- Jan Banning
May 4th 1954, Almelo
Dutch photographer and artist. Banning was born in the Netherlands from Dutch-East-Indies parents. He studied social and economic history at the Radboud University Nijmegen, and has been working as a photographer since 1981. A central theme of Banning's practice is state power, having produced series about the long-term consequences of war and the world of government bureaucracy.
MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND OTHER COLLECTIONS
Banning’s photographs are in public, corporate and private art collections throughout Europe and the United States, including
- AFAS Software, Leusden, Netherlands
- Arbeiterkammer, Vienna, Austria
- Business Art Service, Raamsdonksveer, Netherlands
- Fotomuseum Den Haag (Photography Museum The Hague), Netherlands
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
- Gemeentemuseum The Hague, Netherlands (Wonderkamers)
- High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
- JGS Permanent Collection (the Forward Thinking Museum), New York, NY, USA
- Nord/Norddeutsche Landesbank Art Collection, Hannover, Germany
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Art Collection, The Hague, Netherlands
- Ministry of Security and Justice Art Collection, The Hague, Netherlands
- Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
- Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA), San Diego, CA, USA
- Open Society Institute, Budapest, Hungary
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Stichting ArtService (Flexservice), Hilversum, Netherlands
- Tilburg University Art Collection, Tilburg, Netherlands
- UMC (Universitair Medisch Centrum) Art Collection, Utrecht, Netherlands
- VU University Amsterdam Art Collection, Netherlands
- Zorg van de Zaak, Utrecht, Netherlands
PRINT SALES
Galerie Fontana (international representation)
For information on prices, please contact Galerie Fontana, phone: + 31 + 31 20 223 8833
E: info@galeriefontana.com
All photographs are printed with an Epson ultrachrome printer, on Ilford Gallery Gold Fibre Silk (or similar) paper.
Some examples:
Bureaucratics Prints
● 80 cm x 80 cm archival pigment print, mounted on dibond, unframed, edition of 15
● 40 cm x 40 cm archival pigment print, unmounted, unframed, edition of 25
National Identities Prints
Moroccan girl reading an application form for a citizenship course at a closed window (after Vermeer)
● 50 cm x 60 cm archival pigment print, mounted on dibond, unframed, edition of 10 (sold out)
● 33 cm x 40 cm archival print pigment, unmounted, unframed, edition of 20
