cv
Kim Bouvy
1974 Amsterdam, the Netherlands
living and working in Rotterdam
kimbouvy[at]gmail dot com
2000-2002
Master (documentary) photography, College of Fine Arts and Design Post-St. Joost, Breda
1994-1999
College of Fine Arts and Design, Sculpture /mixed media department, ’s-Hertogenbosch (currently called AKV St.-Joost)
Works in collections:
various private collections, CBK Rotterdam, PriceWaterHouseCoopers, Erasmus University, Maasstad Hospital Rotterdam.
selection of works/projects/activities
2015
PROJECT Made in Europe, Bureau Europa, Maastricht
EXHIBITION & BOOK Rotterdam in the Picture, Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2014
EXHIBITION Cedric Price: The Dynamics of Time, Bureau Europa, Maastricht
GUEST CURATOR exhibition graduates Master Photography AKV St Joost ‘Q.Where do you feel it’ at Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
GUEST EXAMINER graduation New Media Art
2013
PUBLICATION / EXHIBITION Dubbel Office, Cologne (Opekta icw Het Wilde Weten)
EXHIBITION ‘Undercover’ exhibition of Dutch photo books, Contemporary Art Museum Erarta, St Petersburg, Russia
COMMISSION ‘Verhalen Verbeeld’, Marres / Bureau Europa - Winselerhof Landgraaf (NL)
EXHIBITION ‘Doppelgänger’ Opekta (Cologne) & surroundings and Het Wilde Weten (Rotterdam) and surroundings
NOMINATION BNG Workspace13, Filmhuis Den Haag
RESIDENCY/EXCHANGE project ‘Dubbel/Dobbel, Het Wilde Weten Rotterdam and Opekta, Cologne (DE)
COMMISSION photography Frontenpark for Bureau Europa, Maastricht
COMMISSION photography publication SOURCE #07: What if we were all producers (of energy)?
CO-EDITOR publication SOURCE #07: What if we were all producers (of energy)? - Design Academy Eindhoven
2012
SYMPOSIUM Port Prospects, with Kim Bouvy, Elian Somers, Oliver Godow, Marie-José Jongerius, Viola Weigel, Frits Gierstberg, Caroline von Courten. Moderator: Saskia van Stein, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
CO-CURATOR exhibition ‘Point de Vue - 200 jaar kunstakademie ’s-Hertogenbosch’ for AVANS Hogeschool at former SMS museum, Den Bosch (together with Margriet Kemper)
EXHIBITION curated by Alba Colomo, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (ES) with Left Hand Rotation, Klaas van Gorkum & Iratxe Jaio
EXHIBITION / COMMISSION ‘Tourist information: Istanbul’ - with Hans Wilschut and SO Architects - Perplekcity, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION / COMMISSION ‘Learning from….Rotterdam’ - with Elian Somers, Oliver Godow, Jost Wischnewski - Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven (DE)
EXHIBITION Research by Walking - curator: Alba Colomo, with Left Hand Rotation, Klaas van Gorkum & Iratxe Jaio - Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION Celebration of the Photobook - The Dutch Photobook since 1945, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
EXHIBITION Re:Rotterdam Art Fair http://www.rerotterdam.com/2012/
EXHIBITION Open Studios Het Wilde Weten www.hetwildeweten.nl
2011
PUBLICATION ‘Niemandsland’ selected for ‘Deutschland im Fotobuch’ (Steidl, ed. Thomas Wiegand / Manfred Heiting)
EXHIBITION’ Deutschland im Fotobuch’ - Fotobook Festival Kassel, Germany
COMMISSION ‘Points of View’ - Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION 1 Maand Marxloh with Elian Somers, Sandro Setola, Jetske de Boer, Ine Lamers, Christine Saalfeld - Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
PUBLICATION Rotterdamse Kunstkalender / Rotterdam art calendar
EXHIBITION Open Studios Het Wilde Weten
2010
EXHIBITION ‘Behind the Billboard’ - MK Gallery Berlin, with Elian Somers, Dieuwertje Komen, Antje Peters, Kim Bouvy, Sabrina Jung, Anne Lass, Patricia Neligan, Sonia Jiménez Alvarez curated by Caroline von Courten
