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Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

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Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography

Huis Marseille is Amsterdam's first photography museum, situated at Keizersgracht 399+401 in two interconnected canal houses.

For almost fifteen years now, Huis Marseille has been offering a varied exhibition program in which photography's rich history and diverse uses are given consideration. In addition to this, the museum also frequently shows work from its own collection of contemporary photography.

Since 1999, Huis Marseille has been situated on Keizersgracht 401 as Amsterdam's first photography museum. In September 2013, the museum was expanded to include the neighboring building at Keizersgracht 399, providing it with a total of fourteen exhibition spaces, including the lightwell in 399. The museum offers a rich and varied exhibition programme with changeovers about four times per year. Since the expansion in 2013, there has been a lot of opportunity to show the museum's own collection alongside the exhibition. The collection consists primarily of leading modern (national and international) photography.

Werkend zoals gewoonlijk

22/12/2022

Samuel Fosso stages staged images questioning the manipulating power of the medium of photography.

Continuing Samuel Fosso's exploration of historical figures, he reconstructs emblematic photographs of Chinese leader Mao Zedong in the series Emperor of Africa. After discovering the book Le Mao, devoted to Maoist iconography, Fosso began to recreate his portrait in meticulously staged photographs. Known for manipulating images for the purposes of propaganda, Mao influenced the visual history of the twentieth century.

> Now on show at Huis Marseille

21/12/2022

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17/12/2022

Now on show: The series African spirits by Samuel Fosso pays tribute to several major figures in African history and its diaspora, which emerged from examining the African independence movement through art and culture.

Fosso’s desire to bear witness to the struggle for Black liberation is accentuated in African spirits. Following extensive iconographic research, he selected thirteen personalities in a sort of personal pantheon. For the first time, Fosso embodies distinct individuals rather than a typology of characters. The photographs are not labeled, in accordance with the artist’s wishes: it is up to the public to retrace the concerned histories.

The exhibition Samuel Fosso is on show in the entire Huis Marseille

16/12/2022

The latest collection of work by Talia Chetrit riffs insouciantly on themes of life, death, and birth through a mixture of visual languages.

In JOKE, brings together family photos, street photography, still lifes, selections from the artist’s teenage archive, and expansive self-portraits involving a cast of characters who feature as both engaged and unwitting collaborators. Referencing a wide range of photographic tropes and traditions, Chetrit studies the power dynamics between photographer and subject as they spar and collude.

Now available at the bookshop of Huis Marseille: JOKE by Talia Chetrit

14/12/2022

After Samuel Fosso's studio and home were attacked in 2014 by looters in the war-torn Central African Republic, the photojournalist Jérôme Delay and two of his friends rescued Samuel Fosso's negatives from destruction and sent them back to him in Paris.

Dedicated to Samuel Fosso’s early studio photographs in the 1980s, the artist’s book Studio Photo Nationale tells the story of the photographer's fascinating Bangui studio images a few decades before his recognition as a major African artist.

Sebastien Girard (French Risoprint artist) re-imagined and hand-printed Studio Photo Nationale (edition of 400)

> Sold out everywhere, few copies left at the bookshop of Huis Marseille

12/12/2022

Somewhere between photography and performance: Samuel Fosso

Huis Marseille presents the first-ever large-scale retrospective of the French-Cameroon photographer Samuel Fosso. This large-scale retrospective brings all of his most important series together for the first time in the Netherlands.

The exhibition will encompass the entire museum to reveal the breadth and richness of Fosso’s oeuvre. For almost fifty years, Samuel Fosso explored the possibilities offered by the medium of photography to present a refreshing and relevant vision of today’s world.

> Now on show at Huis Marseille

10/12/2022

Hey, it's Samuel Fosso calling. We're ready for your visit!

Be welcome all day long to check out the breadth and richness of Samuel Fosso’s large-scale retrospective.
The official opening is at 5 pm 🎉

See you soon!

