ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2016 Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon (1/03/16 – 31/05/16) – Mondriaan Foundation & Ashkal Alwan.
2006-2005 Atelier Holsboer, Paris, France (04/04/2005 – 27/03/2006) Fonds BKVB, The Netherlands.
COLLECTION: MUSEUM
2012 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland: “I Am – Paradox Identity”, acquisition Monograph: SET-Collection.
2010 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Photography Collection “Zjeitu”, Document Nederland. Commissioned by the Rijksmuseum and NRC Handelsblad 2009/2010.
MONOGRAPH
2008 I Am – Paradox Identity: Concept design, photography, editing and interviews by Ilse Frech. Essays written by Leïla Sebbar & Habiba Mahany (France). Graphic Design; Mevis & van Deursen & Felix Weigand. Episode Publishers. Bilingual edition of 1000 copies (French – English).
BOOK AWARD
2008 I Am – Paradox Identity was awarded Best Book Design, 2008, The Netherlands.
FILMOGRAPHY
2018 Sweet Terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ (2018, 15′) Short Film, Fiction/Experimental non-fiction (English, Greek, German; English subtitles)
2018 Sweet Terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ: Official Selection Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht (The Netherlands): Non-competition programme.
2008 I Am, My Islam, My France. (2008, 48’) Feature Film, Documentary (French; English subt.)
FILMOGRAPHY FILM SCREENING INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL SELECTIONS & INT. ART BIENNALS
2019 Sweet terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ Visions du Réel, International Filmfestival Nyon, Switzerland: Online Media Library (sales).
2018 Sweet Terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ at IFF Kinenova Skopje, North-Macedonia: International Short Film Competition.
2018 Sweet Terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ at Festival de Cannes: Short Film Corner, professional-market screening.
2009 I Am. My Islam. My France at IWAB – Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale South-Korea, The Tuning exhibition: “The 21st Century, The Feminine Century and the Century of Diversity and Hope”, commissioned by Heng-Gil Han (New York – USA).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Espace Quai #1, Vevey, Switzerland (12/10/2011 – 26/11/2011). I Am – Paradox Identity was chosen from 800 portfolios, at the occasion of the 8th Vevey International Photo Award.
2011-2010“ZJEITU”, Document Nederland, Het Rijksmuseum. Exhibited at De Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL).
2010 “I Am, Identités pluri-Elles” | “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Boutographies Photo Festival Montpellier, France.
2009 “I Am, Identités pluri-Elles” | “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Poitiers Festival “Ciné, Divers-Cité“, France.
2008 “I Am, Identités pluri-Elles | “I Am- Paradox Identity”, Institut Néerlandais, Mois de la Photo 2008, Paris, France.
2001 “Children of the Balkans” at Photo Festival Naarden, The Netherlands.
2000 Gallery 2 1/2 4 1/2, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: A SELECTION
2015 rock rock rock a rock, “Art and the Politics of Estrangement”, theoretical program at the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (affiliated to The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee) Switzerland – resulting in a group-exhibition.
2009 “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Gallery Snull9 Mannheim (DE) Installation: “Die Favoriten” FO3 at Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg.
2009 “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Athens Photo Festival, Athens (GR): “Brave New World”.
2008 Het Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam “M-Photo: Photojournalism on the highest level”.
2008 “I Am – Paradox Identity” at “PHE 2008 Descubrimientos” (SP)| Portfolio Review Photography.
2007 “I Am – Paradox Identity” at Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam: “034 Toekenningen” Presentation of project, work in progress.
2005 “Nika, Russia LOVE” at Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France: “Est-ce que ainsi les hommes vivent”, curated by Gabriel Bauret.
2003-2004 “Private Life” at FOAM, the Netherlands: Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo 2003 (06-11-03/ 11-01-04): “Enough”.
2003 “Children from the Balkans” at La Galerie du Centre Iris, Paris, France: “Histoire d’Enfants” (16-01-03/25-03-03).
WRITING
2013 MFA HES-SO, HEAD-Genève University of Art & Design, Work.Master, major Visual Arts & Contemporary Artistic Practices, Thesis: Image as Language – Language as Image.
I AM – PARADOX IDENTITY: COLLECTIONS, PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
2019 Le Livre d’Images – Un dictionnaire d’expériences visuelles; Images Vevey, Koenig Books Ltd London – At the Serpentine Gallery.
2012 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland – Collection exhibited: “Young People”.
