The first edition of Haute Photographie opens this Wednesday at Rotterdam’s LP2 in Las Palmas. Haute Photographie, a photography fair with a particular concept, takes a museum-quality group exhibition as its starting point, bringing together a select group of international galleries. Participating in the 2017 edition of Haute Photographie are Esther Woerdehoff (Paris), Grundemark/Nilsson (Stockholm/Berlin), Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York), Ibasho Gallery (Antwerp) and Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam).
The exhibition will present a wide range of genres within photography, with works by an extensive list of international artists. As part of the list of the over 50 featured artists exhibiting a total of more than 250 artworks are names such as Hiroshi Sugimoto, Antoine d’Agata, William Klein and Albert Watson. Next to established artists, the younger generation of photographers is well represented in the exhibition – among them Inka and Niclas, Martin Essl, Hideyuki Ishibashi and Ester Vonplon.
Next to the main exhibition, Haute Photographie will tie together the past and the contemporay with two dedicated exhibitions: one featuring rare vintage pieces by artists such as Leonard Freed, Ruth Orkin, Sanne Sannes and Christer Strömholm, the other presenting young Dutch pho- tography talents, including Ramazan Barlas and Aisha Zeijpveld.
Haute Photographie will see contributions from various artists showcasing their work for the first time in the Netherlands. Among the first-timers are the South-African photographer Koto Bolofo and the Portuguese artist Noé Sendas. In addition, numerous artists including Laura Hospes, Bastiaan Woudt and Schilte & Portielje will have premiering photographs at the fair.
Further highlights at the fair will be Albert Watson’s Golden Boy, New York City, one of the legendary image-maker’s most memorable pieces, and Ruth Orkin’s American Girl in Florence, often regarded as one of the most iconic photographs from the 50s.
In collaboration with Nederlands Fotomuseum, Haute Photographie also offers an educational program ranging from guided tours of both the museum’s exhibitions and the fair, artist talks and introductions to collecting and preserving photography. Among the program highlights are a talk by artist Jeroen Toirkens and journalist Jelle Brandt Corstius about their on-going artistic project Borealis, and a look behind the scenes of Nederlands Fotomuseum with Head of Collections Martijn van den Broek.
Haute Photographie
8 – 12 February 2017
LP2 in Las Palmas
Wilhelminakade 326
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