06/12/2022

Vanaf dit weekend te zien: Samuel Fosso

"Als baby blijkt Samuel Fosso deels verlamd te zijn. De schaamte van zijn moeder is zo groot dat ze weigerde hem te laten fotograferen.

Dat verandert radicaal als hij terecht komt bij zijn oom: op 13-jarige leeftijd begint hij met het fotograferen van anderen in zijn eigen fotostudio en al snel stapt hij over naar zichzelf. Zo wordt hij wereldberoemd met de zelfportretten waarin hij iconische figuren verbeeldt: van Nelson Mandela tot Mao Zedong en de (fictieve) eerste zwarte paus.

Samuel Fosso: ‘God wilde dat ik niet zou sterven, zodat ik anderen kan leren het leven te nemen zoals het zich voordoet.’"

> De solotentoonstelling Samuel Fosso
opent aanstaande zaterdag 10 december

> De solo exhibition Samuel Fosso
opens this Saturday 10th of December

Beelden: , Autoportrait.
From the series Tati, La Femme américaine libérée des années 70, 1994 - From the series 70s Lifestyle, 1975-78 - From the series Tati, Le Chef (celui qui a vendu l'Afrique aux colons), 1994 © Samuel Fosso, courtesy Jean-Marc Patras / Paris

05/12/2022

Thanks all for visiting and making some good memories together 💜

We're closed from today till Friday for the construction of the new exhibition. The museum will re-open on Saturday 10th of December.

See you soon!

04/12/2022

Sad to see you go! Today it's the last day to visit the exhibitions Natural sources by Jochen Lempert, Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua, Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962–1973 by Danh Vo, and Diane Severin Nguyen.

We're open till 18.00 today. From tomorrow on, we're temporarily closed for the construction of the new exhibition till Saturday 10th of December.

Installation photos by Eddo Hartmann

02/12/2022

Looking for a gift? Present hunting starts this year at Huis Marseille! Our shop is ready to explore and discover some outstanding new books for you or your loved ones 💝🌟

Thanks for the picture!

01/12/2022

On show till this Sunday: Jochen Lempert's Natural Sources

30/11/2022

Great news! Ivy shadow and Horse by Jochen Lempert is now part of the Huis Marseille collection

> On show till this Sunday: Natural sources by Jochen Lempert

The exhibition brings together a number of early series, such as The skins of Alca impennis, with the Huis Marseille collection pieces Oiseaux-Vögel (1997–2004) and the recently acquired Ivy shadow and horse (2021), together with more recent works.

His photos show his fascination with the most direct possible experience of nature, without recourse to manipulation or construction. The artist researches, collects, and categorizes his subjects like a scientist but simultaneously captures images of animals, plants, and microorganisms from an equal perspective. With this approach, Lempert allows us to become aware of our predominantly human-centered point of view.

Image: Ivy and Horse (2020) by , silver gelatin print on Baryta paper. Part of the collection, captured by Eddo Hartmann

27/11/2022

Sunday mood. Wonder, relax, recharge, and submerge yourself at the exhibition Hug of a swan by . It's your day!

Last chance to see this exhibition at Huis Marseille, on show till next weekend, the 4th of December.

All images by
Installation close-ups by Eddo Hartmann

23/11/2022

One of the visitors' most favorite pieces from Jochen Lempert's exhibition Natural sources. What part of his natural world did you enjoy the most?

Counting down the last two weeks to visit this wonderful exhibition. Natural sources by Jochen Lempert is on show till 4/12 at Huis Marseille

Images: Bills, 2020 (12 parts) by . All the photographs are silver gelatin prints on Baryta paper. Courtesy of the artist, ProjecteSD, Barcelona, and BQ, Berlin

19/11/2022

Take a seat. Last weeks are counting down for Nhu Xuan Hua's exhibition Hug of a swan

Huis Marseille presents the first-ever museum exhibition of the French-Vietnamese artist , a remarkable new talent. Hua made her name as a photographer for magazines such as Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Dazed Beauty, DANSK, and TIME Magazine and worked on commissions for big fashion brands like Kenzo, Maison Margiela, Dior, and Levi’s.

