art and Culture Gelderland, in Arnhem shows it, together with work from Polderdorp, and from Low Land-High Hills. From May 12th, till July 9th.
And, in Schmiede, Raum für Fotografie in Hamburg, Germany from May 29th, till June 14th
March 2009, 'Komm, mein Mädchen' in the Frankfurther Algemeine Zeitung More...Less... For everyone that would like to know more about D. and G., the stars of my latest book, check out the FAZ website, or the feuilleton part of the newspaper of march 21st 2009. Together with journalist Melanie Mühl I found out more, but not too much... Understanding German helps.
Februari 2009, exhibition Masks, galery De Natris Nijmegen More...Less... From Feb. 22nd til march 29th the new work 'Masks 19??-2008' is exhibited in Galerie de Natris in Nijmegen. Vernissage on the 22nd, 15.00h.
Februari 2009, finalist for Bouw in Beeld award More...Less... The finalists for the Dutch photography award 'Bouw in Beeldprijs' are published, and I am one of them. I'll make new work for the exhibition that will take place in June/July in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen.
Januari 2010, call for photography workshop Bayimba Festival More...Less... In September of this year I'll give a workshop in Kampala Uganda, as part of Bayimba Festival. Ugandan / East African photographers are invited to participate and apply.
januari 2009, exhibitions kunstliefde Utrecht, and Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie More...Less... My work will be in two groupshows. In Kunstliefde there is an exhibition in which 18 artists react to the foreign missions of the Dutch army, under the title 'Onze Jongens' (our boys)
The Amsterdam Centre for Photography (ACF) has a series of exhibitions about Work in Progress. The second one in the row shows not yet finished work by eight documentary photographers.
Kunstliefde opens Jan. 3th. There is a finnisage on the first of Feb where I will be present.
ACF opens jan. 17th and lasts only two weeks, till the 31st.
December 2008, 20x20 More...Less... 20x20 actually is the same as Pecha Kucha, so, expect sharp presentations of 20 slides in 20seconds each, by a nice selection of designers and artists. See Lux's website for more information on the program and other participants.
december 2008, winn a special edition More...Less... On the website of Monte, a German online mountain magazine, a copy of the special edition of 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge', can be won. What you have to do for this is tell the people of Monte three places where the couple in the book took their photo. All the photo's are on the site as research material. Of course you will have to prove the places you come up with. Good luck!
december 2008, exhibitions and debate Ifaa More...Less... On Sunday 7th of December the International Festival of the Arts Arnhem will open at Lux in Nijmegen. My work can be seen in CBKG-Arnhem untill 28th of december and in Hommelsstraat 66-68 in Arnhem untill 10th of januari (yesyes! next year). I am showing new work on the festivals theme 'Art-Migration-Identity'. I looked specially at the migration of images, and this resulted in 5 small books (Hommelseweg) and in an installation of photographs in CBKG. In CBKG there is also work of Bill Kouelany, Misheck Masamvu, Alite Thijsen and Frouwkje Smit. In de Hommelseweg there is a spectacular work by Bright Eke, there are paintings from Aref Damee, there is a video by Japanese/Dutch artist Keiko Sato, an intruiging and intimate installation of drawings by Pélagie Gbaguidi and a work by Therea Maria Diaz Nerio.
Tuesday the 9th of December there is a debate on the theme, also in Lux
oktober 2008, Komm, mein Mädchen news (exhibition and award) More...Less... Last friday another exhibition (after last years show in the Or Gallery in Vancouver) under the title 'Travels and Escapes opened. In Berlin this time, as part of the European Month of Photography. The exhibition shows work from 'Low Land - High Hills', 'In Bloom (Bricolps Photo Studio)', and 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge'. The book of this last work won a Silver award in the German Photobook Price 2009.
More information on the book at Bildschoene Bücher.
oktober 2008, two exhibitions More...Less... This weekend two exhibitions with some of my work open. Tomorrow, oktober 11 'A perfect book' starts in the ACF in Amsterdam. This exhibition was curated by Wil van Iersel and shows a selection of artist books. The edition 'Green' will be on display here.
In the Vishal in Haarlem a selection from 'Polderdorp' is shown as part of the Noord-Holland Biënnale. The biënnale starts sunday oktober 12.
september - december 2008, IFAA Artists in Residence More...Less... From end of September untill mid December I will take part in an artist in residence programm, organised by Thamgidi Studio Foundation. during the whole period about twenty artists, in various disciplines and from different backgrounds, will be working together on the themes Art, Migration, Identity. The work produced will be shown during the International Festival of the Arts Arnhem, from december 7 till 14. This promises to be an interesting experience... to be continued...
september 2008, 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge' now available More...Less... My new book is out! Check 25 books for information. A special edition is published with the book. It has the book in a beautiful box and one of the original slides. The edition is therefore limited to the amount of images in the book. Orders can be placed, and images picked here.
26 September 2008, 226 photographs from the Dobbelman archive opened More...Less... Yesterday evening the exhibition 226 photographs from the Dobbelman archive opened. The 226 photographs refered to are selected from the company archive of the Dobbelman soap factory in Nijmegen. The selection shows how photography was used to document the factory life, what was thought of as important to record and archive for the future.
Next to these images, ordered in booklets, there are photographs of alternative archives in the homes of former factory workers, and other places that conain fragments of the history of the factory.
The exhibition will be open on friday, saturday and sunday, from 13.00 till 17.00h. untill the 12th of october. The addres is Graafsedwarsstraat 14, in Nijmegen
September 2008, exhibitions in Bredevoort, Utrecht and Tampere (Finland) More...Less... 'Low Land - High Hills' is on display at Foto21 in Bredevoort. Part of the same work can be seen in the exhibition Wanderlust in the Academie Galerie in Utrecht. This show is part of the manifestation Utrechts Licht. Finally, 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge', is part of the Finish photofestival Backlight, that opens next week.
