Dutch artist Petra Noordkamp (1967) moves fluidly between photography and film. She explores the influence of experiences, memories, movies and dreams on the perception of architecture and the urban environment. She lives and works in Amsterdam where she studied photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
In 2012, her first short film The Mother, the Son and the Architect was shown in an exhibition of her work at Foam in Amsterdam and was selected for various Dutch and international film festivals. She was an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2013. In 2014 she was commissioned by the Guggenheim Foundation in New York to make a short film about Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina. This film was a.o. screened at the Guggenheim in New York, K21 in Dusseldorf and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her film When you return I'll be living by the waterside (2017) had its world premiere at the IFFR in 2018. Her installation Fragile - Handle with Care was a commission from MAXXI Museum in Rome. In 2020 she stayed for three months in Tokyo, a residency provided by the Arts Initiative Tokyo and the Mondriaan Fund. Once in a while she also curates exhibitions.
