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The book 'Domestic Landscapes - A Portrait of Europeans at Home' has won 2 international prizes.
-First of all it's one of the winners of PDN’s Photography Annual 2008.
www.gallery.pdnevents.com/annual2008/
-At the same time it won the Book Award (3rd place) of PX3: Prix de la Photographie Paris, France for the “Fine Art” subcategory.
www.px3.fr/winner/?compName=PX3+2008
CV BERT TEUNISSEN
Born in Ruurlo, the Netherlands, in 1959.
For the last thirteen years I have been working on a photography project called Domestic Landscapes. This project is about light - natural daylight. The photos show how daylight illuminates the domestic interior, and how it dictated the way the interior was build, used and decorated. This specific light and the atmosphere it creates have their origins in the architecture of the pre-electricity era, when daylight was the main source of light. This kind of light started to disappear from European homes after World War II when the old way of building was abandoned. At this moment few of these homes remain.
Domestic Landscapes is also about identity and diversity. Every country, every region has its own distinctive culture that can be recognized in its homes, customs, cuisine and traditions.
The inhabitants of the houses where I take photographs still know how something ought to taste and how it should be made; they understand the importance of time and ripening, and the value of daily and seasonal repetition. I found that when local traditions disappear, most of their visible aspects are also lost. When a small farmer stops slaughtering, the open fireplace becomes redundant. Sausages and hams will be dried artificially and smoked in a factory losing their original flavour and appearance. And when a small farmer stops farming, the stables are converted into storage or living spaces, the stable doors are replaced by windows, the cement floor by parquet, the hayloft is altered into bedrooms, the kitchen is moved to the former parlour, and slowly all rooms and spaces will have lost their original meaning and significance.
The title Domestic Landscapes refers to the characteristic panoramic format of a landscape photo. It also refers to the idea that the homes that I photographed form a landscape of the life of the people that live in them. These homes have changed just as slowly through the years as the landscapes in which I found them. The people in the photos have aged with their habitats and have become part of it.
In the last thirteen years I’ve built an archive of photos of interiors from all over Europe and by the time I will have finished photographing, it will contain over eight hundred images.
Through the financial help of The Mondriaan Foundation, The Dutch BKVB Fund and Hazazah Film & Photography, the project was given a boost and became ready for publication.
In 2007 Aperture, New York published Domestic Landscapes – A Portrait of Europeans at Home, designed by Erik Kessels. In the same year a German edition was published in collaboration with Kerber Verlag in Bielefeld. The book received two prizes in 2008: PDN’s Annual Photography Award and the Prix de la Photographie Paris.
Exhibitions in Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, The Photographers’ Gallery in London, Aperture Gallery in New York, Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Contact Photo Festival in Toronto accompanied the publication. These museums and major coverage in the press (articles in The Independent, The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune) helped to make the first part of the project, being Western Europe, a big success.
Thanks to the financial support of the European Cultural Foundation, I am able to continue with the project. In 2010 I hope to complete the photography of homes in most eastern European countries.
I intend to finish the European project in 2011 after having photographed in Russia and The Ukraine, which part still needs to be funded.
By then I will have covered most of Europe.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK 1999
Gentofte Hovedbibliotet, Copenhagen DK 2000
Gallery 24, New York, USA 2000
Møstings Hus, Copenhagen, DK 2000
Stedelijk Museum, Zutphen NL 2001
Konstmuseet, Ystad, S 2001
AA Kerk, Groningen, NL 2002
Artspace Witzenhausen 2003
Prague House of Photography Cz. 2004
Museu da Imagem, Braga Portugal 2004
Kienhuis Hoving, Enschede NL 2005
Biblioteca Central da UTAD, Villa Real, Portugal 2005
Océ ‘s Hertogenbosch 2005 - 2010
Art Amsterdam (KunstRAI) Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2006
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam 2006
Photographers’ Gallery, London 2006
Aperture Gallery, New York 2007
Universiteit van Tilburg 2007
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld 2007
Witzenhausen Gallery, New York 2008
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Photographic Image Gallery, Portland USA 2000
Center for Photography at Woodstock USA 2001
Nikolaj-Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre 2001
Fotografie Museum Amsterdam 2001
Encontros da Imagem, Braga – Portugal 2002
Month of Photography, Bratislava – Slowakia 2002
Fotomuseum Den Haag 2002
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark 2003
