lidwien van de ven

Lidwien van de Ven works in the realm of political and religious subjects. In her research she takes a rather journalistic approach, though the work itself is not photojournalistic as such. Van de Ven’s photographs record that which is outside the frame of news stories and investigate the frontier between reality and representation, image and language, news and contemporary history.

Since 2012 van de Ven has been capturing the complex dynamic between revolutionair impulses and counter-revolutionary resurgence in Egypt resulting in a new series of work.

Van de Ven has won several awards for her photographic work and installations, recently she received the Dolf Henkes prize 2014. Her work was shown at Museum Reina Sofia (2014), Noorderlicht, (Groningen, 2013), The City that Doesn’t Exist, Images of Global Spaces, Ludwig Forum Aachen, (Germany, 2013) the Busan Biennale (South Korea, 2012), Comma 32, BloombergSPACE, London (2011), For Be(com)ing Dutch at the Van Abbemuseum, she produced the installation Freedom of Expression (2008).Documenta 12 in Kassel (2007) Sydney Biennale, (2006)

Lidwien van de Ven, Tanah Merah, Papua (Van Persie), 2017
Lidwien van de Ven, Tanah Merah Freeport Indonesia, 2017
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view Living on, 2017 SAG University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view Living on, 2017 SAG University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view Living on, 2017 SAG University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Lidwien van de Ven, view Voices, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014
Lidwien van de Ven, view Voices, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014
Lidwien van de Ven, view Voices, Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2014
Lidwien van de Ven, Cairo, 25/01/2013 (Tahrir Square), 2014
Lidwien van de Ven, untitled, (Zaatari Camp, Jordan), 2013
Lidwien van de Ven, untitled, (Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo, Egypt), 2013
Lidwien van de Ven, untitled (Inonu Caddesi, Istanbul, Turkey), 2013
Lidwien van de Ven, untitled, (Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo, Egypt), 2013
Lidwien van de Ven, view Bloomberg space, London, 2011 
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view, Promised Land, Centre d’art contemporain. Saint-Nazaire, 2005
Lidwien van de Ven, boy sitting, 2010, inkjet print, 135 x 200 cm
Lidwien van de Ven, Beirut, 2009
Lidwien van de Ven, Documenta 12, 2007
Lidwien van de Ven, Documenta 12, 2007
Lidwien van de Ven, Documenta 12, 2007
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view, Espace Expérimental, Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, 2005
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view, Espace Expérimental, Le Plateau/Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, 2005
Lidwien van de Ven, exhibition view Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, 2005
Lidwien van de Ven, Promised Land, 2003
Silvergelatin print on barytepaper, 100 x 125 cm
Lidwien van de Ven, Promised Land, 2003
Silvergelatin print on barytepaper, 100 x 125 cm
Lidwien van de Ven, Promised Land, 2003
Silvergelatin print on barytepaper, 100 x 125 cm
Lidwien van de Ven, Night in the dessert, 2002, barytprint on aluminium, 120 x 150 cm, ed. 1 of 5
Lidwien van de Ven, Cinema, 2002, barytprint on aluminium, 30 x 24 cm, edition
Lidwien van de Ven, Mohammed, 2001,  barytprint on aluminium, 92 x 98 cm, ed. 3 of 5
Lidwien van de Ven, 1997, Still (untitled), barytprint on aluminium, 40 x 50 cm, ed. 5 of 5

Lidwien van de Ven, 2007, Still (untitled), barytprint on aluminium, 40 x 50 cm, ed. 5 of 5