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 consequently triggering 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.
To achieve 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 other media such as 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.
To achieve 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 other media such as spray-paint, graphite and acrylic paint she stirs up a steady murmur of potential meaning.
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EXHIBITIONS
2022 Art Rotterdam, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2022 Groupshow Celebração, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2021 Unseen, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Groupshow Forming, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2018 Open Portfolio, Fig Bilbao, Spain
2018 Finissage of residency at Gate 44, Milan
2018 KunstRai Amsterdam, Josilda da Conceição gallery
2017 Groupshow Only Photography, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Finissage of residency at AGAlab in art space ‘de Bouwput’, Amsterdam
2015 Wo war Ich als das Wahr war, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Groupshow Die Distanz zwischen Dir und Mir, Freies Museum, Berlin
2015 OpenHaus, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin
2015 Groupshow Fernweh, gallery Tête, Berlin
2010/15 Continuous solo of These days, window gallery Kunstraject Amsterdam
2013 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Gallery Kovcheg, Lviv-Ukraine
2013 Beijo Brasil, Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam
2012 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, art center COEPi, Pirénopolis Brazil
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Universiteit Leiden
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem
2012 Open atelierroute Westelijke Eilanden, Amsterdam
2012 Oh Inge, Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, Galerie Lauriergracht 160, Amsterdam
2010 Untitled, Groupshow Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam
2009 Oma's goud, Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam
2006 Groupshow Young Dutch Photographers, Museum Rendsburg, Germany
2006 Beautiful men, Groupshow ExFAA, Photofestival Noorderlicht, Leeuwarden
2005 Beautiful men, Groupshow BG Post CS, Amsterdam
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 Art Rotterdam, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2022 Groupshow Celebração, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2021 Unseen, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Groupshow Forming, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2018 Open Portfolio, Fig Bilbao, Spain
2018 Finissage of residency at Gate 44, Milan
2018 KunstRai Amsterdam, Josilda da Conceição gallery
2017 Groupshow Only Photography, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Finissage of residency at AGAlab in art space ‘de Bouwput’, Amsterdam
2015 Wo war Ich als das Wahr war, Josilda da Conceição gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Groupshow Die Distanz zwischen Dir und Mir, Freies Museum, Berlin
2015 OpenHaus, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin
2015 Groupshow Fernweh, gallery Tête, Berlin
2010/15 Continuous solo of These days, window gallery Kunstraject Amsterdam
2013 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia (solo), Gallery Kovcheg, Lviv-Ukraine
2013 Beijo Brasil, Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam
2012 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, art center COEPi, Pirénopolis Brazil
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Universiteit Leiden
2012 Het sociale brein van de puber (solo), Museum Het Dolhuys, Haarlem
2012 Open atelierroute Westelijke Eilanden, Amsterdam
2012 Oh Inge, Studio Inge Schoutsen, Amsterdam
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, De Nieuwe Anita, Amsterdam
2011 A bit of Paradise, but mostly Utopia, Galerie Lauriergracht 160, Amsterdam
2010 Untitled, Groupshow Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam
2009 Oma's goud, Lokaal WV15, Amsterdam
2006 Groupshow Young Dutch Photographers, Museum Rendsburg, Germany
2006 Beautiful men, Groupshow ExFAA, Photofestival Noorderlicht, Leeuwarden
2005 Beautiful men, Groupshow BG Post CS, Amsterdam
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
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