Artists

Rineke Dijkstra

1959	Born in Sittard, the Netherlands
1981-1986	Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
	Lives and work in Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions

1984	'Paradiso Portraits', de Moor, Amsterdam
1988	'The Creation of Form', de Moor, Amsterdam
1994	'Art Encouragement Award Amstelveen', Aemstelle, Amstelveen
1995	Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (with Tom Claassen) 'Time Festival, Rineke Dijkstra', Museum of Contemporary Art,Gent, (with Hugo Delbaere)
1996	Le Consortium, Dijon Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
1997	'Location', The Photographer's Gallery, London
1998	Folkwang Museum, Essen
1999	Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London Anne Frank Museum, Amsterdam
2000	Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

1987	'Municipal Art Acquisitions, Amsterdam 1987', Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
1993	'The Power of Present', Loods 6, Amsterdam Photo Festival Naarden, Naarden (exhibition catalogue) 'Every Child is Made of Marble', Beurs van Berlage/Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
1994	'De ander, der Andere, l'autre', Het Domein, Sittard and Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen
1995	'Wim Janssen, Rineke Dijkstra, Jan Koster', Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 'A Europe e o Mar, Encontros da Imagen', Braga (exhibition catalogue) 'Vlinderslag, Beeldende Kunst in het Zuiderbad', Amsterdam (exhibition catalogue) 'The European Face', Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (exhibition catalogue) 'Rineke Dijkstra/Jacob Nolenhuis', Fotomanisfestatle Noorderlicht, Kunstcentrum Niggendijker, Groningen 'A Pressing Engagement', Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Leiden 'Lichtjaren', Jubileumtentoonstelling Gkf, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam
1996	'Gemeente Aankopen 96', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 'Colorealismo: Rineke Dijkstra, Wolfgang Tillmans, Inez van Lamsweerde, Nan Goldin', Galleria Photology, Milan 'Gynaika', Cultureel Centrum Knokke-Heist, Knokke (exhibition catalogue) 'Prospect 96', Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M. (exhibition catalogue) 'Fotofiction', Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (exhibition catalogue) 'Contemporary Dutch Photography', Galerie Nei Liicht, Ville de Dudelange 'Aufnahmen der Normalltat/Shots of Normality', Schwaz Kunstverein, Schwaz 'Le printemps de Cahors', Cahors and Portalen Koge Bugt Kulturhus, Copenhagen (exhibition catalogue) '100 foto's uit de collectie', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exhibition catalogue) 'Habitus', Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg (exhibition catalogue) 'Zeitgenossische Fotokunst aus den Niederlanden', NBK, Berlin and Badischer, Kunstverein Karlsruhe (exhibition catalogue) 'The European Face', Fotoforum West, Innsbruck 'The European Face', PS Gallery, Poznan, 'The European Face', Jewish Culture Centre, Krakow
1997	'Zeitgenossische Fotokunst aus den Niederlanden', Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle 'The European Face', Gallerie Foto-Forum, Bolzano 'Foto's uit de collectie', Maison de la Photographie, Paris 'Tussen de Mazen, Zeitschnitt Niederlande', Kunstraum, Innsbruck 'Observaties/Observations, recente kunstaankopen KPN', PTT Museum: Richard Billingham, Rineke Dijkstra, Jeroen Elsinga, A.P. Komen / Karen Murphy, Liza May Post, Georgina Starr', Den Haag, the Netherlands 'The European Face', Weesper Synagoge, Weesp, the Netherlands 'Future, Present, Past', Corderie, La Biennale di Venezia 42, Venice 'Adolescents', Julie Saul Gallery, New York 'Work in Progress/Constructing Identity: Rineke Dijkstra, Wendy Ewald, Paul Seawright', Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam 'Rotterdam 97 Festival: Rineke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelly, Sharon Lockhart', Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 'New Photography 13', The Museum of Modern Art, New York 'Sarah Jones, Kiki Lamers, Rineke Dijkstra', Interim Art (Maureen Paley), London 'Distanz und Domizil, Fotografie der Gegenwart', Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden 'The 90's: A Family Man?', Casino Luxenbourg, Forum d' Art Contemporian, Luxenbourg 'Places to Stay, Standort Berlin', Büro Friedrich, Berlin 'Triptych, een blik op Nederlands Realsime / a review of the 20th century Dutch Realism', von Jonathan Turner, Museum Bommel van Dam, Venlo
