Jan Hoek
About
Artworks
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Coco coming out of egg bird _ 2021 _ 77 x 91 cm _ photo print in resin with mixed media objects _ Project with SistaazHood and Duran Lantink, frames with Simon Marsiglia-
About
Jan Hoek (1984) is artist and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image. He photographed movie stars like Nairobi based motor taxi riders, a Amsterdam based ex heroine addict who always dreamed of being a super model, created psychedelic zines about the sex tourist capital of the world Pattaya, and made a serie about the Maasai who do not identify with the jumping stereotype image. In the universe of Hoek the ‘normal’ people are the strangers and the outsiders are the funky rulers of this planet.Hoek‘s work is shown at places such as Foam (Amsterdam), Unseen Festival (Amsterdam), Photoville (New York), Fomu (Antwerp) and Lagos Photo (Lagos).
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae Jan Hoek
Jan Hoek ( Amsterdam, 1984) is an artist, photographer and writer.
He is the founder of Stichting Captain Hoek which aims to connect the world of outsider artists with the world of insider artists
Solo Shows
2020: Boda Boda Madness, Festival CIRCULATION(S), Paris
2019: Photo Manifstation Enschede, Enschede
2018: Mental Superpowers, AMC Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam
2018: Mental Superpowers, Mentrum Psychiatric Institute, Amsterdam
2018: Mental Superpowers, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam
2018, Boda Boda Madness, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam
2017: Boda Boda Madness, Photoville, New York
2017: Duo presentation with Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2016: New Supermodels, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam , The Netherlands
2016: Unfair, solo presentation, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam
2016: Sistaaz of the Castle, in collaboration with fashion designer Duran Lantink, presented at Amsterdam Fashion Week and at FOAM (jan)
2016: Shooting Stars, solo exhibition, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2015: Solo presentation, guest gallery Ron Mandos in Citroën garage Amsterdam. Part of Unseen Festival
2015: Panorama Carland, outdoor Panaroma at Gashoudervijver, Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam
2015: Riot, 'Me & My Models the Gold Edition', solo exhibition, Gent, Belgium
2015: The Stan/Jan-show, about the collaboration between Jan Hoek and Stan Aziz Abdul, a street painter living in Kumasi, Ghana, exhibition in: De Balie, Amsterdam
2013: $€XXX, show in collaboration with fashion designer Nieuw Jurk, 2PR, Amsterdam
2013: Me & My Models, (solo exhibition) New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013: Unfair, The Sweet Crazies That Didn’t Want To Be Photographed, Amsterdam
2013: Sweet Crazies, solo exhibition, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2013: Me & My Models, solo exhibition, FOAM, Amsterdam
2012: Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul (represented by Galerie Ron Mandos), Turkey
2012: Solo exhibition ‘Sweet Crazies’ in de Openbare Bibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands
2011: Soloshow in galerie Artpocalypse Collective with the series ‘Sweet Crazies, Amsterdam
Group Shows
2019: Boda Boda Madness, Look Now Here, Amsterdam
2019: Boda Boda Madness, N'Gola Festival, Sao Tomé
2019: Boda Boda Madness, Bilbao Photo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
2019: Boda Boda Madness, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles France
2019: The photograph that took the place of a mountain, Vriend van Bavink Gallery, Amsterdam
2019: Gothics in Nigeria, together with Stephen Tayo, in Corrosia, Almere
2018: Darlings, Vriend van Bavink Gallery, Amsterdam
2018: The Kitab – India's First Photobook Festival, India
2018: Unseen, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2018: Photo Festival for Transgender Community, Sandesh, India
2018: Charles goes Arles, Hamburg Triennale, Hamburg
2018: Neue Heimat, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, Den Bosch
2017: Lagos Photo, My Maasai and The “Real” Somali Pirates, Lagos
2017: Scooters Will Never Die!!!!, Het Tijdelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2017: Bending the Frame, curated by Fred Ritchin, Western Gallery, New York
2017: Haus der Kunst, Factor X, München
2017: Jubileumtentoonstelling 30x30, CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2017: Expoplu, Gender: A Universal Language, Nijmegen
2017: Colony Studio's, Hyperrealism, New York
2016: AIR (artist in residency), CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2016: A Bed End Story (curated by Aldo van den Broek), Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
2016: 'Woonrubriek zoals God het bedoeld heeft', Breda Photo, The Netherlands
