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Education
Art History | Faculté des Lettres, Aix-en-Provence and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | cum laude, 1991-1997
Fine Art | Gerrit Rietveld Academy | Amsterdam (NL) | 2001-2005
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020
La main et l’oeil - Louvre Plage & Compositions synesthétiques | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Ici mieux qu’en face | Musée du Petit Palais | curators Susana Gallego-Cuesta, Fannie Escoulen | Paris (FR)
Night Hunt (Wild Sau, Zahme Sau) | Machinery of Me | curators Rieke Righolt
and Maarten Verweij | Arnhem (NL)
2019
Art Rotterdam | solo presentation | Galerie Caroline O’Breen (NL) | Rotterdam (NL)
2018
Cathédrales | curator Fannie Escoulen | Les Rencontres de la Photographie | Arles (FR)
2017
Arithmetic of photographic perception | Forum für Fotografie | Cologne (DE)
Photographic Treatment © | Galerie Block C | Groningen (NL)
2016
Photographic Treatment © | Art Affairs Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Photographic Treatment © | Festival Images Vevey, as recipient of the Nestlé International
Photo Prize | Vevey (CH)
2015
Herbarium Cataplasma | Fries Museum | Leeuwarden (NL)
Works in textile | Galerie Maud Barral | Nice (FR)
Cathédrales | RVB Books Gallery | Paris (FR)
Laurence Aegerter Textile | Les visiteurs du soir, Agnes B | Nice (FR)
2014
Cathédrales | Art Affairs Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2013
The Modernists and More | Hermitage Amsterdam | Amsterdam (NL)
2012
Révélations | Galerie de la Ferronnerie | Paris (FR)
2011
Hermitage, The Modernists | Art Affairs Gallery, 2×2 projects Gallery in collaboration with
C&H art space | Amsterdam (NL)
Laurence Aëgerter, Photographies et Tapisseries | Galerie Maud Barral | Nice (FR)
Staged Realities | Johan Deumens Gallery | Leipzig (DE)
2010
Le Louvre | MAMAC (Museum for modern and contemporary art) | Nice (FR)
Seek & Hide | Museum van Loon | Amsterdam (NL)
Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte | in collaboration with Ronald van Tienhoven,
Kunsthuis SYB | Beetsterzwaag (NL)
2009
Appropriations | Institut Néerlandais | Paris (FR)
An Alphabetical Index of Some of the Stories | Residency CBK Zuidoost | Amsterdam (NL)
A.E.G.E.R.T.E.R. | 2×2 projects Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Cathèdrales Hermètiques | Les Rencontres De La Photographie | Arles (FR)
Rendez-vous with Frans Hals | Frans Hals Museum | Haarlem (NL)
Photo Basel | Galerie Caroline O’Breen (NL) | Switzerland (CH)
2018
L’histoire d’après | Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire |Paris (FR)
Presenting Elasticity of Presence | in assignment from the Frans Hals Museum | Haarlem (NL)
Big Botany: Conversations with the Plant World | Spencer Museum of Art | Lawrence, Kansas (USA)
Zomergasten | Museum Dr. Guislain | Gent (BE)
2017
I wanted to be a photographer | Banco Sabadell Foundation | Oviedo (ES)
Beautiful Distress | New Dakota | Amsterdam (NL)
Suspension of Disbelief | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2016
Quickscan NL #02 | Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
I want to be a photographer | Fondation Colectània Barcelona | Barcelona (ES)
2015
Making Africa. A Continent of Contemporary Design | Guggenheim Museum | Bilbao (ES)
LEVIATHAN | commission by Museum Het Dolhuys | Haarlem (NL)
Embedded Art | ex Air Force military base Soesterberg (NL)
SFEAR FAN YNSET | jubilee exhibition, Kunsthuis SYB | Beetsterzwaag (NL)
Hijacking Karma #2.1 | Stigter van Doesburg Gallery |Amsterdam (NL)
Hijacking Karma #3 | Stigter van Doesburg Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Tables | Dutch and Flemish artist’s books, curator Maaike Lauwaert |Art Rotterdam and Art Brussels
Avoir Lieu | Société Générale Bank & Trust, Mois Européen de la Photographie | Luxembourg (LU)
Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam | Seelevel Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Opening show | Seelevel Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
