SASKIA NOOR VAN IMHOFF

Lives and works in Amsterdam and Mirns (NL)

Saskia Noor van Imhoff’s oeuvre examines systems, hierarchical structures and ideas about collecting. While addressing the underlying dynamics that lead to decisions about what we keep for the future, and what we decide to dispose of, she questions the idea of a collection as a knowledge system and a mechanism that selects, differentiates and classifies. She approaches these structures using a variety of media such as photography, sculpture and architecture, which merge into a whole in her installations.

She conceives of her process as marking a moment in time, a temporary combination of materials and circumstance which will inevitably undergo further permutations. Among the materials she uses, Perspex, photography, glass, LED and neon lighting, and found objects are all appropriated to create new systems. “My work is always iterative, meaning that I use elements from older installations in new works and recontextualize them”, the artist says about her practise.

Saskia Noor van Imhoff received her BA in Fine Art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (NL) in 2008. She worked at De Ateliers, Amsterdam (NL) in 2012, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) in 2014. Van Imhoff was awarded the ABN Amro Art Prize (NL) in 2017, the same year she was nominated for the Prix de Rome (NL). She received the Walter Tielmann Prize for Book Design (DE) in 2012 and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Prize (NL) in 2008.

Van Imhoff has had exhibitions at various venues including: Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL); the Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden (AT); the 11th Gwangju Biennial (KR); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); Frans Hals Museum | DeHallen, Haarlem (NL); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); De Appel, Amsterdam (NL) and the Moscow Biennial (RU).

Selected collections: ABN Amro Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL); AMC Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); THE EKARD COLLECTION; Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam (NL); ING Art Collection, Amsterdam (NL); Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden (NL); De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (NL); Rabo Art Collection, Utrecht (NL); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL); TextielMuseum, Tilburg (NL); Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE) and Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (NL), among many other public and private collections.

Courtesy GRIMM