Foam Talent 19

Exhibition: 13 Jan 2019 – 3 Mar 2019

Foam Talent 19
Kaelyn and the girls, from the series Frères d’une île pas très proche, 2018 © Durimel

Foam opens pop-up location: Foam Next Door
presenting a new generation of young photographers in Foam Talent 2019

On 12 January Foam is launching a new pop-up venue: Foam Next Door. In a former office space at Keizersgracht 617 – two doors down from the museum – Foam will present the brand new exhibition Foam Talent 2019, with works from a new generation of visual artists from 13 January to 3 March 2019. The work of these 20 outstanding young artists selected through the annual Foam Talent Call are featured in Foam Magazine # 52, Talent Issue. After the presentation at Foam Next Door the Foam Talent exhibition will tour to New York, London and Frankfurt.

The 20 selected photographers give insight as to the position of contemporary photography today. These upcoming photographers cross the borders of the photographic medium with striking ease. Object installations in which the experience of the work is just as important as the aesthetic value are as readily found as classic two-dimensional photographs, while archival materials continue to play an important role, together with multi-layered, long-term research.

Foam Talents 2019
Florian Amoser (Switzerland), He Bo (China), Valentine Bo (Ukraine), Chen Zhe (China), Maisie Cousins (United Kingdom), Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques (France), Durimel (France), Sophie Gabrielle (Australia), Eric Gyamfi (Ghana), Thomas Hauser (France), Gregory Eddi Jones (United States), Stelios Kallinikou (Cyprus), Takashi Kawashima (Japan), Dima Komarov (Russia), Lilly Lulay (Germany), Jaya Pelupessy (Netherlands), Daniel Shea (United States), Senta Simond (Switzerland), Salvatore Vitale (Italy) and Carmen Winant (United States).

The Foam Talent programme and the annual Talent Issue of Foam Magazine are supported by The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, the Niemeijer Fonds and the VandenEnde Foundation.

Foam Talent is made possible by: Outset Netherlands, Kleurgamma Fine-Art Photolab, Snijder Schilderwerken and Starframe. With special thanks to Adyen. Mediapartners: DAZED and Het Parool.

Artists

Works

  • 1610-05-09, from the series Orchid, from the series grass, peonie, bum, 2015 © Maisie Cousins
  • On Table, from the series Unfinished Topography / Collection, 2015 © Takashi Kawashima
  • An Expansion of Kobo Abe’s ‘The Red Cocoon’ (Viewing) from the series Towards Evenings: Six Chapters (Chapter 3, Section 2), 2017 © Chen Zhe
  • A Nice Day (with some fruit), from the series Flowers for donald, 2017 © Gregory Eddi Jones
  • Model Angela and her personal style, 2016 , from the series Seperation Anxiety, 2018-ongoing © Dima Komarov
  • Our Writing Tools Take Part in the Forming of Our Thoughts #F. © Lilly Lulay
  • untitled from the series worry for the fruit the birds wont eat 2018© Sophie Gabrielle
  • Ants, from the series grass, peonie, bum, 2017 © Maisie Cousins
  • RMX2040 from the series Your next step would be to do the Transmission © Valentine Bo