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About Dutch photographer, Viviane SASSEN (b.1972, in Amsterdam)
Viviane SASSEN studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem. She works in both the fashion and fine art world. A retrospective of seventeen years of her fashion work, 'In and Out of Fashion', opened at Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, in 2012, and travelled to the Rencontres d'Arles festival, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Photo books by as well as with works by Viviane SASSEN
'Flamboya' (2008), 'Sol & Luna' (2009), 'Parasomnia' (2011), 'The Dutch Photobook. A thematic selection from 1945 onwards' (2012), 'Die Son Sien Alles' (2012), 'Roxane' (2012), 'In and Out Fashion' (2013), 'Etan and Me' (2013), 'Lexicon' (2014), 'Pikin Slee' (2014), 'Umbra' (2014, with Oodee), 'Sketches' (2015), 'Umbra' (2015, with Prestel), 'Roxane II' (2017), 'Of Mud and Lotus' (2017), 'Heliotrope' (2018), 'Hot Mirror' (2018), 'Photography Decoded: Look, Think, Ask' (2019), 'Venus & Mercury' (2022), 'Modern Alchemy. Artisans of the Wild: an Enchanting History, 2' (2022, with Emanuele Coccia), 'Mirrors and Portals' (2023)
Awards
- 2007: 'Prix de Rome';
2011: 'Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography', New York;
2015: 'David Octavius Hill Medal' from the German Photography Academy, Nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her exhibition 'Umbra';
She has also received numerous awards for her publications.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 2013: 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace;
2014: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam;
2015: Atelier Néerlandais, Paris; The Photographers’ Gallery and at the ICA, both in London;
2016: Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen;
2017: at Fotografiska, Stockholm; Foto Kunst Stadform, Austria; the Deichtorhallen Hamburg; the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago;
Group exhibitions
- 2011:
'New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art', New York; 'No Fashion,
Please! Photography between gender and lifestyle', Vienna Kunsthalle;
'Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape', Museum of Contemporary Canadian
Art in Toronto (as part of the Contact Photography Festival);
2012: 'Six Yards: Guaranteed Dutch Design', Museum for Moderne Kunst Arnhem;
Viviane SASSEN has also exhibited in notable group shows at Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, (2016); Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2016), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2017) and at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2017).