Iris Bergman is a lens-based artist who investigates nature as an utopia. She constructs landscapes and creates stillifes where botanical and floral characters take the lead. By constantly alternating between observer and director, she creates a tension in her workflow. Playfully she collects the results until a new world emerges.
Her work is characterized by the fragmentary constructions, in which apparently random approaches arise bit by bit and transform her subjects into an artificial world. Assembling these approaches into a whole is an important part of her working process.
Her work is characterized by the fragmentary constructions, in which apparently random approaches arise bit by bit and transform her subjects into an artificial world. Assembling these approaches into a whole is an important part of her working process.
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education
2012 – 2016
Bachelor of Design with honours
Photography
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU)
experience
2018 – now Exhibition Producer Gallery Untitled
2015 - now Assistant of Bertien van Manen
2012 - now Freelance photographer, visual artist, teacher
exhibitions & residencies
2022 Solo exhibition - Gallery Unseen - Rotterdam
2022 Group exhibition - UNSEEN - Gallery Untitled - Amsterdam
2019 Group exhibition - Gallery Untitled - Rotterdam
2018 Solo exhibition – Slash Gallery – WORM UBIK Rotterdam
2018 Group exhibition – South Explorer – Rotterdam Heer Danielstraat
2018 Artist in residence - Casa Tagumerche - La Gomera
2017 Group exhibition – New Dutch Photography Talent – Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – Unseen Book Market - Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – The Past Present – S1 Gallery Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – Picture This – HKU Media
2015 Group exhibition – Entangled – Academie Galerie Utrecht
2014 Solo exhibition – Interbellum – Coffee Company Amsterdam
publications & talks (uncommissioned)
2017 Pitch at De Donkere Kamer – Pakhuis de Zwijger
2016 New Dutch Photography Talent (book)
2016 Rising High . self published .
2015 Aan de overkant . self published .
commissions (selection)
2022 Co-productie van tentoonstelling Wish I Were Here voor FOMU Antwerpen
2021 Co-productie van tentoonstelling Moonshine bij AnnetGelink Gallery, voor Bertien van Manen
2020 Co-productie tentoonstelling Beyond The Image: Bertien van Manen & Friends voor Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2020 Mede-oprichter van platform 'Bedankt voor die bloemen' een printsale van 31 Rotterdamse kunstenaars, die in tijden van lockdown een kunstwerk maakten met een bloem in de hoofdrol.
2019 Curator & tentoonstellingsontwerp van Premium Bohemian (Gallery Untitled) in samenwerking met Florine van Rees
2019– heden Hosting voor D.I.R.T(Dutch Institute for Royal Taste)
2018 UNSEEN – Sales & bookmarket voor Stephen Gill (fotograaf)
2018 Portraits for HKU – in collaboration with Kummer & Herrman
2018 Teaching a Seminar at HKU Media – Artificial Paradise
2017 - now Several photography workshops – Nowhere Amsterdam
2017 HKU Photography Department – portfolio reviews
2017 Portraits for HKU – in collaboration with Kummer & Herrman
2017 Photography for the Sikkens Foundation
2017 Sales assistant for Maarten Bel / This Art Fair (artist)
2016 – 2020 Visual content for The Performance Bar
2015 Several images for Het Parool ( 3 months internship)
2012 – 2016
Bachelor of Design with honours
Photography
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU)
experience
2018 – now Exhibition Producer Gallery Untitled
2015 - now Assistant of Bertien van Manen
2012 - now Freelance photographer, visual artist, teacher
exhibitions & residencies
2022 Solo exhibition - Gallery Unseen - Rotterdam
2022 Group exhibition - UNSEEN - Gallery Untitled - Amsterdam
2019 Group exhibition - Gallery Untitled - Rotterdam
2018 Solo exhibition – Slash Gallery – WORM UBIK Rotterdam
2018 Group exhibition – South Explorer – Rotterdam Heer Danielstraat
2018 Artist in residence - Casa Tagumerche - La Gomera
2017 Group exhibition – New Dutch Photography Talent – Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – Unseen Book Market - Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – The Past Present – S1 Gallery Amsterdam
2016 Group exhibition – Picture This – HKU Media
2015 Group exhibition – Entangled – Academie Galerie Utrecht
2014 Solo exhibition – Interbellum – Coffee Company Amsterdam
publications & talks (uncommissioned)
2017 Pitch at De Donkere Kamer – Pakhuis de Zwijger
2016 New Dutch Photography Talent (book)
2016 Rising High . self published .
2015 Aan de overkant . self published .
commissions (selection)
2022 Co-productie van tentoonstelling Wish I Were Here voor FOMU Antwerpen
2021 Co-productie van tentoonstelling Moonshine bij AnnetGelink Gallery, voor Bertien van Manen
2020 Co-productie tentoonstelling Beyond The Image: Bertien van Manen & Friends voor Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2020 Mede-oprichter van platform 'Bedankt voor die bloemen' een printsale van 31 Rotterdamse kunstenaars, die in tijden van lockdown een kunstwerk maakten met een bloem in de hoofdrol.
2019 Curator & tentoonstellingsontwerp van Premium Bohemian (Gallery Untitled) in samenwerking met Florine van Rees
2019– heden Hosting voor D.I.R.T(Dutch Institute for Royal Taste)
2018 UNSEEN – Sales & bookmarket voor Stephen Gill (fotograaf)
2018 Portraits for HKU – in collaboration with Kummer & Herrman
2018 Teaching a Seminar at HKU Media – Artificial Paradise
2017 - now Several photography workshops – Nowhere Amsterdam
2017 HKU Photography Department – portfolio reviews
2017 Portraits for HKU – in collaboration with Kummer & Herrman
2017 Photography for the Sikkens Foundation
2017 Sales assistant for Maarten Bel / This Art Fair (artist)
2016 – 2020 Visual content for The Performance Bar
2015 Several images for Het Parool ( 3 months internship)
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