PHOTO:The Marseillaise(s)/fifteen years of collecting

The Huis Marseille collection started when initiator Jos de Pont gifted a small contemporary collection of 50 works to the museum. This collection was expanded over the following fifteen years, and now comprises about 650 works.

The exhibition “Fifteen Years of Collecting” focuses on the artistic growth and development of the photographers themselves. This fact forms the core of The Marseillaise(s), for which five photographers with whom we have worked regularly in recent years were invited to install their work in a gallery of their choice. The five photographers are Valérie Belin, Jacqueline Hassink, Naoya Hatakeyama, Sarah Jones and Rob Nypels. Their assignment was to start from their contemporary work but to include some of their ‘older’ acquisitions in the Huis Marseille collection. The result is an exceptionally acute visualization of the personal artistic growth of each photographer over the last fifteen years. Alongside these five solo presentations, a number of galleries have been installed by Els Barents and Rob Nypels with a selection of collected works. The Curators claim that “The field is still too young to be able to point to good examples of successful photographic collections. Photography is, and will remain, a mass medium which everyone – including professionals, treats in different ways. This is also what makes it exciting.”

Info: Huis Marseille Museum voor fotografie, Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam, Duration: 13/9-7/12/14, Days 7 Hours: Tue-Sun: 11:00-18:00, www.huismarseille.nl