Education
2014 - 2018
Bachelor, Photography, AKV|St.Joost Breda
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2013 - 2014
Arts in Education, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts
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Exhibitions/Fairs
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2023
Saturnus, Het Besiendershuis, Nijmegen
Buy My Darlings, NDSM Fuse, Amsterdam
Ornates, Atelier Katinka, Dordrecht
It'll be alright, The Alchemy Experiment, Glasgow
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2022
New Vision, AtelierK84, Amsterdam
Art Matters 6, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne
On fire, Cheap Festival, Bologna
Felle Ellende, Bieb3000, Arnhem
Mag Launch: Why Take Photographs?, These Days, Los Angeles
Bookrelease 2021, Boys with Wood Radio, Nijmegen
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2021
Earthlings, Atelier Néerlandais, Dutch Embassy, Paris
About Desire, Ragusa Photo Festival 2021, Ragusa
Every Woman Biennial, The Copeland Gallery, London
Demons, CHARTA: a Photobook Festival, Rome
Behind the Lens plus: expanded, R.I. Center for Photographic Arts, Providence
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2020
Lowland #6, HuMBASE, Stüttgart
Mirrors and Reflections, Loosenart, Rome
R E C L A I M, Cheap Festival, Bologna
Expo bij David, Kwekelstraat, Gorinchem
ARTivism Initiative, Postcard Project, Online event
Bond/Bound, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville
Ghost Art Project, Season Three Artists, Omaha
Curators Picks - 2019, Gallery Baird, Seattle
Contemporary Art Venice, THE ROOM, Venice
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2019
New religions: Nasty Women, De Balie, Amsterdam
Printing Plant Art Book Fair, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam Art Weekend, Amsterdam
Unseen Book Market, Westergas, Amsterdam
Nearly every thought leads to nothing, WolfArt Project Space/WOLk, Rotterdam
Pro•to•type, Alterworks Studios, New York City
Kunstgrillen, BarVizart, Antwerpen
Blurring the Lines, HKU Oudenoord 700, Utrecht
Rotterdam Photo: City Limits, Rotterdam Art Week, Rotterdam
Cultuurnacht Breda 2019, Electron, Breda
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2018
This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
GUP New 2019: Melkweg Expo, Melkweg, Amsterdam
Blurring the Lines, Paris College of Arts, Paris
NONF#1 Protest in de 21e eeuw, MotMot Gallery, Breda
Wijland Festival, Wisentbos, Dronten
Launch 2018 (Graduation show), AKV|St.Joost, Breda
Scissors, AKV|St.Joost, Breda
2017
Het Foto Asiel, AKV|St.Joost, Breda
I know what you did last summer, Nieuwe Veste, Breda
Love and the ultimate tragedy, Museum 't Oude Slot, Veldhoven (solo)
Wijland Festival, Wisentbos, Dronten
A Photographer's Journal, Cloud Gallery, Amsterdam
Hole in the wall, AKV|St.Joost,'s-Hertogenbosch
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2016
When The Saints Go Marching In, NatLab, Eindhoven
Je bent godverdomme niet thuis!, Mengfabriek,'s-Hertogenbosch
Betonne Expo II, Zandbergweg, Breda
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Publications
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2022
It'll be alright, The Alchemy Experiment
Why Take Photographs?, FIVE NINE
2021, Self Publish
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2021
MOJO flavour, Yogurt Magazine
Issue 02, Goldenrod Editions
Secrecy and confession, Potted Purple Mag
FIRST EDITION, Ladies Drawing Club
TIME WARP, Velvet Fields
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2020
Lowland #6, Lowland Magazine
Read: Frijke Coumans, Angels Magazine
Solstice, Bad Egg Mag
Dreams - Vol. 2, Polemical Zine
Looking Glass Edition, Verses Mag
LDCLÜB Issue #4, Ladies Drawing Club
Leap Year - Valentine Day, Är Zine
Love - Vol. 2, Polemical Zine
I Can Hear The Road Call, Jeff Smudde
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2019
Le paradis c'est ici, Self Publish
Untitled No.1, Gallery Baird
A5 Magazine #32, A5 Zine
Thin fortune, rushed hours, Self Publish
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2018
Blurring the Lines, Urbanautica Institute
New Dutch Photography Talent 2019, GUP Magazine
Sleeping with the Fishes, Self Publish
Frijke Coumans 2014 - 2018, Self Publish
Hoveniers van het Verlangen, Self Publish
Happy People, Launch 2018
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2017
Try Purple Without Blue, Self Publish
A Photographer's Journal, Cloud Gallery Amsterdam
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2016
Naast mijn verstand, Self Publish
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Awards, Residences and Grants
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2023
Het Besiendershuis Nijmegen, Residence
Groeispurt Fonds, Grant
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2022
Pictoright Steunfonds, Grant
Stroomversneller, Grant
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2020
Urbanautica, Winner Ragusa Photo Festival 'About Desire'
KunstLoc Proeftuin Internationalisering Brabant, Grant
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2019
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Nominated for European Identity Dialogues
Arts Connective, Selected for Volume One
Galerie Pennings, Longlist Harry Pennings Award
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2018
GUP Magazine, Selected for New Dutch Photography Talent
Blurring the Lines, Selected graduate 2018
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Press
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2023
Experimenteel diner in Besiendershuis, De Brug Nijmegen
Veertig fotografen presenteren en verkopen hun darlings op foto-event in Amsterdam, NRC
#FL23: Interview met Wolfskers, 3voor12 VPRO
Tips! Deze dingen zijn er dit weekend in Dordrecht te doen (10-12 februari), InDeBuurt
De natuur wint in fotoexpositie bij Atelier Katinka van Haren, Dordt Centraal
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2022
Kennismaken met de mannen van Boys With Wood, IntoNijmegen
EXPO TIP: Ornates, Felle Ellende, Photo31
Talent in Focus: Frijke Coumans, Photo31
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2021
Blurring the Lines Artists Part of Atelier Néerlandais "Earthlings" Exhibition, Paris College of Art
Ragusa Foto Festival 20.21: The Desire, The Eye of Photography
A Ragusa Ibla torna il Foto Festival, Rolling Stone Italy
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2020
This is a good kissing spot by Frijke Coumans, Grace Marie Dewitt
Change, Thai Youth Express
Read Before Bed, Pigiama Zine
Art In The Outbreak, Oases Art
The Politics of Home, Vacant Museum
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2019
Interview: Frijke Coumans, ITSLIQUID
Image (3/4) Frijke Coumans, Identity Dialogues Europe
Elaboration 2: Frijke Coumans, FIVE NINE
Body as a language, Bougie Gallery
Gardeners of Desire, Blurring the Lines
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2018
This is Frijke, This Art Fair 2018
Op weg naar het eindexamen: Frijke Coumans, Kiekie tabloid
The Launch 2018 Graduation Show Breda, Mimi Berlin
Art Spotlight: Frijke Coumans, The 405
Eros and the Endless Desire, Booooooom
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2017
We Care, kunstexpositie in samenwerking met De Kunstpraktijk, Cult & Tumult
We Care - Piëta, Museumtijdschrift
Duo-expositie Museum 't Oude Slot & De Kunstpraktijk, Fotobond Brabant Oost
Zolang we blijven fantaseren kunnen we alles zijn wat we willen!, New Dawn Paper