Biography
Rineke Dijkstra (Sittard, 1959) studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, after which she devoted herself to portrait photography. She found instant fame with her world-renowned Beach Portraits, which she started in 1992. Rineke Dijkstra became world famous with these photographs of young teenagers, standing at the flood line in Belgium, Poland, the United States and other countries.
This was followed by equally impressive series of photographs of Israeli soldiers (1999-2003) and the Olivier series (2000-2003), in which she follows a soldier who enlists with the French foreign legion during his years of service in Corsica and in Africa. Rineke Dijkstra also made portraits of Almerisa, who arrived the Netherlands at the age of six as a refugee from Bosnia, while growing up.
In recent years, Rineke Dijkstra’s work has been exhibited frequently both in the Netherlands and abroad; she has had solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, and De Pont in Tilburg, among others. Last winter, her new video installation Night Watching premiered at the gallery of honour in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and this summer Dijkstra had a solo exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery in London.
In addition to her photographic work, Rineke Dijkstra has also attracted a lot of attention in recent years with her video installations: Ruth Drawing Picasso (2007), in which an English schoolgirl copies the painting ‘Weeping Woman’ at Tate Liverpool, I See a Woman Crying (2009), in which English schoolchildren observe and interpret the same work by Picasso, and Night Watching (2019), in which Dijkstra records the behaviour and comments of various groups of visitors to the Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum.
Rineke Dijkstra has received numerous awards for her work in the Netherlands and abroad, including the most prestigious photography prize in the world: the Hasselblad Award (Sweden, 2017).
Rineke Dijkstra Kolobrzeg, Polen, 26 juli 1992
Rineke Dijkstra Odessa, Oekraine, 4 augustus 1993
Rineke Dijkstra Julie, Den Haag, 29 februari 1994
Rineke Dijkstra Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, 8 mei 1994
Rineke Dijkstra The Buzz Club, Liverpool, UK / Mystery World, Zaandam, NL 1996-97
Twee kanaals video-installatie met geluid, 26 min., 40 sec., loop
Rineke Dijkstra Almerisa, asielzoekerscentrum Leiden, 14 maart 1994
Rineke Dijkstra Almerisa, Rotterdam, 27 oktober 2018
Rineke Dijkstra Olivier, Camp Rafelli, Calvi, Corsica, 18 juni 2001
Rineke Dijkstra Olivier, Quartier Monclar, Djibouti, 13 juli 2003
Rineke Dijkstra Amy, The Krazyhouse, Liverpool, 23 december 2008
Rineke Dijkstra Nicky, The Krazyhouse, Liverpool, 19 januari, 2009
Rineke Dijkstra I See a Woman Crying, 2009
Drie kanaals video-installatie, met geluid, 12 minuten, loop
Rineke Dijkstra Vondelpark, Amsterdam, 10 juni 2005
Rineke Dijkstra The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, 2009
Vijf kanaals video-installatie, met geluid, 32 minuten, loop
Rineke Dijkstra Marianna (the Fairy Doll), 2014
Een kanaals video-installatie, met geluid, 19 minuten, loop
Rineke Dijkstra Sasha en Marianna, Kingisepp, Rusland, 2 november 2014
Rineke Dijkstra Arden en Miran, Londen, 16 februari 2020
Rineke Dijkstra Night Watching, 2019
Drie kanaals video-installatie, met geluid, 35 minuten, loop
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Solo exhibitions
Rineke Dijkstra, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
Night Watching, Gallery of Honour, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Figuren / Figures: Rineke Dijkstra und die Sammlung des Sprengel Museum Hannover, SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen, Sprengel Museum Hannover
Rineke Dijkstra, De Pont, Tilburg
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Hasselblad Award 2017, Hasselblad Foundation Center, Gothenburg
The One And The Many, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, DK
Rineke Dijkstra: An Ode, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Ruth Drawing Picasso, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2009, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, ES
Rineke Dijkstra: Rehearsals, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Rineke Dijkstra, National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rineke Dijkstra: The Gymschool, St Petersburg, 2014 – Marianna (The Fairy Doll), 2014, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Rineke Dijkstra: The Gymschool, St Petersburg, 2014, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Rineke Dijkstra: The Gymschool, St Petersburg, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Conversation Piece VI, Rineke Dijkstra | 17de eeuwse portretten, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem
Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazyhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazyhouse (Megan, Simon, Nicky, Philip, Dee), Liverpool, UK, 2009, Guggenheim Bilbao
Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazy House, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Rineke Dijkstra: Ruth Drawing Picasso, Jan Mot, Mexico City
Rineke Dijkstra; A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, C.A., San Francisco; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Rineke Dijkstra; I See a Woman Crying, National Gallery – The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
Rineke Dijkstra & Claude Lorrain, Teylers Museum, Haarlem
FOREX: Ruth Drawing Picasso, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Capetown
The Weeping Woman, Tate Liverpool, De Pont, Tilburg
Rineke Dijkstra: Liverpool, Galerie Max Hetlzer, Berlin
Rineke Dijkstra: Liverpool, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Rineke Dijkstra, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazy House, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Rineke Dijkstra: The Krazy House, De Hallen, Haarlem
Park Portraits, La Fábrica Galería, Madrid, ES
Rineke Dijkstra: Park Portraits, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Rineke Dijkstra: Park Portraits, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Rineke Dijkstra: Park Portraits, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Rineke Dijkstra/Thomas Struth, Xippas Gallery, Athens
Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Fundació La Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions, Barcelona
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
Rineke Dijkstra: Beach Portraits, ABN AMRO Plaza, LaSalle Bank, Chicago
Rineke Dijkstra: Israeli Portraits, Second Exhibition, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Two Portraits, Jan Mot, Brussels
The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf Rineke Dijkstra: The French Foreign Legion, Oliver Silva, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Rineke Dijkstra. Paula Modersohn-Becker. Portraits, Paul Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, Festival d’Automne Des Oeuvres dans la Ville, Paris
Focus: Rineke Dijkstra, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits (with Marlene Dumas), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Israel Portraits, Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Israel Portraits, Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, IL
The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL and Israel Portraits, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The French Foreign Legion, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Recente fotowerken/Recent Photographs, De Hallen, Haarlem.
Rineke Dijkstra, Anthony d’Offay, London
Rineke Dijkstra: Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL and the Tiergarten Series, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Rineke Dijkstra: The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK / Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, Galleri Index, Stockholm
Beach Portraits, The Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
Rineke Dijkstra: The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK / Mysteryworld, Zaandam, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Rineke Dijkstra: Annemiek, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Die Berliner Zeit: Rineke Dijkstra & Bart Domburg, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
Menschenbilder [catalogue]. Folkwang Museum, Essen / Galerie der Hochschüle für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, DE, June 3-28.
Über die Welt/About the world: Rineke Dijkstra, The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK / Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, 1996-1997, Sprengel Museum Hannover
Rineke Dijkstra, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Mot & Van Den Boogaard, Brussels
Rineke Dijkstra, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
Rineke Dijkstra, Le Consortium, Dijon
Beach Portraits, Galerie Sabine Schmidt, Cologne
Beach Portraits, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Hugo DeBaere – Rineke Dijkstra, Time Festival, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent (now S.M.A.K.), Gent
Kunstaanmoedigingsprijs Amstelveen, Aemstelle, Amstelveen
Rineke Dijkstra/Tom Claessen, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Het Ontstaan van Vorm, De Moor, Amsterdam
Paradiso Portretten, De Moor, Amsterdam
Reisfoto’s uit Rome, De Moor, Amsterdam