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Antoinette Nausikaä
Born in 1973, Vlissingen, NL
Education
Rijksakademie Research Residency | Amsterdam (NL) | 2009-2016
Rineke Dijkstra | Assistant foreign projects | NL | 2006-2010
Gerrit Rietveld Academy | Visual arts | Amsterdam (NL) | 2001-2004
Academy of Photography | Amsterdam (NL) | 1998-2000
Artist in Residence
ZB Library Zeeland | Research project: My Mothers Archive | Middelburg (NL) | 2025
Cité Internationale des Arts | Paris (FR) | 2020-2021
Chinese European Art Center | Xiamen (CN) | 2015
MeetFactory Center for Contemporary Art | Prague (CZ) | 2011
Rijksakademie Research Residency | Amsterdam (NL) | 2009-2010
ACL, Atlantic Center for the Arts | Florida (US) | 2009
Het Vijfde Seizoen | Den Dolder (NL) | 2008
Exhibitions
2024
Reizen voor de kunst | group show with a.o. Danielle van Ark, Roy Villevoy, Hidenori Mitsue, Scarlet Hooft Graafland, Natascha Libbert | Galerie LUMC | Leiden (NL)
Limburg Biënnale | groups show with a.o. as curator and artists Eugenie Boon, Anne Büscher & Sanne Vaassen, Anouk Kruithof, Marenne Welten, Bonno van Doorn | Marres | Maastricht (NL)
2023
Genius Loci | duo exhibition with Lotte van Geijn | PuntWG | Amsterdam (NL)
KIKA Gallery Collection presentation | group sexhibition | Higure 17-15 CAS | Tokyo (JP)
2021
A River Runs Through Me | duo exhibition with Tanja Engelberts (Future Maps For Hollow Places) | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Art Rotterdam | with Tanja Engelberts, Jaya Pelupessy, Satijn Panyigay and Maura Biava | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Rotterdam (NL)
Ballroom Project #3 | duo presentation with Anne Geene | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Antwerp (BE)
Even my bed becomes a mountain | solo exhibition at Kika Gallery | Kyoto (JP)
2020
Gimmy Shelter | group show for the Somfy Photography Award (nominee) | presentation of the project A River Runs Through Me, Paris | Het Nederlands Fotomuseum | Rotterdam (NL)
The Natural | group exhibition with a.o. Maura Biava, Anne Geene, Tanja Engelberts, Margaret Lansink, Diana Scherer | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Ogenschijnlijk nabij | installation in Summer exhibition with Marenne Welten, Nanda Runge, Andrea Freckmann, Arjan van Helmond | CBK Zeeland, Center For The Arts Middelburg | Middelburg (NL)
2019
Transformer Station | Undercurrents: A Photobook Exhibition | co-organized by Melissa Catanese and Ed Panar with Caitie Moore | Cleveland (USA)
Art Rotterdam Projections | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Rotterdam (NL)
PICK ME | group exhibition | WeLikeArt @ De.Groen | Arnhem (NL)
2018
Breathing Mountains | solo exhibition at Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
A Book of Nature | group exhibition with Herman de Vries, Anne Geene, Sjoerd Buisma, Ger Dekkers, Jan Dibbets, Marinus van Dijke, Sibylle Eimermacher, Ingeborg Entrop, Hamish Fulton, Hetty Huisman, Richard Long, Vibeke Mascini | CBK Groningen | Groningen (NL)
Off Print Paris | Paris Photo | Book launch: Breathing Mountains | Art Paper Editions | Paris (FR)
2017
Suspension of Disbelieve | group exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
2016
I Have the Time | duo exhibition with Emily Bates | Amsterdam (NL)
12 Artist Books by Antoinette Nausikaä | solo exhibition at Rijksakademie Library | Amsterdam (NL)
Something Is Looking Back at Me | solo exhibition at Probe Project | Arnhem (NL)
Big Art | with a.o. Krijn de Koning, Katrin Korfman, Nynke Koster, Christiaan Zwanikken | curated by Anne van der Zwaag | Amsterdam (NL)
2015
First Moments of Things I Saw | solo exhibition at AMC Brummelkamp Gallery | Amsterdam (NL)
First Moments of Things I Saw | PuntWG | artist book launch | Amsterdam (NL)
First Moments of Things I Saw | solo exhibition at Chinese European Art Center | Xiamen (CN)
Fieldwork 25 years | Drawing center Diepenheim | Diepenheim (NL)
The Mirror and Lamp Show | group exhibition |Gallery Ton de Boer | Jagtlust ’s Gravenland (NL)
2014
Sometimes You See It, Sometimes You Don't | solo exhibition at LUMC Gallery | Leiden (NL)
Intertwined | solo exhibition at Cabinet T Gallery | Zlin (CZ)
I Am Not Doing Anything Until I Feel the Need | De Nederlandsche Bank | Amsterdam (NL)
2013
A Perfect Day | group exhibition with a.o. Diana Scherer, Kim Boske, Janine Schrijver, Albert van Westing | Galerie LUMC | Leiden (NL)
2012
A Way of Getting Closer | Het Wilde Weten | solo Installation/Talk/Publication | Rotterdam (NL)
1+1+1+1 | solo exhibition | Meetfactory Gallery | Praag (CZ)
Viewpoint | group exhibition with a.o. Popel Comou, Scarlet Hooft Graafland, Ottomar Anschütz, Jörg Sasse | Photography Museum Huis Marseille | Amsterdam (NL)
Re: Art Rotterdam | Solo presentation | Where Do I Begin? | Rotterdam (NL)
2011
