| | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2021 © Paul Kooiker. | | | | | | | 8 December 2022 – 12 February 2023 | | | | | | | 9 December 2022 – 5 March 2023 | | | Foam Talent 2022 | | | | | | | ... until 18 January 2023 | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2020. © Paul Kooiker. | | | | | | | 8 December 2022 – 12 February 2023 | | | | “Fashion” is a concept that represents what is trending at the moment. Paul Kooiker’s fashion photography, on the other hand, is characterised by its timelessness. The artist portrays the biggest fashion brands and today’s most famous faces, but transports them to a world of their own. Disconnected from time and place, his surreal images feel like film stills with stories we can only guess. | | | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2022. © Paul Kooiker. | | | | | | It is for this reason that Paul Kooiker is currently a much sought-after photographer in the world of fashion and beauty. With his fashion commissions, Paul Kooiker breaks free from the dominant beauty paradigms in a seemingly effortless way. He creates an unmanageable kind of beauty that is not superficial, but almost Freudian in the way it plays on dark desires, fetishisms and subconscious dreams. Furthermore, his photography transcends classic gender roles: his models adopt unusual poses and their faces are often left out of frame, obscuring their identity. At times, it is not even clear whether the subject is human or a doll. In order to capture the extravagance of luxury objects, Kooiker magnifies its means of presentation, like for example mannequins and displays, to such a degree that it is ultimately our desire itself that is captured by his camera.
All works in the exhibition are created with an iPhone. At a time when everyone photographs with their smartphone, Paul Kooiker uses precisely this tool to create a parallel world that is apparently detached from it and that cannot be copied. His exhibition, FASHION, brings together a large variety of images from his fashion commissions to create an encompassing installation that works much like a hall of mirrors: it freezes the breakneck speed of the fashion industry and reveals the absurdity of human vanity and desire. | | | | | | | | | | | Untitled, 2019. © Paul Kooiker. | | | | | | Paul Kooiker (born 1964, Rotterdam) studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1990-1992). Kooiker was awarded the Prix-de-Rome Photography in 1996 and the A. Roland Holst Award for his oeuvre in 2009.
Foam previously hosted a solo exhibition of his autonomous work in 2006, under the title Paradise Twenty-One. Kooiker’s works have been displayed in countless solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, including Museum Folkwang, Essen (2021/22, DE); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (2020, NL); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020, NL); FOMU Fotomuseum, Antwerp (2018, BE); Fotomuseum Den Haag (2014, NL); and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009, NL). Furthermore, his works can be found in a great many international collections, both public and private. | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Bebe Blanco Agterberg, 2020 | | | | | | | 9 December 2022 – 5 March 2023 | | | | Anyone looking at Agterberg's work can sense a dark history, but what exactly lies at its core is not immediately clear. This is what makes her images fascinating: she not only investigates the malleability of memories but also how people, willingly or unintentionally, try to fill the voids within. Politics, media and citizens play the leading role in her work: they are inextricably linked, but they also find themselves in a continuous power struggle. | | | | | | Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 . 1017 DS Amsterdam
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| | | | | | | | | | © Bebe Blanco Agterberg, 2020 | | | | | | Agterber's inspiration
Like an optical illusion, a memory can also be manipulated or distorted: by your own brain, but in some cases also by external factors. An example is the Spanish amnesty law of 1977, which introduced the Pact of Forgetting . After the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the government took the decision to officially forget the 40-year dictatorship. Legally, that meant crimes under Franco's dictatorship were not prosecuted. In public spaces, it meant that visible remnants of these crimes were obscured. Thus the Spanish collective memory before the Pact was fragmented, distorted and blurred.
