Dutch artist Petra Noordkamp (1967) moves fluidly between photography and film. She explores the influence of experiences, memories, movies and dreams on the perception of architecture and the urban environment. She lives and works in Amsterdam where she studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. In 2012, her first short film The Mother, the Son and the Architect was shown in an exhibition of her work at Foam in Amsterdam and was selected for various Dutch and international film festivals. She was an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2013. In 2014 she was commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation in New York to make a short film about Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina. This film was a.o. screened at the Guggenheim in New York, K21 in Dusseldorf and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her film When you return I'll be living by the waterside (2017) had its world premiere at the IFFR in 2018. Her installation Fragile - Handle with Care was a commission from MAXXI Museum in Rome. In 2020 she stayed for three months in Tokyo, a residency provided by the Arts Initiative Tokyo and the Mondriaan Fund. Once in a while she also curates exhibitions.

education
1996 - 2000 Gerrit Rietveld Academie (photography), Amsterdam
1989 - 1994 Frederik Muller Academie (editing and production), Amsterdam

residencies, workshops
2021 Wolkerstuin, Amsterdam
2020 Arts Initiative Tokyo, AIR Mondriaan Fund
2013 Projectstudio Rome, AIR Mondriaan Fund
2013 workshop Single Shot Cinema
2010 workshop Book Case Study (with Hans Gremmen, Jorg Coelberg, Hester Keijser)

awards, grants
2023 shortlist Photo-Text-Book Awards, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
2023 voucher Bienal Sao Paulo, Mondriaan Fund
2022 grant, Jaap Harten Fonds
2022 publication subsidy, Mondriaan Fund
2022 project grant, Mondriaan Fund
2021 nomination Somfy Photography Award 2022
2021 grant, De Korte Verbeelding, Netherlands Film Fund and Mondriaan Fund
2018 award Best Form (Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water), Move Cine Arch Festival
2017 stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2017 award Best Experimental Film (Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina), Arquiteturas Film festival Lisboa
2017 financial support, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
2016 subsidy, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie
2015 travel grant, The Netherland - America Foundation, New York
2013 award Best International Experimental Documentary (La Madre), Arquiteturas, Lissabon
2013 nomination BNG Bank Workspace 2013
2013 nomination longlist Dutch Doc Award
2013 stipendium Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund
2012 subsidy, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK)
2012 project grant, Mondriaan Fund
2011 project grant, Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2010 subsidy, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
2005 subsidy billboardproject Watching men, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
2001 startstipendium, Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture

commissions
2018 short film and photography, Terre in movimento, commissioned by the MAXXI in Rome and the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle Marche
2014 short HD-film about Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum, New York
2013 design special coin '100 jaar Vredespaleis', ministery of Finance, The Hague
2003 photo series 'Toeristische plekken in Amsterdam', Gemeentearchief Amsterdam and AFK

exhibitions (solo) and online presentations
2024 Better Not Move, Ayumi/Cave gallery, Tokyo
2023 Beweeg maar niet, galerie Onrust, Amsterdam
2020 Tango, Tangor, Ergo Sum', Museo Materiali Minimi d'Arte Contemporanea, Paestum (online project)
2017 Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Suns and Stars, Tallinn
2012 La Madre, Foam, Amsterdam
2011 Cinecitta, landgoed de Horst, Driebergen
2010 Probe #5, Suze May Sho, Arnhem
2007 The Cinematic City. Part I Hallways, kijkkasten Sint Nicolaasstraat, Amsterdam
2005 Watching men, billboardproject Rozengracht/Marnixstraat, Amsterdam

