BIOGRAPHY MO VERLAAN

After graduating from the Rietveld Academy, Mo Verlaan (1963) started out in experimental theatre, creating sets on location as well as performing. Her love for travelling made her accept an offer to provide meals for the performance group The Female Factory as their touring schedule included Moscow. Afterwards Mo and two of her sisters founded the catering company ‘De Drie Gezusters’ (The Three Sisters) catering to national and international film and television crews, providing three-course meals on location from a converted truck. This took her all over the Netherlands, to France, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, and even to the remote Spitsbergen Islands.

Only 9 years ago, Mo’s love for photography made her enter the Photo Academy in Amsterdam. She graduated in 2016 with a joint exhibition Unframed in the creative haven Roest and designed a steel triptych presenting four black and white prints especially for the location. At the same time she launched her first photography book called Resonance in which she explores the impermanence of light, the brief and fleeting beauty of landscapes, architecture and people. Her work is poetic, abstract and expressive. Mo Verlaan lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but will journey everywhere.

EDUCATION

  • 2022 – 2023
    PHOTOBOOK YEAR-LONG COURSE by The Nearest Truth / Brad Feuerhelm, Online
  • 2022
    Workshop Solar Plate (Toyobo Print) at AGA Lab, Amsterdam|NL
  • 2022
    Workshop Casseinedruk (Zerochrome) at Polychrome by Kees Brandenburg, Middelburg|NL
  • 2022
    Masterclass Between The Hammer And The Anvil by Dirk Braeckman & Brad Feuerhelm, Athens|Greece
  • 2021
    Workshop Cyanotype at Polychrome by Kees Brandenburg, Middelburg|NL
  • 2018 – 2020
    Postgraduate Masterclass by Machiel Botman, Analog Photography, Haarlem|NL
  • 2017 – 2018
    Atelier Smedsby, One Year Photography Masterclass, Paris|France
  • 2016
    Masterclass The Great Beauty by Anders Petersen, Rome|Italy
  • 2011 – 2016
    Fotoacademie, Autonomous & Fine Art, Amsterdam|NL
  • 1985 – 1990
    Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Theatre Design & Audiovisuel, Amsterdam|NL

EXHIBITIONS

 

  • 2023
    Solo Exhibition of the Winners of the 19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona|Spain
  • 2023
    Buy my Darlings, The Love Edition    , Exhibition and Sale at NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam|NL
  • 2022
    The Portrait, 12 August-10 September in the Gallery & Bookstore Contemporary Photography, Amsterdam|NL
  • 2021
    Buy my Darlings, The Naked Edition Exhibition and Sale at NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam|NL
    Exhibition at Atelier Mo Verlaan, Open Ateliers Westelijke Eilanden, Amsterdam|NL
    Group Exhibition Ne Me Quitte Pas, 033fotostad, Rietveld Paviljoen, Amersfoort |NL
  • 2020
    Group Exhibition Art Month Ameland |NL
    Group Exhibition Award Winners of the 14th JM Cameron Award, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona|Spain
    Group Exhibition Red, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens|Greece
    Group Exhibition Feminine/Masculine at PH21 Gallery, Budapest|Hungary
    Group Exhibition photographers collective Self Publishers United at 033fotostad, Rietveld Paviljoen, Amersfoort |NL
  • 2019
    Group Exhibition 100% Female, Grand St. Laurens Church,  Alkmaar|NL
    Group Exhibition Award Winners of the 13th JM Cameron Award, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona|Spain
    Exhibition of the winners at Mt. Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe|Japan
    Group Exhibition Portrait Without Faces, ph21 Gallery, Budapest|Hungary
    Group Exhibition Landscape, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens|Greece
    Group Exhibition Monochrome, ph21 Gallery, Budapest|Hungary
    Group Exhibition Lacda Top 40, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, LA|USA
    Group Exhibition ‘…iets met ruimte’ (‘Some Space’) in Pictura, Groningen|NL
  • 2018
    Group Exhibition Winter in Blank Wall Gallery, Athens|Greece
    Group Exhibition EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY at BERLINBLUE art gallery, Berlin|DE
    Group Exhibition …Iets met ruimte Kunsthal 45, Fotoroute Den Helder|NL
    Group Exhibition The Family of No Man, Arles|France
    Photobook Exhibition at Athens Photo Festival, Athens|Greece
  • 2017
    Group Exhibition In the Zone in the 1650 Gallery, LA|USA
    Group Exhibition HIS at Snorfabriek, Utrecht|NL
    Solo Exhibition Solo in Dos, Restaurant DuendeDos, Amsterdam|NL
    Group Exhibition HIS at Grand Central Station Utrecht|NL
    Duo Exhibition Mo Verlaan & Jur Oster at The Saza Gallery, Amsterdam|NL
    Photobook Exhibition, 7th Annual Photobookshow at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA|USA
  • 2016
    Group Exhibition ‘Editions’ in The Tripp Gallery, London|UK
    Photobook Exhibition, 7th Annual Photobookshow at The Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY|USA
    Photobook Exhibition at the Felifa Fola Feria de Libros de Autor Buenos Aires|Argentina
    Group exhibition at the 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam|NL
    Group Exhibition Winners of 9th JM Cameron Award at 4th Berlin Foto Biennale, EMOP Berlin|DE
    Group Exhibition The Indian Photography Festival, State Art Gallery Madhapur, Hyderabad|India
    International Photobook Exhibition, The Royal Photographic Society, Espacio Gallery|East London Photomonth, London|UK
    Photobook Exhibition, Festival International de Fotografia SCAN, Tarragona|Spain
    Group Exhibition unframed at Fotogram Gallery, Amsterdam|NL
    Group Exhibition unframed at Roest, Amsterdam|NL
 

AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

 

PUBLICATIONS