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Marrie Bot (1946)
 
 Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 1990  
   
 
Marrie Bot received the prize for a coherent oeuvre of high quality which also reflects new developments. In addition to her photo books, Marrie Bot is also working on a continuing photographic series on people in their everyday setting, under the title Hanging Around. Her photographic projects and books testify to a very intense and honest involvement with aspects of social reality which tend to be overlooked. Marrie Bot's work exhibits a symbiosis of vision and commitment which will leave few people unmoved. Her work provides vivid proof of the fact that remarkable results can still be achieved in the field of concerned photography. Both Miserere and The Burden of Existence were privately published by the author, who also wrote the text and designed the books, producing combined projects in which visual and textual elements form an inextricable whole. Marrie Bot's work, unlike that of many other photographers, cannot be captured in a single representative image. Her photos reinforce each other in the way they interconnect and the text plays an essential supporting role. Through her long-term preoccupation with a single subject, combined with her extremely conscientious approach and professional passion, each of Marrie Bot's photographic projects deepens our vision of an underexposed aspect of society. Her photographs do not merely document the existing situation but, by virtue of the texts she has written, they present a definite and nuanced view of it. Marrie Bot has been quietly working for years on subsequent photographic projects. The jury is fully confident that these projects will also achieve new heights of artistry and content. They will give new meaning at a high and professional level to the depth and thereby the development of documentational photography in the Netherlands. This satisfied the second criterion for the award of the prize: the perspective of new developments.
 
 
Marrie Bot was born in 1946 in Bergambacht and began her training as a graphic designer. In 1973 she took evening classes in drawing and photography at the Free Academy in The Hague. She learned documentary photography primarily through practical experience. Since 1976 Marrie Bot has been principally involved with freelance photography, choosing her own subjects. Her photos stem from a personal involvement with the photographed situations, in which people usually play the main role. Since the beginning of her career she has concentrated on projects with a socio-cultural theme. These include the book Miserere (1984), on the great centres of pilgrimage in Europe and the forms of penance still current today, and The Burden of Existence (1988), with photos and stories about the mentally-handicapped. For this book she received the Maria Austria prize in 1989. At the same time she accepted a number of documentary commissions, in which she was given a free choice of subject. These were Allotments in Amsterdam (1977) and Working on Classical Music (1983-84), for the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Punk Pop Concerts (1978) for the Rotterdam Municipal Archive, and Music and Ballet Rehearsals (1985), for the Holland Festival. Marrie Bot completed four large commissions under the 1% art scheme (whereby 1% of the budget for a new building, or one under renovation, is reserved for the purchase of artwork). The first was for the decoration of a training centre in Alkmaar which she completed in collaboration with the pupils in 1978. In 1989 she collaborated with the photographer Pieter Vandermeer on staged colour photo-murals for a nursing home in Rotterdam, and in 1990 with the photographer Hans Aarsman on a project for the new Dirksland regional hospital. She provided the decorative art work for the second part of the building project by herself in 2000.

In September 2004 she will be presenting her new book Timeless Love, with colour photographs of devoted elderly couples. Marrie Bot's photographs have often been exhibited in galleries and museums at home and abroad. She regularly gives lectures on her work and holds masterclasses at academies of art and the Department of Visual Anthropology at Leiden University.

Works by Marrie Bot are to be found in the collections of the Municipal Museum in Amsterdam, the Print Collection of the University of Leiden, the National Bureau for Graphic Art in The Hague, the Limburg Centre for Photography in Sittard, the Museum for Religious Art in Uden, the Municipal Museum in Toulouse, the Nicéphore Niepce Museum, Châlon sur Saône in France, the Graham Nash Collection in Pasadena, California, USA, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and in various private collections.
 
 

1946

 


Born in Bergambacht, the Netherlands
1963-1976
Graphic designer
1973-1974
Evening-classes drawing and staged photography at the Free Academy in The Hague.
Start as a self-taught documentary photographer.
Since 1976
Works as a photographic artist. She starts with the still on-going project Hanging Around, of which she exhibits from time to time pictures of situations she meets during her travels and which she describes as the particular of everyday life. With the help of grants she works on long-term photo projects with delicate social-cultural subjects. These result in:

Photobooks
(with self-written tex ,design and publishingt) and exhibitions:
1984
Miserere, the great pilgrimages of penance in Europe, Dutch edition. - 2500 copies
1985
Miserere, English, French and German edition - 5000 copies
1988
The Burden of Existence, photo’s -stories of mentally handicapped - 6500 copies
1998
A Last Farewell, death rituals in the multicultural Netherlands - 4000 copies
2004
Timeless Love, the erotic in later life
1977-2002
Various publications in survey books on Photography and Art:* Portfolio publications in a variety of photomagazines in Holland and abroad.

Awards
1989
Maria Austria Photography Prize for book The Burden of Existence
1990
The Dr. A. Heineken- Art Prize for the complete œuvre.

Documentary assignments


(subjects of personal choice of M.B)
1977
Allotments - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts
1978
Punk and Pop concerts - for the Historical Archives in Rotterdam
1983 - 1984
Working at classical music - for the Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts
1985
Classical Music and Ballet rehearsals - for the Holland Festival

Commissioned Art-Projects
decorating new public buildings
1979
School in Alkmaar
1989
Nursing-home for Alzheimer patients, Rotterdam
1990
Hospital (construction phase 1), Dirksland (with Hans Aarsman)
2000
Hospital (construction phase 2), Dirksland, solo

Her work is purchased by museums, archives, institutes and private collections.**
The photographs of Marrie Bot have been exhibited all over Europe in various galleries and museums.***

With regularity she is member of selection committees for documentary photo projects
She gives lectures, workshops and masterclasses at artschools and for visual antropological studies (among others at the University of Leiden ).

* Publications in survey books on photography and art:
1978
Photography in The Netherlands 1940 -1975
1980
New Dutch Photography
1982
Photography in Europe Now, No.4
1985
Purchases of the National Art Collection 1984, works of contemporary artists
1986
The animal in Photography 1843-1985, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
1986
Roots and Turns, 20th century photography in The Netherlands
1989
Photography Between Covers, the Dutch documentary photography after 1945
1991
The Fourth Wall photography as theater
1992
Commissioned photography, 1986-1992
1992
Photos for the city 1972-1991, Documentary photography for the city of Amsterdam
1993
Free Play, Dutch Art 1970 -1990
1998
Post-mortem paintings and pictures in Dutch Art -1500-today
2002
Art without Church, Dutch Art and religion 1945-1990
2002
Open no.3, Art for psycho geriatric nursing-homes, SKOR
2002
Photographers in The Netherlands 1852-2002

Monographs:
1985
Monograph no 101, Galerie Municipal du Château d’Eau, Toulouse
1990
Marrie Bot Photographer, on the occasion of the Heineken Art-Prize

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