CV Ellen Kooi
Born: 1962 Leeuwarden, NL
Education: Art academy ABK Minerva, Groningen, NL 1981-1987
Post graduate in Arts at the Rijksacademy Amsterdam, NL 1993-1994
Ellen finds her inspiration mostly in a location. At first sight her pictures show just common, everyday situations, but there is a lot more going on.
Editorial:
C-Magazine
Elegance
Focus
Foto(review)
Free-Eye magazine
Paris Photo magazine
Parool
Volkskrant
Zoom
Advertising:
Cotélac
KPN
Ocean Diva
Pink Roccade
various theatergroups
Assignments:
Art project in restaurant for Woonstichting De Key (iov Link Art Company)
Billboardproject for Alphen aan de Rijn/ Alpha Nuova
Document van de stad Amersfoort
Documentaire fotografie opdracht Provincie Noord-Holland
From shipdock to filmindustry, stadsdeel Amsterdam Noord
Les Interieurs du monde, for Zaandam and Haarlem + zustergemeentes
Stadsopdracht Groningen
Exhibitions (solo shows are indicated)
2011
Out of Sight, solo, April, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, USA
Ellen Kooi: Photographies, solo, April 20/ June 5, Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Photo Event, June 18/ August 21, de Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
Foto = Kunst (February 16/ June 3, Museum het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
On the other side of twilight / duo show with Astrid Kruse Jensen, January 22/ April 10, Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch, the Netherlands
2010
Out of Sight/ Hors de Vue, Institut Néerlandais, November 17/ December 22, Paris, France
Contriving Inquiries, Oktober 30 / November 14, Seelevel Gallery at Het Magazijn, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
De pictura, canon pictórico e imagen contemporánea, EMAT, Valencia, Spain
Ellen Kooi, Photographies, July 16 / September 25, Le centre Image/ Imatge, Orthez, France
Colección Norte 1996-2010, Santander, Spain
Estancias, Residencias, Presencias, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
art fairs : Fiac Paris (Beaumontpublic); Paris Photo (Beaumontpublic, Les Filles Du Calvaire); Artesantander, Valencia Art (Camara Oscura); Art Daegu (Torch gallery); Tokyo Photo (Torch Gallery) , Art Rotterdam (Torch Gallery)
2009
Recent Work, solo Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dutch Art, 400 years of trade relations Japan – the Netherlands, Okura hotel, Tokyo, Japan
Signs of the Apocalypse/ Rapture, July 19 to September 20, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
New Works, June 27 to September 1, Gallery Beaumontpublic, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
“Borrowed Landscapes”, soloshow, part of Festival Off PhotoEspaña, May 28 to July 25, Gallery Camara Oscura, Madrid, Spain
Torch Gallery, the unforgettable fire, Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Fotowerken, de Willem III, solo, Vlissingen, the Netherlands
NOK in MET, Museum Bélvèdere, Heerenveen, the Netherlands
art fairs: Arco Madrid 09 (Beaumontpublic, Camara Oscura); Pulse Miami (Torch, PPOW), Paris Photo (Torch, Beaumontpublic); Art Brussels (Beaumontpublic); Artesantander, (Camara Oscura), Pulse Miami (Espacio Liquido)
Art Rotterdam (Torch Gallery);
2008
Times Square, December 18, 2008 to February 28 2009, group with Anna & Bernhard Blume, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Filip Markiewicz, Yves Netzhammer, Edmond Oliveira, Roland Quetsch, Su-Mei Tse, Beaumontpublic, Luxemburg, Luxembourg
Whatever happened to your dreams (Fantasy), May 23 to July 19, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Bruxelles, Belgium
De kleur van Friesland, beeldende kunst na 1945, April 19 to August 24, Fries Museum, the Netherlands
Recent Photography, soloshow, March 7 to April 19, Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain
“Dentro por Fuera, Within from without”, soloshow, April 14 to June 15, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
art fairs: SCOPE Basel (Camara Oscura); Art Rotterdam, (Torch Gallery); Art Dubai, (Torch Gallery); Art Chicago Next (Espacio Liquido, Camara Oscura, PPOW Gallery), Paris Photo (Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire); Estampa,(Camara Oscura); Photo miami (Camara Oscura); Artesander (Espacio Liquido)
2007
What Ever Happened to Your Dreams? (Fantasy) Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, France
C’est pas du jeu! (Fantasy), CPIF Art Centre, Paris, France
NY C Photo, Philips de Pury & Company, NY, USA
Ellen Kooi, solo show in Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Paradise gained, LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands
‘Figure it! The Human Factor in Contemporary Art’ ‘Clay Center for the Arts’, West Virginia, USA
Group Photo Show, with Ruud van Empel, Aaron Plant, Carlos and Jason Sanchez, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Arrebato, group show in Camara Oscura, Madrid, Spain
art fairs: PULSE London (PPOW Gallery); ARCO Art Fair/ DFOTO and Art Brussels, presented by Les Filles Du Calvaire); Art Chicago, ( PPOW ); Paris Photo, ( Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire)
2006
Architecture and Landscape Biennal of the Canaries, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderne, Gran Canaria, Spain
Night & Day, Vishal Haarlem, the Netherlands
