Guggenheim New York presents 'Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective'

From June 29 to October 8, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum of New York will present Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, an extensive midcareer survey and the first major exhibition of the artist's work organized by a North American institution. It is the most comprehensive museum exhibition of the artist's oeuvre to date.

Dijkstra, born in Sittard, the Netherlands in 1959, has developed an international reputation as one of the most highly regarded photographers of her generation. The exhibition will include representative examples from the most significant bodies of work she has created over the past twenty years. The retrospective is co-organized with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where it opened to the public in February 2012, and will feature more than 70 color photographs and five video installations. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective is organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work that offers a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale color photographs of young, typically adolescent subjects recall 17th-century Dutch painting in their scale and visual acuity. The minimal contextual details present in her photographs and videos encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed.

Dates: from June 29 to October 8.
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.  1071 Fifth Avenue, New York. USA.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Wednesday and Friday from 10am to 5.45pm. Saturdays from 10am to 7.45pm.

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