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Frank van der Salm (Delft, NL1964)
Lives and works in Rotterdam, NL
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Frank van der Salm (1964)
Delft, The Netherlands
After studying Photography and Audio/Visual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1992), his main focus has been the Urban Landscape in it’s broadest sense. Over the years early influences of the New Topographics have evolved into a diverse oeuvre about the control of landscape, lack of space, infrastructural issues and the pressure on time and space in contemporary metropolises, reflecting our ways of communication and it’s speed.
Now that the world has developed from separate cities with local activities to one world of (re)-presentation, that is photography, video, film, internet, games, news and entertainment, reality exists in the images that represent it. Focussing on the specific vs. the ordinary and the original vs. the copy, his work elaborates on this medium's dualistic position. Lately, attention has shifted to the new centers of economic power, resulting in projects next to but including the United States and Asia over the last couple of years. He's also working with architects like OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and MVRDV and on infrastructural and cultural projects like the Atelier HSL. Working with professionals in other media has influenced increasing diversity in approaching the contemporary environment. Thus, 'The City' is created with an 'imaginery status' of reality, where 'real' images are remporary. This 'real' is part of Sim-City: a micro-cosmos of urban existence. The city and it's images are real and unreal at the same time.
His photoworks and videos are published widely and have been exhibitied in galleries and museums around the world, among which the Biennale of Venice, Italy (2001), Haunch of Venison, Zürich, CH (2005), Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (2009), and the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL. These works of art are collected around the world.
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1988 - 1992 : Rotterdam Art Academy , Photography & Audiovisual Design
1983 - 1986 : Delft Polytechnic University, Geodesy
Solo-Exhibitions (selection)
2021 : Galerie EENWERK Amsterdam, NL
: ‘N_O_W_H_E_R_E, imagining the global city’,
Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, NL
2020 : ‘Spacing Image’, BScene Room for Art | Antwerpen, B
2017 : ‘Out of Time, Out of Place’, Galerie Helder | Den Haag, NL
2015 : ‘Being There’, Galerie Helder | Den Haag, NL
2013 : ‘Timeport’, CBK Drenthe | Assen, NL
2012 : ‘Timeport’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Schiedam, NL
2011 : ‘City of Bits’, Galeria Casado Santapau | Madrid, E
2010 : ‘Stretched Territories’, Crown Gallery | Brussels, B
2009 : ‘Spectrum’, Akinci Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2008 : ‘Multiplicity’, Fries Museum, (catalogue) | Leeuwarden, NL
2007 : MKgalerie | Berlin, D
: Galeria Casado Santapau | Madrid, E
2005 : Haunch of Venison Gallery/ Galerie Judin | Zürich, CH
2004 : Crown Gallery | Brussels, B
2003 : Art Forum Berlin | Berlin, D
2002 : Paris Photo | Paris, F
: Jan Kesner Gallery, (catalogue) | Los Angeles, USA
2001 : MKgalerie, (catalogue) | Rotterdam, NL
: Galeria Pedro Oliveira | Porto, P
2000 : Fries Museum, Buro Leeuwarden | Leeuwarden, NL
1999 : Jan Kesner Gallery | Los Angeles, USA
: NFI, National Institute for Photography | Rotterdam, NL
Group-Exhibitions (selection)
2020 : Publieke Werken, artproject public space | Rotterdam, NL
: Crown Gallery | Knokke, B
: ‘La Soupe de Daguerre’, Fotomuseum Den Haag | Den Haag, NL
2019 : Van CoBrA tot boorolie, Stedelijk Museum | Schiedam, NL
: ‘Waves & Particles’, Cityscapes Foundation | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘Stadsbeelden’, Kunsthal KAdE / Museum Flehite | Amersfoort, NL
2018 : ‘First Decade’, 38CC | Delft, NL
: ‘Het trage lage land’, Museum MORE | Gorssel, NL
: Photography & Form, Haags Gemeentemuseum | Den Haag, NL
: Cityscapes Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2017 : Time, Space, Architecture, Cityscapes Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2016 : Circular City, Cityscapes Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘Next Flood’, 38CC | Delft, NL
2015 : 7 precarious fields, Fotobiennial Germany | Mannheim, D
: Art Rotterdam Artfair, vKrandendonk Gallery | Rotterdam, NL
2014 : ‘Steps Ahead’, Cityscapes Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
: (T)Huis, Park, curated by Korrie Besems | Tilburg, NL
: ‘Modern Times’, 20th Century Photography, Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam, NL
: RAM foundation | Rotterdam, NL,
: Frankendael Foundation | Amsterdam, NL
: Haags Gemeentemuseum | The Hague, NL
2013 : ‘Wonderkamers’, Haags Gemeentemuseum | The Hague, NL
: ‘If Walls Could Speak’, Frankendael Foundation | Amsterdam, NL
2012 : ‘Sweet & Salt’, Kunsthal Rotterdam | Rotterdam, NL
2012 : Arco Madrid, Galeria CasadoSantapau | Madrid, E
2011 : IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam, ‘Monitor‘ | Rotterdam, NL
: ‘Highrise’, Idea and Reality, Museum für Gestaltung | Zürich, CH
: ‘New Topographics’, Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam, NL
2010 : ‘Inside Out, Photography After Form’, Cisneros Fontanals Art
Foundation, curated by Simon Baker & Tanya Barson (Tate Modern) | Miami Beach, USA
: ‘WATW’, Guangdong Museum of Art | Guangzhou, CN
: ‘WATW’, DCC (Dutch Cultural Center), World Exhibition | Shanghai, CN
2009 : ‘WATW, We Are The World’, Three Shadows Gallery | Beijing, CN
: Fiac, Galerie Akinci | Paris, F
: Aperture Gallery, ‘Nature as Artifice’ | New York City, USA
: George Eastman House, ‘Nature as Artifice’ | Rochester, USA
2008 : Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, ‘Urbanités’ | Paris, F
: Pinakothek der Moderne, ‘Nature as Artifice’ | München, D
: ‘Metropolis’, De Kring | Amsterdam, NL
: Power of Place, Landscape Triennale, De Nettenfabriek | Amersfoort, NL
: ‘The Unwanted Self’, University Galleries, (catalogue) | Brighton, UK
: Kröller-Müller Museum, ‘Nature as Artifice’, (catalogue) | Otterlo, NL
2007 : Spectacular City, NRW Forum, (catalogue) | Dusseldorf, D
: Stedelijk Museum Delft, Contour, Dutch Contemporary Art, (catalogue) | Delft, NL
2006 : Spectacular City (photographing the future), NAI, (catalogue) | Rotterdam, NL
: Netherlands Now, l’Ecole du Nord,
Maison Europeènne de la Photographie, (catalogue) | Paris, F
: Whisper Not!, Huis Marseille, (catalogue) | Amsterdam, NL
: Foresight, Augsburger Kunstverein, (catalogue) | Augsburg, D
2005 : Art Cologne, Galerie Judin/Haunch of Venison | Cologne, D
: Vlaams-Nederlands Huis de Buren, Halte Brussel, Atelier HSL | Brussels, B
: KW14, Constructed Moment, (Catalogue) | Den Bosch, NL
: NAI, Netherlands Architecture Institute | Rotterdam, NL
: The Ecstacy of Things | Milan, I
2004 : Venice Biennial of Architecture, Metamorph (Catalogue) | Venice, I
: Huis Marseille, Take Five (Catalogue) | Amsterdam, NL
: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Im Rausch Der Dinge (Catalogue) | Winterthur, CH
: Chateau d’Eau | Toulouse, F
: Atelier HSL | The Hague, NL
2003 : Post-Nature, Instituto Tomie Ohtake | Sao Paulo, BR
: Arles, rencontre de la Photographie | Arles, F
2002 : Witte de With, (catalogue) | Rotterdam, NL
2001 : On track, Atelier HSL, Ned. Architectuur Instituut | Rotterdam, NL
: Venice Biennial, (catalogue) | Venice, I
: The Peoples Art, Witte de With, (catalogue) | Porto, P
Publications & Reviews (selection)
2021 : ‘N_O_W_H_E_R_E’, monography, design Irma Boom,
Hartmann Books | Stuttgart, D
: Pf Magazine, interview by Edo Dijksterhuis | Zeist, NL
: ‘De stad gaat een eigen leven leiden’, Parool March 4,
review by Edo Dijksterhuis | Amsterdam, NL
: CERN / CH publication, with CERN/Nikhef | Geneva, CH
2020 : ARTE, tv-portrait by Katharina Strehl | Strassbourg, F
: Fotografen in tijden van Corona, by Birgit Donker | Rotterdam, NL
2019 : Architecture Yearbook, with Studio Nauta, NAi010 Uitgevers | Rotterdam
: Wallpaper Magazine, with Studio Nauta, by Harriet Thorpe | London, UK
: De stad als structuur en habitat, by M. Sponselee | Utrecht, NL
: Architectenweb, Ronnie Weessies | Amsterdam, NL
2018 : Abe Bonnema Prijs & Studio Jan Nauta, Leeuwarder Courant | Leeuwarden, NL
: World-Architects, MVRDV Imagery, by John Hill | Zürich, CH
: ‘Het Trage Lage Land’, catalogue, tekst by Merel Bem, Lecturis | Eindhoven, NL
2017 : WdWreview, Witte de With | Rotterdam, NL
2016 : Archdaily, House in the Woods | London, UK
2015 : NRC Handelsblad, review by Bianca Stigter | Amsterdam, NL
2014 : ‘Modern Times’, exhibition catalogue Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam, NL
: Kunstuur, AVRO/TROS national television | Hilversum, NL
2014 : ‘Modern Times’, review Financieel Dagblad, spread | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘De Marseillaise(s), 15 years of collecting, Huis Marseille | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘Collectieboek’, Haags Gemeentemuseum | The Hague, NL
2013 : NOS News, National Television | Hilversum, NL
: Vrij Nederland, Sandra Smets | Amsterdam, NL
: Metropolis M, review | Amsterdam, NL
: NRC Handelsblad | Amsterdam, NL
2012 : ‘Architectural Photography at the Crossroads, Domus, by Alan Rapp | New York City, USA
: NRC Handelsblad, review by Sandra Smets | Amsterdam, NL
: Kunstbeeld, on Gerhard Richter, by Machteld Leij | Diemen, NL
: Kunstschrift, article by Hans W Bakx | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘Sweet & Salt’, Water and the Dutch, by Tracy Metz & Maartje
van den Heuvel, NAi Publishers | Rotterdam, NL
: Archivenue.org, Designboom, Artplatform (blogs) div.
2011 : ‘Highrise (Idea & Reality), Museum für Gestaltung / Hatje Cantz | Zürich, CH
: ‘El Trabajo de van der Salm’, Tu Comunidad Viajera, July 29 | Madrid, E
: BlogeArteMadrid, July 21, review by J.G. Panizo | Madrid, E
: ‘La Humana Galaxia’, El Mundo, July 15, review by A.H.Pozuelo | Madrid, E
: Libros de Arquitectura Contemporanea, June 29, review | Mardid, E
: ‘Irrational Equation’, CUPtopia, blog by T. Joseph,June 2011
: Noticias Diarias, June 29, by M. Gutierrez | Madrid, E
: Re-Title: international contemporary art | London, UK
: MDRN ART, June 24, review by Leandro Sigman | Madrid, E
: Revista Claves de Arte, review | Madrid, E
: Aprende Fotografia | Madrid, E
: ‘Irrational Equation’, CUPtopia, April 3, review by T. Joseph | Madrid, E
: Leaseplan, Art & Cars Collection | Almere, NL
: Met zorg voor Kunst / Caring for Art, UMC st Radboud | Nijmegen, NL
2010 : ‘A Stranger To Myself’, Opera by Sjaron Minailo e.o., design by
Yvo Zijlstra (Antenna Men) | Amsterdam, NL
: Kritiker (The Critic), by Paula von Senth | Stockholm, S
: Urban China, by Ellen Lai | Shanghai, CN
: Sohu, by Kello Tong | Shanghai, CN
2009 : ARTSlant, ‘Tenuous Relationships’, review by Andrea Alessi | Amsterdam, NL
: Radical Games, by Lara Schrijver, Nai Publishers | Rotterdam, NL
2008 : NRC Handelsblad, december, by Tracy Metz | Rotterdam, NL
:International Triënnale Apeldoorn, NAi Uitgevers | Rotterdam, NL
: MetropolisM, ‘herinneringen aan het Amerikaanse Landscap | Amsterdam, NL
: Tubelight, Niet Op Reis (Not the Journey, FvdS), Wytske Visser | Rotterdam, NL
: Kunstbeeld, No. 9, by Sandra Jongenelen | Amsterdam, NL
: Kerb Journal, No. 16, Future Cities, by Nicola Dempsey, Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT | Melbourne, AU
: Financieel Dagblad, by Rianne van Dijck | Amsterdam, NL
: Elsevier, Top 100 Dutch Artists, review by Riki Simons, May 10th | Amsterdam, NL
: Parool, artreview | Amsterdam, NL
: Leeuwarder Courant, ‘De Ontmenselijkte Stad’,
review by Dirk Kuiken, April 4th | Leeuwarden, NL
: De Groene Amsterdammer, interview by Stefan Kuiper, March 27 | Amsterdam, NL
: Dagblad van het Noorden, review by Illand Pietersma, March 21 | Leeuwarden, NL
: NRC Next, review by Eddie Marsman, March 7 | Rotterdam, NL
: Volkskrant, review by Lennard Dost, February 25 | Amsterdam, NL
: NRC Handelsblad, review by Eddie Marsman, February 13 | Rotterdam, NL
2007 : P|f, Proffesional Photography, Review by Pieter van Leeuwen, Feb. | Leeuwarden, NL
: Vrij Nederland, review by Kim Bos, February 16 | Amsterdam, NL
: ‘De Avonden’, Live-interview by Wim Brands, Radio 6, February 4, | Hilversum, NL
: Financieel Dagblad, review by Edo Dijksterhuis, February 2, | Amsterdam, NL
: Omroep Friesland, live interview, January 19, | Leeuwarden, NL
: NRC Handelsblad, Museum Selection, January 18, | Rotterdam, NL
: Monograph ‘Multiplicity’, Roma Publications and Colin Huizing | Amsterdam, NL
: Financieel Dagblad, Review by Edo Dijksterhuis, April 28 | Amsterdam, NL
: Fikrun Wa Fann, no. 87, Publication Goethe Institut, Mohtadi Verlag | Köln, D
: Life Magazine, Photo Essay, nr. 25, december issue | Beijing, CN
: Modern China Express, Cover Image | Beijing, CN
: Collect, Kunst & Antiek Journaal, Close Up, by Etienne Boileau, nov., Amsterdam, NL