Working primarily in photography and film, the practice of Rixt de Boer (born 1992, the Netherlands) is based on processes of collecting, re-framing, and juxtaposing. Through her work she investigates the linguistics of place by emphasizing elements in our everyday surroundings that symbolize the ways that we relate to the landscape. She creates documents of transient places and objects that contain a field of tension between man-made environments and natural processes.
education
2023 MFA Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2014 BFA Photography, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
2009 Orientation Course, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
selected exhibitions
2023 Ignition | Gallery Leonard & Bina Ellen | Montréal | CA
2023 Une exoplanète à portée de main | Concordia MFA Thesis Exhibition | Les Ateliers Belleville | Montréal | CA
2021 Written in Water | Three person exhibition | Hearth Garage | Toronto | CA
2019 Maureen IV | Concordia MFA show | Montréal | CA
Prospects & Concepts | Mondriaan Fund | Art Rotterdam | NL
2018 Place Publique | Fonderie Darling | Montréal | CA
2017 Operational Process | Curated by myself in collaboration with In Your Livingroom | The Hague | NL
Exchanging Intimacies | 1435 mm | Prague | CZ
2016 Exchanging Intimacies | Quartair | The Hague | NL
How to Flatten a Mountain | Rathfarnam Castle | Photo Ireland | Dublin | IR
Holaa Festival | Hoogtij #44 | Noordwal 117 | The Hague | NL
Desert | Fauna | HOOP festival | The Hague | NL
Art Rotterdam | Gallery Gabriel Rolt | Performance The Hills of Capernaum | NL
2015 Now or Never #3 | KM21 Institute for contemporary art | The Hague | NL
An evening with... Rixt de Boer | Gallery Gabriel Rolt | Amsterdam | NL
Balls | Nest | The Hague | NL
Incognito | Santa Monica museum of Art | US
2014 Lichtkunst Gouda | Gouda | NL
MIX | Group exhibition | Galerie Sophie | The Hague | NL 2014
Graduation exhibition | Royal Academy of Art | The Hague | NL
Brisant | Tweede Kamer der Staten Generaal / House of representatives | The Hague | NL
Back stage on stage | Salone Internazionale del Mobile | Milan | IT
prizes / awards / fellowships
2018 Concordia tuition award of excellence | Concordia University | Montréal | CA
2018 Stipend for emerging artists | Niemeijer Fund | NL
2018 Cultuurfondsbeurs | Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds | NL
2017 Stipend for emerging artists | Mondriaan Fund | NL
2017 SPOT exhibition grant | Stroom Art Centre | The Hague | NL
2016 Pro research travel grant | Stroom Art Centre | The Hague | NL
2014 Young talent development grant | Stroom | The Hague | NL
2014 Nominated for department prize | Royal Academy of Art The Hague | NL