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Arjan de Nooy works both with his own photographs as well as with found material. Using both types of footage, he devises stories and theories. These may have a fictional character in which his own role can vary from art historian to feminist, from collector to ornithologist. The stories he constructs give the photographs an artificial context and therefore give them their meanings. An ongoing project is a fictional history of Dutch photography, in which both oeuvres and biographies of fictional photographers are presented as contemplative texts.
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Oeuvres de Arjan de Nooy
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The Universal Photographer, Gemeentemuseum (Kunstmuseum Den Haag) | 2018, The Hague
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The Universal Photographer
U. (1955–2016) is a fi ctitious alter ego of Dutch artists Anne Geene and Arjan de Nooy, whom they have invented in order to play cleverly with absurdities that accompany photographs in the artistic field. They subdivide U.’s catalogue raisonné into two parts: “works” and “on photography.” Citing from or referring to visual and/or textual works of well-known fi gures in the world of photography, it is both an intelligent homage as well as an ironic playing with presumptions and expectations that result from the interplay between words and images.
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Exhibition in Kunstmuseum Den Haag
They come from the school of photo detective Hans Aarsman - what is in a photo is more important than how it is photographed. Moreover - in their work the wink, the humor and the absurdism are never far away.
de Volkskrant
Ornithology
A playful book of ideas by two obsessive birdwatchers-with-a-wink that quickly sold out.
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Arjan de Nooy is mainly known for his book-making and museum shows, mostly together with his partner Anne Geene. Together they made several award-winning books like Ornithology and The Universal Photographer which resulted in a museum exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag. He uses both his own and found footage to construct histories, archives, ‘scientific’ theories and other stories. Past exhibitions of Arjan de Nooy include Het Nederlands Fotomuseum, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Natural History Museum, Van Goghhuis, Museum Jan Cunen, Marres, Biënnale Drenthe and others. Arjan de Nooy studied Chemistry at the University of Leiden, obtained a PhD in Chemistry at the TU Delft, and later obtained a MA Photography at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. He was nominated for the Dutch Doc Award 2010, and won the Kleine Hans Photo award in 2009.
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Arjan de Nooy
Born in 1965, Goes, NL | Lives and works in The Hague (NL)
Education
Photography | Royal Academy of Art (KABK) | The Hague | 2004-2009
PhD Chemistry | TU Delft | thesis: Selective Oxidation of Primary Alcohol Groups in Polysaccharides | 1992-1997
MSc Chemistry | Leiden University | 1984-1990
Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Photology | Solo exhibition and book presentation | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
UNSEEN | with Satijn Panyigay & Jaya Pelupessy | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Nothing. Click. Everything | Pennings Gallery | Eindhoven (NL)
2020
Circulations | Le Centquatre | Paris (FR)
Haagse School x Haagse Nieuwe | Museum Jan Cunen| Oss (NL)
Shoes on a Table | Galerie Wit | Wageningen (NL)
2019
99:1 | solo presentation | Galerie Caroline O'Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Argyria | De Apotheek | Amsterdam (NL)
2018
The Universal Photographer | Gemeentemuseum | The Hague (NL)
Homo occupatus | Into Nature | Biënnale Drenthe (NL)
Dodonaei | Pennings Gallery | Eindhoven (NL)
2017
Springvloed | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Looking Up / Looking Down | Seelevel Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Photography and Form | Fotomuseum Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
Ornithology | Sign+ | Groningen (NL)
Dodonaeus Digital Arts Festival | Heilige Geestkapel | Mechelen (BE)
Birdland and the Anthropocene | The Peale Center | Baltimore (USA)
99:1 | Het Nutshuis | The Hague (NL)
To the Point | Extrapool | Nijmegen (NL)
2016
A Special Case of Mimicri | Wit Gallery | Wageningen (NL)
The Fortune Teller | Garage | Rotterdam (NL)
Ornithology | Natural History Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Degrees of Freedom | Quickscan | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Ornithology | Art Rotterdam | Rotterdam (NL)
2015
Vincentomania | Van Goghhuis | Zundert (NL)
