Viviane SASSEN
ヴィヴィアン・サッセン
Sassen was born in 1972 in Amsterdam, and lives there. She studied fashion design, followed by photography at the Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) and Ateliers Arnhem.
A retrospective of 17 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.
Solo exhibitions have taken place at Fotografiska (2017); Foto Kunst Stadform, Austria (2017); the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg (2017); the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2017); Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen (2016); Atelier Néerlandais, Paris (2015); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2015); ICA, London (2015); and Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2014). Sassen was included on the main exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace, in 2013. She has exhibited in notable group shows at Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2017); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2017); Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany (2016); Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2016); New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011); No Fashion, Please! Photography between gender and lifestyle at the Vienna Kunsthalle (2011); Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto as part of the Contact Photography Festival (2011); and Six Yards: Guaranteed Dutch Design at the Museum for Moderne Kunst Arnhem (2012).
Sassen was awarded the Dutch art prize, the Prix de Rome, in 2007, and in 2011 won the International Center of Photography in New York's Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography. In 2015 she was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal from the German Photography Academy, and was nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her exhibition Umbra. She has also received numerous awards for her publications.
Chronology
1996–97 Masters education Ateliers Arnhem, fine arts, Arnhem, the Netherlands
1992–96 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, photography, Utrecht, the Netherlands
1990–92 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, fashion design, Arnhem, the Netherlands
1992–96 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, photography, Utrecht, the Netherlands
1990–92 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, fashion design, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
Venus & Mercury, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019
Hot Mirror, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visible/Invisible, Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
2018
Of Mud and Lotus, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Hot Mirror, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
2017
Roxane II, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
She, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Lexicon, Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria
Umbra, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Umbra, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Of Mud and Lotus, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Umbra, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
2016
Lexicon, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2015
Umbra, Atelier Néerlandais, Paris, France
Pikin Slee, Etan & Me, Museum Hilversum, the Netherlands
Pikin Slee, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Pikin Slee, Institute of Contemporary Art London, UK
2014
In and Out of Fashion / Analemma, The Photographer’s Gallery London, UK
In and Out of Fashion, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Lexicon and Pikin Slee, GP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lexicon, Moontower Foundation (Rebecca Horn), Germany
Lexicon, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
In and Out of Fashion, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Umbra, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Pikin Slee and Etan&Me, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
In and Out of Fashion, André Leon Talley Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2013
Pikin Slee, Unseen Photo Fair, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
In and Out of Fashion, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
In and Out of Fashion, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
Three Magi, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
2012
In and Out of Fashion, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
There There, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Youth Code, Photo Biennale Daegu, Daegu, South Korea
Parasomnia, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011
Sketches & Flamboya, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Parasomnia, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Moshi, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sketches & Flamboya, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Flamboya, Musée Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Flamboya, Danziger Projects, New York, USA
Flamboya, FORMA, Milano, Italy
2009
Flamboya, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, the Netherlands
2008
Flamboya, FOAM photography museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Flamboya, De Gang, Haarlem, the Netherlands
2007
As the crow flies, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, the Netherlands
2006
Die son sien alles, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2005
Realm, w. Emmeline de Mooij, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2001
I see you gorgeous blossom special, Fotofestival Naarden, Naarden Vesting, the Netherlands
Venus & Mercury, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019
Hot Mirror, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visible/Invisible, Grand Trianon at the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
2018
Of Mud and Lotus, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Hot Mirror, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
2017
Roxane II, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
She, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
Lexicon, Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck, Austria
Umbra, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
Umbra, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Of Mud and Lotus, Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Umbra, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
2016
Lexicon, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2015
Umbra, Atelier Néerlandais, Paris, France
Pikin Slee, Etan & Me, Museum Hilversum, the Netherlands
Pikin Slee, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Pikin Slee, Institute of Contemporary Art London, UK
2014
In and Out of Fashion / Analemma, The Photographer’s Gallery London, UK