2014
Repetition as an ongoing state of change | Johan Deumens Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
32 TFS Double Life | in situ installation | ex Air Force military base Soesterberg (NL)
Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte | LagosPhoto Festival | Lagos (NG)
Dutch Photobook | curator Erik Kessels, TIFF Festival | Wroclaw (PL)
Undercover | Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta | St. Petersburg (RU)
Remake | Musée Royal de Mariemont | Morlanwelz (BE)
Où commence le futur? | MAMAC Galerie des Ponchettes |Nice (FR)
Vevey, Ville d’Images | curator Peter Scholl, Het Apparaat, posters throughout the city | Vevey (CH)
Reprinted | Editions RVB Books | Paris (FR)
Si prega di ricollocare i cassetti del catalogo nel giusto ordine | Art Rotterdam | Galerie A, Harry Ruhé | Rotterdam (NL)
Rencontres de la photographie Arles | Cosmos Book market | Editions RVB Books | Arles (FR)
New York Art Book Fair | MoMA PS1 | Editions RVB Books | New York (US)
2013
Bonjour Monsieur Matisse | MAMAC | Nice (FR)
Conceptual photography | Art Affairs Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Longo Mai | permanent site specific installation for Musée Borély des Arts décoratifs,
de la Faïence et de la Mode | Marseille (FR)
Grands formats | a collaboration with Galerie Bertrand Baraudou, Galerie Maud Barral | Nice (FR) Correspondences | Johan Deumens Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
Binnenstaander | Museum Het Dolhuys, curated by Mirjam Hijstek | Haarlem (NL)
Collectie de Basis | ex Air Force military base | Soesterberg (NL)
2011
From Here On | Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie | Arles (FR)
From Here On | Centre d’Art Santa Mònica | Barcelona (ES)
From Here On | FOMU | Antwerper (BE)
Residencies
2017 Compositions Catalytiques, Residency ‘Het Vijfde Seizoen’ (‘The Fifth Season’), curator Esther Vossen | Psychiatric institution the Willem Arntsz | Hoeve / Altrecht (NL)
2010 Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte, residency Kunsthuis SYB, Beesterzwaag (NL)
2009 Opening Soon / Opening Now | Residency RED A.I.R. | Amsterdam (NL)
Grants, prizes and commissions
2018 Author book award for Photographic Treatment © | Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie | Arles (FR)
2018 Stipend for established art practice, Het Mondriaan Fonds (NL)
2018 The Methuselah Legacy | art project for the elderly vare company Zorgbalans (NL)
2018 De Palmenkolonie | Stichting de Maatschappij van Weldadigheid and Stichting Land Art Contemporary | (NL)
2017 Elasticity of Presence | Frans Hals Museum | Haarlem (NL)
2016 Nestlé International prize for photography | Festival Images Vevey | Vevey (CH)
2015 LEVIATHAN | art project commissioned by Museum Het Dolhuys | Haarlem (NL)
2015 Stipend for established art practice 2015-2019 | Het Mondriaan Fonds (NL)
2015 Photographic commission by the Rembrandt Association (NL)
2015 Forgetting Van Gogh | city of Arles (FR)
2014 (De)coding Freedom, commissioned by Notaris Dogliani, Colas & Kurgansky | Nice (FR)
2014 Herbarium Cataplasma exhibition at the Fries Museum and Healing plants for Hurt Landscapes artist’s book commissioned by the City of Leeuwarden
2014 Charity award NRC Handelsblad, in the context of Photographic commission by the Rembrandt Association (NL)
2013 Elasticity of Presence, project based stipend, AFK (Amsterdam Fund for the Arts)
2013 Longo Mai, commission of a series of tapestries by Musée Borély des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode, Marseille (FR). In the context of ‘Marseille European Capital of Culture’
2013 Herbarium Cataplasma, art in community project in the neighborhood Oldegalileën-Bloemen, commissioned by the municipality of Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden (NL)
2013 Promises to my daughter, performance commissioned by the Night of Philosophy, Leeuwarden (NL)
2013 Photographic commission by the Rembrandt Association (NL)
