Born 1963 in Hulst, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Rotterdam and Berlin.
Van de Ven has had solo exhibitions at Bloomberg Space, London, U.K. (2011); Le Grand Café, centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France (2005); Le Magasin, centre national d’art contemporain, Grenoble, France (2003); Salon Paris Photo, France (2002); MUHKA, Antwerp; and Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands (both 2001). Selected group exhibitions include Project Europa: Imagining the Impossible, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Moving Worlds, Podbielsky Contemporary, Berlin (both 2011); Morality – Act VIII Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Center, Shanghai World Expo (2010); Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union, New York (2009); Be(coming) Dutch, Van Abbe Museum (2008), Documenta 12, Kassel (2007), the 2006 Sydney Biennale, and Be What You Want But Stay Where You Are, Witte de With (2005).
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Lidwien van de Ven is an artist who works in the realm of political and religious subjects. In her research, she takes a rather journalistic approach by occupying the same sites of investigation as journalists. While her images are not …Read more
Witte de With’s Melanchotopia is an exhibition that invites more than forty international artists to work with different venues in the city-center of Rotterdam – places where people live and work – and to activate their potential as spaces for ideas, discourse and invention.Read more
Witte de With presents from April 29 till June 19 the exhibition ‘Be what you want but stay where you are’ by guest curators Ruth Noack and Roger M. Buergel, in cooperation with assistent curator Sophia Prinz and Witte de …Read more
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