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1972 Born in Groningen, NL; based in Amsterdam
Education
2001 - 2003 Post St. Joost, MFA Photography, Breda, NL
1999 - 1999 City University of NY, Photography, New York, US
1998 - 2001 Academy of Arts Minerva, Media/ Photography, Groningen, NL
1994 -1997 Academy of Arts Minerva Architecture design, Groningen, NL
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2021 Into Nature, Hoogveen gebied Bargerveen, NL
2019 Award Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Am schwarzen Himmelsrund, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Tempus, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
2018 Status, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, US
2016 Blanco, FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Photobook Melbourne Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Ghent, BE
2015 Sequester in Collotypes, Kousei-In, Kyoto, JP
2014 In Landscapes, Cultuurcentrum Hasselt, Hasselt, BE
2011 Alt +1000, Festival photography de la Montagne, High Altitude, Rossiniere, CH
2008 Photographs, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2007 Maintained Ground, FOAM 3h – Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2020 On Earth - Imaging, Technology and the Natural World, Foam, Amsterdam, NL
2019 On Earth, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Atelier des Forges, Arles, FR
Two Men Standing. Part 2. Out of Sight, Antwerp, BE
Looking Back, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, US
2018 Works from the Foam Collection, FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Into the Woods: Trees in Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2017 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Aperture Foundation, NY, US
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, DE
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
How to disappear completely, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam, UK
The Grain of the Present, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, US
2016 Night Awakens, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
Black. From charcoal to high-res, Kranenburgh Museum, Bergen, NL
Dubai Photo Exhibition, Dutch pavilion, Dubai, AEU
Phototropism, The Library Project, Dublin, IRL
Documentum: The Instagram Series, {Poem 88}, Atlanta, US
2015 Addition: Schenking Piet & Marieke Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Mijn vlakke Land, FoMu Antwerpen, Antwerp, B
2014 De Best Verzorgde Boeken, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
L’art, c’est le livre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, CH
Photostories, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
2013 The last Picture Show, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
The Rediscovery of the World, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam,NL
Wonder, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, NL
2012 Pays/Paysage (duo w. Rob Nypels), Noorderlicht Huis vd Fotografie, Groningen, NL
2011 Pop in, Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Wetering Gallery (duo w. WIjnanda De Roo), Amsterdam, NL
2010 A Touch of Dutch, DZ Bank Frankfurt, Frankfurt, De
Quickscan #01, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
In your Face, Central Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
Possibilities of Choice, 25th Nadezda Petrovic Memorial, Cacak, SRB
2009 I spy with my little eye, Gallery Lacen, Paris, FR
Still lives, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, Den Haag, NL
2008 Dutch selection Nuit d’Europe, Rencontres de la Photographie d'Arles, Arles, FR
FOAM Fotografiemuseum, presentation Foam Edition, Amsterdam, NL
Descubrimientos PHE, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, ES
La Luna Piena, TENT. Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2007 Macht van de Nacht, CBK Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
De Salon, Loods 6 - De Bagagehal, Amsterdam, NL
Inspiratie Rotterdam, Historic Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2006 Los Dorp, Natuurmuseum Groningen, Groningen, NL
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Awards, Nominations and residences
2017 Finalist Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize, London, UK
2017 Recipient Larry Sultan Photography Award, San Francisco, US
2017 AIR Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, US
2016 Nomination Meijburg Art Commission | Unseen prize, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Silver Medal ‘Best Books from all over the World’: monograph ‘Sequester’, Leipzig, DE
2014 Shortlist Paris Photo-Aperture FirstBookPrize: monograph ‘Sequester’, Paris, FR
2014 Winner Hariban Award, Kyoto, JP
2013 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB
2012 Winner Harry Pennings Prize, Eindhoven, NL
2011 Finalist Hyeres International Fashion and Photography Festival, Hyeres, FR
