cv misha de ridder (NL, 1971) is a visual
artist working with photography and video based in
Amsterdam.
after graduating University of the Arts Utrecht in 1996 misha de ridder's work has been widely exhibited amongst others at Coda Museum, Foam Photography Museum, FoMu Photo Museum Antwerp, Juliètte Jongma Gallery, Rosegallery Santa Monica, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Museum of the City of New York and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. de ridder’s work has been acquired by major collections like the Amsterdam City Archives, Foam Photography Museum, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Museum Voorlinden. de ridder published seven monographs: Sightseeing (De Balie 2000), Wilderness (Artimo 2003), Abendsonne (Schaden 2011), Dune (Lavalette 2011), Solstice (Native 2012), Falaise (Roma 2016) and high up close by (Roma 2019). unreal reality . feral mimesis . ecosexuality featuring geography, light, weather
and ephemeral phenomena misha de ridder creates
photographs and video work of almost absurd
brilliance. his quiet images evoke contemplation and
intimacy and invite you to look anew to what you think
you know, to rethink your relation to what surrounds,
envelops you. how the perceptual and the conceptual
are intrinsically connected is an important theme in
the work. reality is an act of deep imagination.
mechanical representations produced with the machine
eye of the camera disclose for us another, almost
magical perspective. the camera helps us to see the
way we are intertwined with the world, to make
palpable that we are part of this entity as a given
that transcends us. something that is both as real as
it is incomprehensible.
"At a moment when technology is increasingly mediating the relationship people have with their surroundings, de Ridder’s work pushes us to go out and explore what we are missing. It is not often that photographs of such visceral beauty can elicit a deep, meaningful engagement with how we perceive and understand the world around us." - Albada Jelgersma Gallery, press release 'resilience' "Sometimes natural phenomena can become so estranged and mysterious, that we are inclined to describe them as unreal realities. It might be the extraordinary shape of a tree, a mountain, a shadow, a cloud or the mirroring reflection of nature in a lake, but it is foremost the unfamiliarity of the natural aesthetics of reality. Misha de Ridder’s works can be seen as attempts to capture these temporary phenomena and atmospheres of nature within the still medium of photography. By seeking for the absence of human intervention, by waiting for the climax of the temporal aesthetic and by pushing the camera to its technical limits De Ridder’s photographs become both exotic reports as autonomous artificial worlds." - Galerie Juliètte Jongma, press release 'Abendsonne' "As an artist, De Ridder makes images that could easily become saccharine calendar art or empty exercises in sublime kitsch. Arctic sunsets, verdant dunes and dense forests have all been De Ridder's subjects, but he has always succeeded in pushing them to a new level and forced us to look again - either through inventive design in the case of Wilderness or editorial restraint and focus, as in the case of Dune. In some ways, De Ridder's works are so forcefully anachronistic that they are contemporary. It takes a brave and talented soul to tackle the sublime landscape and succeed like De Ridder." - Adam Bell, PhotoEye Magazine "To search, to disclose and to write with light is what Misha de Ridder does in his landscape photos and videos. He does not seek the comfort zone of the beautiful and picturesque, but the sublime. It is a quest for entering into a confrontation with nature as a given larger than ourselves, to re-visualize a greatness that is both realistic but also inconceivable. Landscape is a paradox: how can we hold as an image what perhaps can't be photographed, the change of light for example, or the tactility of the landscape. The greatness lifts us beyond borders we are not always able to comprehend, not mentally, nor in feeling. Landscape is not only seen, but is a multi-sensory experience with knowledge and craft." - Professor Erik A. de Jong, opening speech 'Solstice', Foam Photography Museum |
