Booger Coumou
Popel Coumou (* 1978 ) is a Dutch photographer and artist.
Life
Popel Coumou studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 2000 to 2004 . She then exhibited her own works at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Amsterdam Center of Photography and was subsequently nominated for the Shell Young Art Awards . From her final collection, a series on bedrooms, 25 works have been sold. In 2005 she received a starting grant from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual arts, Design and Architecture and exhibited at Art Rotterdam in the Galerie van Zoetendaal, in the Galerie Maurits van de Laar in The Hague and at Foam in the Photography Museum Amsterdam. She was nominated for the Thieme KunstRAI Price and has published works in the CBK Annual Magazine , kiez21 and the Haagse Courant . In 2006 she was commissioned by Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten to produce 50 copies of photographs, which would then be offered to readers of the Dutch magazine NAW. Her works have been shown at Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam, Galerie 32/34 in Osdorp and Saudades in the Museum het Domein in Sittard .
In 2007 she exhibited in Belgium and at the Villa Nouailles in Hyères (southern France), where she won the photography competition at the 22nd Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères in April 2007. She also gave a workshop at the Amsterdam Center of Photography (ACF). This year, for the first time, her works were published outside Europe by the Chinese Commercial Magazine . Popel Coumou worked in 2008 as curator for “Het Gonst in Arti” at Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam and received free commissions from the Virtueel Museum Zuidas and for the Hyères Festival International de Mode et de Photograpie 2008. Her works and interviews with her were made outside of the Netherlands published in Great Britain, France, Germany, Taiwan and Croatia.
In September 2009 she exhibited at the Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul , South Korea, and received a grant from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual arts, Design and Architecture to finance her projects. In 2010 she was allowed to exhibit at the TORCH Gallery in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Rotterdam as well as in galleries in Haarlem and Breda . She was nominated for the Paul Huf Awards 2010 and worked again as curator at Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam, for the exhibitions "DOOD" and "Collectie Imaginaire".
In 2011 her works were shown at Aando Fine Art in Berlin, at the TORCH Gallery at Art: Rotterdam, Art: Amsterdam, Tokyo photo and Miami Pulse. She was nominated for the Lecturis Award 2011 at Art Amsterdam. In September 2011 she gave another workshop at the ACF and was also a member of the jury for the “Arti Medal” award.
Today she lives and works in Amsterdam.
style
Popel Coumou developed her method over the years at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. She builds architectural spaces as two-dimensional models by gluing colored paper surfaces and strips of modeling clay onto a sheet of paper or by cutting surfaces out of the paper. She transforms these collages into realistic-looking rooms using light from behind or projected onto them and perspective distortion. Popel then photographs these models with a SLR camera in low resolution and then enlarges the photos, which makes the images more grainy and leaves room for interpretation. The choice of colors, the incidence of light and the mostly empty rooms should put the absence of people in the foreground and underline the silence. At first the rooms were still concrete, but over time they removed most of the representational furniture until only the empty rooms remained. Later she built 3D models of the rooms with strong effects of light and shadow and photographed them again. She also seldom builds miniature rooms out of clay, paper and fabrics. She then photographs them in such a way that the impression is created that they can actually be entered. Each of her works is handmade, including printing, and is therefore unique.
Collections of works
Works by Popel Coumou are kept and collected in the following places:
- Museum Het Domein, Sittard
- Gemeente Museum The Hague
- Foam (Photography Museum Amsterdam)
- Huis Marseille Amsterdam (Photography Museum)
- VU (Medical Center Amsterdam)
- The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten
- Various art libraries
- Private collections
Nominations and Awards
- 2004: Nomination for the Shell Young Art Awards
- 2005: nomination for Thieme KunstRAI Price
- 2007: Winning Hyères Photography competition at the 22nd Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères
- 2010: Nomination for the Paul Huf Awards
- 2011: Nomination Lecturis Award, Art Amsterdam
Web links
Personal homepage of Popel Coumou
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Popel Coumou Photography CV ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hyères 2007: Photographers (English)
- ↑ "Photographers of the Future - Discovered by Ute Noll" (English)
- ^ Winner of the Hyères Festival International de Mode et Photography 2007
- ↑ Chinese Commercial Magazine: Most commercial, most artistic and among the best ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Chinese, PDF; 377 kB)
- ↑ Virtueel Museum: Popel Coumou ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch)
- ↑ The Independent: They're in the frame ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English, PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ Photography: Raumtiefe - Bedrooms and their stories ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ ppaper: Popel Coumou ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Taiwanese, PDF; 437 kB)
- ↑ Oris: Popel Coumou ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Croatian, PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ↑ TORCH gallery: Artist Popel Coumou (English)
- ↑ TORCH gallery: Popel Coumou - New Work (English)
- ↑ Platform21: Popel Coumou - Fly Over (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Coumou, booger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch photographer and artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1978 |