ECAL Lecture - Rineke Dijkstra
07.05.2025
IKEA Auditorium, ECAL

Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale color photographs and videos, mainly of young, typically adolescent subjects, present subtle and minimal contextual details, encouraging us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject, and on the relationship between viewer and viewed.

Born in The Netherlands, in 1959, Dijkstra studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Johannes Vermeer Prijs (2020), the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2017), SPECTRUM – International Prize for Photography of Stiftung Niedersachsen (2017), and The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (1999). Over the past three decades, she has exhibited her work in renowned institutions around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago (2001), Jeu de Paume in Paris (2005), La Caixa in Barcelona (2005), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2005), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2006), Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (2012), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2012), Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt (2013), Milwaukee Art Museum (2016), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2017), the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark (2017), De Pont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands (2018), Sprengel Museum in Hannover (2018), and Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (2023).

This conference is part of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2025/2026, of which Rineke Dijkstra is the jury president.