Coco coming out of egg bird, 2021, 77 x 91 cm photo print in resin with mixed media objects. Project with SistaazHood and Duran Lantink, frames with Simon Marsiglia
About
Jan Hoek (1984) is an artist, photographer and writer. In his work he is always attracted to the beauty of outsiders worldwide and always keen to collaborate intensively with people that normally are overlooked and create together a new image. He photographed movie stars like Nairobi based motor taxi riders, an Amsterdam based ex heroine addict who always dreamed of being a super model, created psychedelic zines about the sex tourist capital of the world Pattaya, and made a serie about the Maasai who do not identify with the jumping stereotype image. In the universe of Hoek the ‘normal’ people are the strangers and the outsiders are the funky rulers of this planet. Hoek‘s work is shown at places such as Foam (Amsterdam), Unseen Festival (Amsterdam), Photoville (New York), Fomu (Antwerp) and Lagos Photo (Lagos). He is the founder of Stichting Captain Hoek, which aims to connect the world of outsider artists with the world of insider artists
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Jan Hoek (1984) / artist website
Solo Shows
2020
Boda Boda Madness, Festival CIRCULATION(S), Paris
2019
Photo Manifstation Enschede, Enschede
2018
Mental Superpowers, AMC Ziekenhuis, Amsterdam
Mental Superpowers, Mentrum Psychiatric Institute, Amsterdam
Mental Superpowers, Beautiful Distress House, Amsterdam
Boda Boda Madness, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam
2017
Boda Boda Madness, Photoville, New York
Duo presentation with Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2016
New Supermodels, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam , The Netherlands
Unfair, solo presentation, Westergasterrein, Amsterdam
Sistaaz of the Castle, in collaboration with fashion designer Duran Lantink, presented at Amsterdam Fashion Week and at FOAM (jan)
Shooting Stars, solo exhibition, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium
2015
Solo presentation, guest gallery Ron Mandos in Citroën garage Amsterdam. Part of Unseen Festival
Panorama Carland, outdoor Panaroma at Gashoudervijver, Unseen Photo Festival, Amsterdam
Riot, 'Me & My Models the Gold Edition', solo exhibition, Gent, Belgium
The Stan/Jan-show, about the collaboration between Jan Hoek and Stan Aziz Abdul, a street painter living in Kumasi, Ghana, exhibition in: De Balie, Amsterdam
2013
$€XXX, show in collaboration with fashion designer Nieuw Jurk, 2PR, Amsterdam
Me & My Models, (solo exhibition) New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia
Unfair, The Sweet Crazies That Didn’t Want To Be Photographed, Amsterdam
Sweet Crazies, solo exhibition, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Me & My Models, solo exhibition, FOAM, Amsterdam
2012
Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul (represented by Galerie Ron Mandos), Turkey
Solo exhibition ‘Sweet Crazies’ in de Openbare Bibliotheek Utrecht, The Netherlands
2011
Soloshow in galerie Artpocalypse Collective with the series ‘Sweet Crazies, Amsterdam
Group Shows
2025
Kissambushed, Gallery van Fenny Freytag, Amsterdam
2024
Vrouwen van Amsterdam - een ode, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
2023
Unseen, Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
2022
Art Rotterdam, with Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Rotterdam
The ministry of Ceramic Affairs, Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
2020
Power to the models, (curated by Jan Hoek), Stedelijk Museum, Breda
2019
Boda Boda Madness, Look Now Here, Amsterdam
Boda Boda Madness, N'Gola Festival, Sao Tomé
Boda Boda Madness, Bilbao Photo Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Boda Boda Madness, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles France
The photograph that took the place of a mountain, Vriend van Bavink Gallery, Amsterdam
Gothics in Nigeria, together with Stephen Tayo, in Corrosia, Almere
2018
Darlings, Vriend van Bavink Gallery, Amsterdam
The Kitab – India's First Photobook Festival, India
Unseen, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Photo Festival for Transgender Community, Sandesh, India
Charles goes Arles, Hamburg Triennale, Hamburg
Neue Heimat, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, Den Bosch
2017
Lagos Photo, My Maasai and The “Real” Somali Pirates, Lagos
Scooters Will Never Die!!!!, Het Tijdelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Bending the Frame, curated by Fred Ritchin, Western Gallery, New York
Haus der Kunst, Factor X, München
Jubileumtentoonstelling 30x30, CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
