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“Comfort Women” in Maison de l’Image Documentaire, Sète, France

Jan — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:51:02 +0000

May 18, 2012, at 11 am: Opening of the exhibitions of Ansel Adams and Jan Banning in the Maison de l’Image Documentaire, 3 Rue Raspail, Sète, France, as part of the ImageSingulaires photo festival. The exhibitions can be seen till June 3, 2012.

Adams’ work Manzanar War Relocation Center, portraits from an internment camp for Japanese during WW2, is shown together with my series Comfort Women.

Thanks for your support

Jan — Thu, 03 May 2012 10:38:56 +0000

Dear friends,

Also on behalf of my family, I would like to thank you for your letters and emails and all other manners of support and consolation in the days after my dad’s death. They were important.

My dad died

Jan — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:17:25 +0000

Monday, March 5, 2012, my dad died. Frans Banning was almost 91 years old. He was born in 1921 in Makassar in the colony of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. During WW II, he worked as a forced laborer for the Japanese Military on the Sumatra (also called: Pakanbaroe) Railroad: see my book and exhibition Traces of War; Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways (Dutch title: Sporen van oorlog. Overlevenden van de Birma- en de Pakanbaroe-spoorweg).

An unconventional optimist, he was loved by many. In the company of some 150-200 people, we laid him to rest on Saturday, March 10, in the Dutch town of Dieren.

“Moroccan Vermeer” in MOTI, Breda

Jan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:44:08 +0000

My interpretation of Vermeer, “Moroccan girl reading an application form for an “inburgeringscursus” (citizenship course) at a closed window” will be one of the photos selected for the exhibition “Rollercoaster” in the MOTI (Museum of the Image) in Breda, the Netherlands. The exhibition starts April 29, 2012 and is curated by the Dutch writer Joost Zwagerman. Zwagerman is one of the most widely read novelists of his generation who also writes poetry and columns. His favourite subjects include visual art and pop music. As a guest curator for MOTI, he has asked 100 prominent Dutchmen to select an image, made in the 21^st century, for this exhibition.

Seminar at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 22 February 2012

Jan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:16:06 +0000

On Wednesday, 22 February, I will give a seminar with the title Bureaucratics and Other Unorderly Subjects, 5.30 pm, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Research Forum South Room. It will be followed by “informal discussion and refreshments.” Organised by: Julian Stallabrass (julian.stallabrass@courtauld.ac.uk) and Pei-Kuei Tsai (Pei-Kuei.Tsai@courtauld.ac.uk), free admission.

Further information here

“Down&Out in the South” exhibited in Taiwan

Jan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:39:18 +0000

My recently completed project Down and Out in the South featuring homeless men and women from the Southern USA (Columbia, SC, Atlanta, GA, and the Mississippi Delta) has been selected as part of an exhibition in the JJ-W Hotel in Tainan, Taiwan during April and May 2012. The exhibition, “Non-Homes: Living in Art and Art Living in the JJ-W Hotel,” intends to bring new thoughts to art and to the hotel itself. The JJ-W Hotel is a hybrid of a hotel, gallery, forum, and online platform, as well as a long-term experimental project that aims to host various cultural events. Provisionally called “Face-to-Face Room,” visitors of this exhibition will “live” with the art by spending a night in a Face-to-Face room. These are temporary rooms set up in the JJ-W Hotel’s experimental exhibition space. The curator of the exhibition, Pei-Kuei Tsai (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) proposes to integrate the photographs from “Down and Out in the South” into the walls of the Face-to-Face Room, transforming the whole room into an artwork itself. He believes that this will offer a thought-provoking experience, allowing visitors/guests to reflect on the meanings of (non-)home.

The “Non-Homes…” exhibition has been recognised by Taiwan’s National Culture and Arts Foundation as one of the best curated exhibitions for 2012. Among some of the participants already planned are film directors Ming-liang Tsai and Kang-sheng Lee, photographers Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Julian Stallabrass and director of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Pei-ni, Beatrice Hsieh.

For more information, see the JJ-W Hotel or the Courtauld Institute of Art.

“National Identities” in PDN (January 2012)

Jan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:42:37 +0000

Now also in the online version of PDN (with correct spelling of the name “Banning”):

Opening exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2011: foto’s

Jan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:07:04 +0000

An impression of the opening of my exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, last saturday (Dec 10, 2011). Photos courtesy Eduard de Kam.

Opening exhibition in Gallery “Fontana Fortuna”, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2011

Jan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:33:26 +0000

For non-Dutch speakers: Opening is on December 10 at 4pm, Keizersgracht 105, 1015 CH Amsterdam.

UITNODIGING OPENING EXPOSITIE

Op zaterdag 10 december 2011 van 15.30 tot 18.00 uur start de solo-expositie van Jan Banning bij Galerie Fontana Fortuna. De expositie zal in aanwezigheid van de kunstenaar om 16.00 uur worden geopend door Alexander Rinnooy Kan. De galerie zal tevens geopend zijn op zondag 11 december van 14.00 tot 18.00 uur.

Jan Banning kan worden betiteld als de maker van Nederlands meest succesvolle fototentoonstelling ooit: zijn serie Bureaucratics is op meer dan 30 locaties wereldwijd tentoongesteld: van New York en Washington tot Berlijn en Sint-Petersburg en van Argentinië tot Kazachstan.

Hij ontving voor zijn foto’s vele nationale en internationale prijzen, waaronder de World Press Photo 2004. Het werk van Jan Banning is reeds tentoongesteld in vele musea en tijdens fotofestivals, waaronder de Kunsthal te Rotterdam en New York Photo Festival 2008 (zie exhibitions/). De complete series Sporen van Oorlog en Troostmeisjes zijn aangekocht door het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam. In zijn werk, waarin kunst en journalistiek samenkomen, gaat het veelal om machtskwesties. Hij maakt series over langetermijngevolgen van oorlog en over bureaucratie.

Tijdens de expositie zullen wij de eerste werken tonen uit zijn meest recente en reeds fameuze serie National Identities. Marokkaanse met aanvraagformulier voor inburgeringscursus bij gesloten raam, geïnspireerd op Vermeer, is op de ZomerExpo 2011 te zien geweest in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Galerie Fontana Fortuna heeft de primeur om de twee werken geïnspireerd op Jan Six van Rembrandt en Olympia van Manet voor het eerst aan het publiek te tonen. Daarnaast zal een selectie worden gepresenteerd uit zijn vermaarde series Bureaucratics, Troostmeisjes, The Face of Poverty, Law&Order, en Vermeer in Vietnam.

De expositie duurt van 10 december 2011 tot en met 25 februari 2012. Meer informatie en een overzicht van het werk van Jan Banning is te vinden op www.fontanafortuna.com en www.janbanning.com

Joris Montens en Stefan Heinis

Galerie Fontana Fortuna

Keizersgracht 105

1015 CH Amsterdam

06-21578045

020-7370597

info@fontanafortuna.com

“Law and Order” Runner-Up in Forward Thinking Museum Contest

Jan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:27:02 +0000

Three of the photos from my Work in Progress “Law and Order” were selected as Runners-Up in the 2011 Photography Contest of The Forward Thinking Museum (Artist Level), New York, NY, USA.