2016: The Ultimate Sailor, showing 'The “real” Somali Pirates, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
2016: Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2016: Margin of Visual Treshold, Circle Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2016: QUICKSCAN NL#02, Fotomuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016: (S)he, CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2015: Young International Artists, duoshow with Mohau Modisakeng, (by Galerie Ron Mandos) Paris, France
2015: Unseen, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2015: The Devil is in Detail, SBK Dordrecht, group exhibition, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2015: Do you hear me?, group exhibition FOTODOK, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2015: We Like Art, Art Rotterdam (feb)
2015: Plat(t)form, selected portfolio viewing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Swiss
2014: AIR in Zuid-Oost 2014, groepstentoonstelling CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2014: Lagos Photo, showing New Ways Of Photographing the New Masai, Lagos, Nigeria
2014: Best of Ron Mandos best of graduates, De Kring, Amsterdam
2014: FOAM Town, group show, Felix&FOAM, Amsterdam
2014: Residency Surface Arts, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
2014: He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, group show curated by Foam Amsterdam
2014: The Space Between Us, group show, Felix & Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014: The Moving Museum of Clothes, group show, CEC Zuid-Oost
2013 - 2014: New works of painting, photo and sculpture at the Margulies collection, Warehouse, Miami, US
2014: Lagos Photo, showing Sweet Crazies, Lagos, Nigeria (okt)
2014: Art Rotterdam, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos (feb)
2013: In Delta Flux, Jakarta, group show curated by Impakt (dec)
2013: Art in Redlight, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (dec)
2013: Middle Gate ’13 (group show curated by Jan Hoet), Geel, België (till januari)
2013: Sweet Crazies, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos (nov)
2013: Wool Week Expo, Oude Kerk, (group show) Amsterdam
2013: Group Show, Easy Living, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2012: Group Show, Van Perskamer tot Kunstpaleis, The Times, Amsterdam
2012: Viewing ‘Me & My Models’, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
2012: Pop up-nl, London, represented by Ron Mandos
2012: Unseen Photo Fair, Sweet Crazies, represented by Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2012: Group show ‘Best of the Graduates 2012′ in galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam
2012: Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie with ‘Me & My Models’
2012: Group show ‘Out of the fridge’ in Berm Collectief, Amsterdam
2011: Group Show ‘Teenage Magazines’ in FOAM, Amsterdam
2010: Gabberperformance at Rietveld Uncut, De Brakke Grond
Publications (books)
2019: Sistaaz of the Castle, by Art Paper Editions
2018: Mental Superpowers. by Art Paper Editions
2017: My Maasai, by Art Paper Editions (group project)
2015: Publication: The Pattaya Sex Bubble 1 t/m 10, by Art Paper Editions
2014: Publication ‘New Ways of Photographing The New Masai’ by Art Paper Editions
2013: Publication, ‘Marktplaatspoëzie’, Nijgh & Van Ditmar
2012: Publication ‘Me & My Models’ in news paper form, published by Art Paper editions
Prices & Awards
2018: Flash Fowards 2018, category LGBTQ award, by the Magenta Foundation, for Sistaaz of the Castle
2016: Winner Dutch Design Awards in category Fashion for Sistaaz of the Castle
2016: Nomination Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs
2015: Winner Charlotte Kohler-price 2015, by Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds
2015: Nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award
2013: Nominated for the Dutch Doc Awards for The Sweet Crazies
2013: Nominated for the Dutch Doc Awards for Me & My Models
Written articles (selection)
2017: Hoe vergaat het kunstnaars die een één-ster-recensie krijgen, Vice.
2016: 'Woonrubriek zoals God het eigenlijk bedoeld had' voor Volkskrant Magazine
2015-now: Art editor at the Dutch Vice Magazine, with every two weeks my own art column
2003-now: Editor Mister Motley, dutch art magazine (interviews, essays, personal art stories)
2015: Essay for American Suburb X: The (Im)possibilities to Shoot as a White Photographer on the African Continent
2015: Essay voor Vrij Nederland: 'Kunst verzamelen zonder geld'
2014: Article for dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and NRC.Next: 'Mijn racistische salontafel'
2014: 'Cursus Vakantiefoto's maken die niet saai zijn' for Vrij Nederland
2013: Marktplaatspoëzie, was placed in NRC.Next for a year a few times a week.