Expoplu, Gender: A Universal Language, Nijmegen
Colony Studio's, Hyperrealism, New York
2016
AIR (artist in residency), CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
A Bed End Story (curated by Aldo van den Broek), Berlin Art Week, Berlin, Germany
'Woonrubriek zoals God het bedoeld heeft', Breda Photo, The Netherlands
The Ultimate Sailor, showing 'The “real” Somali Pirates, Scheepvaartmuseum, Amsterdam
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Margin of Visual Treshold, Circle Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
QUICKSCAN NL#02, Fotomuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(S)he, CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2015
Young International Artists, duoshow with Mohau Modisakeng, (by Galerie Ron Mandos) Paris, France
Unseen, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
The Devil is in Detail, SBK Dordrecht, group exhibition, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Do you hear me?, group exhibition FOTODOK, Utrecht, The Netherlands
We Like Art, Art Rotterdam
Plat(t)form, selected portfolio viewing, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Swiss
2014
AIR in Zuid-Oost 2014, groepstentoonstelling CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
Lagos Photo, showing New Ways Of Photographing the New Masai, Lagos, Nigeria
Best of Ron Mandos best of graduates, De Kring, Amsterdam
FOAM Town, group show, Felix&FOAM, Amsterdam
Residency Surface Arts, Chiang-Mai, Thailand
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, group show curated by Foam Amsterdam
The Space Between Us, group show, Felix & Foam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Moving Museum of Clothes, group show, CEC Zuid-Oost
Lagos Photo, showing Sweet Crazies, Lagos, Nigeria
Art Rotterdam, represented by Galerie Ron Mandos
2013 - 2014
New works of painting, photo and sculpture at the Margulies collection, Warehouse, Miami, US
2013
In Delta Flux, Jakarta, group show curated by Impakt
Art in Redlight, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
Middle Gate ’13 (group show curated by Jan Hoet), Geel, België
Sweet Crazies, Lagos Photo Festival, Lagos
Wool Week Expo, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Group Show, Easy Living, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2012
Group Show, Van Perskamer tot Kunstpaleis, The Times, Amsterdam
Viewing ‘Me & My Models’, Impakt Festival, Utrecht
Pop up-nl, London, represented by Ron Mandos
Unseen Photo Fair, Sweet Crazies, represented by Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Group show ‘Best of the Graduates 2012′ in galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam
Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie with ‘Me & My Models’
Group show ‘Out of the fridge’ in Berm Collectief, Amsterdam
2011
Group Show ‘Teenage Magazines’ in FOAM, Amsterdam
2010
Gabberperformance at Rietveld Uncut, De Brakke Grond
Publications (books)
2019
Sistaaz of the Castle, by Art Paper Editions
2018
Mental Superpowers. by Art Paper Editions
2017
My Maasai, by Art Paper Editions (group project)
2015
Publication: The Pattaya Sex Bubble 1 t/m 10, by Art Paper Editions
2014
Publication ‘New Ways of Photographing The New Masai’ by Art Paper Editions
2013
Publication, ‘Marktplaatspoëzie’, Nijgh & Van Ditmar
2012
Publication ‘Me & My Models’ in news paper form, published by Art Paper editions
Prices & Awards
2018
Flash Fowards 2018, category LGBTQ award, by the Magenta Foundation, for Sistaaz of the Castle
2016
Winner Dutch Design Awards in category Fashion for Sistaaz of the Castle
Nomination Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs
2015
Winner Charlotte Kohler-price 2015, by Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds
Nominated for the FOAM Paul Huf Award
2013
Nominated for the Dutch Doc Awards for The Sweet Crazies
Nominated for the Dutch Doc Awards for Me & My Models
Written articles (selection)
2017
Hoe vergaat het kunstnaars die een één-ster-recensie krijgen, Vice.
2016
'Woonrubriek zoals God het eigenlijk bedoeld had' voor Volkskrant Magazine
2015-now
Art editor at the Dutch Vice Magazine, with every two weeks my own art column
2003-now
Editor Mister Motley, dutch art magazine (interviews, essays, personal art stories)
2015
Essay for American Suburb X: The (Im)possibilities to Shoot as a White Photographer on the African Continent
Essay voor Vrij Nederland: 'Kunst verzamelen zonder geld'
2014
Article for dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and NRC.Next: 'Mijn racistische salontafel'
'Cursus Vakantiefoto's maken die niet saai zijn' for Vrij Nederland
2013
Marktplaatspoëzie, was placed in NRC