Exclusive Artist Talk with Madelon Hooykaas on 10th April

A Gift of Time, 1977 by Madelon Hooykaas

Elliott Gallery is excited to announce an exclusive Artist Talk with esteemed Dutch Artist Madelon Hooykaas

Thursday 10th April 2025

17.30 - 19.30

at Elliott Gallery | Tussen de Bogen 91 | Amsterdam

Street view I, Spring, Amsterdam, 1960 by Madelon Hooykaas

Following our announcement earlier this year of the representation of pioneering Dutch photographer and video artist Madelon Hooykaas, we are excited to invite you to an exclusive event to meet the Artist.

For the first time, Madelon Hooykaas’ vintage prints are available at Elliott Gallery.

During the event, she will discuss these early photographic works, which, unlike her internationally acclaimed contemporary conceptual pieces, remains largely unexplored by the public.

These vintage photographs, printed by the artist herself, offer a truly unique opportunity to glimpse the genesis of Madelon Hooykaas’ artistic journey. Dating back to 1959, when she was just 17 years old, are a remarkable documentation of Dutch everyday life throughout the 60s and 70s. They capture scenes from Rotterdam’s harbour—a place frequently visited by the artist in her childhood and a source of great inspiration for her photography—as well as images depicting war-torn Rotterdam after the Second World War, urban life in Amsterdam, winter scenes in Leiden and everyday moments at the beach in Scheveningen.

Madelon Hooykaas

Else Madelon Hooykaas began her photography studies under various Dutch photographers before moving to Paris in 1964, and travelling to England in 1966 on the Europhot Prize. In 1968, she was awarded a travel scholarship as the first Dutch photographer to New York by the Netherlands Ministry of the Arts, where she worked alongside photography legends Philip Halsman and Bert Stern, taking lessons from Garry Winogrand and Joel Meyerowitz. Back in the Netherlands, she began writing about photographers she admired for the influential Dutch magazine Foto, including profiles on figures such as Robert Doisneau and Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Amsterdam-based Else Madelon Hooykaas is an internationally acclaimed photographer, video artist, and filmmaker. As one of the first generation of artists to adopt video as a medium, she is recognized as a transformative figure in video art. Hooykaas is widely known for her collaboration with Scottish artist Elsa Stansfield, as part of the duo Hooykaas/Stansfield. Beyond her collaborative work, Hooykaas has established herself as a visionary solo artist, with a remarkable and ever-expanding legacy across photography, film, interactive performance, and conceptual installations.

Hooykaas’ work is part of numerous esteemed museum and private collections, including the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Museum Arnhem, Museum Gouda, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht, Amsterdam Medical Center. Internationally, her work has been exhibited and held in prestigious institutions such as Tate Britain, The Photographers’ Gallery London, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), MuHKA Museum for Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow (GoMA), as well as collections in Canada, Switzerland, and Australia.

Old Church, Rotterdam, 1961 by Madelon Hooykaas

Any Way Up, 1973 by Madelon Hooykaas

Join us for a drink and an inspiring evening to be among the first to experience the vintage photographs of Madelon Hooykaas and gain exclusive insight into her artistic process!

Please, note that there are limited seats, so in case of attendance, please, RSVP below.