Inge Schoutsen 1974
Lives in Amsterdam. Works in Amsterdam.
Represented by:
Josilda da Conceição Gallery
Schoutsen is a photographer by heart experimenting with the boundaries of the photographic medium. The photo is her source material that she manipulates by making use of printmaking techniques or by adding media. In her work she shapes an intimate link between recognisable imagery and ambiguous abstraction. She plays with the holding capacity of reality in photography and pushes it back into the realm of abstract metaphors. It makes her work concrete and metaphorical at the same time aiming for waves of meaning where the viewers have the right to make up their own minds.
Schoutsen’s pragmatic insistence on particular realities makes that she never adopts a standpoint in her work. Her work expresses strong feelings without locking you down to one narrow story. Her work is about rhythm. The rhythms of observation is where it lives. Schoutsen believes that art is about observing. It’s not about whom is observing. It’s about the process of observation. There is no point of getting philosophical about it, it’s all about experience and the act of looking. What we see and experience is made up of association of memory and reference to metaphor. The power of the works lies with the very tension that arises between documentation and suggestion.
In order to bring in that tension between documentation and suggestion and to stimulate reference and association, Schoutsen kicks off her work with realistic imagery accommodated by abstract photographic techniques such as blur, polarisation, dazzle and grain as mysterious phantoms. Her works gains a sense of materiality by using printmaking techniques such as photopolymer etching. By adding spray-paint, graphite and acrylic paint she stirs up a steady murmur of potential meaning.
Schoutsen’s pragmatic insistence on particular realities makes that she never adopts a standpoint in her work. Her work expresses strong feelings without locking you down to one narrow story. Her work is about rhythm. The rhythms of observation is where it lives. Schoutsen believes that art is about observing. It’s not about whom is observing. It’s about the process of observation. There is no point of getting philosophical about it, it’s all about experience and the act of looking. What we see and experience is made up of association of memory and reference to metaphor. The power of the works lies with the very tension that arises between documentation and suggestion.
In order to bring in that tension between documentation and suggestion and to stimulate reference and association, Schoutsen kicks off her work with realistic imagery accommodated by abstract photographic techniques such as blur, polarisation, dazzle and grain as mysterious phantoms. Her works gains a sense of materiality by using printmaking techniques such as photopolymer etching. By adding spray-paint, graphite and acrylic paint she stirs up a steady murmur of potential meaning.
Artworks
Articles
Media
Highlights
Recommendations
Collections
Shows
Market position
CV
Artworks by Inge Schoutsen
Shows
CV
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Group show curated by Joost van den Burg, Abacus, Ingrid Deuss gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Art Rotterdam (fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Group show Celebração, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Unseen (photo fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Group show Forming, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Open Portfolio, Fig Bilbao (printmaking fair), Bilbao, Spain
2018 Finissage of residency at Gate 44, Milan, Italy
2018 KunstRai Amsterdam (fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Group show Only Photography, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Finissage of residency at AGAlab in art space ‘de Bouwput’, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Wo war Ich als das Wahr war (solo), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Group show, Die Distanz zwischen Dir und Mir, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015 OpenHaus, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin, Germany
2015 Group show, Fernweh, gallery Tête, Berlin, Germany
2010/15 Continuous solo of These days, window gallery Kunstraject Amsterdam, NL
2013 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Gallery Kovcheg, Lviv, Ukrain
2013 Beijo Brasil (solo), Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam, NL
2012 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), art center COEPi, Pirénopolis, Brazil
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Universiteit Leiden, NL
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem, NL
2012 Open atelierroute Westelijke Eilanden, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Oh Inge (solo), Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Galerie Lauriergracht 160, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Group show, Untitled, Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Oma's goud (solo), Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Group show, Young Dutch Photographers, Museum Rendsburg, Germany
2006 Group show, ExFAA, Photofestival Noorderlicht, Leeuwarden, NL
2005 Group show, BG Post CS, Amsterdam, NL
RESIDENCIES
2020/21 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2019 Summer printmaking workshop at Fundación CIEC Betanzos, Spain
2019 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2018 Printmaking residency at BBK Drückwerkstatt, Berlin
2018 Printmaking residency at Gate44, Milan
2017 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2015 Artist residency at PictureBerlin, Berlin
BOOKS
2009 Oma’s goud, self-published book
2013 Photos in ‘Het sociale brein van de puber’, ISBN13: 9789035137714
TEACHING
2013 Workshop @ COEPi, Pirénopolis Brazil
2012 Guest lecture @ Gallery 5x5, Lviv-Ukraine
2010 Guest lectures @ Fotovakschool Rotterdam
EDUCATION
2006 Masterclass Rineke Dijkstra
2001/05 Fotoacademie, Amsterdam
2022 Group show curated by Joost van den Burg, Abacus, Ingrid Deuss gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Art Rotterdam (fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Group show Celebração, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Unseen (photo fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Group show Forming, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Open Portfolio, Fig Bilbao (printmaking fair), Bilbao, Spain
2018 Finissage of residency at Gate 44, Milan, Italy
2018 KunstRai Amsterdam (fair), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Group show Only Photography, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Finissage of residency at AGAlab in art space ‘de Bouwput’, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Wo war Ich als das Wahr war (solo), Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Group show, Die Distanz zwischen Dir und Mir, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany
2015 OpenHaus, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin, Germany
2015 Group show, Fernweh, gallery Tête, Berlin, Germany
2010/15 Continuous solo of These days, window gallery Kunstraject Amsterdam, NL
2013 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Gallery Kovcheg, Lviv, Ukrain
2013 Beijo Brasil (solo), Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam, NL
2012 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), art center COEPi, Pirénopolis, Brazil
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Universiteit Leiden, NL
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem, NL
2012 Open atelierroute Westelijke Eilanden, Amsterdam, NL
2012 Oh Inge (solo), Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam, NL
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Galerie Lauriergracht 160, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Group show, Untitled, Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Oma's goud (solo), Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Group show, Young Dutch Photographers, Museum Rendsburg, Germany
2006 Group show, ExFAA, Photofestival Noorderlicht, Leeuwarden, NL
2005 Group show, BG Post CS, Amsterdam, NL
RESIDENCIES
2020/21 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2019 Summer printmaking workshop at Fundación CIEC Betanzos, Spain
2019 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2018 Printmaking residency at BBK Drückwerkstatt, Berlin
2018 Printmaking residency at Gate44, Milan
2017 Printmaking residency at Agalab, Amsterdam
2015 Artist residency at PictureBerlin, Berlin
BOOKS
2009 Oma’s goud, self-published book
2013 Photos in ‘Het sociale brein van de puber’, ISBN13: 9789035137714
TEACHING
2013 Workshop @ COEPi, Pirénopolis Brazil
2012 Guest lecture @ Gallery 5x5, Lviv-Ukraine
2010 Guest lectures @ Fotovakschool Rotterdam
EDUCATION
2006 Masterclass Rineke Dijkstra
2001/05 Fotoacademie, Amsterdam
Free Magazine Subscription
Articles, interviews, shows & events. Delivered to your mailbox weekly.