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Lidwien van de Ven is a Dutch artist living in Rotterdam and Berlin. She has won several awards for her photographic work and installations, most recently the Dolf Henkes Prize 2014. Her installation work has been shown in international platforms as Sydney Biennale, Australia (2006), Documenta 12 in Kassel (2007), Busan Biennale, South Korea (2012), Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid (2014), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2014). At Framer Framed in Amsterdam, she participated in the group show What We Have Overlooked (2016).

For her work, she has always been interested in parts of the world where important social and political changes are taking place. These are also places in which often the complex reality is shunned and reduced to stereotypes. Van de Ven is curious to look into this process. In 2016, she started working on a commission from the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven on Indonesia and the Dutch colonial past. Her exhibition ‘FRAGMENTS [of a desire for revolution]’ was on view in the Van Abbemuseum early 2017. Since that time her research into the colonial past and present is at the heart of her new works.