Nevertheless, fashion photography is only one of her talents. The exhibition Hug of a swan highlights the diversity of her artistic work, which also takes the form of installations and autonomous work inspired by family photos. The exhibition shows that these categories cannot be detached from one another; the inspiration for all of Hua’s creations arises out of personal and shared memories.

> The exhibition Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua is on show till 4/12 at Huis Marseille

17/11/2022

Now on show: Danh Vo's Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962–1973

During the Vietnam War, Joseph M. Carrier related that in 1962 in Vietnam he was confronted with men and boys holding hands in public for the first time in his life – something he deemed impossible in the conservative American community in which he had grown up. He experienced it as a liberation and decided to capture those moments. The interactions Carrier saw were intimate but, in a Vietnamese context, not necessarily ho******ic.

When Vo gave a lecture in Los Angeles as part of an artist-in-residency in 2006, Joseph M. Carrier was in the audience. He approached Vo afterward. “I was face to face with a person, who had worked in Vietnam during the entire war and was homosexual. I had never thought about that combination before’, Vo remembers. His interest was spurred, and the two became friends.

The intriguing result of their friendship is on display in the upper rooms at Huis Marseille till 4/12

16/11/2022

There is treasure everywhere. Marco van Duyvendijk's On Board Courier captures his unexpected adventures as an onboard courier.

Duyvendijk delivered tools, spare parts, packages, and documents all over the world. It's always a surprise what 's next destination would be, from Oslo to New York, Geneva to Seoul, Bishkek or Mexico, and many other places. But the only certain thing was he always brought his camera.

On Board Courier by Marco van Duyvendijk is available at the bookshop of Huis Marseille

14/11/2022

It's raining golden leaves. What's your favorite spot during the autumn season? 🍁🍂

11/11/2022

The German photographer Jochen Lempert (1958) studied biology at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn (1980–1988), where he researched the fauna, ecology, and reproduction of dragonflies (Odonata) in rainforest waters in Liberia, West Africa.

Between 1978 and 1989, he formed the experimental film collective Schmelzdahin with Jochen Müller and Jürgen Reble, examining the possibilities of combining celluloid film and chemical processes, including bacterial cultures.

The exhibition Natural sources by Jochen Lempert brings together a number of early series, such as The skins of Alca impennis, with the collection pieces Oiseaux-Vögel (1997–2004) and the recently acquired Ivy shadow and horse (2021), together with more recent works.

For the exhibition, Lempert selected works and installed them alongside one another without reference to any chronological hierarchy, but based on the context provided by the museum.

> Now on show at Huis Marseille till 4/12

Images in chronological order:
* Portrait de Jochen Lempert, 2014 © Régine Steenbock (Adagp, Paris, 2022)
* Schmetterlingshafte, 2019 © Jochen Lempert/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona and BQ, Berlin
* Untitled (Lachmöwe, Stockholm), 2017 © Jochen Lempert/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona and BQ, Berlin
* Ivy and Bee, 2019 © Jochen Lempert/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona and BQ, Berlin

09/11/2022

Bonjour ! Meet the one and only Nhu Xuan Hua herself in real life 🦢

> This Friday, The Eyes Artist Talk with at Paris Photo
Artist Talks by The Eyes put into perspective the link between the artist and the book in artistic practice, the editorial approach, and realization.

> This Saturday, signing session Art Book Fair Paris
Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory is shortlisted for Prix Nadar 2022

All images from the book Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory by Nhu Xuan Hua. Available at the bookshop of Huis Marseille

See you!

08/11/2022

We are pleased to announce .sobekwa is selected as a finalist for the 2023 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize🎉

The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize aims to increase the international exposure of artists in Africa, or of the African diaspora, whilst raising funds for arts education programs on the continent. Congratulations to all the artists and their respective galleries.

The exhibition Umkhondo. Tracing memory by Lindokuhle Sobekwa was on show this summer at , part of The beauty of the world so heavy.

