In collaboration with Atelier K84, Koster Tremendous Artwork Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Dutch Tremendous Artwork photographer Astrid Verhoef. For the primary time, the gallery will showcase a big overview of her award-winning sequence ‘Human//Nature’ with surrealist black-and-white images on areas within the Netherlands, Spain, and the USA. The exhibition takes place at Atelier K84, an inspiring artwork area within the coronary heart of Amsterdam.
Astrid Verhoef, being a real urbanite, explores her private connection to the pure world. The sophisticated relationship between human and nature is a typical thread all through her work. As soon as she locations herself in desolate landscapes, an nameless character arises that wishes to attach together with her environment. Nevertheless, her roots in up to date trendy life usually stay seen within the type of a synthetic aspect. The serene photos might be seen as emotional translations the place the need for synergy is challenged by an urge to regulate.
The long-term venture ‘Human//Nature’ is a logical continuation of Verhoef’s well-known ‘Inscapes’ sequence. With an much more minimal visible language and an more and more geometrical strategy to composition, she goals to emphasise the distinction between the human presence and the pure. On the identical time she desires to stage scenes that may solely exist due to the mix of the 2. Her theatrical pictures can also be an ode to creativeness itself.
By no means earlier than has the latest ‘Human//Nature’ sequence been exhibited this extensively. Throughout the course of the present in Atelier K84, interdisciplinary occasions are on this system as effectively. Along with a poetry studying by Bernard Wesseling (accompanied by classical music), gentle yoga and meditation might be mixed with the theme and expertise of the photographic artworks throughout an ‘Artwork in Silence’ afternoon.
Astrid Verhoef (Amsterdam, 1973) studied pictures on the Utrecht College of the Arts. Since 1998 she is working as a Tremendous Artwork photographer, and within the final decade additionally usually as a curator. Her autonomous work is included within the assortment of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris and has been exhibited in Amsterdam, Berlin, Milan, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, Sydney, and Tokyo. Koster Tremendous Artwork Gallery offered the work of the visible artist on the FotoFestival Naarden, and main artwork gala’s akin to KunstRAI and PAN Amsterdam.
Astrid Verhoef : Human//Nature
from 5 April till 11 Could 2024
Atelier K84
Keizersgracht 84h
Amsterdam
www.atelierk84.com