1998	'The Global City', Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands: a.o.: Rineke Dijkstra, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Gilbert and George, Andreas Gursky, Beat Streuli, Jeff Wall Institute of Contemporary Art, London 'Sightings', New Photography Art, ICA, London 'People', Monica des Cardenas, Milano 'NL, contemporary Dutch art related to the collection of the Van Abbemuseum', Eindhoven 'Introspectie', Cultureel Centrum Knokke-Hest 'Aankopen / Acquisitions', Groninger Museum, Groningen 'Zelfportretten, kunstenaarsportretten uit de Caldic Collectie', Caldic Collectie BV, Rotterdam 'Wounds, Between democracy and redemption in contemporary art', Moderna Museet, Stockholm 'Rineke Dijkstra, Tracy Moffat, Fiona Tan', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent 'Women', Galerie Gasser and Grünert, Köln 'Singularités Croissée', Musée Departement d' Art Contemporian, Rochechouart 'Hungry Ghost', Dougles Hyde Gallery, Dublin 'Kleuren van Water', de Paviljoens, Almere 'Jugendfestspiele '98. In the Mix!', Kongresshalle am Alexanderplatz, Berlin 'Fonster at Garden/Rear Window', XpoSeptember Stockholm Fotofestival, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 'When Season becomes Form', Ausstellung Allianz Versicherung-AG, Köln 'Eija-Lisa Ahtila, Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon. New Work', Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels 'XXIv Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo', San Paulo, Brasil 'Berlin, Berlin', Berlin Bienale 'Berlin, Berlin', Büro Friedrich, Berlin 'Admissions of Identity', City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffiled 'Auf der Spur, Kunst der 90er Jahre, im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen', Kunsthalle Zürich 'Remix, Images Photographiques', Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes 'The History of Photography', The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A, London 'Global Vision, New Art from the 90's, Part III', Deste Foundation Athens 'Fleeting Portraits, Flüchtige Portraits II', NGBK, Berlin 'Amsterdam est une Femme', Institut Néerlandais & La Foundation Basalt, Institut Néerlandais, Paris
1999	'Portraits', daadgalerie, Berlin: Rineke Dijkstra, Bart Domburg 'The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize', The Photographer's Gallery, London 'Aperture 3: Marina Abramovic, Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra', Fondazione Teseco per l'Arte, Pisa 'La imatge de l'Artre', Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona 'Shifting Vieuws, foto's uit de collectie', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 'Conditions Humaines: portraits intime', Mois de la Photo à Montréal 'Kind', Stadsmuseum Woerden, Woerden 'Modern Starts: People, Places, Things', The Museum of modern Art, New York 'Ich und die Anderen', Ursula Blicke Stiftung Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim 'Ex-Tension: Old and new loves in the contemporary art collection', Museum Het Domein, Sittard 'Objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are', Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 'De Taal van het Lichaam', Het Gorcums Museum, Gorkum 'Macht und Fürsorge: Das Bild der Mutter in der zeitgenössischen Kunst', Trinitatiskirche, Köln 'Körperinszenierung', Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 'L' Occidente Imperfetto', VIII Biennale Internationale di Fotografia, Palazzo Bricherasioo, Torino 'Art Dealers 1999', Le Salon d'Art Contemporain, Marseilles 'Changement D'Air', Musée d'Art Moderne Lille Métropole, Lille 'Regarding Beauty in Performance and The Media Arts', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 'Children of Berlin', PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York '13e Recontres Photographiques', Galerie Le Lieu, Lorient 'Glad ijs', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2000	'Children of the 20th Century', Von der Heydt Museum, Gallery of Wuppertal, Gallery of Aschaffenburg, Jesuitenkirche, Mittelrhein- Museum Koblenz 'Eurovision', The Saatchi Gallery, London 'Interventions. New Art in Unconventional Spaces', Milwaukee Art Museum 'Conditions humaines, portrait intimes', Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam 'John, I'm only dancing', Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans, UK 'Let's Entertain', Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA 'The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000', Musée de l' Elysée Lausanne 'Breathless! Photography and Time', V & A, London 'Platforma', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 'Children of Berlin Projektionen', Museum Folkwang, Essen 'Ich und die Anderen', Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum 'Petty Crimes', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Thames 'El mes de Hollanda en el Museo', Museo National de Bellas Artes Buenos Aires 'Some Parts of this World', Helsinki Photography Festival 2000 'How to look at it. Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts', Sprengel Museum, Hannover 'Presumed Innocent', Capc, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux 'CLOSE UP', Kunstverein Freiburg im Marienbad and Kunsthaus Baselland 'III International Month of Photography', Moscow House of Photography 'Childhood and Modern Art', Stadtische Galerie, Stadt Bietigheim- Bissingen 'Une mise en scène du réel: artiste/acteur', Villa Arson, Nice 'Photocollection Elton John', The High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Awards

