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Born 1982 in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium
Joost Vandebrug works across photography, mixed-media and film and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.His photo-based works include both conventional and unconventional printing techniques such as pigment transfers and silver-gelatin prints, both on the hand-made and hand-coated Washi as well as copper plates and traditional Barite paper. The susceptibility and fragility of historic photographic techniques, which often parallels his subject matters, led to Vandebrug's embrace of imperfection and accidents that go against the photographic tradition of producing and preserving unblemished prints.
Before dedicating his career solely to his art, Vandebrug worked as a commercial photographer and filmmaker and shot worldwide campaigns for clients such Nike, Superdry and Dsquared2 and was represented by Art+Commerce in New York and Canvas Represents in London.
Vandebrug's Documentary film, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw, for which he filmed a community living under the streets of Bucharest for 6 years won over a dozen international awards, received 5 stars in The Guardian and was screened in over 50 film festivals around the world.
Education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Exhilarating, Cultureel centrum, Maasmechelen, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating / Everything Flows, Martena museum, Franeker, Netherlands
2021 Everything Flows, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Tributary, Orange Art House, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Provenance and Progress, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Provenance, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2022 Exhilarating, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Abacus, group show at Ingrid Deuss, Belgium (curator)
2021 Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Unbound, curated by Marcel Feil, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 BLUES, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (artist curator)
2020 Provenance, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Wunderwall, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Awards
2018 South Korea, Busan IFF, Winner Cinephile award for Best Documentary
2019 Istanbul, Turkey, Winner TRT award
2019 Munich, DOK.fest, Special Jury award
2019 Buenos Aires, Winner first jury prize + Audience award
2019 Rudnik IFF, Russia, Audience award
2019 Iceland, Icedocs, Winner Best film award + Audience award
2019 Utrecht, Nederlands film festival, Winner Debut award
2019 Bali, Indonesia, Winner Best documentary film Award
2019 Mexico, docsMX, Winner first Jury prize
Publications
2016 Bruce Lee, Regele Canalelor (Bruce Lee, King of the Tunnels)
2014 Cinci Lei, Published by DUST magazine
2011 A Life in Tunnels, Edition of 200 signed copies
Filmography
2018 Bruce Lee and the outlaw (feature documentary)
Born 1982 in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium
Joost Vandebrug works across photography, mixed-media and film and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.His photo-based works include both conventional and unconventional printing techniques such as pigment transfers and silver-gelatin prints, both on the hand-made and hand-coated Washi as well as copper plates and traditional Barite paper. The susceptibility and fragility of historic photographic techniques, which often parallels his subject matters, led to Vandebrug's embrace of imperfection and accidents that go against the photographic tradition of producing and preserving unblemished prints.
Before dedicating his career solely to his art, Vandebrug worked as a commercial photographer and filmmaker and shot worldwide campaigns for clients such Nike, Superdry and Dsquared2 and was represented by Art+Commerce in New York and Canvas Represents in London.
Vandebrug's Documentary film, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw, for which he filmed a community living under the streets of Bucharest for 6 years won over a dozen international awards, received 5 stars in The Guardian and was screened in over 50 film festivals around the world.
Education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Exhilarating, Cultureel centrum, Maasmechelen, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating / Everything Flows, Martena museum, Franeker, Netherlands
2021 Everything Flows, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Tributary, Orange Art House, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Provenance and Progress, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Provenance, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2022 Exhilarating, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Abacus, group show at Ingrid Deuss, Belgium (curator)
2021 Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Unbound, curated by Marcel Feil, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 BLUES, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (artist curator)
2020 Provenance, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Wunderwall, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Awards
2018 South Korea, Busan IFF, Winner Cinephile award for Best Documentary
2019 Istanbul, Turkey, Winner TRT award
2019 Munich, DOK.fest, Special Jury award
2019 Buenos Aires, Winner first jury prize + Audience award
2019 Rudnik IFF, Russia, Audience award
2019 Iceland, Icedocs, Winner Best film award + Audience award
2019 Utrecht, Nederlands film festival, Winner Debut award
2019 Bali, Indonesia, Winner Best documentary film Award
2019 Mexico, docsMX, Winner first Jury prize
Publications
2016 Bruce Lee, Regele Canalelor (Bruce Lee, King of the Tunnels)
2014 Cinci Lei, Published by DUST magazine
2011 A Life in Tunnels, Edition of 200 signed copies
Filmography
2018 Bruce Lee and the outlaw (feature documentary)
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NRC Review
‘Mijn foto’s zijn imperfect. Het papier is gekreukeld, het beeld is niet scherp’
Rianne van Dijck
„Mijn foto’s zijn imperfect. Het kan dat het papier gekreukeld is, het beeld niet scherp. Die zogenaamde foutjes zijn essentieel, ze zijn onderdeel van het proces. Daardoor is elke foto uniek. Ook al maak ik het in een oplage van drie, dan nog zijn al die versies net iets anders, omdat ze met de hand gemaakt zijn.”
Sinds 2014 wandelt de Nederlandse fotograaf en filmmaker Joost Vandebrug (39) langs de Donau, door landen als Moldavië, Oekraïne en Roemenië, langs de grenzen van Bulgarije en Servië. Onderweg raapt hij losse blaadjes op en halfvergane bloemen, stenen en zand. Eenmaal thuis fotografeert hij die door een microscoop en drukt ze af middels een pigmenttransfer („Een procedé waarbij je met verf een fotoprint op een ander papier drukt”) op handgemaakt Japans washi-papier. „Je kan mijn werk zien als een soort materiaalonderzoek”, zegt Vandebrug. „Wat is er allemaal mogelijk? Hoe kan je door de keuze van bijvoorbeeld je papier nog een extra laag toevoegen? Ik beeld dingen uit de natuur af, en druk die af op papier waarin die natuur óók weer zichtbaar is. In dat delicate washi-papier zie je nog zaadjes, de nerven van de bladeren, boomhars.”
