Ine Lamers is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Rotterdam. She has been a tutor at the PZI since 1995.
She has worked with photography, slide and video installation, and film to explore the narrative potential of still and moving images. Many of her works, especially her large photographs, evolve around the human environment and urban architecture.
Recently Ine Lamers has undertaken several film and photographic projects in former Eastern Bloc countries. She researched recent social history and politics and created works which poetically reflect on the position of the individual within a situation where individuality and collectivity are at deadly odds, and the present seems an endless repetition of the past.
How many times can one repeat the same thing (2009). Film still.
Her recent film projects include 1 or 2 things I know about Chisinau (2002); Togliatti Sonata (2004-05); NOT SHE (2005); brilliant blues (untitled) (2005), Progressive Oblivion (2006), Ustala (I’m tired) (2008-09), How many times can one repeat the same thing (2009), Study of a Russian Landscape (2009-2010). White Nights ( to F.) 2010.
She realized recent solo exhibitions with Reuten Gallery, Amsterdam (2003, 2004, 2005, including presentations at the KunstRAI and Art-fair Rotterdam); Galerie Ron Mandos (2006, 2008, including a presentation at the Art-fair Berlin); and Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2005); Nederlands Fotomuseum,Rotterdam (2007),Tolyatti Modern Art Museum, Tolyatti, Russia (2007), Wereldwaag COS, Dordrecht (2009); Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2009-2010).
de duisternis van Gelderland (2009).
Recent group exhibitions include amongst others Constructed Moments, KW14, Den Bosch; Chisinau, CBK Dordrecht (2005); Rijke Uren, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (2006); Photography Bi-annual, MUHKA, Antwerp (2005); Aist, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2006); De Nachten, De Singel, Antwerp (2006); Spectacular City, NAi, Rotterdam (2006); NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf (2007) Discovering Slowness, National Centre of Photography, St Petersburg, Russia (2007); Cont. Art Centre, Xiamen, China (2009) ecoscapes, TENT, Rotterdam (2008); Het Geheim van Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2008); Expanse, Biennale Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (2009); Delocalisation, Press to Exit Space, Skopje, Macedonia, (2009) Divided Landscape, Gist Gallery, Amsterdam ( 2009), Salima, Galerie Wim van Krimpen, Rotterdam (2010).
Call Sheet (2009-10). Installation, mixed media. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen.
Her films were also screened and nominated at amongst others Vermont International Film Festival, Burlington, USA (2004); Kunst Filmbiennale Kunstverein Cologne Int. Comp. (2005); the International Film festival Rotterdam (2005); Viper Video and New Media Festival, Basel (2006); Dutch Eyes, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2007); Still Frames, MUHKA, Antwerp (2007), Black Cube 10, Arti & Amiciae Amsterdam (2008); Vidlounge, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (2008); K.I.M.M. IFFR, sub urban video lounge, Rotterdam (2010).
Her work can be found in the collections of amongst others the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Museum Het Domein, Sittard; Museum Bommel Van Dam, Venlo; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden; Caldic collection and the Nederlandse Bank.