exhibitions (group)
2023 Other Entanglements, Het Archief, Rotterdam
2023 Verzamelde Werken, Pictura, Dordrecht
2022 Back Home Somfy Photography Award, Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht
2021 Dedales, Hotel Malmaison, Nice
2021 Images Gibellina, Fotografia in Collezione: una nuova sfida, Museo delle Trame, Gibellina
2019 Terre in Movimento, MAXXI, Rome
2019 La Ferita Della Bellezza. Burri e Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Museo Alta Garda, Riva del Garda Garda
2019 Grande Cretto, Museo Grande Cretto, Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Gibellina Vecchia
2019 La Ferita Della Bellezza. Burri e Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome
2018 Terre in Movimento, Chiesa di San Gregorio Illuminatore già San Bartolomeo, Ancona
2018 Topos, Palazzo Belle Vue, Cannes
2017 DueSouth2016, The Delaware Contemporary, Delaware (US)
2016 Burri. Lo Spazio di Materia/tra Europa e USA, Fondazione Burri, Citta di Castello
2016 Lekart 2016, EVA-Lanxmeer, Culemborg
2016 Un Art Pauvre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2016 Extraordinary Visions. L'Italia ci guarda, MAXXI, Rome
2016 Alberto Burri. Das Trauma der Malerei, Stifting Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
2015 Alberto Burri. The Trauma of Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2015 Concrete, with Stephan Keppel, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2015 Cinecitta, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam
2015 The Mirror and Lamp Show, Jagtlust, Graveland
2014 Unseen 2014, Galerie Ton de Boer, Amsterdam
2014 Open Studios, American Academy, Rome
2014 What do you want? Your whole life in one night?, W139, Amsterdam
2014 Staged City, Arti & Amicitae, Amsterdam
2013 Visioni d'Arte, Museo Diocesano, Milan
2012 Foam & Film, &Foam, Amsterdam
2012 Foam Editions, &Foam, Amsterdam
2010 Gelderland Biennale, (with Probe #5), Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen
2010 Quickscan NL#01 (with Club Donny), Dutch Culture Centre, Shangha
2010 Quickscan NL#01 (with Club Donny), Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam¨
2008 A Perfect Book, Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam
2007 W139/Basement, W139, Amsterdam
2006 Avenue van A tot Zero, Nederlands Fotomuseum Rotterdam
2006 Index, De Gele Rijder, Arnhem

film screenings (festivals etc.)
2023 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Cinecellule, Biarritz
2023 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto, Solothurner Filmtage, Solothurn
2021 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Italian Cultural Insitute, Athens
2020 La Madre, Arcadia and Il Grande Cretto, The best of Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon
2020 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Filmkunsttheater Casablanca, Nürnberg
2020 La Madre and Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Kortfilmfestivalen, Grimstad
2020 La Madre, and three other shorts, Ayumi-Cave gallery, Tokyo
2019 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Filmtheater Hilversum
2019 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina Munich Film Museum
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Urban Eye Festival, Bucharest
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, AFFR, Rotterdam
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Move Cine Arch 2018, Laguna
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Move Cine Arch 2018, SaoPaulo
2018 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina at Strano Film Festival, Capestrano
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Move Cine Arch 2018, Palazzo Mora, Venice
2018 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Arquiteturas, Lisbon
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, De Balie, Amsterdam
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water Groningen Forum, Groningen
2018 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, IFFR, Rotterdam
2017 Als je terugkomt woon ik aan het water, Pomphuis, Culemborg
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Mediarc, Firenze
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Archcine, Rio de Janeiro
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Urban Eye Festival, Bucharest
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, Arquiteturas, Lisbon
2017 Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, ArqFilmfest, London
2017 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto, ArchitekturFilmtage, Fimmuseum Munchen
2017 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto and Arcadia, Archicine, Saarbrucken
2016 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto, Gibellina Photoroad, Gibellina
2016 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto and Arcadia, Demanio Marittimo.KM-278, Senigallia
2015 Arcadia, Exground Film Festival, Wiesbaden (with Q&A)
2015 Arcadia LISFE, Leiden (with Q&A)
2015 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto 5th International Urban Film Festival, Teheran
2015 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Layers #1 Nice House, Worm, Rotterdam
2015 Arcadia at Cour Toujours, International short film festival of Geneva
2014 Arcadia at Arquiteturas Film Festival 2014, Lisbon
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Uitkijk Goes Short, De Uitkijk, Amsterdam
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Arquiteturas Film Festival 2013, Casa das Artes, Porto
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Arquiteturas Film Festival 2013, Museo de Evora
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Pampifitas, Pampilhosa
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Short Waves, Poznan
2014 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Filmnapok, Budapest
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto BIEFF, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto 8th Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Debut competition, Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto La Notte dei Musei, Museo delle Trame, Gibellina (with Q&A)
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Docaviv (Israeli premiere), Tel Aviv
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Dutch Shorts, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam (with Q&A)
2013 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Dinamo, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2012 La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto Cinemaxxi short movies, Rome Film Festival Rome (with Q&A)