2011 Winner Alt.+1000 competition, Festival Photography de Montagne, Rossiniere, CH
2010 Nomination Dutch-Doc Award, Rotterdam, NL
2009 Fonds BKVB Live, Amsterdam
2009 AIR Lyset I Varanger, Vadso, NO
2008 Nomination Descubrimientos, Photo Espana, Madrid, ES
2008 Finalist PLAT(T)FORM 08, emerging artists Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
2008 Nomination ‘Core of Industry’, Reggio Emilia, IT
2007 Startstipendium Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
2005 Startstipendium Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
Collections
Pier24 Photography, San Francisco
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Museum for Photography, Seoul
Neuflize Vie ABN AMRO, Paris
Huis Marseille - Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Fotomuseum Den Haag
FOAM, Amsterdam
ING Collection
Rabobank Art Collection
De Brauw Blackstone Collection
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and various private collectors
Monograph
2017 Blanco | Design: Hans Gremmen | 24 x 29 cm / 26 pages / Text by Arjen Mulder 2014 Sequester | Design: Hans Gremmen | 24 x 29 cm / 80 pages
Articles / Publications (selected)
2018 NY Times Magazine ‘The Voyages Issue’
2018 ‘Failed Images: Photography and its Counter-Practices’, Prof. E.J. van Alphen, Leiden
2017 Hyperallergic, 'Photographers Among the Trees, from Steichen to Bae Bien-U’ (online, US)
2017 The Guardian, Sean O' Hagan: 'The top 10 photography exhibitions of 2017’ (online, UK)
2017 Conscientious, Jorg Colberg: 'W48/2017' (online, US)
2017 De Morgen, Ewoud Ceulemans: 'Mijn stemming maakt het werk’ (BE)
2017 De Volkskrant, Merel Bem: Lixenberg en van der Molen genomineerd’ (NL)
2017 The Guardian, Sean O' Hagan: '...the Deutsche Borse photography prize’ (online, UK)
2016 De Standaard, Stefan Vanthuyne: ‘Oorverdovend stille landschappen’ (BE)
2016 H ART, Sofie Crabbe: ‘De intensiteit en stilte van plekken in foto’s vervat’ (BE)
2016 See All This '10 hoogtepunten van Awoiska uit 2016 jaar' No.3
2016 Documentum, The Instagram Series (US) by Fall Line Press
2016 Financial Times, Snapshot: ’Blanco’ by Awoiska van der Molen (UK)
2016 Parool, J.P. Ekker: ’Geraakt door de geest van het landschap’ (NL)
2016 De Volkskrant, Jeanne Prisser: ‘Donker en zwart, zwart en donker’ (NL)
2016 NRC, Daan van Lent: ‘In Nederland zijn teveel prikkels’ (NL)
2015 NRC: ‘De verschrikking van de natuur’. Rianne van Dijck Group show FoMu, Antwerp (B)
2015 Unseen Magazine, Sean O’Hagan: ‘What is photography?’ (NL)
2014 Conscientious Magazine, Jorg Colberg: ‘Sequester’ (online, US)
2014 The Guardian, Sean O’Hagan: 'Bewitched by blackness: photographing the desolate..’ (online, UK)
2014 De Witte Raaf: ‘Time saturation. The photography of Awoiska vd Molen’. Essay E.J. van Alphen
2014 Photobookstore Magazine: ‘Sequester by Awoiska van der Molen’ (online, UK)
2014 Dagblad Trouw: ‘Verzinken in de natuur’ J. de Wolf (NL)
2013 Scrapped Magazine (US)
2012 Dagblad vh Noorden: ‘De overweldigende kracht van het landschap’, I. Pietersma (NL)
2010 P/f magazine, Portfolio (NL)
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Related Activities (selected)
2018 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Visiting lecturer, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Ecole Superieure CEPV, Visiting lecturer + workshop, Vevey, CH
2018 Museo San Telmo Artist, talk + Workshop, San Sebastian, ES
2017 California College o/t Arts, Lecture: Larry Sultan Visiting Artist Program. San Francisco, US
2017 De Donkere Kamer Artist talk, Brugge, Belgium
2017 The Photographers' Gallery, In conversation with Anna Dannemann. London, UK
2017 Ecole Superieure CEPV Visiting lecturer / workshop, Vevey CH
2016 Hartfort NY photography MFA Visiting lecturer, Berlin, DE
2016 AKI School of Arts External examiner, Eindhoven, NL
2016 Photobook Melbourne Gallery Artist talk, Melbourne, AUS
2016 FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Lecture ‘Sensing the Landscape’, Amsterdam, NL
2016 De Donkere Kamer Artist talk, Antwerp, B
2015 UNSEEN Photo fair ‘Premiere Talk’ with Kim Knoppers, Amsterdam, NL
2013 De Donkere Kamer Artist talk, Rotterdam, NL
Catalogues / Anthologies
2017 Deutsche Borse Photography Foundation Prize London, Uk
2017 The Grain of the Present Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, US
2015 Hariban Award Catalogue, Benrido atelier, Kyoto, JP
2015 Object Onder / Object Below Sanders Collection, Pieter & Marieke Sanders
2014 The Marseillaise collection catalogue Fotomuseum Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Fotoverhalen collection catalogue, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
2011 Alt+1000 High Altitude catalogue
2011 Hyeres 26th International Festival Photography
2011 ‘5’ – 5 different artists - Published by Studio Pure Beograd
2010 Quickscan #01 Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2009 De laatste fotograaf? AKV/St. Joost, Breda, NL