RESIDENCIES 2019 Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, Switzerland > 2006 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt log 2004 Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA SOLO EXHIBITION (selection) 2020 'resilience', Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam 'Seven X Seven | Session One', Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam 2018 'Inside', Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 AMC Brummelkamp galerie, Amsterdam 2012 Unseen Photo Fair @ Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam 'Sublime Nature in Brutalist architecture', Thomaskerk, Amsterdam 2011 'Solstice', Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam > 2009 'Abendsonne', Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam > 2007 Fiac @ Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Paris 2006 'Wilderness', Greenleaf Gallery, Los Angeles 2005 'Elysian Fields', Galerie Juliètte Jongma 'Het dak van de hemel', Kunstkerk, Dordrecht, NL 2004 'Hunting', Kunsthuis 13, Velp, NL 'Beautiful Tree in Terrible City', Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles 2003 'Wilderness', Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam 2000 'Sightseeing', Huis Marseille, Amsterdam GROUP EXHIBITION (selection) 2022 'Our Mother the Mountain', La MaMa Galleria, New York 'One Year', Assembly Curated, Voxels 'Quintessence', Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam 'UMC-collection', Brummelkamp Gallery, Amsterdam 2021 'Edition 365', British Journal of Photography, New Art City 'Through the looking glass', Albada Jelgersma Gallery 'Try this at home', Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam 2019 'Curraint d’ajer utuon', Fundaziun Nairs, Scuol, CH 'Conceal/Reveal', Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam 'Stad in Zicht', Amsterdam City Archives 2018 'Verlicht MIJ. Night landscape', Museum IJsselstein, NL Amsterdam 'In Vivo', Noorderlicht Photofestival, NL 'The merry-go-round', Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam 2017 'Reference', Rosegallery, Los Angeles FIF BH, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2016 Het Kunstlokaal, De School, Amsterdam 'El Bosque', Begira Photo, Durango, E 2015 'Mijn Vlakke Land.', FoMu FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 2014 'The conquest of the impossible', Mogosoaia Cultural Center, Bucharest, RO 'Hunting', Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam 'Reflected – works from the Foam collection', Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam 'The Force of Nature', CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL 2013 'ikono On Air Festival', ikono tv, Berlin 'It’s About Time', e-flux Timebank The Hague 'Unseen', Dropstuff, Venice 2012 'Terra Cognita', Noorderlicht Photofestival, NL 'Torinover', Museo d’Arte Orientale, Torino 2011 'Visions on Film', Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2010 'Lost & Found in Vilnius', Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius 'Stream', Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles / Pent House Gallery, Baltimore 2009 'Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered', Museum of the City of New York > 'Lost & Found in New York', New Museum, New York 2008 'Horror Vacui', Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna Fiac @ Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Paris 2006 'Naturaleza', PHotoEspaña, Madrid 'Google Earth', Academiegalerie, Utrecht 2004 'On Angels', Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam 'Toekenning 021', Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam 2003 'Link - Gemeentelijke Aankopen', Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2001 'Mooie foto’s', Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam MONOGRAPHY (selection) 2019 high up close by, Roma Publications, ISBN 9789492811561 2016 Falaise, Roma Publications, ISBN 9789491843723 2012 Solstice, Native Publications, USA 2011 Abendsonne, Schaden.com, D, ISBN 9783932187889 Dune, Lavalette, USA, ISBN 9780984297320 2003 Wilderness, Artimo, NL, ISBN 9075380755 2000 Sightseeing, De Balie, NL, ISBN 9066172479 FILMOGRAPHY 2020 verwirklichungen, 4K video 21', Misha de Ridder teaser 2008 I Love Alaska, Director of Photography, HD video 50' Direction Lernert & Sander, Production Submarine (2009 Netherlands Film Festival, 2010 Tromsø International Film Festival) watch online NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS 2022 generative by nature, 36 JPG on custom marketplace by Moniker 2021 high up close by, 22 JPG on Foundation, Assembly, NY/Houston PUBLICATIONS (selection) 2022 The One Minutes, 'The BOLOHO Series' video series > 2020 The One Minutes, 'so real, so very now' video series > 2015 Mister Motley, Salon, 'Weather Observations' Punkt, No. 16, 'bez tytułu', ISSN 12317020 New Dawn, 'Set' portfolio 2014 Metropolis M, 