Ellen Kooi / Pavel Wolberg, a conflicting encounter, mois européen de la photo, Gallery Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Out of Context, Fields Sculpture Park at Art Omni International Arts Centre, Ghent, New York, USA
Recent Photography, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA
Presentation with Duchenne foundation on KunstRai/ Art Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Trial Balloons, Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla Y Leon, Spain
Travaux Recents, duo show with Hans Op De Beeck, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Photography Biennale MOSCOW, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow house of photography, Moscow, Russia
Van scheepswerf tot filmindustrie, presentation photography assignment 2005, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Untouchable Things, Museum Centre Vaprikki, Tampere, Finland
art fairs: Pulse Miami Art Fair (PPOW Gallery); Art Brussels (Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire); Paris Photo, presented by Torch Gallery and Gallerie Les Filles du Calvaire (Paris); Photo-London, ( Houldsworth Gallery)
2005
Recent Work, solo, Les Filles du Calvaire, Kanal 20, Brussels, Belgium
Hold Still, Keep Moving IV, solo, Gallery Beaumontpublic, Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Out There: Landscape in the New Millennium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Constructed Moment, KW14, Den Bosch, the Netherlands
Dutch Eyes/ Chrysalis, Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy
HxBxD, Exhibition Collection Rabobank, GEM & Fotomuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands
Going Dutch, new photography from the Netherlands, Museum of New Art (Mona), Michigan, USA
Histoire(s)Parallèle(s), création-confrontation, France/Pays-Bas, by E. Kessels (NL)
and G.Bauret (F) FOAM, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Bomen & Bossen (Trees & Forests), Melkweg gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Art fairs: PULSE Miami Art Fair (PPOW Gallery) Fiac, ( Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Gallery Beaumontpublic, Paris Photo (Les Filles du Calvaire and Torch Gallery)
2004
Dreamscapes, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Histoire(s) Parallèle(s), création-confrontation, France/ Pays-Bas, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
Transhumance//6, Le Château D’Eau-Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Vervreemding in het Hollandse landschap, (Allienation in Dutch Landscape), University Groningen, the Netherlands
Art Fairs: The Armory Show ( Torch Gallery) Art Rotterdam ( Torch Gallery); Paris Photo ( by Torch gallery and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire); Art Basel / Miami Beach ( Torch Gallery); FIAC and Art Brussels ( Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire), Art Cologne (Torch Gallery and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire)
2003
Hold still, keep moving III*, solo Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Potential Images of the World, the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, solo. Paris, France
Artistes et petites mises en scenes, Les Filles du Calvaire, Kanal 20, Brussels, Belgium
Where the grass is green, solo P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, USA
Energy and physics of spirituality, Westwood Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
Fotografen in Nederland 1852-2002, Photo museum, The Hague, the Netherlands
Retrospective View, Photo’s from the collection, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Art fairs: Art Basel / Miami Beach ( Torch Gallery and PPOW Gallery); Art Rotterdam (Torch Gallery);
Art Basel 34 (Torch Gallery); The Armory Show( Torch Gallery); Paris Photo (Torch Gallery)
2002
Faces, People and Society, (contemporary photography) Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
De Noorderbreedte collection, CBK Groningen, the Netherlands
Art fairs: M.A.F. artfair, Renaissance Koepelkerk, (solopresentation byTorch Gallery); Art 33 Basel, (Torch Gallery); Paris Photo (Torch Gallery)
2001
Met een knipoog van de camera, Museum Het Kruithuis, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Revisited, Noorderlicht Festival, Galerie De Pijp, Groningen, the Netherlands
Les Intérieurs Du Monde, exchange project with cities of Haarlem and Zaanstad, the Netherlands
Art fair: Paris Photo, (Torch Gallery)
2000
Zien is geloven (Seeing is believing), Kunstestafette (Art-manifestation) Zuid-Holland, Gouda, the Netherlands
3 Photographers, de Vishal, Haarlem, the Netherlands
Foto-documentaire opdrachten Noord-Holland, (Presentation work in commission for the Province of Noord-Holland), Provinciehuis Haarlem, the Netherlands
1999
Photofestival Naarden, the Netherlands
Document van een stad, (photo assignments from city council Amersfoort), with Henze Boekhout, Jeroen Alberts and Caroline Schröder, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
► Kunstprijs Kampen (Public Price), Kunstruimte Kampen, Kampen, the Netherlands
1998
Een keuze (A selection of work by women artists in museum collections) Grote Kerk, The Hague, the Netherlands
De Fotografen van Minerva (The photographers of the Minerva Art Academy Groningen), Group exhibition, USVA, Groningen, the Netherlands