Address:

Dolph Kessler

Sanjesreed 3 9062 EK

Oentsjerk

Tel 0031 58 2154107

Mobile 0031 6 51082598

Email: info@dolphkessler.nl or dolphkessler@planet.nl

Exhibitions expected

2012 Galerie Smarius / Noorderlicht 2012 / groepstentoonsteling / De Noordzee rond

2012 Galerie van Kranendonk Den Haag / boekpresentatie de Noordzee rond

2012 Rosa Spierhuis Laren / Exhibition together with my sister Beppe Kessler 

Exhibitions of the last years 

2012 Omrop Fryslan groepstentoonstelling / het verlangen naar de kust

2012 Museum Belvedere Heerenveen / seascapes 

2011 Haags Gemeente Museum / groepstentoonstelling / in kader anoniem gekozen

2011 Kunsthal Rotterdam / 6 grote foto's uit de serie Art Fairs

2011 Galerie Anderwereld / Groningen / around the polar circle (samen met Zoltin Peeter) 

2011 Catarine Kapel Harderwijk / tussen kunst en kust

2010 Museum Smallingerland / Art Fair foto's in kader zilveren camera

2010 Galerie Smarius & Steven Sterk / une maison abandonnee ? Noorderlicht

2010 Art Amsterdam /  Galerie Smarius & Steven Sterk / Art Fair foto's

2010 Galerie Smarius & Steven Sterk / Art Fair foto's

2009 Scheeneroute 

2009 Museum Belvedere Heerenveen / NOK'/ Art Fair foto's

2008 Kunstmaand Ameland / seascapes

2008 Lauwersland route / all over presentatie

2008 Bas galerie Sneek / Thialf

2007 Rotterdam Historisch Museum / RDM, laatste dagen Rotterdamse fabriek

2006 Italiaans Instituut te Amsterdam / Paasprocessie op Sicily

2006 Omrop Fryslan / groepstentoonstelling

2006 Natuurmuseum Fryslan / foto's van Bali / in kader Noorderlicht fotofestival

2005 Latijns Amerika Instituut te Amsterdam / Cuba

2005 Noorderlicht / foto's van Winschoten

2004 Huntenkunst / 4 panelen (ism Egbarta Veenhuizen) 

2003 Pip's Galerie / vijf vorstelijke dagen

Hans Maarten Post weblog 12 januari 2010 (http://utopiaparkway.wordpress.com/about/)

about The Art Fair Book

I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one to find art fairs and gallery openings rather funny and confusing. I know I should be looking at the paintings on the wall, but I always get distracted and start to observe the art loving crowd even more. That’s why Art fairs – Mise en scenes from the art world by Dutch photographer Dolph Kessler just had to be my book of the month. It’s a collection of photo’s taken at art fairs around the world. More of Kessler’s pictures after the jump.

We are a funny bunch, aren’t we? Putting on our fancy clothes to go from opening to opening. Just to look and be looked at. Dolph Kessler was intrigued too by that rather theatrical setting, so he decided to travel the world, for three years, and take pictures at important art fairs.

He visited Frieze Art London, Art Cologne, Paris Photo, Art Dubai, Art Basel Miami Beach and even Art Brussels. He was aiming for pictures that would have a little bit more than just a documentary aspect to them. He really wanted them to have a theatrical feeling: as if the tableaux were ’staged’, with actors instead of just people accidentally walking by. Kessler likes to draw parallels with religion and churchgoers too. I’m not really following him on that one, but his pictures sure are fun to look at. The book is in Dutch and English and comes with a couple of essays and an interview with Mathew Slotover (Frieze Art London).