books, reviews, interviews, articles
2023 M. Bem, 'Beste fotoboeken 2023', De Volkskrant
2023 Hanne Hagenaars, Missen als een ronde vorm, Art Paper Editions, Gent
2023 Kees Keijer, 'Niet te missen', Het Parool 29/6
2023 Joerg Coelberg, 'Better Not Move', Conscientious Photography Magazine (online)
2023 'Beweeg maar niet', See All This, nr. 31
2023 Ioana Cobzaru, Photo31, Expotalk (online)
2023 P. Noordkamp, Beweeg maar niet, Architectura & Natura publishers
2020 L. Geeven, Messages from afar: Tokyo, Transartists website
2019 P. Noordkamp, Fragile - Handle with Care, Mappe magazine, marzo 2019
2019 W. Suto, 'De kunst internationaal verder brengen', jaarverslag 2018, Mondriaan Fonds
2018 P. Noordkamp, Terre in Movimento/Fragile - Handle with Care, Quodlibet publishers
2018 M. van der Hoorn, Spots in Shots, Narrating the built Environment in Short Films, NAI Publishers
2018 E. Geurts, 'Droomhuis', Trouw, March 24, 2018
2017 Zoe Dankert, 'Arti geeft het migratiebeleid een persoonlijk gezicht', Metropolis M, May 2017
2016 Elisa Nocenti, 'Le Sale Cinema agli Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco' Valleylife, december 2016
2016 Pim Hugel, 'Scheuren in de aarde. Over de films van Petra Noordkamp', Pandora magazine, nr. 6, 2016
2016 Aniko Erdosi, 'Silence Buried in White Cement', Sculpture and Nature magazine
2016 Pippo Ciorra, catalogue Extraordinary Visions. L'Italia ci guarda, Fondazione MAXXI, June
2016 Theo Hakkert, 'Ik doe altijd kleine stapjes' De Tubantia, March 26
2016 Jeanne Prisser,'De Obscure Kamer', De Volkskrant, February 26
2016 Jan Pieter Ekker, 'Een worsteling met 2D en 3D' Het Parool, February 12
2015 J. Prisser, 'New York door de ogen van stedenfluisteraar Stephan Keppel', De Volkskrant, December 10
2015 'Fellows project debuts at the Guggenheim', American Academy in Rome Magazine, Fall/Winter 2015
2015 Hans Hartog de Jager, 'Leed wordt Kunst', NRC Handelsblad, October 29
2015 Anne van Driel, 'Brute krachten', De Volkskrant, October 14
2015 Roberta Smith, 'Alberto Burri, a Man of Steel, and Burlap', The New York Times, 0ctober 8
2014 Sophie Wright, 'Unseen Photo Fair 2014, Architecture, Cities, Photography', Tremors magazine
2014 Joyce Roodnat, 'Seurat knijpt even in mijn wang' NRC Handelsblad, June 7
2014 Jeanne Prisser, 'Amsterdam, 5 juni', De Volkskrant, June 6
2014 Jan Pieter Ekker, 'Burenoverlast wordt kunst', Het Parool, June 5
2014 Koen Kleijn, 'De stille stad', De Groene Amsterdammer, June 4
2013 D. Zavraka, Urban Blur, Cannot Not Design Publications, Athens
2012 Christophe van Gerrewey, 'The Mother, the Son and the Architect', Foam Album 2012
2012 Alessandro Mitola, 'La Madre, il Figlio e l' Architetto', Pizza Magazine 14/11/12
2012 Donny's favourites, 'La Madre, il Figlio e l'Architetto', Club Donny nr. 9
2012 Christophe van Gerrewey, 'Notes on a Petra Noordkamp's Video', San Rocco nr.5
2012 Claudia Kammer, 'De sfeer in de stad is unheimlich', NRC Next, July 31
2012 Claudia Kammer, 'De zoon, de moord en de architect', NRC Handelsblad, July 30
2012 Jan Pieter Ekker, 'Verstilde beelden van de kerk in Gibellina', Het Parool, July 26
2012 Manon Braat, 'Critic's Picks, Kunstbeeld, August 9
2012 Christophe van Gerrewey, 'The Mother, the Son and the Architect', Foamcahier June
2011 Paul Kempers, 'Op zoek naar de ander', Mister Motley nr. 30
2010 Quickscan NL#01, Nederlands Fotomuseum
2010 'Chasing the male gaze', Amelia's magazine, February
2006 Avenue van A tot Zero, Nederlands Fotomuseum en Veenman Publishers
2005 'Petra Noordkamp. Franse jongen in blik', Mister Motley nr. 7
2005 'Fotoverhalen. Die ene speciale', Rails, July/August
2000 Riet van der Linden, 'Gestolen romantische momenten', in Opzij 6/2000
2000 own publication, magazine (sequentie van een jongen)
2000 own publication, postcards Playa de Miramar, 1998

