Ger van Elk

♂ *1941 / Netherlands

Works

Solo exhibitions

On appearing and disappearing

Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich (CH)
10 Jun 2012 – 21 Jul 2012
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Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin (DE)
29 Apr 2011 – 11 Jun 2011
Der Abschied, ein bewegter Punkt am Horizont

Galerie m , Bochum (DE)
23 Apr 2004 – 14 Jul 2004

Group

Seriously

curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs,

SPRÜTH MAGERS, London (GB)
21 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Bas Jan Ader, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Massimo Bartolini, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijevic …
Forever Young? Photography and transience

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
30 Mar 2018 – 12 Aug 2018

with Hans Aarsman, Koos Breukel, Wijnanda Deroo, Rineke Dijkstra, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Gilbert & George, Emeric Lhuisset, Tracey Moffatt, Johannes Schwartz, Berend Strik
Behold the Man

100 portraits of 100 people from the past 100 years

Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)
1 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans, Seiichi Furuya, Nan Goldin, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Milan Kunc, Sarah Lucas, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Miller …
I Love Holland. Dutch post-war art

Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (NL)
21 Sep 2013 – 6 Sep 2015

with Bas Jan Ader, Sara Blokland, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, Inez & Vinoodh, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Aernout Mik, Julika Rudelius, JCJ Vanderheyden
Broken Landscapes

Ludwig Museum, Koblenz (DE)
25 Jan 2015 – 22 Mar 2015

with Ger Dekkers, Jan Dibbets
BROKEN LANDSCAPES

Brüche im Weltbild

Stiftung Situation Kunst, Bochum (DE)
6 Sep 2014 – 11 Jan 2015

with Ger Dekkers, Jan Dibbets
The Marseillaise / fifteen years of collecting

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
13 Sep 2014 – 7 Dec 2014

with Claudia Angelmaier, Uta Barth, Valerie Belin, BOWNIK, Winfried Bullinger, Balthasar Burkhard, Edward Burtynsky, Sophie Calle, Popel Coumou, Jeff Cowen, Susan Derges, Charlotte Dumas …
Double Dutch

Bas Jan Ader, Stanley Brouwn And Ger Van Elk

Richard Saltoun, London (GB)
14 Mar 2013 – 10 May 2013

with Bas Jan Ader
AN IMAGE

Kaleidoscope, Milano (IT)
26 Oct 2011 – 29 Nov 2011

with Bernadette Corporation, Roe Ethridge, Harun Farocki, Massimo Grimaldi, Oliver Laric, Mathias Poledna, Lucie Stahl, Ian Wallace
La carte d'apres Nature

Curated by Thomas Demand

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (US)
20 Jul 2011 – 8 Oct 2011

with Tacita Dean, Luigi Ghirri, Rodney Graham, August Kotzsch
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de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
13 Feb 2010 – 28 Mar 2010

with Dave Hullfish Bailey, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Frances Stark
Contour

111 hedendaagse Nederlandse kunstenaars in 3 Delftse musea

Museums: Het Prinsenhof - Nusantara - La, Delft (NL)
4 Mar 2007 – 13 May 2007

with Tiong Ang, Wout Berger, Koos Breukel, Yael Davids, Wijnanda Deroo, Jan Dibbets, Rineke Dijkstra, Desiree Dolron, Juul Hondius, Inez & Vinoodh, Aernout Mik, Erwin Olaf …
Speakers

AEROPLASTICS contemporary, Brussels (BE)
18 Mar 2007 – 28 Apr 2007

with Michel Francois, Renzo Martens, L.A. Raeven, Julika Rudelius, Lidwien van de Ven
Summertime

Reflexion/Selbstreflexion

Galerie m , Bochum (DE)
5 Jul 2006 – 6 Sep 2006

with Lucinda Devlin, Thomas Florschuetz, Aino Kannisto, Yannick Koller, Mischa Kuball, Melanie Manchot, Nam June Paik, Boris Savelev
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982

Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami (US)
11 Mar 2005 – 12 Jun 2005

with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Burgin, Sarah Charlesworth …
Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum / videogalerie schum - Ready to shoot

Norwich Gallery, Norwich (GB)
13 Jan 2005 – 26 Feb 2005

with Giovanni Anselmo, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Jan Dibbets, Gilbert & George, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Dennis Oppenheim, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson …
Grenzüberschreitung

Galerie m , Bochum (DE)
5 Nov 2004 – 9 Feb 2005

with Wolfgang Bellwinkel, Lucinda Devlin, Thomas Florschuetz, Peter Hendricks, Yannick Koller, Dirk Reinartz, Kanji Wakae, Ryszard Wasko
At years end, rethinking The Family of Man

de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam (NL)
25 Nov 2004 – 16 Jan 2005

with Tiong Ang, Germaine Kruip, Les Levine, Sharon Lockhart, Nic Nicosia, Robert Polidori, Helena van der Kraan, Roy Villevoye
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982)

MARCO Vigo, Vigo (ES)
28 May 2004 – 19 Sep 2004

with Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Giovanni Anselmo, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Christian Boltanski, Marcel Broodthaers, Victor Burgin, Sarah Charlesworth …

Events

UNSEEN 2021

Unseen Photo, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Sep 2021 – 19 Sep 2021

with Alia Ali, Lara Almarcegui, Gueler Ates, Michael Bailey-Gates, Yael Bartana, Yael Bartana, Valerie Belin, Werner Bischof, Paul Bogaers, Antony Cairns, Tom Callemin, Clegg & Guttmann …
EXPO CHICAGO 2018

EXPO CHICAGO, Chicago (US)
27 Sep 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Ljubodrag Andric, Thomas Bangsted, Romare Bearden, Valerie Belin, Dawoud Bey, LIU Bolin, Boomoon, Jo Bradford, Nick Brandt, Matthew Brandt, Brassai, Sebastiaan Bremer …