Willem Popelier
Works with Photography
News
Teaser of Ephemeral Photographs on show in triptych at Pennings Foundation
I'm currently working on a new project focussing on the short amount of time photographs are used and visible on Instagram Stories, Snapchat, etc.
from 28 June - 20 July a teaser of the project is on show in the Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven, in a triptych show with The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide and Showroom Girls.
In 2020 the new project will be fully exhibited in a solo show in Pennings Foundation.
Rejected Identities and The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide on show at VU Amsterdam
Rejected Identities and The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide are exhibited at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the exhibition What about me? from 6 May - 12 July 2019 in the Main Building of the VU Amsterdam. The exhibition displays artworks that focus on the quest for identity. Participating artists are: Sara Blokland, Risk Hazekamp, Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek, L.A. Raeven, Pieter Verhoeff about Erik van Lieshout, Willem Popelier and Get Me. On July 9 a debate will be held at the VU, exploring the role of the body in constructing identity. VU scientists from different disciplines will reflect on this topic.
Paris Error online
On november 13, 2015 I witnessed one of the terror attacks in Paris. The new project PARIS ERROR focusses on this experience. See the project here. One image of the project is published in Foam Magazine #49.
News Archive
Work
Paris Error
Your Weekly President
The Do-It-Yourselfie Guide
En Vogue
Inside Obama's Compound
Obscured Classified Document (Situation Room)
The Osama Papers
Showroom Girls
Showroom
This Is Me & This Is Me
Visual Proof Of My Existence
███ and Willem. Documentation of a Youth
Rejected Identities
Commissioned Work (selection)
About
Bio
Willem Popelier is an artist working with photography. His focus is on the mechanisms and politics of representation. He researches the generally accepted ways in which photos are used, and how identity is represented and perceived through photography. Thus his focus is mostly on popular culture, the ubiquitous image and its effects on society.
His work is exhibited worldwide, published in magazines such as C Photo and Foam Magazine, awarded with several prizes including a C/O Berlin Talent, a Bronze Medal for Best Book Design from all over the World, and nominated for the ICP Infinity Award and the Prix Pictet, among others.
He is tutor in photography and critical studies at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and regularly gives lectures and workshops addressing the ubiquitous image, selfies, the role and implementation of artistic research, and more.
Contact
mail[at]willempopelier.nl
+31(0)6 41 31 03 76
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Further information
Curriculum Vitae
Artist statement
A selection of essays and interviews