EXHIBITION ‘1 maand Marxloh’ - Duisburg Germany, Elian Somers, Sandro Setola, Ine Lamers, Jetske de Boer, Christine Saalfeld, Eric Jan van der Geer
BOOK ‘Cerna Hvezda /Schwarzer Stern’ Kai-Olaf Hesse, Andreas Mader (ed.), Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst Nuernberg
RESIDENCY Marxloh, Duisburg, Germany
PUBLICATION in book ‘Rotterdam 2040′ Gyz La Rivière
EXHIBITION Photo Espana, Madrid - Phantom City shortlisted for best European Photobook 2010
EXHIBITION ‘Quikscan NL’, Nederlands Fotomuseum at the Dutch Culture Center Shanghai - with Anouk Kruithof, Kim Boske, Melanie Bonajo, Wytske van Keulen and Club Donny, curated by Frits Gierstberg and Caroline von Courten
BOOK ‘Home’ VMX Architects (commission), SUN Publishers, design: Mevis en van Deursen
BOOK ‘Phantom City - a Photo Novel’ with Pels en Kemper Publishers, graphic design Hansje van Halem
COMMISSION ‘Kim meets Cas (Oorthuys)’ - CBK Rotterdam, Erasmus University, Nederlands Fotomuseum
EXHIBITION ‘Quickscan’ - Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘NowHere’ - CBK Rotterdam
2009
EXHIBITION ‘Source material’ TENT., Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘The Other Site’ NEST, The Hague
CURATOR exhibition ‘The Other Site’ with Elian Somers at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
CURATOR/producer RAiR #1, RAiR Foundation /WDW63, Rotterdam
2008
CATALOGUE ‘De Laatste fotograaf?’ - AKV Sint Joost, on the occasion of the anniversary of the photography department of 50 years
EXHIBITION ‘The Art of Inhabitation Modulations’ Pictura, Dordrecht
EXHIBITION ‘Pages’ Dutch photography books organized by Dutch photography collective Fw: in Kasseler Fotoforum, Kassel Germany
EXHIBITION ‘Perforated: Ostrava, Leipzig, Brno - Contemporary photography at the image of the city’, Kunstverein Leipzig With works by: Ostrava: Jan Adamek, Kim Bouvy, Ladislav Dredowicz, Kai-Olaf Hesse, Katerina Knappova, Andreas Mader, Arwed Messmer, Peter Oehlmann, Christian von Steffelin. Leipzig: Anja Schlamann, Bertram Weisshaar, Studenten der Fotografie der Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig Brno: Petr Baran, Petr Fran?an, Gero Fischer
EXHIBITION ‘Pages’ Dutch photography books organized by Dutch photography collective Fw: in Art Hall Budapest, Hungary and Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
CATALOGUE ‘The Unwanted Self - Contemporary Photography frm the Low Countries’ - Institute for Cultural Studies & Lieven Geveart Research Centre for Photography and Visual Studies, the FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen and the University of Brighton
2007
ESSAY ‘Phantom City / De Fantoomstad’- Dutch art magazine Mister Motley, dec
ESSAY ‘I just want to believe - The Truth is out there’, Magazine ‘Belief’, editor Kirsten Leenaars, College of Architecture and the Arts, UIC Chicago
EXHIBITION ‘Inspiratie Rotterdam’, groupshow With Rotterdam based photographers Kim Bouvy, Karel Doing, Adrienne van Eekelen, Carel van Hees, Merijn de Jong, Rince de Jong, Helena van der Kraan. Gina Kranendonk, Awoiska van der Molen, Bas Princen, Gerco de Ruijter, Eric van der Schalie, Otto Snoek, Ellie Uyttenbroek, Ari Versluis, Hans Wilschut - Historisch Museum, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘Open Studios’ Stichting Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
CURATOR of photography commission/exhibition ‘GebouwPortretten / Building Portraits’Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam
2006
ASSISTANT CURATOR photography exhibition ‘Spectacular City, photographing the future’ - Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam
ASSISTANT EDITOR catalogue ‘Spectacular City Photographing the Future’- NAi Publishers
ARTIST BOOK ‘City of Imagination’ - ed.3, on the occasion of show ‘The Art of Inhabitation’, organisation: Annu Wilenius, dec 2006 Galleria Huuto, Helsinki
