Pim Benus, born in Gramsbergen, the Netherlands, working and living in Groningen.
In my early youth I got fascinated by the visual possibilities of photography. Later on, educated and working as an architect, I used my photography for documentation and presentation. Since the 90s I turned back to photography as an autonomous medium.
Travelling and hiking through nature I cut out, with my camera, those views and details who give me a kind of abstract emotion, perceiving a detail but feeling the whole landscape. It leads to intimate impressions, indefinite views, sometimes decorative details, without documenting the reality of the landscape. It is the fixed view, the cut-out and the catched light that causes the emotional, spiritual loading and reflects the relation between me and nature.
“Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveau yeux” (Marcel Proust)
exhibitions
| AWARD | |
| – Little Treasures Award 2019 Bologna, Italy | |
| EXHIBTIONS | |
| 2020 | – Annual Dutch Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| – Art Capital (Salon des Independants) Paris , France | |
| 2019 | – Genius Loci, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands |
| – Little Treasures, Galleria De Marchi Bologna, Italy | |
| – Bomen, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2018 | – Kunstmoment Diepenheim (open air) Diepenheim, Netherlands |
| – Parallax Int. Artfair, Kensington Townhall London, UK | |
| – Lentesalon 2018, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| – Beweging (movie), Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2017 | – Unique Realities, Ateneo de Madrid. Madrid, Spain |
| – Parallax Int. Artfair, Kensington Townhall London, UK | |
| – Lentesalon 2017, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2016 | – Japan, Galerie Waarkunst ‘tWaar, Netherlands |
| – Parallax Int. Artfair, Chelsea Old Townhall London, UK | |
| – Fragiel, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| – Little Treasures, Galleria De Marchi Bologna, Italy | |
| – Lentesalon 2016, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| – Kunstroute A-Kwartier Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2015 | – Onderweg, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands |
| – Parallax Int. Artfair, Chelsea Old Townhall London, UK | |
| – Lentesalon 2015, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| – Kunstroute A-Kwartier Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2014 | – Wit, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands |
| – Stills, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2013 | – Duister, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands |
| – Lentesalon 2013, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands | |
| 2012 | – Lentesalon 2012, Galerie Lichtzône Groningen, Netherlands |
| 2010 | – Memento, Galerie Diramazione (132co) Groningen, Netherlands |
| PUBLIC COLLECTION | |
| – Bulthaup Presentation, Groningen, NL | |
| – Allshookupsalon, London, UK | |
| BOOKS | |
| – Duivelseiland, 2015 | |
| – Piz Tomül, 2014 | |
| – Op Stap, 2014 | |
| – Duister, 2013 | |
| EDUCATION | |
| – 2010 Academie voor Fotografie, Groningen | |
| – 1978 Academie van Bouwkunst, Groningen | |
CONTACT
M +31 (0) 6 54 35 22 94
A Eelkemastraat 137, 9723ZW Groningen, NL
W www.pimbenus.nl
W www.benusarchitectuur.nl
Kvk.nr. 01166275
Btw.id. NL001118648B65