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Foam 3h: Nerhol - Index

Foam 3h: Nerhol - Index / Foam presents the first international solo exhibition of Nerhol. This successful artist duo was founded in 2007 in Japan, as a collaboration between the graphic designer Yoshihisa Tanaka (1980) and the sculptor Ryuta Iida (1981). Together they explore the concept of the photographic portrait.

Willinks clouds above the Rijksmuseum

Willinks clouds above the Rijksmuseum / · 17 April – 14 June 2015 · Foam presents an exceptional and, until now, little-known theme in the voluminous oeuvre of the well-known Dutch painter Carel Willink. In the 1930s, he began to photograph the Amsterdam sky from his apartment and studio, overlooking the famous Rijksmuseum, to use as material for sketches. These clouded skies were hidden away for years in his archive of negatives managed by his widow Sylvia Willink-Quiël.

Noémie Goudal - The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise

Noémie Goudal - The Geometrical Determination of the Sunrise / Foam presents the first solo museum exhibition by Noémie Goudal (Paris, 1984). As one of the great talents of a new generation of French photographers, in recent years she has developed a distinctive visual language with which she is uniquely positioned within the field of contemporary photography. She was among the selected Foam Talents in 2012, which resulted in the publication of her portfolio in Foam Magazine #32.

Broomberg & Chanarin - To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light

Broomberg & Chanarin - To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light / · 20 March - 3 June 2015 · For their solo exhibition To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, internationally highly acclaimed artists Adam Broomberg (South Africa, 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (Great Britain, 1971) lead viewers through a meandering and disturbing history lesson on the relationship between photography and race.

Geert Goiris - Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophecies

Geert Goiris - Flashbulb Memories, Ash Grey Prophecies / · 20 March - 24 May 2015 · Foam is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Belgian artist Geert Goiris (born Bornem, 1971) in the Netherlands. His unconventional visual language and unsettling tone are still little known within our country.

Foam 3h: Regine Petersen - Find a Fallen Star

Foam 3h: Regine Petersen - Find a Fallen Star / · 20 March - 3 May 2015 ·
During the last edition of Unseen Regine Petersen was selected as the best artist of the fair by an international jury who were commissioned by the Outset Unseen Exhibition Fund. Petersen was rewarded with an exhibition in the 3h space in Foam.

A Family Portrayed - Van Loon in Foam

A Family Portrayed - Van Loon in Foam / · 6 February - 29 March 2015 ·The Van Loon photo collection consists of historic interior photography and of both historic and contemporary portrait photography. Renowned artists have portrayed family members: from Felix Nadar and Studio Merkelbach to recently Koos Breukel and Erwin Olaf.

ARAKI Ojo Shashu – Photography for the Afterlife: Alluring Hell

ARAKI Ojo Shashu – Photography for the Afterlife: Alluring Hell / · 19 December 2014 - 11 March 2015 · ARAKI Ojo Shashu - Photography for the Afterlife: Alluring Hell gives a distinct reflection on the oeuvre of the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki (Tokyo, 1940). The extensive exhibition comprises both his notorious early work. The unique presentation follows an international heavyweight in the dusk of his life.

Shining in Absence – A homage to Frido Troost

Shining in Absence – A homage to Frido Troost / · 3 April – 12 April 2015 · Foam presents a short exhibition on the occassion of the publication of the photobook Shining in Absence. It is a special honour to the photography historian Frido Troost (1960 - 2013), who has recently passed away. Both the book and the exhibition are edited and designed by advertising specialist and curator Erik Kessels. The book is published by AMC Books (London) and will be presented on Thursday April 2, 2015 during the opening of the exhibition.

Vivian Maier - Street Photographer

Vivian Maier - Street Photographer / · 2014 · Vivian Maier, Street Photographer is a retrospective exhibition featuring the work of a female street photographer whose impressive oeuvre was only discovered at the end of her life - and then immediately caused a worldwide sensation. She left behind an imposing body of work, consisting of 100,000 negatives.

Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next

Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next / · LONDON 2015 · The Don't Stop Now: Fashion Photography Next exhibition, organised by Foam in collaboration with guest curator Magdalene Keaney, starts out from the fact that fashion photographers are first and foremost photographers. The exhibition provides a platform for a new generation of image-makers who work with fashion.

Under Construction - New Positions in American Photography

Under Construction - New Positions in American Photography / · 2014 · Foam presents 'Under Construction - New Positions in American Photography', a group exhibition featuring the work of nine young American and Canadian artists: Sara VanDerBeek, Lucas Blalock, Joshua Citarella, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Owen Kydd, Matt Lipps, Matthew Porter and Kate Steciw.

