Maarten van Schaik

Biography
1973 -

About the artist

Maarten van Schaik (Gouda, 1973) is a Dutch photographer. In 1993, he entered the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and completed his study in 1997. Van Schaik is looking for things and places that remain unnoticed in our hectic, everyday lives. He tries to see the importance of the seemingly unimportant. He worked in various places, such as Las Vegas, New York, Bangkok and Amsterdam.

Van Schaik about his series Ghost for a year: ‘When I’m photographing I feel like a kind of ghost; it’s like I’m in a world between reality and fantasy. Passers-by appear and disappear in light and shadow. I’m only the observer of what’s going on in the ‘real’ world.’ Since 2000, he had numerous exhibitions, for instance: Private life/Public space (group exhibition), Seelevel Gallery, Amsterdam, 2016; a solo-exhibition, Peer-in Gallery, The Hague, 2015; Saloon (group exhibition), De Slang, Amsterdam, 2014. In 2007, he was awarded the Bouw in Beeld Prize by the NAI (Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam). Van Schaik published several books and magazines, for example: ‘Dreaming of Europe,’ Photo-essay, 24 pages, writings: Bas Heijne, Michael Zeeman and Hafid Bouazza, financed by the Ministery of OCW, 2005; Car Nudes, artist book, self-published, 2013; ‘Mirage’, artist book, self-published, 2014; 50 photographs in book AAAro, 4 years of architectural projects in the Netherlands, 2016. A number of his works are included in the collections of the Ministery of BUZA, De Nederlandsche Bank, Van Zoetendaal, Zwitser leven, Benthem Crouwel, ING. 

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