CV
1985 Born in Morges, Switzerland.
2010 Federal Certificate of Capacity in Photography, CEPV, CH
2018 Degree in Photography, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Mondriaan funds, International presentation grant, NL
Mondriaan funds, Basic artist grant, NL
Jaap Harten funds, NL
Mondriaan funds, Project grant, NL
FOAM Talent, NL
Swiss Design Award finalist, CH
Mondriaan funds, Emerging Artist grant, NL
VFG Prize, runner-up, CH
Swiss Design Award, finalist, CH
Fujifilm-Circulation(s), award, FR
Gabriele Basilico Prize, nominee, IT
Paris Photo –Aperture Foundation 1st book Award, finalist, FR
Harry Pennings award, Eindhoven, NL
Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
Ron Mandos Photo Talent, award, Amsterdam, NL
W. Eugene Smith Student Grant, New York, USA
Sprouts Young Talent, award, Amsterdam, NL
Joop Swart Masterclass, nominee, NL
University of Geneva, Boninchi Grant, CH
SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Swiss Views, Akku, Emmen, CH
2024 New Dutch Views & Prayer Rug Selfies, Grote Kerk, Alkmaar, NL
2023 New British Views, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, NL
2023 New Swiss Views, Halle Nord, Geneva, CH
2022 New British Views, Workplace, London, UK
2022 New Dutch Views, Gallery 87, Hull, UK
2021 Duo show, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, NL
2021 New Dutch Views, Pestalozzi Foundation, Trogen, CH
2020 Prayer Rug Selfies, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, NL
2019 New Dutch Views, SBK Galerie, Amsterdam, NL
2019 New Dutch Views, Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Beyond These Walls, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2024 The Hague School In A Different Light, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
2024 ICP at 50, International Center of Photography, USA
2024 Can't We All Just Get Along?, Stevenson Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2024 The Creation of Science, Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, NL
2024 NL Imagined, Goethe Institute, Hong Kong, CN
2023 NL Imagined, Three Shadows Photography Center, Xiamen, CN
2023 Just Like Escher, Escher museum, The Hague, NL
2023 Landscapes, Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, DE
2023 Re-Orientations, Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
2023 H3h Biënnal, Oosterhout, NL
2023 NL Imagined, Fosun Foundation, Shengdu, CN
2023 FOAM Talent, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Eschborn, DE
2023 A Field Guid to Getting Lost, Het Nieuwe Domein, NL
2023 Onze Nederlandse Maatjes, WARP, Sint-Niklaas, BE
2022 NL Imagined, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing, CN
2022 Windows, Museum Ijsselstein, Ijsselstein, NL
2022 Rencontres de la Photographie Marrakech, MA
2022 Si Fest, Savignano Sul Rubicone, IT
2022 Fitting in, Z33, Hasselt, BE
2022 FOAM Talent, FOAM, Amsterdam, NL
2022 De Jacht, Galerie de Schans, Amsterdam, NL
2022 768_768, Plateforme 10, Lausanne, CH
2022 NL Imagined, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, CN
2022 Verbeelding / Imagination, Nederlands Fotomuseum, NL
2021 Dutch Gallery of Honor, Nederlands Fotomuseum, NL
2021 Fotofestival Naarden, Naarden, NL
2021 Swiss Design Awards, Halle 3, Messe, Basel, CH
2021 Bienne Festival of Photography, CH
2021 VFG prize, Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen, CH
2021 VFG prize, Oslo 8, Basel, CH
2020 VFG prize, Photobastei, Zurich, CH
2020 Vantage Point Sharjah 8, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
2020 Circulation(s), Paris, FR
2020 Lost in Translation, Cultuurhuis De Warande, BE
2019 The Photobook as Atlas, Fotomuseum Winterthur, CH
2019 Imaginary Landscapes, Kunsthal Helmond, NL
2019 Paris Photo–Aperture 1st book Award, Aperture, New York, USA
2019 Paris Photo–Aperture 1st book Award, Paris Photo, FR
2019 YiPArt Auction, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Harry Penningprize, Eindhoven, NL
2019 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, GR
2018 Sprouts Young Talent, SBK, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Best of Graduates 2018, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
2018 KABK Graduation, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
2018 I See Peace, The Humanity House, The Hague, NL
2017 Fabulous Failures, curated by Erik Kessels, The Hague, NL
2013 20 upcoming photographers, Prix Bayeux Calvados, FR
2013 Le Prix Bayeux s’expose, Bar 61, Paris, FR
2008 Mouvement, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Fribourg, CH
ART FAIRS
2024 New Swiss Views (solo show), Unfair, Amsterdam, NL
2023 New Western Views (solo show), Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Art Düsseldorf, DE