Lindokuhle Sobekwa (Johannesburg, 1995) combines existing and new work to trace the thematic lines that run through his photographs. His family, his ancestors, and the landscape in which they live are recurring themes in his oeuvre and form part of Sobekwa’s search for explanations for past events. His moving and intimate work directs the gaze toward his immediate surroundings, his own identity, and the related larger issues at play in South African society.

> Visit the Finalists Exhibition with all the shortlisted artworks at , Cape Town from 25 January – 20 March 2023.

Image: Lindokuhle Sobekwa's Gogo Lucy Zwane in her garden, Ezilalini (The Country), 2021

07/11/2022

Thanks to everyone who visited this weekend during Museumnacht, all the performing artists, Radio Tempo Não Pára, and especially our special Huis Marseille team who made this evening happen ❤️🌟

Till next year!

05/11/2022

Jochen Lempert’s photos exhibit his fascination with the most direct possible experience of nature, without recourse to manipulation or construction.

To mimic the natural focal length of the human eye, Lempert always uses an analog camera with a 50 mm lens. His work can be placed in the tradition of the British photographer and botanist Anna Atkins (1799–1871) and the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), who photographed plants with similar precision and clarity. Lempert develops the photos with as much attention to detail as he gives to taking the images.

> The exhibition Natural Sources by Jochen Lempert is now on show till 4/12

Installation image by Eddo Hartmann

25/10/2022

During his training as a biologist and dragonfly specialist, Jochen Lempert obtained extensive knowledge of the natural world. His scientific background underlies the way he documents his observations of the many manifestations of flora and fauna. With a poetic approach to his subject, Lempert invites the viewer to look at nature in a more empathic manner.

> Natural sources by Jochen Lempert is on show at Huis Marseille till 4/12

24/10/2022

How do the autumn colors look on you? Nature dresses in its many beautiful colors these days. Life starts all over again with crisp poetry in the air.

The British photographer .hawkesworth comes as a breath of fresh air with his soft and sunlit portraits. Using analog processes, each poetic image has a refreshing depth and rawness that separates it from a cluster of “classic” fashion shots.

“Photography is a disarmingly subtle act of sensing, then waiting, until a subject reveals itself,” he explains. “It is my chosen medium because of its capacity to intensify what we see and to capture the unique truths that lie beneath the surface of our encounters. This enduring and patient economy of means channels our shared, multivalent sense of wonder at being present in the world.” – Jamie Hawkesworth

Image from Huis Marseille's collection: Adam by Jamie Hawkesworth, from the exhibition Landscape with Tree

21/10/2022

Congrats to Samuel Fosso shortlisted for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize!

And even more great news: This winter the solo exhibition of Samuel Fosso will be on show at Huis Marseille

Since the mid-1970s, Samuel Fosso has dedicated his artistic practice to self-portraits and performative photography.

Born in Kumba, Cameroon, and raised in Nigeria, Fosso fled the Biafran War as a young boy, and in 1972 was taken in by an uncle in Bangui in the Central African Republic. In 1975, at the age of thirteen, Fosso opened his Studio Photo Nationale. Alongside commercial work, Fosso immediately began a series of self-portraits – a mode of representation he has never abandoned. Playing the role of key historical figures and social archetypes in front of the camera, Fosso embodies a powerful way of existing in the world, and a vivid demonstration of photography’s role in the construction of myths.

> The exhibition Samuel Fosso will open 10th of December at Huis Marseille

17/10/2022

Tropism, Consequences of a Displaced Memory by Nhu Xuan Hua

Nhu Xuan Hua delved into the power of memories in a piece of work. The work gives a face to those tropisms that describe spontaneous and automatic reactions initiated by vivid emotions in response to primarily needs or past events in life. Based on archival pictures from her family, the digital intervention interprets these memories through a new angle, exploring the effect of dissipation generated by time passing and driven by the forces of inherited memory.

This study is an invitation for a treasure hunt on paper, where the images map a route connecting past and present. Places and people merge: he, she, they, here, and there become one after having been separate for so long. In this imaginary bi-dimensional city, the elements from the photographs lose themselves and disappear, leaving behind them the mere and haunting presence of nostalgia.

