Unseen Amsterdam : GASHOUDER WESTERGASFABRIEK - KLÖNNEPLEIN 1, 1014 DD AMSTERDAM

19 - 22 September 2024

  • THK Gallery is thrilled to present a compelling series of photographs by acclaimed artists Barry Salzman, Nicola Brandt and Trevor Stuurman at Unseen Amsterdam 2024. 

     

    Find THK Gallery on booth 13, and online for a curated selection of works by these photographers, from 20 - 22 September at Gashouder Westergasfabriek - Klönneplein 1, 1014 DD Amsterdam. THK Gallery will present for the first time photographs by Barry Salzman and Nicola Brandt.

     

  • Nicola Brandt

     
    Nicola Brandt Salt Lake. Namib desert coast, 2011 Ditone print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 100 x 65 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#2/3) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Nicola Brandt Gathering Moss (II), German WWII Bunkers. Cap Ferret, 2024 Ditone print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 90 x 60 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/3) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Nicola Brandt Guardian I, 2011 Ditone print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 90 x 60 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#3/3) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Nicola Brandt Uncertain territories. Namib desert coast, 2011 Ditone print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 90 x 60 cm Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#2/3) (View more details about this item in a popup).

    Nicola Brandt

    Salt Lake. Namib desert coast, 2011

    Ditone print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass

    100 x 65 cm

    Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#2/3)

     

  • Nicola Brandt is a Namibian-German artist, explores the intersections of memory, landscape, and feminist and queer theory, challenging political power structures and celebrating solidarity and rebellion.

     

  • THK Gallery will also present works from the celebrated Tongoro Beauty series by Trevor Stuurman, an award-winning multimedia artist, draws inspiration from his African roots, capturing the essence of home and belonging through his vibrant visual storytelling.

  • Barry Salzman

    Barry Salzman Deconstructing The Legacy Of Landscape, Outskirts Of Miechów, Poland, 2023 Dibond Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 85 x 115 cm Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/8) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Barry Salzman Witness And Sentinel, Swakopmund, Namibia, 2023 Dibond Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 81 x 115 cm Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/8) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Barry Salzman Through The Prism Of Time, Chroberz, Poland, 2023 Dibond Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 81 x 115 cm Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/8) (View more details about this item in a popup).
    Barry Salzman Reconstructing Memory, Hoachanas, Namibia, 2023 Dibond Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass 81 x 115 cm Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/8) (View more details about this item in a popup).

    Barry Salzman

    Deconstructing The Legacy Of Landscape, Outskirts Of Miechów, Poland, 2023

    Dibond Archival Giclée Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed with anti-reflective, UV-resistant museum glass

    85 x 115 cm

    Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/8)

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  • Barry Salzman is an internationally recognized artist, addresses trauma, memory, and the recurrence of genocide in his poignant works, using abstract landscapes to reflect on the universal experience of suffering and healing. At Unseen, Salzman features in the talks programme in conversation with Jan Rudolph de Lorm, Director of Museum Singer Laren, on Saturday 21 September at 11AM in the Meijburg Lounge.
  • Nicola Brandt

    Nicola Brandt

    Nicola Brandt is a Namibian-German artist working at the intersection between memory studies, landscape, ecology, and feminist and queer theory. Much of her work is focused on transfiguring male power—its political arrangements and landscapes. In turn, she celebrates entanglements of pleasure, solidarity and rebellion.

     

    Brandt is the author of the monograph Landscapes between Then and Now: Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Video and Performance Art pub- lished with Bloomsbury in 2020. She has contributed to publications including The Journey: New Positions in African Photography (2020), the reader of the 13th Edition of the Bamako Biennale (2022), co-edited by Simon Njami and Sean O’Toole.

     

    She is the founder and series editor of the artists’ and writers’ residency Con- versations Across Place (CaP). The first CaP volume (2021) was published

    with Greenbox Publishing in Berlin. The artist holds a doctorate in Fine Art from the University of Oxford and is currently based between Germany and Namibia.