publications (photographic and text contributions)
2019 'Homage to Club Donny', Accattone Magazine, issue 6
2014 'Spheres', in Dark and Stormy nr. 5
2011 postcards, deSingel, Antwerpen
2010 Cinecitta, 2010 in Zissisnotaglossy nr. 4
2009 fontein Sabaudia, 2009 in club Donny nr. 4,
2008 'Casablanca's 30's memories' in The Purple Journal nr. 13
2005 Bar Kasparo, 1999 in Mister Motley nr. 7
2005 'Photographic folder' in The Purple Journal nr. 3, winter 05
2004 'De verloren man', in Het vakantiedoeboek, mei 2004
2003 'Kantoorgluren', in Carp 4/2/2003
1999 Park of the Future, uitgeverij De Balie, Amsterdam

lectures, artist talks etc.
2020 (online) lecture, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo
2020 (online) lecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
2020 (online) lecture and tutorer at MAXXI Summer School, Rome
2020 lecture, 'The emotional experience of architecture', AIT, Tokyo
2019 workshop, Human Nature,, Arquiteturas, Lisbon
2018 guest teacher, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam
2018 lecture, during ZOOMscape workshop, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam,
2018 talk, 'Stretching the Boundaries of Photography', Cargo in Context
2018 interview, Demanio Marritimo KM278, Senigallia
2017 lecture, 'about two Gibellina's', Architectuur Centrum Nijmegen
2016 lecture 'Film and Architecture', Salon de Pinto, Amsterdam
2016 lecture 'Love, Death, Crime and Architecture', Studium Generale KABK, The Hague
2016 artist talk, about Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina, K21, Dusseldorf
2016 guest teacher (film, photography and architecture), Artez Arnhem
2015 lecture, at symposium 'How art and philosophy works', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2013 lecture 'Stupendous Miserable City', s.t. (Senza Titolo), Rome
2012 lecture, about film and architecture (with Maria Barnas, Steven Jacobs), Foam Amsterdam
2012 interview (part I, II and III) by Jonathan Crawford, on the Foam blog
2012 slideshow Cinecitta, Slideluck Potshow (curator Paul Kooiker), Amsterdam
2006 lecture, Centraal Museum Utrecht, organised by Mister Motley
2003 radioshow La Dolce Vita, about publication in Carp 4/2/2003

