Portfolio Reviews

Saturday 15 October 2022

Annegien van Doorn – Photographer

Lisanne van Happen – Curator Fotodok – SOLD OUT

Marc Prüst-  Visual story editor & photography curator – SOLD OUT

Marga Rotteveel – Founder Docking Station

Annegien van Doorn – Photographer

Annegien van Doorn (b. 1982, Vlissingen, The Netherlands) participated in BredaPhoto in 2008. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at FOAM museum, C&H Gallery and Melkweg Expo in Amsterdam, MONA Detroit and Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo. She has also participated in a number of group exhibitions at, amongst others: Three Shadows Photography Arts Center Beijing; Himalaya Museum Shanghai; Le Botanique Brussels; and at Les Recontres de la Photographie Festival in Arles. 

Fleur van Muiswinkel – Director BredaPhoto

Fleur van Muiswinkel is art historian and curator. In April 2020 she became the first director of BredaPhoto. Before that she was artistic coordinator for the Contour Biennale in Mechelen (BE), was co-director at A Tale of A Tub in Rotterdam (NL), worked as curator performance at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam and started her professional career at Office for Contemporary Art Norway in Oslo. Van Muiswinkel obtained her Master in curating at Goldsmiths University in London (UK) and her Master in Art History at the VU University in Amsterdam (NL).

Koen Hauser – Photographer

Koen Hauser (b. 1972, Rijswijk, The Netherlands) obtained a Masters of Science in Social Psychology before graduating at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2002. In both commissioned and autonomous projects, he references imagery from cultural institutes, museums, archives, and the public domain. His work is exhibited across Europe, the United States and China and is represented in both national and international collections. Website: www.koenhauser.com

Lisanne van Happen – Curator Fotodok

Lisanne van Happen supports upcoming talent within her work. She is a freelance curator, fundraiser and producer specialized in the field of documentary photography with a particular interest in social issues. She strives to connect people and create collaborations that are greater than the sum of its parts. Lisanne has a BA in documentary photography from St. Joost in Breda. She studied social-cultural work at Koning Willem I college in Den Bosch. And attended courses in Sociology at Utrecht University. Over the past nine years she worked on projects for organizations such as: Docking Station, Prospektor, Critical Mass, Paris College of Art and Machinerie. Currently Lisanne works for St.Joost and is talent development lead at FOTODOK where she develops programs with which she supports upcoming photographers on a financial, conceptual and production level.

Marc Prüst – visual story editor and photography curator

I am active as visual story editor and photography curator. I have developed a method for creating photographic projects to help photographers develop their concepts, prepare the shoots and edit their work. I teach and organize workshops and masterclasses, lecture and write on photography. My research into sustainable business models for documentary photographers was published in January 2020 in ‘Tell your story – A new role for photography in a changing market’ and can be downloaded at the Forhanna website.

Marga Rotteveel – Founder Docking Station

Marga Rotteveel is the co-founder and director of the photography organization Docking Station. She studied photography at St.Joost in Breda. After graduating she got involved in the fields of curation, advising and project initiation. She began her career as a curator at Photofestival Naarden and went on to become the creative director in a later edition of the festival. In 2010 Rotteveel started her own independent business, Photorevolt, where she curated and organized shows in the Netherlands and abroad. Rotteveel has lectured in the Bachelor’s and Master’s photography programmes at St.Joost for many years. She strongly believes in collaboration and sharing her network and expertise; her aim is to connect, inspire and support visual storytellers so that they are able to take their work to diverse audiences. For this reason, she founded the new photography organization Docking Station (Amsterdam, NL).

Nina Venus – Artist & curator 

Nina Venus is an artist and curator, living and working in Hamburg, Germany.She studied Romance languages and philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich before dedicating herself entirely to the practice of art and received her MFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been exhibited in many group-as well as solo shows in galleries and independent institutions. As curator she organized several high-profile exhibitions at galleries and institutions, among them AREA REVISITED, an immersive exhibition during the 6^th Triennial of Photography Hamburg in 2015 and as vital part of the 7^th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, she initiated the OFF TRIENNALE for the Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2018. Most recently, she co-curated HELLO.AGAIN. at Kunsthalle Lüneburg, a retrospective of late photographer Volker Hinz. Since 2016, she is a lecturer and visiting professor at Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel. www.ninavenus.de, www.off-triennale.de, www.muthesius-kunsthochschule.de

Willemijn van der Zwaan – Curator Fotomuseum Den Haag

Anne Ruygt- Fomu Antwerpen

Anne Ruygt (NL, 1988) is an art historian and works as a curator at FOMU photography museum in Antwerp. Before moving to Antwerp, she worked on various curatorial and research projects for museums including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Tate, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Nederlands Fotomuseum and other photography platforms including Paradox and Unseen Amsterdam. In recent years she has curated exhibitions with artists including Bertien van Manen, Diana Markosian, Aglaia Konrad and Susan Meiselas. She is an editor of Trigger magazine and has worked on publications including Issei Suda – My Japan (Fw:Books), Welkom Today – Revisiting South Africa (Kehrer/Atlas Contact) and co-authored an anthology of Dutch photography criticism, in collaboration with Frits Gierstberg (nai010). In addition to her curatorial practice, she is a board member of the Wertheimer Foundation for Dutch photography as well as an advisor to the Mondriaan Fund.