Stevenson has an international exhibition programme with a particular focus on the region. Founded in 2003, the gallery has spaces in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Amsterdam.
At Unseen 2024, the gallery is pleased to present a selection of works by Viviane Sassen.
Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam, and lives there. She studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem.
The artist’s retrospective Phosphor: Art & Fashion, is travelling to FOAM in Amsterdam, opening 20 September. The show opened in 2023 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie - MEP in Paris, and travelled to Fotografiska in Shanghai, following its inclusion in the 12th Kyotographie festival in Japan (2024). It is accompanied by an eponymous book published by Prestel. Hot Mirror, a previous survey exhibition of Sassen’s photography, was shown at the Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire (2018) and Musée Des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle (2019).
Notable solo exhibitions have taken place at Ruurlo Castle, the Netherlands; Dat Bolwerck, the Netherlands (2023, 2023); Museum of Modern Art Zagreb (2022); Foto Forum Bolzano (2022); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); Fotografiska, Stockholm (2017); Foto Kunst Stadform, Austria (2017); the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2016); Atelier Néerlandais, Paris (2015); The Photographers’ Gallery, London; ICA, London (2015); and Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014). An overview of 17 years of Sassen's fashion work, In and Out of Fashion, opened at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, in 2012, and travelled to the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Sassen was awarded the Dutch art prize the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York's Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. In 2015, she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her exhibition Umbra. She has also received numerous awards for her publications.