Noorderlicht Festival, Galerie Jacoba Wijk 2003
Paris Photo 2003
Modern Art Museum Wakayama, Japan 2004
Valencienes, France 2004
Lille 2004 France 2004
Sendai Mediateque Japan 2004
Sala Mostre della Biblioteca Berio, Genova IT 2004
Manyo-bunka-kan Nara Japan 2004
PLUK London-Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2004
PLUK London- Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2005
Art Rotterdam- Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2005
Art Basel/Miami- Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2006
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio 2006
Scope New York- Gallery Artspace Witsenhausen 2007
Diva New York- Gallery Artspace Witzenhausen 2007
Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Art, London 2007
Glaspaleis, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, 2007
In My Solitude-Aeroplastics, Bruxelles 2007
PAN Amsterdam 2007
Art Basel/Miami-Witzenhausen Gallery 2007
Contact Photo Festival, Toronto, Canada May 1 - 31, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Solothurn , Switzerland April-June 2008
Ornithology, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York 2008
Photaumnales Festival Beauvais, France, 2008
Uit Japan - LUMC - Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden 2009
At Home-Fotodok, Utrecht 2009
Dutch Directions - Artbreak Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009
Fotoencuentros, Murcia, E 2010
BOOKS
PALEIZEN VAN HET GEHEUGEN-7 LEIDSE JONGENSKAMERS 2003
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES - JAPAN 2003
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES – PORTUGAL 2004
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES – AN INTRODUCTION MANUAL 2006
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES - A PORTRAIT OF EUROPEANS AT HOME 2007
DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES - EIN PORTRÄT VON EUROPÄERN DAHEIM 2007
ON THE ROAD - A DOMESTIC LANDSCAPES TRAVELOG 2008
SELECTED BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND PERIODICALS
Aarsman, Hans. “Dutch Delight: God’s Own Studio.” FOAM 1, 2002
Barragán, Paco. “Fragmentos de cotidianeidad.” Lapiz 18, no. 155, 1998
———. Architecturas urbanas. Centro municipal de las Artes de Alcorcón, Madrid, exhibition catalogue,
2004
———. The Art to Come. Madrid, Subastas, catalogue, 2001
Bem, Merel. “Lofzang op de keukentafel”. Volkskrant, March 1, 2007
Breebaart, Dick. “Terug naar Ruurlo.” Plaatwerk 17, December 1986
Brittain-Caitlin, Timothy. “The Living Daylights, photo’s for a new faith.” World on Interiors, December 2006
Cripps, Charlotte. “The light of his life.” The Independent, December 1, 2006
Dykstra, Jean “Bert Teunissen: Domestic Landscapes.” Art on Paper, January-February 2001
Franzoni, Cristina. “Listen to Your Eyes.” Zoom, January-February 2003
Hoeneveld, Herman. “Me and My Christmas Tree,” PF, no. 9, 1999
Keijer, Kees. “Heimwee naar het licht van vroeger.” Het Parool, December 8, 2006
Koops, Wendy. “Dit is waar we vandaan komen.” IM, #11/06
Kousbroek, Rudy, and Bert Teunissen. Paleizen van het Geheugen: 7 Leidse jongenskamers. Leiden, Netherlands: Antiquariaat van Paddenburgh, 2003
Kuitenbrouwer, Jan. “O dennenkloon.” Volkskrant, December 16, 1999
De Lange, Henny. “Heimwee als drijfveer.” Trouw, December 9, 2006
Luz Cárdenas, Maria. “Signos y verdad en la fotografía de los años noventa.” Estilio 9, no. 34, 1998
Marsman, Eddy. “Iedere foto een klein archief van het leven.” NRC Handelsblad, December 18, 2006
Mechelen, Brigitte van. “Niets meer, niets minder.” Man 2, 2002
Meijers, Petra. “Kunst is emotie.” Savoir Vivre, Summer 2006
Milo, Pim. “De camera als breekijzer,” PF 5, 2006
———. “Dwelling on the Threshold,” GUP 5, 2006
———. “Me and My Photography.” Katalog, fall 1999
———. “Op zoek naar het licht.” Credits #4, 2002
Mortier, Erwin, and Bert Teunissen. “De tijd draait domweg rondjes: Het licht in de huiskamers van Bert Teunissen.” NRC Handelsblad M Magazine, January 2001
Müller, Bertram. “Wohnen wie in alter Zeit.” Rheinische Post, November 14, 2007
Nierop, Susanne van. “De man met de zwarte mantel.” Adformatie #24, June 2006
Radaelli, Ambra. “Questa orchestra fa miracoli.” La Repubblica delle Donne #334, 2003
Percivaldi, Elena. “La ricerca del tempo perduto.” Arte 2008.
Shattuck, Kathryn. “Photographing the light in places that soon may be lost.” New York Times, April 4, 2007
———. ”Documenting rare and endangered ways of living.” International Herald Tribune, April 10, 2007
Thrane, Finn. "The discreet interpreter of kindness to strangers." Katalog 21.1, 2009
Teunissen, Bert. “Homesick.” Aperture #160, 2000
———. “Domestic Landscapes-Japan”, Amsterdam. Amsterdam: Artspace Witzenhausen, 2003
———. “Paleizen van het geheugen-7 Leidse Jongenskamers.” Leiden, Antiquariaat van Paddenburgh,
2003
———. “Domestic Landscapes-Portugal” Braga, Museo da Imagem, 2004
———. “Domestic Landscapes.” Zoom, March-April 2004
———. “Domestic Landscapes: An Introduction Manual”, Huizen, Bert Teunissen, 2006
———. “Domestic Landscapes-A Portrait of Europeans at Home”, New York, Aperture, 2007
———. “Domestic Landscapes-Ein Porträt von Europäern Daheim”, Bielefeld, Kerber Verlag, 2007
———. "On the Road", Huizen, Bert Teunissen, 2008
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