2011 Nederlands Fotomuseum (NFM), Rotterdam: “Feast of the Photobook, The Dutch Photobook since 1945”.
2011 Beijing Bookfair + Design Fair China: 120 titles of Dutch artists, designers & architects selected by Fonds BKVB.
2010 NFM (Nederlands Foto Museum), Rotterdam: “Pages” by FW. Best Dutch photography books published; ‘QuickScan’.
2009 “Look 3 Book Exhibits” – Charlottesville, USA.
2009 “33 Best designed books” 2008, The Netherlands.
SELECTION OF PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT & RESEARCH: FILM
Present (– 2016): ‘One’, A Letter to Eternity, geographical area of interest Middle-East, North-Africa and Europe. Research complies fields of: Archaeology, Philosophy, Art History, Hermeticism, Archaeoastronmy, Cosmology, Astronomy in connotation with the Mediterranean basin and its history and influence, as a two-way flow cultural influencer since antiquity.
PROJECTS
2018 “Sweet terror of Memory – ΨΙΘΥΡΟΙ”; Short Film, Fiction /Experimental/Non-fiction; oral history, re-enactment, poetry. Related to thematic research project: “Exile: Belonging”.
2017 – 2011 “Exile: Belonging”; Performative audiovisual works, consisting of a series of video-poems, photographic essays, prose, poetry, performance, interviews, audio-visual installation, performed testimonies.
2014 “Caged Birds of Paradise” | Exile; Macedonia: Pursuit of photographic document (1995-). Related to thematic research project: “Exile: Belonging”.
2012 “Words of Memory”| Exile : Lecture-performances of testimonies of Jewish women, survivors of the Holocaust. Performed in Germany, France and Switzerland (English, German). Part of MA HES-SO, HEAD-Genève Work.Master program. Recordings performed by Swiss actresses. Created within the context of the thematic research project: “Exile: Belonging”.
2010 Document Nederland: “ZJEITU” Rijksmuseum & NRC Handelsblad. Documentary photography & online archive website with podcasts, photographs, video-fragments and written content. Concept by Ilse Frech. Design & drawings Kalle Mattson. Editing & podcasts Miriam Sluis (NRC Handelsblad). A visual account on historic and present identity, individuals and their characters – most notably women representing the strong felt presence of matriarchal culture of the Antilles, portrayed on the eve of autonomy.
2008-2005 “I Am – Paradox Identity”. Documentary photography & audio-recordings, interviews, mobile-selfies collection, soundscape and documentary feature film (video). An in-depth mosaic of portraits of Muslim women in Paris’ suburbs, ‘banlieues’, France.
2007-2005 “Nika Russia LOVE”. Documentary photography, interviews, audio-recordings, personal video-diary: Portrait of Nika, Russian and seropositive.
2003 “Private life”. Photographs, interviews, music. Documenting Muslim youth in the suburbs of Paris and Marseille (FR).
2002 “Oxana and Dima”. Photographic documentary essay of one day in the life of a young couple in love (HIV +, ex-drug addicts, RU).
2000 “Children from the Balkans”. Photography: Muslim refugees from Srebrenica, portrayed in shelter-homes and refugee-settlements in Tuzla, Bosnia. Portraits of Roma children from Sutka, the largest Roman-community, Skopje, Macedonia.
2000 Bosnian Muslim war-refugees, families from Srebrenica. Photography and audio-recorded and transcribed personal testimonies of the war, recorded at home and at asylum centres, across the Netherlands.
VIDEO WORKS IN CONCEPT
2017-14 Diptych Series 01-04, “Sweet terror of Memory”, Concept II, for a film-installation. Walk-through (2014, 4’20), 3D-Videodesign Concept I, for a film-installation.
– “A Russian Tale {of Love}”, Documentary Video-journal
INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS
2019 Le Livre d’Images – dictionnaire d’expériences visuelles de A à Z, by IMAGES Vevey and Koenig Books Ltd London – At the Serpentine Gallery.
2017 RIJKSMUSEUM Studies in Photography: Document Nederland, Author Rixt A. Bosma, Vol. 17 – 2017.
2016 Rusted Radishes, Beirut Literary and Art Journal. Poem by Ilse Frech: “Blank|Hiroshima Mon Amour”, part of film “Sweet Terror of Memory” and “Exile” project.
2014 RIJKSMUSEUM ‘MODERN TIMES’ Photography in the 20th Century (highlights from the Rijksmuseum’s Photography Collection) Edition: Rijksmuseum NAI010. Authors: Mattie Boom & Hans Rooseboom, curators Photography Rijksmuseum.
