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International exhibition FACES will present portraits of two Czech photographers

The Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam will introduce an exhibition of work by 32 photographers and visual artists who have helped determine the developments in the European portrait photography in the past few decades. The international exhibition titled FACES | European Portrait Photography since 1990 will present in addition to major names such as Anton Corbijn, Rineke Dijkstra, Boris Mikhailov also the work of two Czech photographers - Dita Pepe and Jitka Hanzlová. Czech Center is supporting the participation of both photographers.
 

The exhibition starts on May 30 and will be open throughout the summer until August 16, 2015. It is the first project to deal with European portraiture and its development after the year 1989. Dita Pepe and Jitka Hanzlová present their works among the more than thirty artists. More information about the exhibition can be found on the museum website.    

Dita Pepe (Ostrava, 1973) studied creative photography at the Silesian University in Opava. Since 1999 she works on her famous large self-portraits project. She uses the photography to  picture herself with other women, men or whole families. Dita Pepe is always stylized into the role of her objects. Majority of her portraits was taken in the Czech Republic but some of them originate in Italy, Germany or even in South Africa.

Jitka Hanzlová (Náchod, 1958) emigrated as 24 year old to the West Germany. She studied photography at the University of Essen between 1987 and 1994. Hanzlová already had countless exhibitions around the world presenting also her work Female. That was presented also in the Netherlands back in 2001, in Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum. Today Hanzlová lives and works in Essen, Germany. Since 2012 she is also a visiting professor at the University of Zurich.

When: 30 MAY 2015 - 23 AUG 2015

Where: Nederlands Fotomuseum, Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam

http://hague.czechcentres.cz/programma/meer/europese-portretten-2015/  

Dita Pepe 2008

Dita Pepe 2008