This history forms the starting point for Bebe Blanco Agterberg's (Netherlands, 1995) images where a visual tension is felt that Agterberg manages to capture in an almost surreal and sometimes apocalyptic way. | | | | | | | | | | © Bebe Blanco Agterberg, 2020 | | | | | | Florentine Riem Vis Grant recipent
Bebe Blanco Agterberg is the sixth recipient of the Florentine Riem Vis Grant. Established in memory of Florentine Riem Vis (1959-2016), the grant is awarded each year with the aim of enabling young artists to further develop their artistic careers. The previous recipients of the grant were Karolina Wojtas (2022), Gilleam Trapenberg (2020), Solène Gün (2019), Rebecca Sampson (2018), Stefanie Moshammer (2016/17). | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Feast, Inside, from the series Paintings, Dreams and Love © Yushi Li and Steph Wilson, courtesy of the artists. | | | Foam Talent 2022 | | | | | | | ... until 18 January 2023 | | | | This fall Foam proudly presents the work of a new generation of artists in the group exhibition Foam Talent 2022. The 20 participating artists look closely at both the world around us, and the one within - without shying away from discomfort or pain. Climate change, political conflict, discrimination, displacement, and social justice issues: the works address the pressing problems of our times and remind us that photography has the potential to capture the unspeakable. We are proud to present a selection that offers as much food for thought as beauty and innovation of the medium. | | | | | | | | | | From the series Malign Influences/The Holy Mountains © Diego Moreno, courtesy of the artist. | | | | | | | Via the Foam Talent Call, an international search for talented emerging photographers under the age of 40, Foam invites photographers from all over the world to submit their portfolios. Selected photographers gain international exposure and recognition within the photography industry through a number of career-building opportunities offered by Foam, including publication in Foam Magazine’s Talent issue, a presentation on Foam’s digital platform and a travelling exhibition premiering at Foam. Additionally, the Talents will participate in a mentorship programme and various network activities, and get the opportunity for their work to be added to the prestigious Art Collection Deutsche Börse of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. | | | | | | | | | | From the series Languor © Donavon Smallwood, courtesy of the artist. | | | | | | Since 2021 and onwards the Talent Call will be organised bi-annually, meaning the next edition will run in 2023. At the base of this decision lies the aim to further optimise the Talent Programme and offer even more guidance to the talents in developing their artistic practice. During this 15th edition of the Foam Talent Call, twenty artists were selected out of 1.938 received submissions from 85 countries. Their portfolios have been published in Foam Magazine #61: Talent in February of this year. This fall, the group exhibition will be presented at Foam’s museum in Amsterdam and beginning of 2023 the exhibition will travel to Frankfurt.
The twenty bodies of work were selected based on how they connect to timely subjects and the ways in which they push forward the medium of photography. All in their own ways, the work dares to interrogate ideological structures and the systemic issues stemming from them. The diverse series are influenced by the patriarchal, capitalistic and religious structures that form our society. Where Lina Geoushy investigates the plethora of emotions and complex social dynamics of violence against women in Egypt with the series Shame Less, Pavo Marinović explores the archetypes and biases of masculinities specific to former Yugoslavia through the series Marbel Ass. Diego Moreno grapples with the stern presence of the Catholic Church in his youth and how this has influenced his ideas of self-perception, sexuality and family. On a more global level Kata Geibl’s constructed images are symbolically charged and interrogate the global issues that stem from capitalism and how we perceive our contemporary social, political and economic system. The artists of Foam Talent 2022 use the photographic medium to respond to, digest and navigate a world that continues to present new challenges and problematic structures | | | | | | | | | | Le Grand Voyage – Version Courte © Ange-Frédéric Koffi, courtesy of the artist | | | | | | Since 2021 and onwards the Talent Call will be organised bi-annually, meaning the next edition will run in 2023. At the base of this decision lies the aim to further optimise the Talent Programme and offer even more guidance to the talents in developing their artistic practice. During this 15th edition of the Foam Talent Call, twenty artists were selected out of 1.938 received submissions from 85 countries. Their portfolios have been published in Foam Magazine #61: Talent in February of this year. This fall, the group exhibition will be presented at Foam’s museum in Amsterdam and beginning of 2023 the exhibition will travel to Frankfurt.
The twenty bodies of work were selected based on how they connect to timely subjects and the ways in which they push forward the medium of photography. All in their own ways, the work dares to interrogate ideological structures and the systemic issues stemming from them. The diverse series are influenced by the patriarchal, capitalistic and religious structures that form our society. Where Lina Geoushy investigates the plethora of emotions and complex social dynamics of violence against women in Egypt with the series Shame Less, Pavo Marinović explores the archetypes and biases of masculinities specific to former Yugoslavia through the series Marbel Ass. Diego Moreno grapples with the stern presence of the Catholic Church in his youth and how this has influenced his ideas of self-perception, sexuality and family. On a more global level Kata Geibl’s constructed images are symbolically charged and interrogate the global issues that stem from capitalism and how we perceive our contemporary social, political and economic system. The artists of Foam Talent 2022 use the photographic medium to respond to, digest and navigate a world that continues to present new challenges and problematic structures | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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