EDITORIAL RELATED TO DOCUMENTARY PROJECTS SELECTION 2016-2001
Clients: Trouw, De Volkskrant, BLVD, Vrij Nederland, FOCUS, FOAM Magazine, P/F, Het Parool, De Nieuwe Revu, IM [Identity Matters], De Journalist, NRC Handelsblad, Source, NEXUS nr. 48, Area Revue)s, Le Monde/2, Réponses Photo, Azart Photo, Pam Loisirs, Images Magazine, Connaissance des Arts, Le Journal du Dimanche, La Photographie, Télérama, Le Figaro, Time Lightbox (USA), Vision Magazine (China), Neuland (SUI), Camera Austria (in collaboration with Michèle Hadria-Cohen, writer and critic).
AWARDS & FINALIST PHOTOGRAPHY SERIES
2009 “33 Best designed books” 2008 (NL), for “I Am – Paradox Identity”.
2009 Favorite portfolio at the portfolio-review of FO3 Photo Festival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Germany, resulting in group exhibition ‘Die Favoriten’ at Pilot Galerie S Null Neun, Mannheim (DE), for “I Am – Paradox Identity”.
2008 PhotoEspagna Descrubrimientos | PHE 08 FINALISTS, for “I Am – Paradox Identity”.
2004 & 2003 De Zilveren Camera (NL): 1st Single Foreign Documentary & Series, categorie Art, Culture, Architecture & Technics.
2002 PAN-L (Photographers Association of The Netherlands): Silver Award Documentary Photography, for “Children from the Balkans”.
NOMINATIONS SHORTLISTED
2018 Athens Photo Festival (GR), for “Caged Birds of Paradise”.
2015 SOLAS Photography Prize (IR), for “Caged Birds of Paradise”.
NOMINATIONS
2015 SO-Prize, DuPho – Dutch Association for Professional Photographers (NL), for “Caged Birds of Paradise”.
2009 VOIES OFF Festival, Rencontres d’Arles – Photography Festival (FR), for “I Am – Paradox Identity”.
2004 ICP INFINITY AWARD for PHOTOJOURNALISM, New York (USA), for “Private Life”. Nominated by Charlotte Cotton, Curator Photography at the time at Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK).
SELECTION SPECIAL PROGRAMS, Film & Photography PORTFOLIO REVIEWS, PITCH PROGRAMS
2010 PLAT(T)FORM 10, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland. Portfolio-presentation emerging artists-photographers.
2009 The Match Making Selection Workshop, at Documentary in Europe, Bardonecchia, Italy (08-07/11-07-09).
PRESENT JOBTITLE (FREELANCE)
– 2023 (since 2018): Advisor, Individual/ Project Subsidies – AFK / Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Visual Arts, Photography, Design & New Media.
PAST JOBTITLES (FREELANCE)
2022 (3/mo): Film Expert, European Commission EACEA – Creative MEDIA; Unit CODEV 2023 Support – Education, Audiovisual & Culture.
2020 (4/mo): Film Expert, European Commission EACEA – Creative MEDIA; Unit Slate Support – Education, Audiovisual & Culture.
2019 (4/mo): Film Expert, European Commission EACEA – Creative MEDIA; Unit Slate Support – Education, Audiovisual & Culture.
COACHING | TEACHING, GUEST LECTURES – SELECTION
2017-2015 Coaching and mentoring personal projects: Concept development & identity; Visual Art, Photography, Bookdesign.
2016-2013 Mentor Beeldende Kunst Cultuur & Ondernemen.
2016-2014 Teaching Photography & Identity | Portfolio assemblage and the art of editing, Photo Academy Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2010/10 Cambridge University of Art, UK: artist talk & presentation, Q&A.
2003/11 University of Haarlem- the Netherlands; guest lecture photography and teaching.
2002 Royal Academy of the Arts, KABK, The Hague / Academy of Art and Design, ’s Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. One week workshop Photography and engagement: “observe-record-connect”.
SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Mondriaan Fund
2012-2011 MFA Study, Mondriaan Fund
2010 Commission / The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (Fund BKVB)
2008 The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (Fund BKVB)
2007-2006 The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (Fund BKVB)
2005-2004 Amsterdam Fund of the Arts, Amsterdam (AFK)
2003 Foundation for Special Journalistic Projects, Amsterdam (FBJP)
2002-2001 The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam (Fund BKVB)
2000 Foundation for Special Journalistic Projects, Amsterdam (FBJP)