2012 Prix Arcimboldo – Les Gens d’images (nominee), granted by Marieke Wiegel of the Institut Néerlandais, Paris (FR)
2012 Cathédrales, publication stipend, FBKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)
2011 32 TFS Double Life, commissioned by SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain), CBK Utrecht and the Province of Utrecht (NL)
2011 Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte, project based stipend, FBKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)
2011 4eme Concours Artistique (winner), CCIMP (Chamber of International Commerce Marseille Provence), Marseille (FR)
2010 Blind Man’s Bluff I & II, commissionned by the Conseil Général des Bouches du Rhone, Chateau d’Avignon (FR)
2010 Seek & Hide, commissioned by Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 Starters Stipend, FBKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)
2010 Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte, project based stipend, FBKVB (Dutch Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)
2010 5th Sybren Hellinga art price (nominee)
Bibliography (selection)
2020 Diane Lisarelli, ‘Laurence Aëgerter, Trames de temps qui passe’, Libération
2019 Fannie Escoulen, ‘L’art de l’évasion de Laurence Aëgerter’, ArtPress
2018 Camille Joseph and Anaïs Mauuarin, ‘Sur le vif, photographie et anthropology,’ Musée Quai Branly
2017 Norbert Moos, ‘Arithmetik der fotografischen Wahrnemung’, adress Forum für Fotografie Köln
2016 Frits Scholten, Netherlands Year book for the History of Art, ‘Arts of Display’
2015 Raymond van den Boogaard, NRC, ‘Een nieuwe toekomst voor de separeer’
2010 Jean Luc Joly, ‘Les Cahiers Georges Perec’
Works in Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte)
MoMA, New York (Catalogue des Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre)
The New York Public Library (Het Apparaat)
Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
John M. Flaxman Library, The School of Arts, Chicago (LA LA LA LA)
Paul Getty research Center Institute, Los Angeles (Het Apparaat)
Tate Gallery, London (Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte)
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte)
The Archive of Modern Conflict, London (Cathédrales special edition)
Robert B. Hass family library, Yale University (Catalogue des Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre)
Bibliothèque Kandinsky Centre Pompidou, Paris (LA LA LA LA, A Meeting on Paper)
BnF, Bibilothèque Nationale de France, Paris (180 degrees encyclopaedia, Catalogue des Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre)
MAMAC, Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain, Nice (Le Louvre)
Musée Borély des Arts Décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode, Marseille (Longo Mai)
CCIMP Kunstcollectie, Chambre de Commerce Internationale Marseille Provence, Marseille (KP23)
Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône, Château d’Avignon (Blind Man’s Bluff I & II)
Centre du livre d’artiste, Saint Yrieix-la-Perche (Catalogue des Chefs’d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre)
Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne (Cathédrales)
MAK, Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte und Gegenwartse Kunst, Vienna (Catalogue des Chefs-d’oeuvre du Musée du Louvre)
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (Cathédrales book)
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, (KP23)
Musseé Georges de La Tour, Vic-sur-Seille, France
AMC kunstcollectie, (Academisch Medisch Centrum) Amsterdam (LA LA LA LA)
Ministerie van buitenlanse zaken
Amsterdam Museum
Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam (All is in all and it has always been)
Museum van de Geest, Haarlem
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague (180 degrees encyclopaedia)
Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam (Het Apparaat)
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (Tristes Tropiques: illustrations hors texte)
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenar