Ellen Schippers creates inner portraits of women in a mysterious atmosphere, which gives the viewers room for their own associations and emotions. Her work is about female images, the ideals of beauty and about the contradiction between self-image and authenticity.
Schippers is an inter-disciplinary artist who combines performance, video, (wearable) sculptures, music and poetry in her installations.
She started her career with Performances in galleries, theaters and festivals in the Netherlands and abroad like: De Kleine Komedie, De Brakke Grond, Panama, Escape, the Melkweg, Paradiso, Mazzo, Maison Descartes (French Cultural Embassy) and the Vondelpark Open Air Theatre in Amsterdam, the Hippodrome Theatre in Londen, the World Science Fiction Congress and the Wiener Sommer Symposion in Vienna.
Since 2008 she creates video art, installations and photography.
Her work was exhibited in group exhibitions like the Photoville Festival in New York, the Sirius Gallery in Tokyo, the International Athens Video Art Festival, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Redleaf Gallery Londen, Swiss Art Space Lausanne, the Affordable Art Fair Londen and Media Museum Pescara, Italy.
And in solo-exhibitions: Image&I-magic (2008), Frauensehnsucht (2010), Snowwhite&Sherazade (2012) and Lost in Transition (2017). In 2010 Schippers was the main artist in the International Women Art Festival in Aleppo (Syria).
GUP (Guide Unique Photography) Ellen Schippers Photo Talent 2014
Solo Exhibitions
2017Lost in Transition in the Red Stamp Art Gallery Amsterdam
2014 Snowwhite & Sherazade in Atria Amsterdam
2012 Snowwhite & Sherazade in Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam
2010 Frauensehnsucht in Loods 6 Amsterdam
2008 Image & I-magic at location in Amsterdam
Exhibitions and Presentations
2019Biennale Le Latitudini dellArte,Palazzo Ducale Genova, Italy
2019F is For Feminism and the Female Form, Gallery Hyperflexion, South Africa
2018De Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2018 The Body Link, Red Stamp Art Gallery Amsterdam
2017 De Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2017 Uncut II, de collectie van Barbara van Ittersum, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2017 Open Ateliers Oud-Zuid, Amsterdam
2016 De Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2016 Thresholds with Christian Zanotto and Louisa Mazza, Red Stamp Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2016 Lost in Transition at location, Volendam
2016 Lost in Transition, Open Atelier Route Jordaan
2016 Archeology of the communication, Museo Le Piccole Cisterne, Formo Italia
2016 Media Museum, Pescara Italy
2016 Oxford International Art Fair with Art Heerenveen Art Gallery
2015 Amsterdam International Art Fair with Art Heerenveen Art Gallery, Beurs van Berlage
2015 See Me in Het Louvre Parijs
2015 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2014 Art Square Amsterdam
2014 De Kring Amsterdam, zomer expositie
2014 Gemeente Museum Den Haag, zomer expositie
2014 Sirius Gallery in Tokyo with Keep on Dreaming
2014 Open Atelier Route Jordaan, Amsterdam
2014 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2014 Amstel Gallery with Keep on Dreaming, Amsterdam
2013 The Redleaf Gallery in Londen
2013 GUP Gallery Amsterdam with New Dutch Photography Talent 2014
2013 Photoville Festival in New York
2013 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam
2013 Autumn Joy, Oude Raadhuis Aalsmeer
2013 The Redleaf Gallery in Londen
2013 The Affordable Art Fair in London
2012 The Redleaf Gallery in London
2012 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam
2012 The Redleaf Gallery in Londen
2012 The Aleatoric Art Gallery in Houston
2012 Sherazade selected for the Athens International Video Art Festival in Greece
2012 Affordable Art Fair in Londen
2012 Swiss Art Space in Lausanne
2011 The Redleaf Gallery in London
2011 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam
2011 Galerie Espace Enny, sound installation with artist Relly Tarlo
2010 International Women Art Festival in Aleppo, Syria
2010 Mosse Lecture about Art & Gender at the University of Amsterdam
2010 Women Inc. Festival in Amsterdam
2010 Silent Cry, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam
2009 The Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam
2009 Guest lectures about Art & Gender at the University of Amsterdam
2009 Video Art & Gender, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Galleries
Red Stamp Art Gallery (NL)
Art Heerenveen Art Gallery (NL)
The Carlos Reid Gallery (VS)
Publications in Books
2016 Visionairs van Art Heerenveen Art Gallery
2015 See Me Body Collection
2014 GUP met New, Dutch Photography Talent 2014
2012 No Future Nu van Leonor Jonker
Background
Ellen Schippers was educated in textile art in Amsterdam, in performance-art and textile art at the Vrije Academie of The Hague and in video at Open Studio in Amsterdam. Since 2009 Schippers is a member of the Artist Society Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam.
Collaboration
Schippers has collaborated in projects with various artists such as Penck, Mirko Krabb and Peter Giele; the poets George Moorman and Arthur Lava; the composers Bo van de Graaf (I-Compani) and Hans Asselbergs. Her work was photographed among others by Erwin Olaf, Angele Etoundi Essamba, Wim van de Hulst and Cindy Marler.