Misha de Ridder
Misha de Ridder (NL, 1971) is a visual artist working mainly with photography and video, based in Amsterdam. His work has been widely exhibited amongst others at Coda Museum, Foam Photography Museum, FoMu Photo Museum Antwerp, Museum of the City of New York and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. De Ridder published several monographs: Sightseeing (2000), Wilderness (2003), Abendsonne (2011), Dune (2011), Solstice (2012)and Falaise (2016).
About the work
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.
Born 1971 in Alkmaar, NL
Lives and works in Amsterdam
EDUCATION
1996 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht
SOLO EXHIBITION (selection)
2020 ‘resilience’, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
2020 ‘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
2012 ‘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
2004’Beautiful Tree in Terrible City’, Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 ‘Wilderness’, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam
2000 ‘Sightseeing’, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
GROUP EXHIBITION (selection)
2020 ‘Try this at Home’, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 ‘Conceal/Reveal’ Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 ‘Stad in Zicht’, Amsterdam City Archives
2018 ‘Verlicht MIJ. Night landscape’, Museum IJsselstein, NL
2018 ‘The Image of a Private Collection’, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
2018 ‘In Vivo’, Noorderlicht Photofestival, NL
2018 ‘The merry-go-round’, Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
2017 ‘Reference’, Rosegallery, Los Angeles
2017 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
2014 Center, Bucharest, RO
2014 ‘Hunting’, Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 ‘Reflected – works from the Foam collection’, Foam
2014 Photography Museum Amsterdam
2014 ‘The Force of Nature’, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL
2013 ‘ikono On Air Festival’, ikono tv, Berlin
2013 ‘It’s About Time’, e-flux Timebank The Hague
2013 ‘Unseen’, Dropstuff, Venice
2012 ‘Terra Cognita’, Noorderlicht Photofestival, NL
2012 ‘Torinover’, Museo d’Arte Orientale, Torino
2011 ‘Visions on Film’, Triennial of Photography Hamburg
2010 ‘Lost & Found in Vilnius’, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
2010 ‘Stream’, Space 15 Twenty, Los Angeles / Pent House Gallery, Baltimore
2009 ‘Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered’, Museum of the City of New York >
2009 ‘Lost & Found in New York’, New Museum, New York
2008 ‘Horror Vacui’, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna
2008 Fiac @ Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Paris
2006 ‘Naturaleza’, PHotoEspaña, Madrid
2006 ‘Google Earth’, Academiegalerie, Utrecht
2004 ‘On Angels’, Galerie Juliètte Jongma, Amsterdam
2004 ‘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
2011 Dune, Lavalette, USA, ISBN 9780984297320
2003 Wilderness, Artimo, NL, ISBN 9075380755
2000 Sightseeing, De Balie, NL, ISBN 9066172479
FILMOGRAPHY
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
PUBLICATIONS (selection)
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)
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
RESIDENCIES
2006 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt / blog
2004 Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
WORK IN COLLECTIONS (selection)
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, NL
AMC kunstcollectie, Amsterdam, 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
Amsterdam City Archives, NL
Kunstcollectie KPMG, NL
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
Fam. Sanders, NL
The Dutch House of Representatives, NL
AWARDS
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
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 and Architecture & Mondriaan Foundation)
Fonds Cultuur+Financiering
Currently generously supported by:
Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
Fonds Kwadraat
Mondriaan Fund
Mathieu Cherkit, Misha de Ridder, Rens Horn, Rob Johannesma, Matt Kleberg, Jule Korneffel, Karen Lee Williams, Erin O’Keefe, Marjolein Rothman, Bettie van Haaster, Arjan van Helmond, Marenne Welten
June 13 - July 11, 2020Misha de Ridder, Rens Horn, Rob Johannesma, Marjolein Rothman, Bettie van Haaster, Arjan van Helmond, Marenne Welten
January 17 - February 29, 2020Mathieu Cherkit, Misha de Ridder, Rens Horn, Rob Johannesma, Jule Korneffel, Karen Lee Williams, Erin O’Keefe, Marjolein Rothman, Bettie van Haaster, Arjan van Helmond, Marenne Welten
December 21 - December 21, 20192020
Loring Knoblauch, Misha de Ridder, high up close by
Collector Daily, March 31, 2020
2019
2018
Kees Keijer, Oude Kerk (Old Church) down to the smallest details
Het Parool, April 6, 2018
2014