The 19th Noorderlicht International Photofestival Terra Cognita is a photography exhibition about the relation between man and nature. How do we experience nature, and what is its value for us? Our romantic longing for pure nature is diametrically opposed to the practical desire to control the world and cultivate it. Terra Cognita looks at nature far away and close by, as a dream and as reality – nature in our genes, and in our minds. Work by 115 photographers from 36 countries has been selected for this Festival.

Two works by Misha de Ridder ‘Dune‘ and ‘Ivguvuovdi‘ are on show at the main festival location Museum Belvédère.

Noorderlicht International Photofestival Terra Cognita
September 2 – October 7, 2012

Museum Belvédère – Main Location
Oranje Nassaulaan 12, 8448 MT Heerenveen-Oranjewoud, The Netherlands
www.museumbelvedere.nl

Opening hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 am – 5 pm.

September 9, 2012  – 14:00 hours Misha de Ridder will give a lecture (Dutch spoken) at Restaurant Museum Belvédère.

Until medio June 2012 the monumental work ‘Riettürli’ (180 x 230 cm) by Misha de Ridder will be exhibited in the unique Brutalist architecture of the Thomaskerk in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The Thomaskerk by Dutch architect Karel L. Sijmons was finished in 1966 and contains a stained glass window by the Spanish artist Antonio Saura.

‘Riettürli’ can be visited on appointment or every Sunday before and after the service. For an appointment call +31 20 6738171. On March 11th at 3 pm there will be a Q&A and filmscreening with Misha de Ridder.

Thomaskerk
Prinses Irenestraat 36 (near Beethovenstraat and NS station Amsterdam Zuid WTC)
1077 WX Amsterdam
The Netherlands

‘Riettürli’ is published in photo book ‘Abendsonne’ which can be ordered here >

Printed Matter is pleased to announce a launch for DUNE by Dutch photographer Misha De Ridder, published by Layflat Press. Please join us Saturday, October 22nd, 5-7 PM, for a reception and discussion with the artist. Printed Matter is located at 195 Tenth Avenue, New York, between 21st and 22nd street.

Starting at 6 PM, de Ridder will give a presentation about his practice, touching on his interest in connecting with the natural landscape through images, as well as considerations of publishing his photo works in book form. Joining de Ridder will be Diana Balmori who teaches at the Yale University School of Architecture, and is the principal of Balmori Associates, a landscape and urban design firm in New York. She will speak about de Ridder’s work in terms of the un/natural landscape and modes of representation.

DUNE, a handsome saddle stitched tri-fold book, collects a series of images showing lush, natural scenes so estranged and mysterious they have a sense of the unreal. De Ridder’s precise and highly detailed photographs call to mind the barren and tormented nature of Dutch landscape paintings of the 17th century and Romantic Era, where light, color and atmosphere gather to suggest something both serene and foreboding.

De Ridder will also screen his recent film Asgard, 2011, shot in subarctic Norway, which consists of one single fixed unedited shot. The short film (about 8 min long) shows a forest on a mountain as a storm passes through. Bringing to mind the work of Peter Hutton, a “story” evolves as the fast moving clouds and dark shadows beneath them move across the landscape.

DUNE by Misha de Ridder is 24 pages, saddle stitched, softcover and measures 24.13 x 29.21 cm. The book is published by Lay Flat in an edition of 750 and retails for $35.00. It is available in the Printed Matter store front or online at www.printedmatter.org.

Special thanks to the Mondriaan Foundation

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Opening speech Solstice in Foam by Erik A. de Jong >

Friday 26 February 2010, doors open 8PM.

Contemporary Art Centre, Vokieciu 2, LT- 01130, Vilnius

The program consists of audio visual presentations by artists, writers, poets and musicians and is compiled from received and selected material by Constant Dullaart and Julia van Mourik. On show is, amongst others, an artist’s purse and its contents, produced via the da Vinci Surgical System, the Terminator I & II subtitles, how Pepsi became the choice of a new generation, a lake in the Swiss Alps with an almost mirror-like surface explored with Google Earth, and an artist coming down the Congo river with a neon sign that reads: Enjoy Poverty. www.lost.nl