Het werk van Vandebrug is dit weekend te zien in de stand van de Antwerpse Ingrid Deuss Gallery tijdens de fotobeurs Unseen op het Amsterdamse Westergasterrein. Wat opvalt, zegt directeur Roderick van der Lee, is dat net als Vandebrug veel kunstenaars focussen op de materiële kant van de fotografie. „Ze zien een foto niet als een print in oplage maar als een object. Steeds vaker gaat het om unica. Ze zoeken naar de vormen die fotografie kan aannemen en bevragen met hun werk: wat is een foto eigenlijk? Het is een reactie op het feit dat fotografie zo alomtegenwoordig en digitaal is. Fotografen gaan steeds vaker aan de slag met het handmatige, het tastbare.”
Rianne van Dijck
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BIO
Born 1982 in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium
Joost Vandebrug works across photography, mixed-media and film and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.His photo-based works include both conventional and unconventional printing techniques such as pigment transfers and silver-gelatin prints, both on the hand-made and hand-coated Washi as well as copper plates and traditional Barite paper. The susceptibility and fragility of historic photographic techniques, which often parallels his subject matters, led to Vandebrug's embrace of imperfection and accidents that go against the photographic tradition of producing and preserving unblemished prints.
Before dedicating his career solely to his art, Vandebrug worked as a commercial photographer and filmmaker and shot worldwide campaigns for clients such Nike, Superdry and Dsquared2 and was represented by Art+Commerce in New York and Canvas Represents in London.
Vandebrug's Documentary film, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw, for which he filmed a community living under the streets of Bucharest for 6 years won over a dozen international awards, received 5 stars in The Guardian and was screened in over 50 film festivals around the world.
Education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Exhilarating, Cultureel centrum, Maasmechelen, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating / Everything Flows, Martena museum, Franeker, Netherlands
2021 Everything Flows, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Tributary, Orange Art House, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Provenance and Progress, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Provenance, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2022 Exhilarating, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Abacus, group show at Ingrid Deuss, Belgium (curator)
2021 Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Unbound, curated by Marcel Feil, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 BLUES, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (artist curator)
2020 Provenance, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Wunderwall, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Awards
2018 South Korea, Busan IFF, Winner Cinephile award for Best Documentary
2019 Istanbul, Turkey, Winner TRT award
2019 Munich, DOK.fest, Special Jury award
2019 Buenos Aires, Winner first jury prize + Audience award
2019 Rudnik IFF, Russia, Audience award
2019 Iceland, Icedocs, Winner Best film award + Audience award
2019 Utrecht, Nederlands film festival, Winner Debut award
2019 Bali, Indonesia, Winner Best documentary film Award
2019 Mexico, docsMX, Winner first Jury prize
Publications
2016 Bruce Lee, Regele Canalelor (Bruce Lee, King of the Tunnels)
2014 Cinci Lei, Published by DUST magazine
2011 A Life in Tunnels, Edition of 200 signed copies
Filmography
2018 Bruce Lee and the outlaw (feature documentary)
Born 1982 in Harlingen, The Netherlands. Lives and work in Antwerp, Belgium
Joost Vandebrug works across photography, mixed-media and film and studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.His photo-based works include both conventional and unconventional printing techniques such as pigment transfers and silver-gelatin prints, both on the hand-made and hand-coated Washi as well as copper plates and traditional Barite paper. The susceptibility and fragility of historic photographic techniques, which often parallels his subject matters, led to Vandebrug's embrace of imperfection and accidents that go against the photographic tradition of producing and preserving unblemished prints.
Before dedicating his career solely to his art, Vandebrug worked as a commercial photographer and filmmaker and shot worldwide campaigns for clients such Nike, Superdry and Dsquared2 and was represented by Art+Commerce in New York and Canvas Represents in London.
Vandebrug's Documentary film, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw, for which he filmed a community living under the streets of Bucharest for 6 years won over a dozen international awards, received 5 stars in The Guardian and was screened in over 50 film festivals around the world.
Education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Exhilarating, Cultureel centrum, Maasmechelen, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Exhilarating / Everything Flows, Martena museum, Franeker, Netherlands
2021 Everything Flows, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Tributary, Orange Art House, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Provenance and Progress, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Provenance, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2022 Exhilarating, Unseen, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Abacus, group show at Ingrid Deuss, Belgium (curator)
2021 Unseen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Unbound, curated by Marcel Feil, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 BLUES, Ingrid Deuss Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (artist curator)
2020 Provenance, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Wunderwall, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium
Awards
2018 South Korea, Busan IFF, Winner Cinephile award for Best Documentary
2019 Istanbul, Turkey, Winner TRT award
2019 Munich, DOK.fest, Special Jury award
2019 Buenos Aires, Winner first jury prize + Audience award
2019 Rudnik IFF, Russia, Audience award
2019 Iceland, Icedocs, Winner Best film award + Audience award
2019 Utrecht, Nederlands film festival, Winner Debut award
2019 Bali, Indonesia, Winner Best documentary film Award
2019 Mexico, docsMX, Winner first Jury prize
Publications
2016 Bruce Lee, Regele Canalelor (Bruce Lee, King of the Tunnels)
2014 Cinci Lei, Published by DUST magazine
2011 A Life in Tunnels, Edition of 200 signed copies
Filmography
2018 Bruce Lee and the outlaw (feature documentary)
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