EXHIBITION The Art of Inhabitation Galleri Huuto, Helsinki, Finland
EXHIBITION ‘Niemandsland’, groupshow Kruithuis Den Bosch
EXHIBITION ‘Picture This!‘- mobile phone cam project Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2005
PARAZINE ‘Less is More or Less’, with designer Hansje van Halem for ‘Printing Matters!’ / PrintROOM at Witte de With, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘Ostrava, periphery or what?’- Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava Czech Republic
PROJECT Printing matters!’ Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
RESEARCHER / PROJECT COORDINATOR Research in Residence BAK, Utrecht
2004
EXHIBITION ‘Foreign Affairs: Berlin’ TENT., Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘All moveable wonders…’ curator Chus Martinez, IASPIS gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
POSTCARDS Guerilla Postcards: Stockholm series, edition 9 x 500
RESIDENCY IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
EXHIBITION ‘Digital Mural’ internet project curator Carl Berg, Irvine Institute, Los Angeles
PROJECT ASSISTANT activities Foto Biennale ‘Experience’ Rotterdam
CURATOR graduationshow MFA Documentary Photography Art College Sint Joost, building Las Palmas, Rotterdam
2002
BOOK ‘NIEMANDSLAND - Berlijn zonder de Muur’ / ‘NO MAN’S LAND - Berlin without the Wall’ photo/text book 160 pages published by de Verbeelding, Amsterdam 2002 ISBN 90 74159 53 2
ESSAY ‘A Dordrecht Legacy’ in Observ. 4, magazine Post-St. Joost dedicated to the exhibition ‘A family affair’ at the Dordrechts Museum
SOLO EXHIBITION ‘Niemandsland - Berlin without the Wall’ Nederlands Foto Museum, Rotterdam
EXHIBITION ‘Out of the digital domain’ internet project curator Carl Berg, Irvine Institute, Los Angeles
EXHIBITION ‘Foam in the Vondelpark’, work of ‘130 Dutch photographers in the Vondelpark’ Fotomuseum Amsterdam
EXHIBITION ‘A Family Affair’, group show MFA Post-St. Joost - Dordrecht Museum, Dordrecht
EXHIBITION ‘Picture@Eternity’ exhibition nominees incentive prize Erasmusfestival Kruithuis, Den Bosch
1999
BOOK ‘UIT-ZICHT, over het bewegen, het stilstaan en het verdwalen / ‘(Out of) View - about moving, standing still and getting lost’ photo/textbook 112 pages, published by College of Fine Arts and Design, s-Hertogenbosch (ed. 500, sold out)
Other activities
2019-2022:
Programme Manager International Visitors Programme, Het Nieuwe Instituut
2011-2019:
Coordinator SOURCE programme, coordinator MA Information Design, General Coordinator and tutor photography at Master Studies Design Academy Eindhoven
2017/2018:
photography tutor semester studios urban design at Akademie voor Bouwkunst Rotterdam
2014:
freelance producer ‘Tribute to an Avenue’ for Sculpture International Rotterdam
2008-2012:
tutor at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht) - Bachelor Photography 3rd year
2010:
Project manager ‘Urban Explorers’ for CBK Dordrecht
Project manager ‘Reclaiming the Streets’ for MAMA: Showroom of Moving Art
2008:
CURATOR Bouw in Beeld Prijs 2008 photography prize and commission
TUTOR academy for fine arts Minerva, Groningen - Bachelor Fine Arts
PROJECT MANAGER Project(or) - Art Fair For Contemporary Art Spaces for MAMA, Showroom for Media and Moving Art
2007/2008: Guest teacher Art Academy AKV Sint Joost, Breda/Den Bosch for Master/Bachelor in Photography
2012-2014: president board Foundation Het Wilde Weten
2004-2014: member artist-space Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
2003-2006: Member jury Steenbergenstipend for most promising student photography
2000-2002: Staff member and coordinator activities artist space Artis, s-Hertogenbosch
1998-2000: Organisation Studium Generale Academy for Fine Arts ’s hertogenbosch