Wessel Baarda

About

Wessel Baarda’s (B. 1989, NL) work features depictions of everyday life in strange, jarring settings. A body of work where the most ordinary situations are portrayed from an overwhelming and personal point of view, a narrative that finds its strength in the banality of life itself. It is a way of critically interrogating everyday life in our visual culture by drawing the line between reality and fantasy, commerce, and autonomy through depictions of (unsettling) visual scenes. The work contemplates our contemporary reality, in which the limits between real life and fiction are as close to disappearing as ever. Creating narratives that highlight the absurdity of mundane settings amplifying the strange times we live in.

wessel.baarda@gmail.com
+31 6 123 932 20
Instagram: @wesselbaarda

CV

Solo Shows

2020

• Welcome Home, Paradiso Amsterdam (NL)

Group Shows

2021

• Art au Centre Liege, Liege (FR)

2020

• New Digital Collage, Online Exhibition
• Stay at Home Photography, Online Exhibition

2019

• 10 years of Subbacultcha, De School (NL)

2018

• The Most Expensive Cupboard in Glasgow, Oldschool (UK)
• Facetime X Stroom, Stroom (NL)
• ArtBnB Residency & Group Show, Perponcherstraat (NL)

2017

• Feast During the Plague, Vendelstraat 2 (NL)
• A Photographers Journal, Cloud Gallery (NL)

2016

• L.A.N. Exhibition, Melkweg Gallery (NL)
• BOD Auction, The Beergarden (NL)
• Gen’ 16, De School (NL)

Older

• Selected Works, Collective Space (NL)
• Photoacademy Award, Fotomuseum (NL)
• Sony Xperia, Unseen (NL)
• Phi, Dokzaal (NL)

Residencies

2020

• 30Work30Days, Online Residency

2019

• 30Work30Days, Online Residency

2017

• ArtBnB, Perponcherstraat (NL)

Publications

2020

• Welcome Home, Musée Magazine

• Selected Works, Self Publish Be Happy

• Peterson + Stoop, Selfridges

• Peterson + Stoop, FASHION (Magazine)

2019

• Tampons, Ordinary Magazine

• Interview about practice, It’s Nice That
• Realism in the Online World, Volskrant Magazine

2017

• Selected works, A Photographers Journal

• Selected works, Self Published Booklet

2015

• Slide Show, De Grote Amsterdamse Kunstkalender

• Slide Show, Printed Web No.3

• Riders, Vice Festival Issue

Older

• Volkskrant Magazine
• De Correspondent

Affiliations & Memberships

2015–Ongoing

• Facetime Den Haag, Co-Founder & Content Manager

2017

• ArtBnB, Co-Founder & Social Media Manager

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