assignments
2021 short film, about exhibition Het Bureau,for MacGuffin
2021 short film, about the work of Lucas Lenglet, for AkzoNobel online
2020 photography, archive Krijn Giezen, for Arnoud Holleman
2020 photography, Duinluststraat, Bureau SLA
2018 short film, 10 year RietveldTV
2017 photography, 'Life in Cubes', magazine MacGuffin
2016 short film, for artist Ernst van der Hoeven about his project Warp and Woof
2012 postcards, photos of the EYE Film Institute, september 2012
2010 photography, 'Het mysterie Maria' in Eigenzinnig, juni 2010
2010 photography, 'Beroofd, getild en opgelicht' in NRC Focus nr. 1
2010 photography, Mika Vainio, catalogus Update 3 Body Sound
2010 photography, A2-poster, prospectus Octavo publicaties
2009 photography, 'Kiki's kunststukken', Volkskrant magazine, 15 maart 2009
2009 photography, Winkeltest, Volkskrant Magazine (31 mei 2008 - 2 mei 2009)
2005 photography, 'Station Roosendaal, De grens vervaagt.', Rails, februari 2005
2005 bookcover, Het psychologisch onderzoek, uitgeverij Ambo, Amsterdam
2005 blokcover, De kleine assessmentgids, uitgeverij Ambo, Amsterdam
2005 photography, 'Hap Hallo' en 'Hap Slik Weg' , Rails (oktober 2004 - maart 2005)
2004 photography, 'Moblog Dessau, Brussel, Biarritz', Rails 7/8 2004
2004 photography, 'De eerste blik is een daalder waard', in de Volkskrant, 14/2 2004
2002 photography, 'Wie is er nou niet op zoek naar het droommeisje?', Avenue 2/2002
2002 bookcover, Elske din datter, Koperative Utjowerij, Boalsert
2002 bookcover, Bij afwezigheid van mannen, uitgeverij Ambo/Anthos, Amsterdam
2002 bookcover, Kelile en Demne, uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam
2001 photography, De trots van de plek, uitg. TRS ontwikkelaarsgroep
2001 bookcover, Kai, uitgeverij Prometheus, Amsterdam
2000 photography, 'Interrail, de mensen, het uitzicht en de souvenirs', Rails 6/2000

Other activities, selection of curational activities, jury membership etc.
2023 advisor Mondriaan Fund
2022 chairwoman Arti- oeuvreprijs 2023
2019 Jury member, Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon
2018 chairwoman Arti-medaille 2019
2018 co-organizer program 'Desire and Architecture', De Balie, Amsterdam
2017 curator exhibition My future is in my past and my past is my present in Arti et Amicitiae with Mounira Al Solh, Tudor Bratu, Lado Darakhveldize and Foundland
2017 Jury member Prix de Rome 2017
2017 jury member Berlage Foundation, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
2016 jury member Arti-medaille 2017
2016 curator exhibition De Obscure Kamer in Arti et Amicitiae with Reynold Reynolds, Berend Strik, Mariken Wessels, Laurence Aegerter and Thomas Manneke
2015 curator exhibition Concrete at PuntWG with Stephan Keppel
2014 curator exhibition Staged City (together with Laura van Rijs) in Arti et Amicitiae with Maria Barnas, Pablo Pijnappel, Batia Suter, Lucas Lenglet, Elisabeth Tonnard, Paulien Oltheten, Robbie Cornelissen, Arjen van Helmond, Rogier Taminiau, Sarah van Sonsbeeck a.o.
2014 expert Dutch Doc Photo 2014
2012 organisation Photobooks at Van Zoetendaal with Ruth van Beek, Anouk Kruithof, Diana Scherer a.o.


From 1999 till 2019 employee (and responsible for the photography department) at Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum in Amsterdam.