As winter is approaching, Annet Gelink Gallery is pleased to present you ‘Interior | Exterior. Winter Edition’.

Inspired and named after Robby Müller’s publication ‘Polaroid. Interior | Exterior’, the current online viewing room collects a range of artworks perfect for the winter season.

Frozen canals, remote mountain peaks, are juxtaposed with night wagons crossing Siberia, gloomy hotel rooms, and crowded dinner tables.
Through a selection of works from the gallery’s photographers, ‘Interior | Exterior. Winter Edition’ reflects on wintertime through private and domestic instants, as well as urban and natural outdoors.

The viewing room includes works by Awoiska van der Molen, Bertien van Manen, Ed van der Elsken, Robby Müller, and Johannes Schwartz.

Interior

Robby Müller
Müller would often take Polaroids during his moments in between work on set while visiting cities all over the world. In his stays at hotel rooms, he explored the play of light with his camera − how it seeps through the shutters or shines through a shirt, how daylight comes and goes, and how different light sources affect a room.

Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken is recognised as the most important Dutch photographer of the 20th century, particularly for his street photography. For over 40 years, Van der Elsken captured life as he saw it through photography and film. Wandering through cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, he documented the streets and life around him.

Bertien van Manen
Bertien van Manen is known for her intimate, detailed portraits of life as others live it. She has documented the daily life of various social groups such as nuns, female migrant workers, and mining communities in the Appalachian Mountains, as well as life in the former Soviet Union and China. Van Manen immerses herself in the places and cultures she photographs, learning the language, living with the people whose lives she documents and forming lasting relationships.

Johannes Schwartz
The interiors of our homes are often seen as the ultimate expression of our individuality, but what if we were unable to see ourselves in our interiors? What if the interior is not a reflection of who we are? In the series of analogue photographs ‘Blindenzimmer’ Johannes Schwartz made of the interiors of blind people’s homes the interaction between interior, occupant, and object is pivotal.

Exterior

Robby Müller
Müller would often take Polaroids during his moments in between work on set while visiting cities all over the world. Always intrigued by the world around him, Müller photographed whatever caught his eye during his walks. Specific to his exterior Polaroid is the capturing of his surrounding during the “blue hour”. In this moment natural and artificial light would meet, allowing Müller to further experiment with and explore light and colour.

Ed van der Elsken
Ed van der Elsken is recognised as the most important Dutch photographer of the 20th century, particularly for his street photography. For over 40 years, Van der Elsken captured life as he saw it through photography and film. Wandering through cities such as Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, he documented the streets and life around him.

Bertien van Manen
Bertien van Manen is known for her intimate, detailed portraits of life as others live it. She has documented the daily life of various social groups such as nuns, female migrant workers, and mining communities in the Appalachian Mountains, as well as life in the former Soviet Union and China. Van Manen immerses herself in the places and cultures she photographs, learning the language, living with the people whose lives she documents and forming lasting relationships.

Awoiska van der Molen
Since 2009, van der Molen has taken black and white, abstracted images in nature. The Living Mountain series stemmed from the collaboration between her and the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, who was inspired by the photographs taken by Awoiska in the mountains of his native Tirol to write his music piece. From this special synergy comes a new series of photographs in which Van der Molen probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created.