In and Out of Fashion, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Lexicon and Pikin Slee, GP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lexicon, Moontower Foundation (Rebecca Horn), Germany
Lexicon, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
In and Out of Fashion, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Umbra, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Pikin Slee and Etan&Me, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
In and Out of Fashion, André Leon Talley Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
2013
Pikin Slee, Unseen Photo Fair, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
In and Out of Fashion, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
In and Out of Fashion, Les Rencontres d’Arles Photo Festival, Arles, France
Three Magi, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany
2012
In and Out of Fashion, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
There There, Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Youth Code, Photo Biennale Daegu, Daegu, South Korea
Parasomnia, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011
Sketches & Flamboya, Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Parasomnia, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2010
Moshi, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sketches & Flamboya, Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Flamboya, Musée Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Flamboya, Danziger Projects, New York, USA
Flamboya, FORMA, Milano, Italy
2009
Flamboya, Galerie van den Berge, Goes, the Netherlands
2008
Flamboya, FOAM photography museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Flamboya, De Gang, Haarlem, the Netherlands
2007
As the crow flies, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, the Netherlands
2006
Die son sien alles, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2005
Realm, w. Emmeline de Mooij, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2001
I see you gorgeous blossom special, Fotofestival Naarden, Naarden Vesting, the Netherlands
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Biennial of the Possible Image, Liège, Belgium
The Creative Mind: Eight Artists Photograph Themselves, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017
Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, USA
Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude, Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK
The New Parthenon, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sea Views, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A Painting Today, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
In These Shadows, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Exchange, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Cause the grass don’t grow and the sky ain’t blue, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Dutch Identity Nederlandse Portret Fotografie nu, Zwolle, the Netherlands
Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul-Freiburg, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany
2015
Umbra, Deutsche Börse Prize, MMK Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Umbra, Deutsche Börse Prize, TPG London, UK
Ray DE 2015, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
When I give, I give myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014
Photofestival 2014, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Modern Times, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Where there’s smoke, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Kunst & Textil, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2013
The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
A Sculptural Premise, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Art and Textile: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
The Photographic Eye, FRAC Auvergne, France
The Rediscovery of the world, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Oranje, Schlifka-Molina Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
43 Salón (inter) Naçional de Artistas, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
2012
Young People, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Africa: Photographs and video from the Martin Margulies Collection, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College, Florida, USA
Through an Open Window – Contemporary Art from the Rabo Art Collection, Institut Neérlandais, Paris, France
There There, Cork, Ireland
Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland
Six Yards: Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands
2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
Parasomnia, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
No fashion, please!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art as part of the Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
Africa, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA
Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Lagos Photo, Lagos, Nigeria
Flamboya, Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Martin Parr, Brighton, UK
2008
Cover Project, Art Aids, w. Martine Stig, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2007
Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
Dutch Fantasy – Nouvelles images de mode Néerlandaises, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
2006
Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Artissima, Motive Gallery, Turin, Italy
FIAC, Motive Gallery, Paris
Die Liebe zum Licht, Stadtiche Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Die Liebe zum Licht, Robert Simon Stiftung, Celle, Germany
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
2005
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Art Cologne, Motive Gallery, Germany
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
2003
Rotterdam Design Prijs, Museum Booijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2002
Flowers, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2001
Me and Them, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Goeie foto’s, Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2000
Portretten uit de twintigste eeuw, Galerie 2,5 x 4,5, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visions, Sec presentatie, Antwerpen, Belgium
Kinship, Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sec, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1999
Deep Flat, Begane Grond, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Tegenlicht, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Biennial of the Possible Image, Liège, Belgium
The Creative Mind: Eight Artists Photograph Themselves, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017
Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, USA
Blurred Lines: A Matter of Attitude, Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK
The New Parthenon, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Sea Views, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A Painting Today, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2016
In These Shadows, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Exchange, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Cause the grass don’t grow and the sky ain’t blue, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Dutch Identity Nederlandse Portret Fotografie nu, Zwolle, the Netherlands
Freundschaftsspiel Istanbul-Freiburg, Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, Germany
2015
Umbra, Deutsche Börse Prize, MMK Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Umbra, Deutsche Börse Prize, TPG London, UK
Ray DE 2015, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
When I give, I give myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2014
Photofestival 2014, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Modern Times, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Where there’s smoke, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Kunst & Textil, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
2013
The Encyclopedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Italy
A Sculptural Premise, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Art and Textile: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
The Photographic Eye, FRAC Auvergne, France
The Rediscovery of the world, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Oranje, Schlifka-Molina Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
43 Salón (inter) Naçional de Artistas, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
2012
Young People, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Africa: Photographs and video from the Martin Margulies Collection, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison State College, Florida, USA
Through an Open Window – Contemporary Art from the Rabo Art Collection, Institut Neérlandais, Paris, France
There There, Cork, Ireland
Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea
Photomonth Festival, Krakow, Poland
Six Yards: Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands
2011
What we talk about when we talk about love, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
Parasomnia, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
No fashion, please!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Figure and Ground: Dynamic Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art as part of the Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
Africa, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA
Shadow Dance, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Lagos Photo, Lagos, Nigeria
Flamboya, Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Martin Parr, Brighton, UK
2008
Cover Project, Art Aids, w. Martine Stig, AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2007
Festival International de Mode et de Photographie, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
Dutch Fantasy – Nouvelles images de mode Néerlandaises, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
2006
Spooky, Het Gebouw, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Artissima, Motive Gallery, Turin, Italy
FIAC, Motive Gallery, Paris
Die Liebe zum Licht, Stadtiche Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany
Die Liebe zum Licht, Robert Simon Stiftung, Celle, Germany
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
2005
CBK Dordrecht, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
Art Cologne, Motive Gallery, Germany
Art Rotterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
2003
Rotterdam Design Prijs, Museum Booijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2002
Flowers, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2001
Me and Them, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Goeie foto’s, Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2000
Portretten uit de twintigste eeuw, Galerie 2,5 x 4,5, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Visions, Sec presentatie, Antwerpen, Belgium
Kinship, Amsterdam Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Sec, Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1999
Deep Flat, Begane Grond, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Tegenlicht, Paraplufabriek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Awards
2016
Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for best photobook 2016 “Umbra”, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Arts Award of the City of Leinfelden-Echterdingen
David Octavius Hill Award, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
The Society’s Honorary Fellowship Award 2015, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
Deutsche Börse Prize, nominee, London, UK
2013
Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for best photobook 2013 “In and Out of Fashion”, Stuttgart, Germany
Kees Scherer Award for best photobook 2013 “In and Out of Fashion”, Kees Scherer Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011
Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography, International Centre of Photography, New York City, USA
2009
Nomination BMW prize, Paris Photo, Motive Gallery, Paris, France
Finalist Best Book Award for Flamboya, Rencontres-Arles, France
Finalist Kees Scherer Award for Flamboya, Fotofestival Naarden, the Netherlands
2007
Nomination Thieme Art Award, Art Amsterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
Nomination KLM Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Prix de Rome, the Netherlands
Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for best photobook 2016 “Umbra”, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
Arts Award of the City of Leinfelden-Echterdingen
David Octavius Hill Award, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Stuttgart, Germany
The Society’s Honorary Fellowship Award 2015, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK
Deutsche Börse Prize, nominee, London, UK
2013
Gold Medal Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for best photobook 2013 “In and Out of Fashion”, Stuttgart, Germany
Kees Scherer Award for best photobook 2013 “In and Out of Fashion”, Kees Scherer Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011
Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography, International Centre of Photography, New York City, USA
2009
Nomination BMW prize, Paris Photo, Motive Gallery, Paris, France
Finalist Best Book Award for Flamboya, Rencontres-Arles, France
Finalist Kees Scherer Award for Flamboya, Fotofestival Naarden, the Netherlands
2007
Nomination Thieme Art Award, Art Amsterdam, Motive Gallery, the Netherlands
Nomination KLM Paul Huf Award, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Prix de Rome, the Netherlands
