MARTIN ROEMERS - Exhibitions

MARTIN ROEMERS - exhibitions.

EDUCATION

AKI, Academy of Fine Arts, Enschede, the Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 TOP SECRET: Relics of the Cold War, Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig,DE Metropolis, Erasmus Huis, Jakarta, ID (May - July 2019)

2018 Metropolis, Permanent Exhibition, Asian Library, University of Leiden, NL Metropolis, Chicago Forum on Global Cities, Chicago, USA New Acquisitions: Metropolis, Royal DSM, Art Collection, Sittard, NL Relics of the Cold War, House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany (Haus der Geschichte), Bonn, DE Kabul Portraits, Drents Museum, Assen, NL

2017 Metropolis, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, NL New Acquisitions: Urban Jungle. Megacities in Asia, University Library, Leiden, NL Metropolis, World Forum The Hague, United Nations conference, NL Metropolis, India Habitat Centre – Visual Arts Gallery, New Delhi Metropolis, Anastasia Photo, New York City, USA

2016 Metropolis, East Wing, Dubai, UAE Relics of the Cold War, German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin, DE

2015 Metropolis, Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography. Amsterdam,NL The Eyes of War, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia The Eyes of War , German Historical Museum (DHM), Berlin, DE

2014 Relics of the Cold War , Anastasia Photo, New York, USA Preview Metropolis, Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Netherlands , NL

2012 The Eyes of War , Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL Metropolis (Work in Progress), Anastasia Photo, New York, USA

2010 Relics of the Cold War, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, RU Relics of the Cold War, Fotofestival Fotopub, Galerija Simulaker, Novo Mesto, SL

2009 - 2010 Relics of the Cold War , Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin, DE Trabant: The Final Days of Production , Deutsches Museum, Munich, DE

2009 Trabant: The Final Days of Production Stadt- und Industriemuseum Ruesselsheim, DE Cold War Graveyard Legermuseum, Delft, NL A Tribute to the Trabant, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL 2008 The Final Days of Production ,Industriemuseum Sachsen, Chemnitz, DE

2007 The Never-Ending War , Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL

2003 Kabul, Legermuseum, Delft, NL

2001 Tussen vijandige buren, Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, NL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Through the Looking Glass, Torch Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL Eyes on Main Street, Wilson Photography Festival, North Carolina, USA (27 April - 4 August) A Turkish Breeze Through a Dutch Frame, Guler Sanat Gallery, Ankara, TR (27 March - 17 April)

2018 The Alfred Fried Photography Award, Obiettivo Pace, Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, Rome, IT Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography, House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, DE Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Hague, NL

2017 Wonderkamers, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, NL Metropolis, DongGang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol, South Korea Art Central, Hong Kong, (Art Fair) YIP Art, Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam, NL (Art Auction)

2016 Biennial of Photography, Knokke-Heist, Belgium Art Miami, Miami, USA (Art Fair) Amsterdam Art Fair, NL A Turkish Breeze through a Dutch Frame ,Cetin Emec Art Gallerie – by the Netherlands Embassy in Ankara, Izmir, TR A Turkish Breeze through a Dutch Frame, Cagdas Cam Sanatlari Museum, Eskisehir, TR

2015 Urban Dreams, Acte2galerie, Paris

2014 The Never-Ending War, Bursa Fotofest, Bursa, Turkey

2013 Paris Photo, Paris, FR Photoville, New York City, USA Art Market,The Empty Quarter, Dubai, UAE Syngenta Photography Award 2013, Somerset House, London, UK ART Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL European Architectural Photography Prizes, Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen, DE

2012 YIP Art, Christie’s Auction House, Amsterdam, NL Rollercoaster , MOTI museum, Breda, The Netherlands The Eye Photofestival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK Photoville, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn , New York, USA Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age , Museum of Estonian Architecture, Talinn, Estonia, 2011 Metropolis 2.0, The Empty Quarter, Dubai, UAE Metropolis, Noorderlicht Photofestival 2011, Groningen, NL World Photography Festival 2011, London, San Francisco, Shanghai, Sao Paulo World Press Photo 2011 Summer Exhibition , Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, NL Let’s face it, Photofestival Naarden, Naarden, NL

2011 Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Duke University, Center for Documentary Studies, Durham USA,

2010 YIP Art, Christie’s Auction House, Amsterdam, NL Tilt , Photofestival Bredaphoto, Breda, NL Warzone, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Leeuwarden, NL 1

2009-2010 Fallmauerfall | 61 – 89 – 09 Grenzueberschreitung und Grenzerfahrung im Spiegel der Kunst Ephraim-Palais, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin, DE

2009 Gimme Shelter—Bouw in Beeldprijs Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL New Homeland: Europa?ischer Architekturfotografie-Preis 2009 Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany, DE

2008 La tierra: economi?a, conflicto, naturaleza, Revela Photofestival, Oleiros, SP

2007 – 2008 Arbeit und Alltag 1951-1992: Fotografien von Roger Melis, Martin Roemers und Walter Vogel Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, DE

