The visible oscillation between Annemiek’s self-
absorption and self-consciousness, in front of the
camera, is what makes the work so compelling.
Rineke Dijkstra has exhibited widely in Europe
and the United States. She has won several awards
that cross the different photographic genres,
including the Epica Award for Best European
Advertising Photography in 1991 and the Citibank
Private Bank Photography Prize in 1998.
JaneFletcherSeealso:Photography in The Netherlands; Portrai-
ture; Sander, August; Social Representation
Biography
Born in Sittard, Netherlands, 1959. Studied Gerrit Rietveld
Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1981–1986; worked
as a commercial photographer. Awards: Kodak Awards
Netherlands, 1987; Epica Award for Best European
Advertising Photography, 1991; Art Encouragement
Award Amstelveen, 1993; Werner Mantz Award, 1994;
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, 1999.
Individual Exhibitions
1994 Rineke Dijkstra; Kunstaanmoedigingsprijs, Amstelv-
een, Netherlands
1995 Time Festival: Rineke Dijkstra; Museum van Heden-
daagse Kunst, Ghent, Netherlands
1997 Location; The Photographers’ Gallery London, Uni-
ted Kingdom
1998 About the World; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1998 Menschenbilder; Museum Folkwang Essen and Gal-
erie der Hochschule fu ̈r Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig,
Germany
1999 The Buzzclub, Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam,
NL; MACBA Barcelona, Spain
1999 Annemiek; Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, United
Kingdom
2001 Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, Massachusetts
2001 The French Foreign Legion; Galerie Jan Mot, Brux-
elles, Belgium
2001 Israel Portraits; Herzliya Museum of Art, Herzliya, Israel
2004 Rineke Dijkstra: Historias; PhotoEspana 2004, Madrid,
Spain
Group Exhibitions
1993 Every Child is Made of Marble; Beurs van Berlage/
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995 The European Face; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh,
United Kingdom
1996 Prospect 96; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
1996 100 Fotos uit dee Collectie; Stedelijk Museum, Amster-
dam, Netherlands
1996 Colorrealismea: Rineke Dijkstra, Wolfgang Tillmans,
Inez van Lamsweerde, Nan Goldin; Galleria Photology,
Milan, Italy
1997 New Photography 13; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1997 Photowork(s) in Progress/Constructing Identity;Neder-
lands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1998 Global Vision, New Art From the 90s, Part III; Deste
Foundation, Athens, Greece
1998 Sightings; ICA, London, United Kingdom
1999 Objects in the rear of the mirror may appear closer than
they are; Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
1999 Children of Berlin; PS 1, Long Island City, New York
1999 Modern Starts: People, Places, Things; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York
1999 The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize; The
Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2000 Breathless! Photography and Time; Victoria and Albert
Museum, London, United Kingdom
2000 How You Look at It: Twentieth-Century Photography;
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2001 From the Low Countries—Reality and Art 1960–2001;
Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen Denmark
2001 Uniform—Order and Disorder; PS 1, Long Island City,
New York
2002 Performing Bodies; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop; Tate Liverpool,
Liverpool, United Kingdom
2002 Moving Pictures; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, New York
2003 Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century
Photograph; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2003 Witness; Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
2003 Just Love Me: Post Feminisic Art of the 1990s; Bergen
Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
2003 Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and
Video; International Center of Photography, New York,
New YorkSelected Works
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA, June 24, 1992
Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992
Saskia, Harderwijk, Netherlands, March 16, 1994
Tecla, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 16, 1994
Annemiek, February 11, 1997 (video still)
Montemor, Portugal, May 1, 1994Further Reading
Barthes, Roland.La Chambre Claire. France: Editions du
Seuil, 1980; asCamera Lucida, USA: Hill and Wang,
1981; UK: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
Durden, Mark. ‘‘Painful Exposure: Rineke Dijkstra.’’Port-
folio Magazineno. 27 (June 1998).
Fletcher, Jane. ‘‘Maternal Bodies of Work.’’British Journal
of Photography12 (March 2003).
Fletcher, Jane. ‘‘Sweet Liberties: Narratives of Resistance and
Desire in Photographs of Women.’’ In Masquerade:
Women’s Contemporary Portrait Photography. Newton,
Kate and Rolph, Christine, eds. Wales: Fotogallery, 2003.
Morgan, Jessica, ed.Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits. Boston:
Institute of Contemporary Art, 2001.
Roodenburg, Linda, ed. PhotoWork(s) in Progress/Con-
structing Identity. Netherlands: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon,
Gent (B) and Nederlands Foto Instituut, 1997.DIJKSTRA, RINEKE