Foam 3h Anika Schwarzlose: Disguise and Deception

Foam 3h Anika Schwarzlose: Disguise and Deception / · 2014 · A special unit of the National People's Army in the former DDR was tasked with the production of fake weaponry and the development of camouflage techniques. The underlying principle of the special unit and their artisanal fake weaponry are used as metaphors in the series 'Disguise and Decepton' by visual artist Anika Schwarzlose.

Foam 3h Egon van Herreweghe - Paintings & Sculpture

Foam 3h Egon van Herreweghe - Paintings & Sculpture / · 2014 · In his exhibition Paintings and Sculpture, Egon van Herreweghe shows a different side to photography. The results of his studies are fleeting presentations and brief spatial interventions that cleverly show the status of the image and its genetic material.The symbiosis between image and surface is the most important subject in the work that Van Herreweghe is presenting in Foam 3h.

Daniel Gordon - Shadows, Patterns, Pears

Daniel Gordon - Shadows, Patterns, Pears / · 2014 · Foam welcomes the exhibition Shadows, Patterns, Pears by the American artist Daniel Gordon (b. 1980 Boston, USA). Gordon was chosen as the winner of the Foam Paul Huf Award 2014. This prize is organised by Foam and awarded annually to a young, promising international photographer under 35. The exhibition features a selection of colorful portraits and still lifes, created and photographed between 2010 and 2014.

JH Engström - Close Surrounding

JH Engström - Close Surrounding / · 2014 · Foam is proud to present the work of the Swedish photographer JH Engström (1969) in the exhibition 'Close Surrounding'. Engström divides his time between Paris, France and his birthplace in Värmland, Sweden. The manoeuvring between the slow pace of country life and the stimulating energy of the city is essential in Engström's life. For more information about the exhibition: http://foam.org/visit-foam/calendar/2014-exhibitions/jh-engstrom

Anoek Steketee & Eefje Blankevoort – Love Radio

Anoek Steketee & Eefje Blankevoort – Love Radio / · 2014 · The year 2014 marks twenty years since the genocide in Rwanda. In light of this, Foam presents Love Radio, a transmedia exhibition of Eefje Blankevoort and Anoek Steketee about the complex process of reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda, told by means of the popular radio soap Musekeweya ('New Dawn').

Foam 3h: Jan Rosseel - Belgian Autumn. A confabulated history

Foam 3h: Jan Rosseel - Belgian Autumn. A confabulated history / · 2014 · Belgian Autumn. A confabulated history is a visual research into one of the greatest enigmas in Belgian history: The Gang of Nivelles, also known as the Brabant killers. Based on objective information from police reports, files and newspaper clippings as well as eyewitnesses and personal accounts about the violent crimes of the gang, documentary photographer Jan Rosseel (Brussels, 1979) has reconstructed events that took place almost thirty years ago.

Larry Clark - Tulsa & Teenage Lust

Larry Clark - Tulsa & Teenage Lust / · 2014 · Foam presented two renowned and controversial projects by photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark. Tulsa and Teenage Lust are Clark's earliest bodies of work and reveal a youth culture, which at the time was totally unknown to the greater public. Images of sex, violence and drug use permeate both series.

Richard Mosse - The Enclave

Richard Mosse - The Enclave / · 2014 · The Enclave by Richard Mosse, a major multi-media installation which represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. The installation, consisting of six large screens, represents the conflict situation in Congo and was shot with infrared film that was designed for camouflage detection resulting in vibrant, psychedelic magenta coloured sites of the jungle war zone. Besides the film installation, related photo works are shown.

Daisuke Yokota - Site/Cloud

Daisuke Yokota - Site/Cloud / · 2014 · Daisuke Yokota is part of a leading young generation of Japanese photographers. This exhibition presents work from his Site/Cloud series . His images in predominantly black and white - sometimes with a subtle hint of colour - show a haunting, indefinable world with shadowy, anonymous apparitions and nondescript places, contrasted with sublime, colourful representations of skies and clouds which evoke feelings of timelessness.

Reflected - Works from the Foam Collection

Reflected - Works from the Foam Collection / · 2014 · Reflected - works from the Foam collection, the first exhibition of works selected from its own collection. Foam has been collecting photography actively since 2007. The collection is an active and dynamic part of Foam and a reflection of its exhibition programme, in which the emphasis is placed on the support, signalling and presentation of young talents. Foam follows the careers of these young talents, which may also result in further acquisitions.

Foam 3h: Annegien van Doorn - Domestic Science

Foam 3h: Annegien van Doorn - Domestic Science / · 2014 · In her multimedia installation Domestic Science, Annegien van Doorn sets in motion everyday substances such as toothpaste, custard and mayonnaise. She presents photographic and video work which establishes relationships between ordinary, everyday and banal objects from our daily lives. The objects that she uses in her work move beyond their day-to-day function and thus take on a new form.

