Barbara Visser (born May 20, 1966 in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

) is a Dutch artist, who works as conceptual artist, photographer, video artist, and performance artist.Barbara Visser; female / Netherlandish; conceptual artist, photographer, video artist, performance artist
at rkd.nl, 2015.

Biography

Visser studied at the

Gerrit Rietveld Academy The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The academy was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History In 1924, the In ...

in Amsterdam from 1985 to 1991, and in this period at the

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique ...

University in New York in 1989, and later at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1998. After her graduation, she settled in Amsterdam as independent artist. Since 1998 Visser has exhibited her work at various exhibitions at home and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (England). In 2006 Museum The Pavilions in Almere presented a retrospective her work. That year the monograph was published, entitled "Barbara Visser is not there" (Barbara Visser is er niet). Work by Visser is present in museums, such as the Netherlands

Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Amsterdam, the

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag The Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum in The Hague in the Netherlands, founded in 1866 as the Museum voor Moderne Kunst. Later, until 1998, it was known as Haags Gemeentemuseum, and until the end of September 2019 as Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. ...

in The Hague, the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the

Frans Hals Museum The Frans Hals Museum is a museum located in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The museum was established in 1862. In 1950, the museum was split in two locations when the collection of modern art was moved to the '' Museum De Hallen'' (since 2018 called ...

in Haarlem, and the

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located ...

in Rotterdam. In addition to her work at the

Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp ( nl, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, commonly abbreviated as ''M HKA'', previously ''MuHKA'') is the contemporary art museum of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. Its current director is Bart de Baere. Overvi ...

(Belgium) and the FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais to Dunkirk (France). Visser received the Charlotte Köhler Prize by the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund in 1996, and was granted the David Roell Price in 2007. She won the Young Belgian Painters Award in 1999, the Friedrich-Gildenwart Vordemberge Preis in 2000, and Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art in 2008.

Work

In 1995 Visser was a guest at her own request in the Lithuanian television Gimines, where in four episodes she plays the artist by the name of Barbara Visser and wife of the Lithuanian-American surgeon Steve. A 2001 article on Barbara Visser in the NRC Handelsblad, discloses that Visser not only seeks to introduce confusion, putting spectators on the wrong foot, but also nestles in the reality, switching back and forth between different realities to tamper with clichés and entrenched frames. In 2006, TPG Post published a series of postage stamps with the theme 'Dutch' pictures'. Barbara Visser designed herein the stamp with a picture of one in Japan reconstructed Dutch windmill.

References

External links

Barbara Visser
homepage at barbaravisser.net {{DEFAULTSORT:Visser, Barbara Dutch performance artists Dutch video artists 1966 births Living people Dutch women artists Dutch women photographers Women performance artists Women video artists Gerrit Rietveld Academie alumni Artists from Haarlem 20th-century Dutch artists 21st-century Dutch artists 20th-century Dutch photographers 21st-century Dutch photographers 20th-century women photographers 21st-century women photographers 20th-century Dutch women