What You See Is ME | duo exhibition with Patrick Rieve | KunstSchloss Ringenberg | curated by Gudrun Bott en Marcus Lutkemeyer | Guido van der Werve | Hamminkeln (DE)
Multi Solo| curator Robert Roos | Tetem Enschede | Enschede (NL)
Wat Zijn Mijn Wolken Nog En Wegen | group exhibition with a.o. Femmy Otten, Mariken Wessels, Ulricke Rehm | Drawing Centre Diepenheim | Diepenheim (NL)
The Draughtsmans Contract | Gallery Studio Sandra Recio | Geneva (CH)
The Silver Hands of P.Svenson | Photography Museum Huis Marseille | Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Everything Is Enough | Rijksakademie OpenStudios | Publication and Film Screening | Amsterdam (NL)
10 Ausgewählte Positionen | group exhibition with a.o. Pim Blokker, Jean Baptiste Maitre, Maarten Overdijk | Kunstraum Dusseldorf | Dusseldorf (DE)
2009
Rijksakademie Projectspace | Amsterdam (NL)
Rijksakademie OpenStudios | Video installation and Publication | Amsterdam (NL)
Commissioned Work
2024 Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment | Den Haag (NL)
2018 AMC Hospital | Amsterdam (NL)
2016 LUMC, Department of Health Care | Leiden (NL)
2015 BOS, NPO | Dutch Public Broadcasting Company | (NL)
2015 LUMC | Department of neurology | Leiden (NL) 2014 LUMC | Sculpture hall | Leiden (NL)
2012 Psychiatric practice Amsterdam | Amsterdam (NL)
Awards & Fellowships
2024 Mondriaan Fund | NL | Voucher Expert ceramics
2023 Mondriaan Fund | NL | Book grant
2023 -2026 Mondriaan Fund | NL | Artist grant
2022 Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds | NL | Book grant 2022 Tijlfonds | NL | Bookgrant
2022 Stichting Stokroos | NL | Book grant
2020 Mondriaan Fund | NL | Production grant
2020 Niemeijer Foundation | NL | Production fee
2020 Nominee | Somfy Award / Nederlands Fotomuseum, 2020 | NL
2019 Shortlisted | Best photography book of the year | Photo España | ES
2019-2018 Stokroos Foundation | NL | Book grant
2018 Niemeijer Foundation | NL | Book grant
2018 Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds | NL | Book grant
2017 Amsterdam Fund Visual Arts | NL | Production grant
2016 Mondriaan Foundation | NL | Proven talent stipend
2016 Stokroos Foundation | NL | Coach grant
2015 Tijlfonds, Prins Bernhard Culture Foundation | NL | Book grant
2015 Stokroos Foundation | NL | Production grant
2009 Foundation Niemijer Fonds | NL | Fellowship
2008 Bouw in Beeld Photography Award | NL
Artist Books
2025 Bird, plane, butterfly | published by Jap Sam Books | (NL)
2018 Breathing Mountains | published by Art Paper Editions | Gent (BE)
2015 First moments of things I saw | self published | edition 250 | China
2013 Clouds Gone, The Mountain Appears | self published | edition 100 | Mt Fuji - Amsterdam (NL)
2012 A way of getting closer | Winter 2012 | self published | edition 250 | Amsterdam (NL)
2011 I touch things so I can feel them | Winter 2011 | self published | edition 250 |Amsterdam (NL)
2010 Everything is enough | Rijksakademie Open 2010 | self published | edition 50 |Amsterdam (NL)
2009 Sarphatistraat 470 | Rijksakademie Open 2009 | self published | edition 50 | (NL)
2008 Een Zomer in het Vijfde Seizoen i.s.m. Marc Philip van Kempen | published by Het Vijfde Seizoen | edition 250 | Den Dolder (NL)
2008 Het is niet belangrijker dan al het andere om je heen | self published | edition 50 | Vlissingen (NL)
2007 To go | self published | edition 10 | Amsterdam (NL)
2006 For Pogy | self published | edition 10 | Amsterdam (NL)
2005 Cloudtrain | self published | edition 10 | Tokyo (JP)
2002 Between you and me | self published | edition 10| Amsterdam (NL)
Artist Talks, Performances, Workshops & Teaching
2021 Soledad Senlle Art Foundation | Contemplative Walk for KADS 2021 | Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Exploring silence | Talk with Genko Roshi, zen master | Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Pakhuis De Zwijger | De Donkere Kamer#37 | Talk, Breathing Mountains | Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Splendor | Silnce in the Anthropocene | Talk, Vrije Gemeente | Amsterdam (NL)
2016 Seelevel Gallery | Artist talk + drawing performance | Amsterdam (NL)
2015 Xiamen University Art College | Speaker symposium art & design | Xiamen (CN)
2015 Xiamen University Art College | Masterclass | Xiamen (CN)
2014 CBK Art Center Amsterdam | A mountain in January | Workshop + talk | Amsterdam (NL)
2012 Photography Museum Huis Marseille | Workshop Life Itself | Amsterdam (NL)
2010 Art Acadamy AKV/St. Joost | 'They're all individuals, I'm not’ | Workshop | Den Bosch (NL)
Collections
UMC | Utrecht (NL)
AMC | Amsterdam (NL)
LUMC | Leiden (NL)
Brokken Zijp Foundation of modern and contemporary Art (BFA) | NL
Photography Museum Huis Marseille | Amsterdam (NL)
DNB (The Dutch Bank) | Amsterdam (NL)
Altrecht GGZ | Utrecht (NL)
La Fondation Thalie | Brussels (BE)
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW)
The Dutch Ministry Of Social Affairs And Employment (SZW)
Various Private Collections