upcoming
current
Nude or Naked
, Museum Jan Cunen , Oss, Netherlands, 3 February 2019 - 19 May 2019Naakt of bloot? Deze vraag vormt de rode draad van de exposities Naakt of bloot? Het vrouwelijk naakt in de Nederlandse schilderkunst 1875-1925 en Naakt of bloot in de hedendaagse kunst, te zien vanaf 3 februari 2019.
FREEDOM
, Museum de Fundatie , Zwolle, Netherlands, 19 January 2019 - 12 May 2019An exhibition entitled Freedom – The Fifty Key Dutch Artworks Since 1968 will open at Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle on 19 January 2019.
Bauhaus and Photography - On new visions in contemporary art
, NRW-Forum , Düsseldorf, Germany, 7 December 2018 - 10 March 2019The Staatliche Bauhaus not only played a key role in the history of twentieth-century design and art, but also in photography. The exhibition “Bauhaus and Photography—On New Visions in Contemporary Art” at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf brings together photographs by proponents of this “new vision” with works by contemporary artists. The exhibition is part of the centennial program “100 Years of Bauhaus.”
recent past
Paris Photo
, Grand Palais , Paris, France, 8 November 2018 - 11 November 2018Stevenson Gallery, exhibiting at stand A18, has an international exhibition programme with a particular focus on the region. In addition to exhibiting gallery artists, it has brought the work of people like Francis Alÿs, Rineke Dijkstra, Thomas Hirschhorn, Glenn Ligon and Walid Raad to South Africa, often for the first time.
NUDE - The Fragile Body
, Museum Kranenburgh , Bergen, Netherlands, 24 October 2018 - 3 February 2019What is nudity in contemporary times? With the exhibition NUDE – The Fragile Body, Museum Kranenburgh considers the changing meaning of nudity in the visual culture of the past decades: from shock to familiarity, from taboo to openness – and sometimes back again.
Frieze London
, Regent's Park , London, UK, 4 October 2018 - 7 October 2018Frieze London features more than 160 of the world’s leading galleries. View and buy art from over 1,000 of today’s leading artists, and experience the fair’s critically acclaimed curated sections and Talks programme.
Confusing Public and Private: The 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial
, CAFA Art Museum , Beijing, China, 28 September 2018 - 29 October 2018This year’s biennial is designed as part of the Special Exhibitions section of the 1st Beizhen International Photography Festival and will be held simultaneously at the Culture Industry Center of Beizhen and the CAFA Art Museum. The exhibition will showcase close to 1000 works of some 80 artists from around the world, which will be accompanied by a series of seminars, forums, talks and public education events.
The Gallery Club presents Marie-José Jongerius, Viviane Sassen and Martine Stig
, The Gallery Club, Herengracht 528 , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 September 2018 - 16 September 2018The Gallery Club is a platform for photography, organized around exhibitions, dinners and events. Every edition of The Gallery Club explores the work of a wide range of national and international photographers through a different theme.
Frame Freely
, Daegu Photo Biennale , Daegu, Korea, 7 September 2018 - 16 October 2018First held in October 2006, the Daegu Photo Biennale, the largest photography event in Korea, has been held on a total of six occasions as of 2016. The event, which has grown into one of Korea’s three largest biennales, has taken root in Daegu a city with a rich culture of photography. Today, Daegu is still the city in Korea with the highest number of university photography departments, making it the photography capital of Korea.
Hot Mirror
, The Hepworth Wakefield , Wakefield, UK, 22 June 2018 - 7 October 2018'For Hot Mirror Sassen will select individual images from her notable art photography series of the last ten years, as well as new photographs and collages. These selections will be combined to create ‘image-poems’ that draw on the Surrealist strategies of collage. Hot Mirror will also present a new version of Sassen’s immersive film, Totem, 2014, which places the visitor inside a surreal landscape.'
Selected works at Art Basel
, Art Basel , Basel, Switzerland, 14 June 2018 - 17 June 2018Sassen will be showing selected works at Stevenson gallery and at Pace/MacGill
Stevenson: booth M22
Pace/MacGill: booth A6
Previews 12 and 13 June
Public 14 to 17 June, 11am - 7pm
The Atlantic Triangle
, Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial , Porto Alegre, Brazil, 5 April 2018 - 3 June 2018'Zanele Muholi, Mame-Diarra Niang, Viviane Sassen and Kemang Wa Lehulere are included in the 11th Mercosul Biennial. This year's iteration is curated by Alfons Hug and Paula Borghi and 'aims to take a look at the triangle that has been linking the destinations of America, Africa and Europe for more than 500 years'.
Biennial of the Possible Image
, La Boverie , Liège, Belgium, 17 February 2018 - 1 April 2018'Viviane Sassen is included in the 2018 edition of the Biennial of the Possible Image. Works from the artist's Lexicon series feature in a section titled Fluo Noir at La Boverie.'
Various artists in More for less at A4
, A4 Arts Foundation , Cape Town, South Africa, 9 February 2018 - 28 April 2018'Edson Chagas, Meschac Gaba, Jo Ractliffe, Viviane Sassen and Kemang Wa Lehulere feature in More for Less at A4. Curated by Josh Ginsburg, the exhibition is focused on 'works and practices that fluidly seek to engage entropy and efficiency, waste, residue and offcuts, transactions, propositions, and serious play'.'
The Artist Mind
, Gallery Caroline O’Breen , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 13 January 2018 - 24 February 2018'Viviane Sassen features in an exhibition titled The Creative Mind: Eight Artists Photograph Themselves, based on a curatorial proposition by Maura Biava. The exhibition seeks to present works that depict the artist’s state of mind.'
archive
FRIEZE Magazine, NO.198, Frieze Magazine, 1 October 2018
In an out of Fashion, Tbilisi Photo Festival, 13 September 2017
Lexicon, Foto Kunst Stadform, 7 September 2017
Lexicon, FO.KU.S, 6 September 2017
UMBRA, Fotografiska, 31 August 2017
See the Sea, Rijksmuseum, 17 June 2017
Lexicon, Łódź Fotofestival, 1 June 2017
“Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude”, Belfast Photo Festival, 1 June 2017
Roxane II exhibition @ Colette, Book launch @ Colette May 01 2017, 22 May 2017
UMBRA, Deichtorhallen, 13 May 2017
UMBRA, Deichtorhallen, 12 May 2017
Of Mud and Lotus, Stevenson Gallery, 12 April 2017
UMBRA at MoCP, Museum of Contemporary Photography, 26 January 2017
UMBRA, Museum of Contemporary Photography, 26 January 2017
UMBRA chosen as one of the 5 best photobooks of 2016, Stiftung Buchkunst, 31 December 2016
Pikin Slee / In these shadows, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, 4 November 2016
In These Shadows, Casemore Kirkeby, 4 November 2016
Lexicon, Encontros Da Imagem Photo festival, 20 September 2016
Stevenson, Unseen Photo Festival, 16 September 2016
Lexicon, Hordaland Kunstsenter, 29 January 2016
Dutch Identity, Nederlandse Portretfotografie Nu, Museum de Fundatie, 16 January 2016
Gold Medal for best photo book of the year 2016, Prestel Publisher, 15 November 2015
Umbra, l'Atelier Néerlandais, 11 September 2015
Pikin Slee, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt, 5 July 2015
Gruppenausstellung: IMAGINE REALITY, Museum Angewandte Kunst,, 20 June 2015
Group Exhibition: When I Give, I Give Myself, van Gogh Museum, 20 May 2015
Umbra nominated for Deutsche Börse 2015, The Photographers Gallery, 17 April 2015
Axiom, XBANK, 25 March 2015
Pikin Slee, ICA Lower Gallery, 3 February 2015
In and Out of Fashion / Analemma, The Photographers’ Gallery, 31 October 2014
Lexicon and Pikin Slee, GP Gallery, 4 October 2014
Where there's smoke, Fraenkel Gallery, 10 July 2014
Lexicon at the Moontower Foundation, Moontower Foundation, 15 June 2014
In and Out of Fashion at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, 17 May 2014
Stevenson Gallery @ Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair, 9 May 2014
UMBRA, Nederlands Fotomuseum, 8 March 2014
In and Out of Fashion, SCAD, 18 February 2014
new series Pikin Slee and Etan & Me, Stevenson Gallery, 16 January 2014
Gold Medal for best photo book of the year 2013, Fotobuch Preis Germany, 18 November 2013
Stevenson Gallery, Paris Photo, 14 November 2013
Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home, Biblical Museum / De Cromhouthuizen, 1 November 2013
In and out of Fashion, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 19 October 2013
Stevenson Gallery at UNSEEN Photo Fair, Unseen Photo Fair, 26 September 2013
The rediscovery of the world / Pikin Slee, Huis Marseille, 7 September 2013
43SNA, 43 Salón (inter) Nacional de Artistas, 6 September 2013
Pikin Slee, Vrij Nederland Magazine, 31 August 2013
In and Out of Fashion, Couvent Saint-Césaire, Les Rencontres d'Arles Photo Festival, 1 July 2013
Die Son Sien Alles, new photobook, 22 June 2013
LEXICON shown at the Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, 1 June 2013
New book 'Roxane' out now, oodee publisher, 1 January 2013
In and Out of fashion, Huis Marseille, 15 December 2012
Parasomnia - THERE THERE, Crawford Art Gallery, 18 October 2012
Exchange, group expo, Galerie Hans Mayer, 15 October 2012
Youth Code!, Daegu Photo Biennale, 20 September 2012
Fotozaken / Silver Jubilee, De Hallen, 16 September 2012
In and out of Fashion, Foto Museum Winterthur, 8 September 2012
Parasomnia, Krakow Photomonth • Pauza Gallery, 17 March 2012
Parasomnia, Stevenson Gallery, 19 January 2012
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson Gallery, 1 December 2011
No fashion, please!, Kunsthalle Wien, 10 November 2011
Stevenson Gallery, Paris Photo, 10 November 2011
Other I, Hotshoe gallery, 2 October 2011
Parasomnia, 1 October 2011
New photography 2011, MoMA, 28 September 2011
Flamboya, Photo Ireland Festival 2011, 1 July 2011
ICP infinity Award, ICP infinity Award, 10 May 2011
Parasomnia, Contact Photography Festival / Figure + Ground, 1 May 2011
Flamboya, Fotohof, 19 January 2011
Flamboya, Kominek Gallery, 3 October 2010
Flamboya, Brighton Photo Biennial, 2 October 2010
Flamboya, Le Chåteau d'eau, 30 June 2010
WORKSHOP, Cesuralab, 24 April 2010
Flamboya, FORMA, 22 April 2010
Turning an Eye for Beauty Toward Africa, The New York Times, 5 March 2010
Die Son Sien Alles • Flamboya • Ultra Violet, Danziger Projects, 4 March 2010
COVER Project / Art Aids, Art Aids, 29 November 2009
PARIS PHOTO 2009, Paris Photo, 19 November 2009
POP Magazine F/W 2009, 1 September 2009
WEFOLK Agency, We Folk, 1 September 2009
Motive Gallery , Amsterdam, exhibition "Parasomnia", Motive Gallery, 16 June 2009
l’Empresse, l'Empresse, 11 March 2009
200 Years Prix de Rome, Prix de Rome, 28 February 2009
Flamboya, FOAM, 21 November 2008
new book FLAMBOYA out now, Contrasto Books, 1 September 2008
Portraits for Zomergasten, 1 July 2008
Gone with the wind, Zuiderzee Museum, 22 March 2008
Ultra Violet: Sketchbook, Motive Gallery, 27 October 2007
As the crow flies, Museum Jan Cunen, 3 June 2007
Viviane Sassen wins Prix de Rome, Prix de Rome, 1 June 2007
'Dutch Fantasy', Institut Neerlandais, 14 May 2007
'A vol d'oiseau', Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, 27 April 2007