1987	Kodak Award Nederland
1990	Nomination for Young European Photographers
1991	Epica Award for Best European Advertising Photography
1993	Art Encouragement Award Amstelveen
1994	Werner Mantz Award
1999	The Citibank Photography Prize

Works in Public Collections

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin

Sammlung Goëtz, Munich

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

The Tate Gallery, London

The Saatchi Collection, London

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Guggenheim Museum, New York

The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Bibliography

1993	"Fotofestival Naarden", Trouw, May 13. A. Morrien & H. Aarsman, "Bij de Vioedlijn, Strandportretten van Rineke Dijkstra", Vrij Nederland, no. 19, May 15. Catalogue, De kracht van Heden, The Netherlands Foundation of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, May. Catalogue, Fotofestival Naarden, May.
1994	R. Steenbergen, "Eenzaamheid vastgelegd in een moment voor de camera", NRC Handelsblad, July 18. Catalogue, H. Visser, "De ander, der Andere, l'autre", Werner Mantz Award, October. H. Visser, "Rineke Dijkstra", Nieuwsbrief Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, no. 10, December. M. Koemans, "Lachen is niet Interessant", Het Parool, December 17. M. Haveman, "Het bijzondere van het gewone", Vrij Nederland, no. 51- 52, December 24. M. v. d. Berg & T. Wallroth, "Rineke Dijkstra", Rulmte, 3/4. J. D. Vos, "Rineke Dijkstra", Nogal onfatsoenlijk maar zeker verleidelijk, December. L. Coelewij, "Rineke Dijkstra/Tom Claassen", Stedelijk Museum Bulletin, December.
1995	I. Schwartz, "Meedogenloze camera van Rineke Dijkstra", De Volkskrant, January. T. Seelig, "Rineke Dijkstra", Pakt, no. 5, January/February. "Rineke Dijkstra's Wall Street", Vrij Nederland, no. 6, February 11. M. v. d. Berg & T. Wallroth, "Wim Janssen, Rineke Dijkstra, Jan Koster", ultgave Galerie Paul Andriesse, May. M. Wilson, "Rineke Dijkstra", Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Flash Art, March/April. "Rineke Dijkstra", 5 Fotos, no. 3, vol 2. P. Groot, "De geboorte van een nieuwe muze. Bij de foto's van Rineke Dijkstra", Metropolis M, no. 2, April. I. Leenheer, "De naakte man", Elle, April. J. Lamoree, "De manipulators", Het Parool, April 15. K. Hemmerechts, "Het taboe van het hoogstpersoonlijke", Vrij Nederland, no. 21, May 27. Vlinderslag, Het Parool, August 16. S. Boecker, "Art Cologne, Angebot grosser denn je", Kolner Stadt Anzeiger, no. 267, November 17. A. Scherphulus, "Verkracht voor Volk en Vaterland", Vrij Nederland, no. 48, December 2. W. v. Zoetendaal, "Rineke Dijkstra/Jacob Molenhuis", Het Parool, December 21. Catalogue, Vlinderslag, Beeldende Kunst in het Zuiderbad. Catalogue, The European Face, Portrait Photography from the Fifteen Member States of the European Union. Catalogue, A Europa e o Mar, Encontros da Imagen, Braga, Portugal. Catalogue, Gkf 50 jaar, fotografie 1994-1995. Catalogue, Stofgoud, Jacob Molenhuis/Rineke Dijkstra.
