The MEP, Paris, will host I See You, a major exhibition of the photographic and video works of the internationally renowned Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Taking over one complete floor, Dijkstra will install four of her most important video installations, all presented for the first time in a Parisian institution.

The video works selected for the exhibition deal exclusively with the ways in which younger people look at and present themselves as portrait subjects in the process of establishing their identities, whether as school students, performers, or consumers of visual culture. In many ways, by holding up the camera to face her subjects, Dijkstra challenges us to rethink the ways in which we look at and attach meaning to images of others and thereby how we understand our own roles in contemporary society.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Rineke Dijkstra’s Odessa, Ukraine, August 7, 1993, 1993 will be on view in the exhibition yours truly, at the Museum Morsbroich. Bringing together works of figurative and abstract art, spanning painting, video and photography, the exhibition considers how artists may seek dialogue with the viewer in order to prompt existential questions.

Museum Morsbroich 

Rineke Dijkstra’s monumental, three-channel video installation Night Watching is now on view at the Timken Museum of Art, San Diego. First debuted in 2019 following a commission by the Rijksmuseum, Night Watching features 14 diverse audiences contemplating Rembrandt van Rijn’s most iconic work, The Night Watch, 1642). On six consecutive evenings, Dijkstra filmed groups standing or sitting directly in front of the painting, recording their conversations, which range from close visual descriptions to speculations about the circumstances surrounding the creation of this masterpiece. The Timken's presentation of Night Watching represents the first time that this complex project has been seen on the West Coast and inaugurates a new curatorial series at the Timken entitled Reconsidering Rembrandt.

Timken Museum

Rineke Dijkstra will be participating in the first edition of The Contemporary Art Biennale: Rouge Odyssée. Her video work The Buzz Club, Liverpool, UK / Mystery World, Zaandam, NL, 1996–1997, will be presented in Bonifacio, Corsica from 27 May until 6 November 2022.

With this work, Dijkstra offers a portrait of youth in a period of transition and construction. Standing alone against an empty background, a blank page that evokes an inner territory to be shaped, the young men and women in the visited nightclubs are immersed in introspection. They are both vulnerable yet already seem to be creating their own subculture, a world where they will no longer need to fight to find their place. The artwork reveals a picture of something infinitely subtle: an intuition, an intimacy, a graceful and universal truth, which affects our carefully rehearsed and largely bittersweet admission into the world of adulthood.

Organised by De Renava, Rouge Odyssée questions the function of home as a liminal space in perpetual mutation, base of hopes and tensions. From the Mediterranean Sea where waves of thoughts, goods and people have constantly determined History, the show explores the themes of exile, memory and transmission, inviting us to observe human trajectories.

De Renava