July 2008. No news is good news... More...Less... It has been a long time since I posted new news. A short update seems to be in place. My workspace is about to move. I am going to share a new space in the 'Biotex building' in Nijmegen east with 3 friends. In september I will show a project I have been working on for some time in this building; '226 photographs from the Dobbelman archive'. It is great that this work will be shown in the only building of the original Dobbelman factory that is still there.
The work on the new book 'Komm, mein Mädchen, in die Berge, The Alps' is almost done. The book will be available in september 2008.
In a few weeks I'm off to Uganda again. I will start a blog on the work there soon. It will be in Dutch. I'll put the link in the next news message.
In september I'll start a new study; Masters Photographic Studies at the Leiden University.
April 2008. lecture at Amsterdam Centre for (F)photography More...Less... Next sunday, 27th of april Andrea wil give a presentation (in Dutch) for foundation Entree about her books. The presentation will take place at the ACF and starts 4p.m.
April 2008. Lecture in Utrecht 20th More...Less... sunday the 20th of april 2008 Andrea will give a lecture (in Dutch) during the culturele zondag in Utrecht. The theme of the afternoon is 'flying high / hero's', and the lecture will be about the amateur photography Andrea works with, and it's makers, who are her hero's.
March 2008. More than 1000 words... More...Less... Wednesday april 9th 2008 the groupexhibition 'een foto zegt meer dan 1000 woorden' will be opened in 'De Zaal' in Gent (Belgium). It is an exhibition on found photographs. It will be on display until the 30th of april. A beautiful book (in Dutch) is published with the show. More information on the website.
Februari 2008. Real Photography Award exhibition opened More...Less... Yesterday a beautiful exhibition of the nominees for the Real Photography Award opened in LP2 in Rotterdam. It will be on display here untill the 4th of May. Hans Christian Schink won the award, with a fascinating photoghraph of the sun. A catalogue with all the nominees is available.
Februari 2008. In Almost Every Picture in Aperture Gallery More...Less... The work Andrea did with Erik Kessels, as part of his In Almost Every Picture series is on display in the Aperture Gallery in New York untill the 17th of May. The photographs that taxidriver A.J. Paetzhold made of his taxi and it's passenger during several trips they made through Europe are projected, constructing the travells and giving us the opportunity to wonder about their purpose and the story they tell.
Februari 2008. Things That Matter will be shown in Uganda More...Less... Thanks to the support of Hivos the exhibition of this project will be shown in the Uganda Museum in Kampala. This will happen later this year or early 2009. The Africa Museum in Cadier en Keer will also show it, but the Dutch audience will have to practice some patience untill the summer of 2010.
Februari 2008. Exhibition Fw:Pages More...Less... Andrea's books Kerkdorp-Polderdorp is part of the exhibition Fw:Pages. In this exhibition over thirty bookprojects of young Dutch photographers are on display. A magazine will be presented at the opening in the Netherlands. Opening feb. 8 in the Dutch Photomuseum in Rotterdam. On display till 2nd of March. The same exhibition will be shown in the Dorottya Gallery, in Budapest from feb 13, till march 8th.
November 2007. Book presentation 'Sus Domesticus' More...Less... The book 'SUS DOMESTICUS, het varken op tafel' will be presented on November 24th, at 3.30 pm. The authors Andrea Stultiens, Diny Schouten and Ko Sliggers will be present. They welcome you to celebrate this presentation with them at de Lindenhoff, Rijksstraatweg 21, 1396 JC Baambrugge. After an anatomical-culinary lesson about the pig, there will be a sampling of several of the dishes described in the book. Naturally, the book is for sale, and will be signed on request.
October 2007. Exhibitions in Canada More...Less... The Or Gallery in Vancouver will show some of Andrea's latest work from October 26th, 2007. The book Low Land-High Hills will be presented on November 4th at the Evergreen Cultural Centre's Art Gallery in Coquitlam. The exhitibion will be on view until January 16th, 2007.
September 2007. Entries for the International Photography Awards succesful More...Less... Andrea's series Radical Trachelectomie won third place in the category 'People', subcategory 'Self Portrait'. Honourable mentions were given to 'Edirisa' (category ‘people/portrait, ‘fine art/portrait, ‘deeper perspective’), Sus Domesticus and Radical Trachelectomie (category 'deeper perspective')
September 2007. 'REAL Photography Award' nomination More...Less... September 17th - Andrea's photograph of the Bricolps photo studio in Kabale, Uganda, has been nominated for the exclusive REAL Photography Award, which is a new, bi-annual photography award created by ING Real Estate to promote international contemporary photography.
The award is meant as a tribute to development, nature and architecture as registered by photographers and society.
The photographs will be judged by a distinguished international jury, led by Roger Hargreaves. Hargreaves is a writer and curator of photography and is a research fellow at the 'Photography and the Archive Research Centre' at the London College of Communication. The other jury members are Chaos Chen, Lesley Martin, David Rogers and Frits Gierstberg. They are assisted by senior curator of ING Art Management, Annabelle Birnie.
The nominated photographers will be offered an exclusive exhibition. All works displayed during that exhibition will be published in a catalogue.
To see all nominated photographs, and to read more about the award and the jury, visit the Real Photography Award website.
August 2007. Exhibition opening and book presentation of Low Land - High Hills More...Less... On August 31 2007 the book 'Low Land - High Hills' was presented. The book accompanies the project of the same name. If you are interested in buying 'Low Land - High Hills,' please send Andrea an e-mail. The exhibition at the Nieuw Land Heritage Centre will be open from September 1st until October 22nd 2007. More information and photos will be available soon.