  • Trevor Stuurman

    Trevor Stuurman

    Trevor Stuurman (b.1992) is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning visual artist, creative director and media entrepreneur. Blurring the lines with his work behind the lens, and his work in front of it, Trevor’s oeuvre is crafting a complex new discourse about the

    role of young African artists and the nature of virtual mediums in the continent’s contemporary creative culture.

     

    Born in Kimberley in South Africa’s Northern Cape province (the country’s former mining capital), Trevor’s work combines his educational background in motion picture live performance with a multitude of creative fields such as fashion and performance art, allowing him to find and capture a uniquely African ‘perspective on beauty’, he explains, that reminds him of home: ‘a place that is imbued with colour, love and belonging that reflects Africa.’

     

    Starting out as a street photographer capturing Johannesburg’s vibrant creative scene in the early 2000’s on his Tumblr page Stuurman Style Diary, Trevor rapidly grew into a household name during his tenure as Elle magazine’s style reporter in 2012. Since then he has gone on to captivate the public with his work, seeing him named Marie Claire magazine’s Image Maker for 2018, GQ magazine’s ‘King of Creativity’, one of Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 and TIME Magazine’s Next Generation Leader for 2021, Honorary Icon Award, Abryanz Style and Fashion Awards in Uganda, an Emy Africa Awards, Man of Style award in Ghana. In the same year Trevor was selected by the Disney group to interpret Marvel’s Black Panther film into a new work, become one of British Vogue’s contributors – alongside a prominent feature of his photography in the Photo Vogue Festival — and had his work published in the Swinging Africa monograph by Emmanuelle Courreges.

     

    His work with global humanitarian foundations includes the United Nations, the Bill & Miranda Gates Foundation and the Obama Foundation to document former American president Barack Obama during his travels in Africa.

     

    Described as “a cultural force” by CNN’s African voices feature, Trevor continues his work in beauty and fashion. He has captured the likes of Dr. Esther Mahlangu, Miss Universe 2019 Zizobini Tunzi, Naomi Campbell, Teyana Taylor, Shanelle Nyasiase, Gigi & Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner and Iman Hammam. Trevor’s involvement as part of the team who created and styled Black is King for Beyonce a British Vogue contributor, Trevor’s work at Arise Africa and Afro Punk Johannesburg has contributed significantly to the increasing global interest in the work of creatives from the continent.

  • Barry Salzman

    Barry Salzman

    Barry Salzman is an award-winning contemporary artist who currently works in photography, video and mixed media. His projects have been shown across the globe and his work widely published and collected. In addition to being placed in prominent collections, including the EKARD Collection and Sanders Collection in the Netherlands, his work was also recently acquired by The Blavatnik Family Archives in New York City. Salzman is the recipient of the 2018 International Photographer of the Year award in the Deeper Perspective category from the International Photography Awards (IPA), for his project “The Day I Became Another Genocide Victim” that endeavors to humanize victims of the genocide in Rwanda.

     

    Salzman was born in Zimbabwe and schooled in South Africa. He emigrated to the United States when he was 21. After an initial business career, he began working as a full-time artist. His interest in photography started when, as a teenager, he was moved to document racially segregated areas under Apartheid, in an effort to understand the racial inequality that surrounded him. Today, his work continues to explore challenging social, political and economic issues, including the increasing universal fatigue around the Holocaust narrative, the fraying of the American Dream and society’s complicit behavior in the recurrence of modern day genocide.

     

    Since 2014, Salzman has worked on projects that address trauma and memory, often related to the recurrence of genocide. He is particularly interested in our role as public witness -- “what we see when we look.” His work often depicts abstract landscapes, made at sites of genocide, that he represents in literal and metaphoric ways to reflect on trauma and healing. While the images are shot at precise locations where acts of genocide were perpetrated, his use of visual tools of abstraction reminds us that ‘that place’ can be ‘any place’. Salzman currently resides between New York City and Cape Town.

     

    He has an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from The School of Visual Arts in New York City, a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.