Freudenthal/Verhagen

About

Freudenthal/Verhagen (1965 & 1962) are a Dutch photography duo based in Amsterdam. Carmen Freudenthal & Elle Verhagen met right after graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy were Carmen studied photography and Elle studied fashion design. There was an immediate recognition of a mutual taste in image making and what fashion imagery should look like.

Their still lasting cooperation started of with a first publication in I-D magazine in 1989. In their work they are always in search for ways to expand the definition of fashion photography, crossing lines between fashion and art, looking for cultural relevancy. The images are, over the years, diverse in discipline and form, but always show a sense of disturbance and a multilayered story. Stretching the confines of photography, they have merged photographs into 3D installations, projected video onto photographs and printed photographs onto draped silk.

Their work has been published in Dazed & Confused, Jalouse, Flash Art International and numerous other photography - and design books.
Works are listed in the collections of the Groninger Museum and Centraal Museum Utrecht.

2021	video: Claes Iversen
2019	Facade work hotel CitizenM, Amsterdam
2018	Amsterdam: solo exhibition, Ravestijn Gallery, Milan @ Salone del Mobile: Nothing New, Lensvelt San Fransisco: Photofairs Rotterdam: Identity Unraveled, SalonSalon
2017	Salone del Mobile, Milan: group exhibiton Masterly Editorial Vogue NL
2016	Paris Photo, Offprint and Unseen Book Market: presetation book WHOLE Amsterdam X-Bank : Solo exhibition publication Book WHOLE, collected work 1989-2015, distr. Idea Books KesselsKramer / CitizenM: commissioned work
2015	Utrecht Centraal Museum Commisioned work: Agnes: permanent photographic installation, 7.5 X 2.0 meters Amstedam airport CitizemM hotel 3 Facade works Amsterdam @ Ravestijn Gallery, Solo exhibition NL Harpers Bazar Editorial
2014	Participator at Unseen, photography fair (the Ravestijn gallery) Couture Graphic, group show: Moti (Breda), Mudac (Lausanne)
2013	Brand campaign Vlisco for the African market
2012	Fashion editorials for NRC de Luxe Assignment Centraal Museum (Utrecht) for 5 photograhic works
2010	Painted: Smithsonian (washington) - group show
2009	Event MASS. filling entrire building in centre of Amsterdam with installations, performances, collaborating with other artists and performers Solo exhibition at Gallery Dopolavore, Milan Photographic installation Holy House, filling the east wing of Museum Arnhem with 3D photographic works, draped printed silk, video and other techniques
2007	Photographic installation museum Arnhem, comission: projected video on a photographic print, including music Group shows MoMu, Antwerpen and Kroller Muller Museum Shoot in Iceland with Bjork and Bernhard Willhelm
2006	Several commisions for KesselsKramer
2005	Wonderholland, Rome: exhibtion catalogue, photography and design
2004	Photographic installation Stedlijk Museum Buro, wrapped objects and video
2003	Bernhard Willhelm 1999-2004 - book edit, art directions and design (LUKAS & STERNBERG) Stedelijk Museum Buro, Amsterdam, group show
2001	solo exhibiton at Studio Stefania Miscetti, Roma
2000	Publications Flash Art International, Visionaire (NY) group shows Tokyo, New York
1999	Editorials using collage, using self shot material, occasionally combined with found photos Starting collaboration with Bernhard Willhelm: lookbooks and art direction fashion shows Numerous international fashion editorials, japan, US, London, Paris
1998	Nomination Hyeres International Fashion Festival Collaborating with performers, dancers & designers
1991-1995	Life size 3 dimensional photographic installations, exhibitions at different locations in the Netherlands 3 dimensional photographic epoxy works
1989	Fashion editorials for I-d magazine and Avenue
1983-1988	Carmen Freudenthal studies photography. Elle Verhagen studies fashion disign Both at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam