Photographer based between Berlin and the Netherlands.
Charmaine de Heij investigates with her artistic work personal and contested histories. The work takes the form of photographs which often include still-life and portraiture. She reflects with photography on contemporary issues, that also concern her on a personal level. Charmaine examines the incomprehension of the world we live in today and occurrences close to her .
The topics her photography touches are various: they can come from a psychological state of being to identity. Charmaine comes from a mixed heritage, the Netherlands and Suriname. With her work she wants to be a representation of her cultural heritage and create understanding.
Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is for her a compelling quality. De Heij digs into hidden memories and creates representation of what can be lost in the mind. Her work reveals the invisible and creates a space for dialogue that invites the viewer to question the work. Charmaine wants to hold up a mirror with her photography.
Education
B.A. Photography graduated in 2021 in Berlin
Exhibitions
2022
- Bloot, by Curated the Young Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, Hasselt & Leuven.
- What's Left Behind online exhibition at https://www.sergiogomezcurates.net/whats-left-behind
- PAUSE Atelier Cocon Coloré Berlin
- Countercurrents V192 the Hague
- Penumbra Northern Photographic Centre Oulu
2021
- GRRL Telephone by GRRL HAUS CINEMA Ilali Berlin
2020
- HAARE oder HAIR Marc-Antoine Gallery Berlin
- Everything home is far away FK-Kollektiv Berlin
- Your Local Newsstand online exhibition
- Positur#1 Stadtteil Zentrum Nordstadt Hannover
- Home Museum by LagosPhoto Festival
2019
- FRESH EYES Launch & Exhibition Voies Off Arles
- Nobel Pllek Amsterdam
- S.E.L.F. Gibberish Liverpool
- Untitled Das Giftraum
- Threads of Yesterday CLB, Berlin
- Kunstroute Watertoren, Naaldwijk
- Nobel VondelCS Amsterdam
- Groupshow Scotiabank CONTACT PhotographyFestival
2018
- False Front GlogauAIR Berlin
- Halle 424 Hamburg
- Nobel Stadsschouwburg Haarlem
- Monitor AIR Gallery, Manchester
- Fear in the City Festival des Idées Paris
2017
- Jula Festival (self)identity exhibition, Munich
- Ogreen Festival designkwartier
- Solo exhibition La Dolce Berlin
- Rejected Rum Factory London
- Groups exhibition De Balie Amsterdam
- Nasty Woman Josilda da Conceição Gallery Amsterdam
- Kunsthuis 18 Naaldwijk
- Solo exhibition Narrenkastl Frohnleiten
- Collab Show South East Drift London
2011-2016 - Kruidhuis Den Bosch, 2016
- New Dutch photography talent 5&33 Gallery Amsterdam, 2015
- Facing Animals Muzerije, 2015
- Foamlab Foam Amsterdam, 2011
Reading
- Anxiety Release Reading by ONEIRIC.SPACE
Haus am Lützowplatz, 2020
with the work Melody of Agitation
Prizes
- Finalist Carte Blanche Paris Photo Fair
- Foam museum Flickr up Third price winner
- Kunstbazaar 2016 Young Talent
- Adobe Creative Jam 2018 Jury Award
- Fresh Future 2019 by Fabrik Carbon
Selected
- Adobe Rising Star of Photography 2020
- GUP Fresh Eyes, Emerging Photography Talent Europe, 2019
- New Dutch photography talent 2016
- Format Photographer Fund
- Designalism Newsroom 2022, by Aced
Publications
- &C Online
- SAND journal
- Kink.CZ
- Conceptual Projects
- Fotolab KIEKIE IG take-over
- Sleek Magazine
- CJP Magazine
- Float Magazine IG take-over
- New Dawn Paper
- Uncoated
- Foto Femme United IG take-over
- Musée Magazine
- Fraction Magazine
- Woman of Arts
- Fast Forward: Women in Photo IG conversation
- Private View
- Screenshot Magazine
- Focus Magazine
- FK Magazine
- DigiFoto Pro Magazine
- New Dutch Photography Talent
- Unicorn Dream Magazine
- Darkside Collective: a new normal
- Come into land
- Saatchi Gallery
- Curating the Unseen
- DigiFoto Pro; online spotlight
- Youngshot
- Emboss Magazine
- Fotografille
- Kiekie Krant
- Seeance
- Get Inspired Magazine
- My Portrait Hub
- All things girl
- Hanker Magazine
- Ramona Magazine
- Average Art Magazine
- A5 magazine
- Westland uit
- Whim Magazine
- Flying Fruitbowl
- Curating the unseen