SALVO | Nutshuis| Den Haag (NL)
2014
Actual Size | Johan Deumens Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2013
Great men (solo) | Walden Affairs | Den Haag (NL)
Dodonaei | yoHanneke | Mechelen (BE)
Pose | Extrapool | Nijmegen (NL)
2012
Haarscherp (solo) | GEMAK | Den Haag (NL)
2011
DocuDenHaag | Nutshuis | The Hague (NL)
ALIAS | Photomonth | Krakow (PL)
2010
Work in progress | ACF | Amsterdam (NL)
The collector (solo) | Marres | Maastricht (NL)
2009
Steenbergen stipendium | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Publications
Ornithology (with Anne Geene) | De Hef publishers | Rotterdam | 2016
Party Photographer| self-published | 2014
De allrounder | Extrapool/Knust | Nijmegen | 2013
Haarscherp (Magazine) | self-published | 2012
De facto - A history of Dutch photography | Uitgeverij IJzer | Utrecht | 2009
Commissions
2011
The Terrorist | Documentary project | Gemeente Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
Artist Residencies
2016 Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth | Callosa d’en Sarria (ES)
2015 Van Goghhuis | Zundert (NL)
Awards
2018
Selection for The Best Dutch Book Design | Dodonaei
2017
Best Book Design From All Over The World for 'Ornithology' | Winner Golden Letter
Selection for The Best Dutch Book Design | Ornithology
2010
Dutch Doc Award | Longlist documentary and innovation for 'De facto'
Kleine Hans |De facto | Winner
2009
Steenbergen stipendium | Nominee
Born in 1965, Goes, NL | Lives and works in The Hague (NL)
Education
Photography | Royal Academy of Art (KABK) | The Hague | 2004-2009
PhD Chemistry | TU Delft | thesis: Selective Oxidation of Primary Alcohol Groups in Polysaccharides | 1992-1997
MSc Chemistry | Leiden University | 1984-1990
Exhibitions (selection)
2023
Photology | Solo exhibition and book presentation | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2022
UNSEEN | with Satijn Panyigay & Jaya Pelupessy | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2021
Nothing. Click. Everything | Pennings Gallery | Eindhoven (NL)
2020
Circulations | Le Centquatre | Paris (FR)
Haagse School x Haagse Nieuwe | Museum Jan Cunen| Oss (NL)
Shoes on a Table | Galerie Wit | Wageningen (NL)
2019
99:1 | solo presentation | Galerie Caroline O'Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Argyria | De Apotheek | Amsterdam (NL)
2018
The Universal Photographer | Gemeentemuseum | The Hague (NL)
Homo occupatus | Into Nature | Biënnale Drenthe (NL)
Dodonaei | Pennings Gallery | Eindhoven (NL)
2017
Springvloed | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Looking Up / Looking Down | Seelevel Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Photography and Form | Fotomuseum Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
Ornithology | Sign+ | Groningen (NL)
Dodonaeus Digital Arts Festival | Heilige Geestkapel | Mechelen (BE)
Birdland and the Anthropocene | The Peale Center | Baltimore (USA)
99:1 | Het Nutshuis | The Hague (NL)
To the Point | Extrapool | Nijmegen (NL)
2016
A Special Case of Mimicri | Wit Gallery | Wageningen (NL)
The Fortune Teller | Garage | Rotterdam (NL)
Ornithology | Natural History Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Degrees of Freedom | Quickscan | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Ornithology | Art Rotterdam | Rotterdam (NL)
2015
Vincentomania | Van Goghhuis | Zundert (NL)
SALVO | Nutshuis| Den Haag (NL)
2014
Actual Size | Johan Deumens Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2013
Great men (solo) | Walden Affairs | Den Haag (NL)
Dodonaei | yoHanneke | Mechelen (BE)
Pose | Extrapool | Nijmegen (NL)
2012
Haarscherp (solo) | GEMAK | Den Haag (NL)
2011
DocuDenHaag | Nutshuis | The Hague (NL)
ALIAS | Photomonth | Krakow (PL)
2010
Work in progress | ACF | Amsterdam (NL)
The collector (solo) | Marres | Maastricht (NL)
2009
Steenbergen stipendium | Dutch Photography Museum | Rotterdam (NL)
Publications
Ornithology (with Anne Geene) | De Hef publishers | Rotterdam | 2016
Party Photographer| self-published | 2014
De allrounder | Extrapool/Knust | Nijmegen | 2013
Haarscherp (Magazine) | self-published | 2012
De facto - A history of Dutch photography | Uitgeverij IJzer | Utrecht | 2009
Commissions
2011
The Terrorist | Documentary project | Gemeente Den Haag | The Hague (NL)
Artist Residencies
2016 Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth | Callosa d’en Sarria (ES)
2015 Van Goghhuis | Zundert (NL)
Awards
2018
Selection for The Best Dutch Book Design | Dodonaei
2017
Best Book Design From All Over The World for 'Ornithology' | Winner Golden Letter
Selection for The Best Dutch Book Design | Ornithology
2010
Dutch Doc Award | Longlist documentary and innovation for 'De facto'
Kleine Hans |De facto | Winner
2009
Steenbergen stipendium | Nominee
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