Jeroen de Vries / recent installations


The installations shown here are the result of the collective efforts of curators, builders, graphic designers, light designers, web designers, producers, photographers, film-makers etc. I am responsible for the architecture, sometimes (co)-curated them and sometimes took on some of the other roles as well.




The last days of shismaref / Dana Lixenberg

The photographs of Dana Lixenberg and the camerawork of Melle van Essen are mounted together in space, separated by a half transparent screen. Installation includes a soundtrack, an extensive website, projected animated maps, a timeline, newsfeeds and a large number of monitors with news and interviews. 2008 / LP2 / Rotterdam


In History / Susan Meiselas

Meiselas's work evolved in radical and challenging ways as she grappled with questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images, and the relationship of images to history and memory. An installation combining prints, projections, film, documents, websites, books etc.

2008 / International Center of Photography / New York



Kurdistan projection / in collaboration with Susan Meiselas

Meiselas travelled the world with an exhibition she put together named Kurdistan, in the Shadow of History. Instead of resurrecting it as part of an exhibition on her work, I proposed to clarify Meiselas motives and methods with an installation of vitrines in combination with a multi-screen projection.

2008 / International Centre of Photography / New York



Why Mister, Why? / Geert van Kesteren

Images of the war in Iraq and texts projected on very large screens, RSS news-feeds, soundtrack,  website integrated in the installation.

2007 / Schindlers factory / Cracow / Poland




2007 Hidden Images / captured from home movies

Installation combining movies and prints.

A play with time and space.

Centre National de l’Audiovisuel / Luxembourg






So Blue, so Blue / Ad van Denderen

Edges of the Mediterranean. Ad van Denderen sketches a very different picture of the region around the Mediterranean from that of sun-drenched beaches, charming hotels, lively discos and azure sea. The exhibition features about 80 large sized photographs alongside interactive presentations.

2008 / Dutch Fotomuseum / Rotterdam



2008 Nature as Artifice / group exhibition

Landscape photographers and video artists take the artificial character of the Dutch landscape and nature as their creative point of departure.

2008 / Kröller-Müller Museum / Holland




Go-No Go / Ad van Denderen

The European struggle with immigration in photographic projections. With film by Marjoleine Boonstra.

2008 / Les Voutes / Paris






Native Land / Raymond Depardon / Paul Virilio

Sketch design Raymond Depardon gives a voice to those who wish to live on their land but are threatened with exile. Paul Virilio examines and challenges the very idea of sedentariness in the face of the unprecedented migrations taking place in the contemporary world. 2008 / Fondation Cartier / Paris



Looking Back / several photographers

Pictures of occupation and deportation, presented at the exact spots where they were taken in the streets of Amsterdam during WWII.

2008 / 28 different locations in Amsterdam






Mined in China / put together by Susan Meiselas and Orville Schell

The Chinese coal industry seen through the eyes of a number of

photographers and a filmmaker that have travelled across the country from the 1950´s

2008 / Houston Center of Photography, USA




60 Years Magnum / group exhibition

Spatial design for an exhibition created by Magnum

A 45-metre-long frieze offering a linear account of MAGNUM’s over the last six decades wit texts, key images and original books. Four interactively controlled projection screens which enable visitors to (re)discover the work of all the MAGNUM photographers. 2008 / Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam



Inspiration Rotterdam / Group exhibition

Prints and projections in the attic of a 17th century building. 2007 / Rotterdam Historical Museum






Port Images / group exhibition

An exhibition on the harbour of Rotterdam in an old warehouse building. Multimedia installation with documents,

prints and film projections

2007  /LP2 / Rotterdam.




>Play - a photographic record / Carel van Hees

>Play is about what it is like to be young, anywhere and in all eras. The Rotterdam photographer Carel van Hees turned his camera on the youth of Rotterdam.

Digital projections, website, film and a soundtrack.

2008 / Kunsthalle Ludwigshaven




Immigrant Madrid / Susan Meiselas

Portraits and voices of an

Ecuadorian female soccer team

in the steel  tank of a water tower.

2007 / Canal de Isabel II Madrid





Meagre / Geert van Kesteren

A travelling exhibition on poverty.

Photos mounted with rubber bands

2006 / Huis Marseille Amsterdam.