Exhibitions

Overview of exhibitions 1996 – present

Solo/duo exhibitions

2027

  • Carla’s Light, Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
  • Carla van de Puttelaar, Facing the Law, Portraits Past and Present, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Artfully Dressed, Slot Zeist, The Netherlands

2026

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2014

2013

2012

2010

2009

2008

  • Women as I see them, Nessim Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
  • Galateas, Galerie de photographies du CHATEAU D’EAU, Toulouse, France

2006

  • Centre Culturel de Lillebonne, Lillebonne, France
  • Nieuw werk, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Galatea (Rencontres d’Arles 2006), Magasin des Ateliers, Arles, France

2005

  • De menselijke gedaante, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • DIAPHANES, box galerie, Brussels, Belgium

2003

  • Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Kwetsbare Kracht, CAC, Laren, The Netherlands

2002

  • Galeria Forvm, Tarragona, Spain

2001

  • Gallery Bodo Niemann, Berlin, Germany

2000

  • Solo, Van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Gallery Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands

1998

  • Portraits Museon, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Portraits Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands

Group exhibitions

2026

  • ‘Dialoguer avec l’art’ (Engaging with Art), Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
  • Naakt dat Raakt, Museum Arnhem
  • Mix & Match – Barbara Visser, Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • Duo presentation Carla van de Puttelaar and Jens Buis, Photo Basel with Rademakers Gallery

2025

  • Salomon Mesdach, een Zeeuwse Meester in de Gouden Eeuw, Stadhuismuseum Zierikzee, NL
  • Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
  • COLECCIÓN GABINO DIEGO, Notas de viaje, El Palacín, León, Spain

2024

  • Body Talk, Museum Vianen, NL
  • Women in Art, Fotolab Kiekie, Exhibition in De Hallen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses, QAGOMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  • Art Karlsruhe, with Galerie Ricarda Fox

2023

  • A Creative Constellation: Contemporary Women in the Arts (permanent display), National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
  • The Ophof Collection, Speaking of Photography, Fotomuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • KunstRAI, with Janknegt Gallery
  • UNSEEN, with Janknegt Gallery

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

  • Dutch Photography Louis Vuitton-Ropongi Store, Tokyo, Japan
  • THE RHETORICS OF WORK. RANDSTAD PHOTOCOLLECTION CAC, Malaga, Spain
  • Acquisitions récentes, MEP – Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, France
  • Le Minotaure, Galerie Autonome, Paris, France
  • LIJF / BODY WORKS (2004-2006) travelling exhibition, RASA, Belgium
  • Amnesty’s fotoveiling Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Désir, La Panera, centre d’art contemporain de Lerida, Spain

2003

  • Prix de Rome Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France
  • Galerie Le Lac, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Moved van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Fables de l’Identité, Collection NSM Vie / ABN AMRO, Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France
  • Manifestation Noorderlicht Galerie Wijk, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Dutch Photography, Colette, Paris, France

2002

  • Esther Kroon Award Winners, Van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Prix de Rome FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Prix de Rome Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Van Zoetendaal Collections, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • La pell galeria Palma Dotze, Vilafranca, Spain
  • Randstad fotocollectie, Museum de Burcht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Prix de Rome Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
  • Grenzen LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands
  • Femmes d’Images slide show, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
  • Gallery La Périphérie, with Jasper Wiedeman, Paris, France

2001

  • Drieluiken Amsterdams Centrum voor fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • The body’s performance Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Julie Saul Gallery, with Céline van Balen, New York, USA
  • Manifestation Noorderlicht Gallery Wijk, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Work/Dutch Women Photographers Gallery Holland Tunnel, New York and Studio 38, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Desire, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  • Fragments Museo de la Universidad de Alicante, Spain

1999

  • Uitgelicht 3 Westergasfabriek / KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1997

  • Verhullen / Onthullen Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Portfolio Gallery, photo festival, Naarden, The Netherlands
  • Galerie Niggendijker, manifestation Noorderlicht, Groningen, The Netherlands initiated by Stichting Basalt
  • WomenWork Randstad Photo Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996

  • Women Portraits, Strahlsund, Germany
  • Fotodiffusione ’96 Olanda – Sala 1, Rome, Turin, Italy