2022 New Western Views (duo show), Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Unseen, Amsterdam, NL
2022 New Western Views (duo show), Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Art Rotterdam, NL
2022 Prospects, Mondrian Funds, Art Rotterdam, NL
2021 Art Rotterdam, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Rotterdam, NL
2019 Unseen photo fair, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Unseen photo fair, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
COLLECTIONS
International Center of Photography, USA
Kunsthaus Zürich, CH
Kunstmuseum Bern, CH
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, NL
Nederlands Fotomuseum, NL
Fenix Museum of Migration, NL
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL
Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration, NL
Mondriaan Fund, NL
Amsterdam Museum, NL
Het Nieuwe Domein, NL
Akzo Nobel Foundation, NL
The Dutch National bank, NL
Eneco art collection, NL
Amsterdam Medical University, NL
Menzis, NL
KPMG, NL
Aegon, NL
Library collection Nederlands Fotomuseum, NL
Library collection, Huis Marseille, NL
Library collection Wallonie-Bruxelles Museum of Photography, BE
Library collection Fotostiftung Schweiz, CH
Library collection Centre de la Photographie Genève, CH
Library collection MAPFRE Foundation, ES
LECTURES / GUEST TALKS
University of Concordia, Montreal, CA
University of Quebec in Montreal, CA
Round table speaker, CIC, Geneva, CH
Artist Talk (online), Paul De Ruijter Architects, NL
Artist Talk, Young Collector's circle, NL
Artist talk, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, BE
Eregalerij Plus, Nederlands Fotomuseum, NL
Symposium, Hilversum Museum, NL
Photo club Zwijndrecht, NL
FotoDok Book Club, NL
SBK Galerie, NL
De Donkere Kamer, Atelier Néerlandais, FR
Photo Club Lausanne, CH
Rotterdam PhotoTalks, WTC, NL
De Donkere Kamer, Lantaren Venster, NL
Sluitertijd, St. Niklaas, BE
Lost & Found, Amsterdam, NL
PERSONAL PUBLICATIONS
New Swiss Views (The Sand Station, NL, 2024)
New Dutch Views (Lecturis, NL, 2023)
GROUP PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGS
Re-Orientations (Kunsthaus Zürich, Hirmer, 2023)
Landscapes: Florence & Istanbul (Museum Schloss Moyland, 2023)
Verbeelding/Imaginations (NL Fotomuseum, Lecturis, 2022)
Gallery of Honour of Dutch Photography (NL Fotomuseum, Lecturis, 2021)
Humans (Henry Carroll, AbeBooks, 2021)
Swiss Design Awards 2021
Swiss Design Awards 2020
VFG Nachwuchsförderpreis für Fotografie 2020
Athens Photo Festival 2019
Graduation Catalog (Royal Academy of Art The Hague) 2018
SELECTED ESSAYS / ARTICLES
– New Swiss Views, portfolio, PF magazine, 2024
– Wie sehen Muslime die Schweiz, Luzerner Zeitung, 2024
- Auf der Schnittstelle, Geo Magazine Germany, 2024
- Un photographe observe le monde extérieur (...), Slate France, 2023
- From the mosque windows (...), De Volkskrant, 2023
- The 16 favourites of De Volkskrant, De Volkskrant, 2023
- A double view of the world from inside mosques, The New Yorker, 2023
- Photographing Switzerland from the window of mosques, 24 Heures, 2023
- Messe Art Dusseldorf, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2023
- Marwan Bassiouni, une fenêtre inversée sur l'islam, Dyptik magazine, 2023
- New British Views #6, The Financial Times, 2022
- Critic's pick, Artforum, 2022
- Gott und die Welt, A. Apel, Zeitmagazin, 2022
- New Western Views, Talent issue #61, Foam magazine, 2022
- Around Orientalism, Pia Louwerens, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, 2021
- Elegant Rebellion, Kim Knoppers, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, 2020.
- Through the Mosque window – in pictures, The Guardian, 2020.
- New Dutch Views, Conscientious Photography Magazine, 2019.
- Issue #7877: Reframing History, The British Journal of Photography, 2019.
- The Photobook Review, Paris-Photo Special, Issue #17, Aperture, 2019.
- A phenomenological reading of contemporary photography: M. Heidegger and M. Bassiouni, University of East Anglia, Micol Curatolo, 2019.
- Dubbelperspectief, Metropolis M, 2019.
- View of the Netherlands from the Mosque, Het Parool, 2019.
- In Pictures: Seeing the World Through Mosque Windows, Frieze, 2019.
- Your favourite photograph, issue #76, EXIT Imagen Y Cultura, 2019.
- View From the Mosque, De Volkskrant, 2019.
- Tank Magazine, issue 81, 2019.
- How the Netherlands Looks from the Window of a Mosque, Trouw, 2019.
- Marwan Bassiouni presents a new form of Dutch landscape photography from inside the mosque, Itsnicethat.com, 2019.
- Interiors, issue #74, Exit Imagen Y Cultura.
- New Dutch Views, Lens Culture, 2018.
- Marwan Bassiouni - New Dutch Views, Mister Motley, 2018.