1996	Catalogue, Prospect 96. Photographie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M. Catalogue, Gynaika, Cultureel Centrum Knokke, Belgium. Catalogue, Fotofiktion, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel. Catalogue, Zeitgenossische Fotokunst aus den Niederlanden, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. M. Thijssen, "Prospect 96 blijft overeind dankzij thematische ordening", Het Financleete Dagblad. Catalogue, M. Thijsen, Le printemps de Cahors, Photographie & Arts Visuels, June. C. Wauters, "Prospect 96", Art Press, 214, June. B. Ollier, "6eme Printemps de Cahors", Photographie & Arts Visuels, Liberation, June 26. C. Vogele, "Rineke Dijkstra in der Galerie Bob van Orsouw", Das Kunst-Bulletin, no. 9, September. S. Maurer, "Zwischen Magie und Sachlichkeit", Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, September 9. Y. Volkart, "Nackte Identitat", Annabelle 16/96. M. A. Lindo, "lk zie meteen een Botticelli voor me, de fotocollectie van het Stedelijk", Het Parool, September 14. J. Steiner, "Suche nach Wurde - Fotografie von Rineke Dijkstra in Zurich", Neue Bildende Kunst, May. I. Schwartz, "Lolita's uit Liverpoolse disco", De Volkskrant, Couleur Locale, October 30. Catalogue, Habitus, Galerie Fotohof Salzburg, September. B. van der Haak, "Fotografe Rineke Dijkstra 'ledereen is alleen'", Elle, November. H. Singels, "Fotograferen op het strand", Kunstschrift, no. 4. Catalogue, 100 foto's uit de collectie van het Stedelijk Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. S. Lutticken, "Lichaamstaal in de Engelse disco", Het Parool, November 1. B. Stigter, "Rineke Dijkstra", NRC Handelsblad, November 1. Catalogue, Rineke Dijkstra, Beaches, Codax Publisher Zurich. Blindspot Photography, Issue 8.
1997	J. Lamoree, "De jeugd van tegenwoordig, een avondje uit met Rineke Dijkstra," Het Parool, August 29. I. Dik, "Chaos en toeval bepalen het lot," Vrij Nederland, August 30. R. Van Dijck, "Resultaten van Photowork(s) in Progress", Foto, September. E. Marsman, "Carrousel aan identiteiten gevangen door de camera", NRC Handelsblad, September 6. A. Haytema, "De onzekerheid belicht van pubers in de disco", De Volkskrant, September 24. M. Thijssen, "Photowork(s) in Progress," Het Financieele Dagblad, September 27. A. Neefjes, "Betrapte onhandigheid," Vrij Nederland, October 4. M. Bracewell, "Costume Dramas," The Independent Saturday Magazine, November 22. I. Schube, "Photowork(s) in Progress", Photonews, December 1997 /January 1998. J. Geerling, "Children of Chaos," Metropolis M, Issue 6. Catalogue, The Photographer's Gallery, London., W. Janusczak, "Baring witness to a truth made flesh," The Sunday Times, December 14. J. Haase, "If you're now looking at a picture of your son, you might like to know he's an icon of Modern Art", Daily Liverpool Post, December 19. J. Haase, "Boy from gallery tracked down, thanks to the Post," Daily Liverpool Post, December 22.
1998	P. Lyle, "One night in 1994, a Dutch artist called Rineke Dijkstra....", The Face, March. C. Wahjudi, "Sightings. New Photographic Art", Kunstforum, July- September.
1999	A. Searle, "Every picture tells a porkie", The Guardian, March 2. A.J. Wieder, "Fleeding Portraits", Frieze, May. E. Schmitz, "The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1999", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 23.
2000	C. Darwent, "Eurovision", The Independent on Sunday, January 9. R. Dorment, "Modern-day monuments", The Daily Telegraph, January 19. S. Grant, "A vision with no focus, Eurovision", Evening Standard, January 20. D. Lutyens, "Snap ruling", The Times, February 5. M. Andrews, "Eurovision", Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 28. J.L. Belcove, "Lens Crafters", W, May. H. Sumpter, "miss frisbee", i-D, June.
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