> The book Tropism by Nhu Xuan Hua is now available in the bookshop of Huis Marseille
Published by AREA BOOKS

> The exhibition Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua is on show till 4/12

15/10/2022

Ready for some karaoke?

Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua immerses visitors in colorful installations and takes them toward the roots of Hua’s world. At the same time, for the artist, the exhibition is a way of embracing her past. Accordingly, the title is a distant reference to the ‘swan song’ – the song that announces a closure. An acceptance of ambivalent feelings about the past opens Hua to the possibility of a new project.

🎤 Bring your headphone! Every exhibition room has a unique music piece chosen by the artist herself. Scan the QR code in the exhibition and enjoy this extra dimension.

🎤 Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua is on show till 4/12 at Huis Marseille

The exhibition is accompanied by a book focusing on Hua’s Tropism series, which is available in the book shop. Published by

Image: Honey Baby
Close-up image: Tribute to mothers and Ode to Self Care: Gucci Beauty x British Vogue
Installation shots of the exhibition

12/10/2022

'It’s another form of male intimacy: it’s actually the mark of a hypermasculine society that the idea of homosexuality does not even arise.'

Now on show at Huis Marseille: Danh Vo's Archive of Dr. Joseph M. Carrier 1962–1973

During the Vietnam War, Joseph M. Carrier related that in 1962 in Vietnam he was confronted with men and boys holding hands in public for the first time in his life – something he deemed impossible in the conservative American community in which he had grown up. He experienced it as a liberation and decided to capture those moments. The interactions Carrier saw were intimate but, in a Vietnamese context, not necessarily ho******ic.

When Vo gave a lecture in Los Angeles as part of an artist-in-residency in 2006, Joseph M. Carrier was in the audience. He approached Vo afterward. “I was face to face with a person, who had worked in Vietnam during the entire war and was homosexual. I had never thought about that combination before’, Vo remembers. His interest was spurred, and the two became friends.

The intriguing result of their friendship is now on display in the upper rooms at Huis Marseille

11/10/2022

Now on show: Diane Severin Nguyen & Nhu Xuan Hua

'Meaning, like a word itself, can only be found in contrast to what it is not.'

With their intense coloration and close-up detail, Nguyen’s intriguing images demand the viewer to look at photography differently, not seeking recognition or understanding precisely what is being depicted. Her images evoke a bodily response independent of any meaning we may try to attach to them.

> Diane Severin Nguyen is now on show at Huis Marseille

‘It reflects my lifelong struggle with my identity: how can you know yourself if your name, the most fundamental way of identifying yourself, is mispronounced by others?'

Hug of a swan immerses visitors in colorful installations and takes them toward the roots of Hua’s world. At the same time, for the artist, the exhibition is a way of embracing her past. Accordingly, the title is a distant reference to the ‘swan song’ – the song that announces a closure. An acceptance of ambivalent feelings about the past opens Hua to the possibility of a new project.

> Hug of a swan by Nhu Xuan Hua is now on show at Huis Marseille

Adres

Keizersgracht 401
Amsterdam
1016EK

If you are traveling by public transport, please take tram 1, 2, 5 and get off at stop Leidsestraat / Keizersgracht. Parking facilities in the area are: Byzantium and Europarking at the Marnixstraat.

Algemene informatie

Opening hours of the museum are: Tuesday - Sunday from 11am to 6pm. The price of admission is €9,– and with a reduction €4,50. Children under 18 are admitted free of charge. We accept iAmsterdam and Museum Cards. For more information, please visit http://www.huismarseille.nl/en

Openingstijden

Maandag	10:00 - 18:00
Dinsdag	10:00 - 18:00
Woensdag	10:00 - 18:00
Donderdag	10:00 - 21:00
Vrijdag	10:00 - 18:00
Zaterdag	10:00 - 18:00
Zondag	10:00 - 18:00

Telefoon

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