2014 No 6 2012 Capricious, Issue No. 13 Water, ISSN 15733076 Scalpel, Vol. 3 Issue 2 Foam Album 11, Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, ISBN 9789490022006 2011 'Solstice', Foam Cahier, Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam 2010 Everyday catalogue, Ctrl+C, Studio Blanco Stupendous #02, New York 2009 Foam Album 09, Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, ISBN 9789490022044 Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered, catalogue, Museum of the City of New York The New York Times Magazine, 'The New Forest' 2006 Dutch Eyes, a critical history of photography in the Netherlands, ISBN 9789040083372 2005 Een nieuwe nederzetting, De Verbeelding, ISBN 9074159850 Het dak van de hemel, Municipality of Dordrecht > 2002 Het verlangen naar de stad, De Balie/SWD,ISBN 9066172843 BIBLIOGRAPHY & MEDIA (selection) 2023 RIGHT CLICK SAVE, Danielle Ezzo, 'PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER THE NFT 2022 Het Parool, Edo Dijksterhuis, 'Fotografiebeurs Unseen zet vinkjes bij alle thema's van dit moment' Roberto Salazar, Twitter Space generative by nature PhotoVerso, Gregory Eddi Jones, interview generative by nature 2020 Collector Daily, Loring Knoblauch, review high up close by 2019 Het Parool, Kees Keijer, 'De klei lijkt een eigen leven te leiden' Het Parool, Maarten Moll, 'Stad in Zicht toont de vele gezichten van Amsterdam' 2018 Het Parool, Kees Keijer, 'Oude Kerk tot in de kleinste details' 2017 FOTOgrafie, Michiel Mulder, 'De abstracte werkelijkheid' > AMC Magazine, Sandra Smets, 'Schilderen met licht' > We Like Art!, 'Het landschap als canvas' > 2015 Unseen Magazine, Sophie Wright,'Anthology, Misha de Ridder' Focus Magazine, Jannie de Kruijff, 'The One Minutes, Lijis' 2014 IEEB6 catalog, Javier Martín-Jiménez, 'The conquest of the impossible' Museumtijdschrift, Maria Barnas, 'De wildernis van Almere' 2013 FOTOgrafie, Diana Bokje, 'Zoektocht naar het ongrijpbare' 2012 Vrij Nederland, Maria Barnas, 'Natuur als voorstelling' VPRO Zomergasten Micha Wertheim, Dutch television, fragment 'I Love Alaska' Volkskrant, Karolien Knols, 'De Zelfontspanner' Avro Kunstuur, Dutch television, 'In Sight!' Lay Flat, Carl Gunhouse, 'A Conversation with Misha de Ridder' 2011 Photo-Eye Magazine, Adam Bell, 'Abendsonne' Photo-Eye Magazine, George Slade, 'Dune' Metropolis M, Saskia van der Kroef, 'Solstice' VPRO De Avonden, Dutch radio, Catherine van Campen > Het Parool, Bob Frommé, 'Landschap' 2009 The New York Times, Martha Schwendener, 'Photographic Links to the Golden Age of Dutch Painting’ Conscientious, Jörg Colberg, 'Review: Dutch Seen at Museum of the City of New York' WNYC - New York Public Radio, Beth Fertig, 'Dutch Seen' The New York Times Magazine, Russell Shorto,'Reaching Here' de Volkskrant, Diederik van Hoogstraten, 'New York door Nederlandse ogen' de Volkskrant, Lennard Dost, 'Warmbloedige Landschappen' Kunstbeeld, Machteld Leij, 'Abendsonne' 2006 Het Financieele Dagblad, Anne Berk, 'Het Nieuwe Verlangen' 2005 de Volkskrant, Maria Barnas, 'Weelderige realiteit' 2003 Link, Hripsime Visser, catalogue Gemeentelijke Aankopen Stedelijk Museum WORK IN COLLECTIONS (selection) AkzoNobel Art Foundation, NL AMC kunstcollectie, Amsterdam, NL Amsterdam City Archives, NL Asheville Art Museum, USA De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, NL Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL Doctors Pension Fund, NL Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, NL Fons Welters, NL Kunstcollectie KPMG, NL Museum Voorlinden, NL Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL Fam. Sanders, NL The Dutch House of Representatives, NL Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection, AT AWARDS 2019 la nuit approche, The One Minutes China Award, China > 2017 The Clearing, The One Minutes China Award, China 2011 Abendsonne, Best Books of 2011, Photo-Eye, USA Dune, long list Best Books of 2011, Photo-Eye, USA GRANTS 2022 Grant Artist Basic, Mondriaan Fund 2020 Project Grant for Artists, Mondriaan Fund Garantiesubsidie, Stokroos Foundation 2019 Paul Deiters Stipend, Stokroos Foundation 2018 Grant for Publication, Mondriaan Fund 2017 Amsterdam Photography Commission, Amsterdam City Archives Stipendium for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund Development Budget, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts 1999 - 2016 (miscellaneous) Amsterdam Fund for the Arts Fonds Kwadraat (Materiaalfonds) Mondriaan Fund (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design Fonds Cultuur+Financiering Currently generously supported by: |