2006 World Press Photo Dutch Decade: Photography from The Netherlands , Customs House, Sydney, AUS

2005 Traces & Omens, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, NL

2004 Warzone - Dutch Photographers and International Conflicts State Museum of the Political History of Russia, St. Petersburg, RU

2003 Duister , Melkweg Galerie, Amsterdam, NL

2002 Brandhaarden - Warzone The Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam, NL

AWARDS 2015 Street Photography Awards, Lens Culture, 1st Prize for Metropolis

2013 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2013, Nomination The Eyes of War

2011 World Press Photo 2011: 1st prize Daily Life Stories Sony World Photography Awards, Nomination

2010 Prix Pictet, Nomination Photo District News, USA, Notable Photo Books of 2010 Daylight/ CDS Photo Awards, USA, Project Prize: Honorable Mention Daylight/ CDS Photo Awards 2010, USA, Work-in-Process Prize: Juror Pick

2009 European Prize of Architectural Photography - Commendation Bouw in Beeld Prijs 2009, The Netherlands, Nomination

2006 World Press Photo 2006: 2nd prize Portraits Stories

Books (Monographs) Metropolis, Hatje Cantz (Ostfildern, 2015) The Eyes of War, Hatje Cantz (Ostfildern, 2012) Relics of the Cold War, Hatje Cantz (Ostfildern, 2009) Trabant. The Final Days of Production / Die lezten Tagen der Produktion, Wasmuth, Verlag (Berlin, 2007) The Never-Ending War / De eindeloze oorlog, QV Publishers (Nijmegen, 2005) Kabul, Legermuseum (Delft, 2003) Tussen vijandige buren, Mets & Schilt Publishers (Amsterdam, 2000) De laatste lichting/ The last batch, Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven, 1996)

Books/Catalogues featuring Martin Roemers' work Modern Times, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2014) Visions of Earth, National Geographic (Washington, 2011) Growth, Prix Pictet, teNeues (Kempen, 2011) Warzone, Noorderlicht (Groningen, 2010) Tilt, Breda Photo (Breda, 2010) New Homeland/ Neue Heimat, Architekturbild (Stuttgart 2009) Different Eyes. 10 jaar eigenzinnige Nederlandse fotografie, Volkskrant Magazine (Amsterdam 2009) La tierra: economi?a, conflicto, naturaleza, Revela (Oleiros, 2008) Germany since 1945 through the Eye of Dutch Photographers, Flip Bool (Breda, 2008) Traces & Omens, Noorderlicht (Groningen, 2005) Document Nederland, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2005)

Screenings Visa Pour l’Image, Perpignan, France, 2014 Rencontres d'Arles, France, Night of the Year, 2012

Museum Collections – The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX – Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Amsterdam – Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands – Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands – National Military Museum, Soesterberg, Netherlands – Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), Berlin – Haus der Geschichte (House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany), Bonn – Sächsisches Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, Germany – Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin

Public Collections – Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Art Collection, The Hague, Netherlands – The Netherlands Embassy, Havana, Cuba – The Netherlands Embassy, Brasilia, Brazil – Netherlands Veterans Institute, Doorn – University of Leiden, Photography Collection, Leiden, Netherlands

Private Collections – Anthony Terrana Collection, Boston, MA

Corporate Collections – Royal DSM, Art Collection, Heerlen, Netherlands – Stibbe, Art Collection, Amsterdam – Bencis Capital, Art Collection, Amsterdam – TK Gruppe, Art Collection, Engelberg, Switzerland – Ford Foundation, New York, NY

Articles/Reviews NRC Handelsblad,? Metropolis: chaos megasteden voelbaar, January 19, 2016 The New Review, The Independent on Sunday, Roadshow, January 10, 2016? Photonews (GER), Interview, January 2016 European Photography (GER), Urbanics The Contemporary City, #98, 2015 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (GER), Blinde Blicke, October 6, 2014 GEO Magazine (GER), Der Rhytmus in Metropolis, September 2014 The New York Times (USA), The Bustle and the Blur, July 28, 2013 The Wall Street Journal (USA), A Periodontist's Photographic Passion, March 30, 2013. The New York Times (USA), Living in The New Metropolis, May 6, 2012 Newsweek (USA), Hello, Seven Billion, November 7, 2011 The New Yorker (USA), Martin Roemers’s Swirling Megacities, online September 18, 2012 The New York Photo Review (USA), Urban Speed, April 18, 2012 Conscientious (USA), Meditations on Photographs: Frederick Lennart Bentley by Martin Roemers, June 26, 2012 Images (FR), Memory Lands, May 2010 Soura Magazine (DUBAI) Relics of the Cold War, Summer 2010 Der Spiegel (GER), Bunkermentalitaet, Nr.51, 2009 Financial Times Magazine (UK), Darkness visible, November 14, 2009 The Wall Street Journal (USA), The Little Car That Could (Sort Of): a Trabant Tribute, April 24, 2009 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (GER), Als der Krieg ans Ende kam, May 8, 2005 National Geographic (USA) Visions of Earth, June 2007 Foto8 (UK), Relics, March 2006 Eyemazing (NL), The Never-Ending War, Fall 2005 International Herald Tribune (USA) Portfolio, May 9, 2005