The solo exhibition Beach Portraits of Rineke Dijkstra opens on December 13 at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. The exhibition will present 27 of Rineke Dijkstra’s works, including 23 images from her Beach Portraits series, which attracted international attention and established her as one of the most influential female photographers in contemporary art. Works from the Streetsseries and a self-portrait of the artist are also featured in the exhibition. The exhibition runs until 18/05/25. Image: Rineke Dijkstra, Odessa, Ukraine, August 7, 1993, 1993 (2017), inkjet print, 117 x 94 cm, Städel Museum, © Rineke Dijkstra.

Newspaper no. 144 is now online.

Jan Mot's booth at Art Basel (CH) with works by Francis Alÿs, stanley brouwn, Andrea Büttner, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mario Garcia Torres, David Lamelas, Edouard Merino, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson (photo: Studio Shapiro).

Today, February 18th, 2021 at 5pm (CET) Rineke Dijkstra will receive the Johannes Vermeer Award 2020, the Dutch state prize for the arts. The ceremony will be live-streamed on youtube. According to the jury chaired by Andrée van Es, Rineke Dijkstra makes a major contribution to the international prestige of Dutch visual arts with her work. The jury calls her portrait photographs and video installations unique in the world. In its summary, the jury says the following: “This work is for eternity. Few artists have been given the talent to create these types of images.”

(image: Rineke Dijkstra, Arden and Miran, London, February 16, 2020, 2020, inkjet print, 135 x 103,5 cm (image), 159 x 127 cm (frame), edition of 10)