Fleur van Dodewaard - 131 Variations

Fleur van Dodewaard - 131 Variations / · 2014 · Fleur van Dodewaard presents her new project 131 VARIATIONS, on occasion of her first and eponymous publication.

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - Adding, Adding, Adding

Kaveh Golestan - The Citadel

Kaveh Golestan - The Citadel / · 2014 · Kaveh Golestan (1950-2003) was an important Iranian documentary photographer and a pioneer of street photography. His photographic practice has hugely informed the work of future generations of Iranian artists but has remained seriously over-looked in Europe. The Citadel presents 45 vintage photographs from the series entitled Prostitute taken between 1975-1977 of women working in the Citadel of Shahr-e No, the red light district of Tehran.

Foam 3h: Ola Lanko - All Year Round

Foam 3h: Ola Lanko - All Year Round / · 2014 · The project by Ola Lanko (1985) was presented as a spatial installation, oering both the opportunity to experience time as momentum as well as a continuous and repetitive process where day, night, nature and changing weather conditions alternate organically.

William Klein - Retrospective exhibition

William Klein - Retrospective exhibition / · 2013 · The career of William Klein (1928) spans more than sixty years. His work has had an immense impact on the photography of the second half of the twentieth century and is still relevant. William Klein's retrospective exhibition is on view till the 12th of March 2014.

Lee Friedlander - America by Car

Lee Friedlander - America by Car / · 2013 · Foam proudly presented a solo exhibition by the American photographer Lee Friedlander (1934, US). This exhibition features the series America by Car and The New Cars 1964. The automobile has come to symbolize the American dream and the associated urge for freedom. It is therefore no surprise that cars play a central role in both series, now receiving their first showing in the Netherlands.

Marnix Goossens - Yonder

Marnix Goossens - Yonder / · 2013 · Foam Amsterdam presented series of new work by Marnix Goossens (born Leeuwarden, 1967) in the exhibition Yonder. In Yonder Goossens concentrates on surrogate nature in slightly run-down interiors, showing man's secret yearnings for exotic destinations and snow-covered mountains in the form of palm-print wallpaper and decorative posters. The exhibition features a combination of Goossens' photographs combined with a short video.

Framed in Print - 40 years of Dutch Magazine Photography

Framed in Print - 40 years of Dutch Magazine Photography / · 2013 · This exhibition in Foam Amsterdam presented an overview of forty years of photography from leading Dutch magazines as reflected by the work of five photographers: C. Barton van Flymen, Bart van Leeuwen, Boudewijn Neuteboom, Bart Nieuwenhuijs and Peter van der Velde. Their work, commissioned by magazines such as Avenue, Elegance, AvantGarde and Nieuwe Revu, had a great influence on advertising and fashion photography in the Netherlands.

Foam 3h: Lorenzo Vitturi - Dalston Anatomy

Foam 3h: Lorenzo Vitturi - Dalston Anatomy / · 2013 · The Dalston Anatomy exhibition by Lorenzo Vitturi is an ode to the sensual pleasures of the bustling London's Ridley Road Market. "The market is a unique place where you can get to understand the people of Dalston in Hackney. Everyone together in this place makes it feel special." ♦ Vitturi spent time at the market taking pictures, making sculptures and creating collages with materials and objects he found amongst the debris of the marketplace.

Cristina De Middel - The Afronauts

Cristina De Middel - The Afronauts / · 2013 · Cristina De Middel (1975, Spain) chose as the starting point for her project The Afronauts a little-known episode from Zambia's history. This was a space programme started by an educator which suddenly entered Zambia in the space race with the United States and Russia. Its aim was to put the first African on the moon. Due to a lack of financial resources, however, the ambitious initiative was doomed to failure.

Bowie by Duffy - Photographs ’72 – ’80

Bowie by Duffy - Photographs ’72 – ’80 / · 2013 · Foam exhibited a selection of images of David Bowie made by the late fashion photographer Brian Duffy. Between 1972 and 1980 Duffy worked with Bowie on five projects, including three famous album covers - like the iconic imagery for Aladdin Sane and Lodger. The exhibition gives an insight into the creative process with a variety of prints, some of them showing behind-the-scenes, contact sheets, Polaroids, original album covers, photographs documenting the film.

Foam 3h: Peter Puklus - Handbook to the Stars

Foam 3h: Peter Puklus - Handbook to the Stars / · 2013 · In Handbook to the Stars, Peter Puklus (1980) attempts to portray his own universe and to provide insight into how his photographic works relate to each other: like galaxies in relative proximity to one another that are bound together by their own gravitational force. The images function alongside each another and through one another, have no sequence or chronology, but exist individually even as they form interconnections and follow their own patterns.

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