Niels Helmink (NL, 1976)
Education
1998 - 2002 Photography, TCE, Ede
Internships
2002 Thea van den Heuvel
2000 Erwin Olaf
Work Experience
2008 - 2009 Art Director Bart Nijs
2001 - 2008 First assistant and technical manager Erwin Olaf
2002 - 2004 First assistant Thea van den Heuvel
Exhibitions (Selection)
2010 Group exhibition Realisme 10, Art fair, Amsterdam
2009 Group exhibition 'Portraits' Gallery Bart, Amsterdam
2008 Solo-exhibition ‘Shopkeepers’, Gallery Bart, Amsterdam
2007 Solo-exhibition, Filmhuis LUX, Nijmegen
2006 Group exhibition, ´Bart kunst in huis´, Nijmegen.
2006 Solo-exhibition, Radboud University, Nijmegen
2002 Exhibition with 3D designer Geralt Ploegstra, Salone di Mobile, Milano, Italy
Awards/Nominations/Grants
2010 3rd prize IPA International Photography Awards People Self-Portrait Professional
2009 Basic Stipend The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
2007 Dredgers, finalist NY NY competition, myartspace.com
2007 Winner 4 "honorable mentions" IPA international Photography Awards Dredgers(1) and
Shopkeepers(3)
Publications (Selection)
2008 Shopkeepers, book with introductory texts by Emile van Binnebeke
(The Arnhem Museum for Modern Art) and Merel Bem (Volkskrant, FOAM Magazine’)
Distribution: IDEA Books, Amsterdam
2007 Dredgers’ catalogue NY NY competition, New York.
2003 International Design Yearbook 2003’
2002 Amateurvoetbal in Nederland’, annual report Zorgaanbod.
Collections
2009 Eneco Art Collection
2009 Link Art Collection
2008 Achmea Art Collection
2008 Generali Art Collection
Commissioned work (Selection)
DSM
Friesland/Campina
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
Articles and reviews
Review ‘Shopkeepers’, De Fotograaf, nr 4, October 2008
‘Nieuwe aanwinsten Generali kunstcollectie’, (‘Shopkeepers’), De Leeuwenkuil, Generali, May 2008
‘Paleis’, (Shopkeepers’), Vrij Nederland, 10 May 2008