1995

  • Academy Project, photo festival, Naarden, The Netherlands

Art Fairs

  • Paris Photo: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019
  • Photo Basel: 2026
  • UNSEEN: 2023
  • Haute Photographie, Rotterdam: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • AIPAD, New York: 2008, 2011, 2016
  • DFOTO, San Sebastian: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Art Cologne: 2002, 2006, 2007
  • ARCO, Madrid: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • artparis: 2007, 2008, 2013
  • Photo London: 2007, 2016, 2017, 2018 (VIP program), 2019
  • Art Forum, Berlin: 2001
  • PAN, Amsterdam: 2002, 2003, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Art Rotterdam: 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2026
  • FIAC, Paris: 2005
  • Art Brussels: 2007, 2008
  • ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH: 2001
  • Art Amsterdam: 2008, 2009
  • SCOPE London: 2008
  • Show Off Paris: 2008, 2010
  • Photo Miami: 2008
  • Madridfoto: 2009
  • SCOPE Basel: 2009, 2013
  • Photo LA: 2010, 2011
  • MiArt: 2010
  • Art Chicago: 2010
  • L’Art prend l’Air: 2010
  • Art Santa Fe: 2010
  • nofound photofair: 2011
  • PhotoMarket Stockholm: 2013
  • Paris Photo, Los Angeles: 2013, 2014
  • PULSE Miami: 2013, 2015
  • Manchester Art fair: 2017
  • Fresh Eyes Art fair: 2020
  • TEFAF New York (solo): 2019
  • Art Zurich: 2022
  • KunstRAI, 2023
  • ArtKarlsruhe, 2024

Books

Carla van de Puttelaar: Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World
33×23,5 cm, 16 pp, March 2022
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Galatea Publishers in collaboration with the Netherlands embassy in Brussels, Belgium
Text by Hanna Oosterbaan, Cultural Attaché, Netherlands embassy in Brussels, Belgium

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar and Iris van Herpen: Synergia
33×23,5 cm, 16 pp, March 2021
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Galatea Publishers
Text by Lisa Small, Senior Curator European Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar: Brushed by Light
33×23,5 cm, 176 pp, March 2020
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by the Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg
Text by Rudi Ekkart, Art Historian

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar
21×15 cm, 64 pp, 2020, € 10,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Museum Jan Cunen, Oss
Text by Merel van den Nieuwenhof

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar
21×15 cm, 32 pp, 2020, € 50,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam
Text by Fred G. Meijer

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar: Artfully Dressed: Women in the Art World
33×23,5 cm, 344 pp, November 2019, € 60,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Unicorn, London/Chicago
Texts by Marta Weiss, Senior Curator, Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum and Rachel Kaminsky

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar: Adornments
33×23,5 cm, 292 pp, 2017, € 50,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Fw: Books, Amsterdam
Text by Marianne Berardi

Please click here to buy this book

2 Photographers 1 Camera, Portraits by Maria Austria and Carla van de Puttelaar
25×20 cm, 30 pp, 2016, € hardcover USD 49.99 plus shipping and softcover USD 39.95 plus shipping
Photography by Maria Austria and Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Galatea Publishers, Amsterdam
Introduction by Werner van den Belt

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar
21×14,5 cm, 32 pp, 2015, € 10,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam
Text by Kahmann Gallery

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar
21×14,5 cm, 32 pp, 2013, € sold out
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam
Text by Kahmann Gallery

Please click here to inquire about this catalogue

Jewel Box, Light on Legs
28×27,5 cm, 72 pp, 2011, € 75,00
Photography by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Belvedere, Overveen
Texts by Martino Neumann, Frans Meulenberg, Jannes van Everdingen

Please click here to buy this book

Veel kun je maken, maar niet alles houden
26×21 cm, 48 pp, 2011, € 19,50
Concept and compilation by Carla van de Puttelaar, published by Galatea Publishers, Amsterdam
Texts by Ruud Kleinee and Jasper Andriessen

Please click here to buy this book

Portfolio: Carla van de Puttelaar: Cranach Series
17 x 11 Inch, 15 pigment ink prints (edition of 50), 2010
Published by photo-eye Editions
Introduction by Fred G. Meijer
Distributed by: photo-eye Editions

Please click here for sales information (nearly sold out)

Carla van de Puttelaar: The Beholder’s Eye
34×24 cm, 72 pp, 2008, € sold out edition, a few copies available price: 150 euro
Published by Carla van de Puttelaar
Introduction by Bob Frommé
Distributed in the Netherlands by: Uitgeverij De Verbeelding Distributed outside the Netherlands by: Idea Books

Please click here for sales information

Carla van de Puttelaar: Galateas
32×24 cm, 96 pp, 2008, € price on request, only a few signed copies left (sold out edition)
Le caillou bleu – Editions
Introduction by Kristien Hemmerechts
Look inside this book

Please click here for sales information

Carla van de Puttelaar
22,5×29 cm, 80 pp, 2004, € price on request, only a few signed copies left (sold out edition)
Basalt & van Zoetendaal Collections
Introduction by Rudy Kousbroek
Look inside this book

Please click here to buy this book

Carla van de Puttelaar, galateas, Monograph issued on occasion of the solo exhibition at Le Chateau d’Eau
21×21 cm, 2008, € price on request, only a few signed copies left (sold out edition)
Introduction by Delphine Roche
Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse

Please click here to buy this book

Netherlands Now, L’école du Nord
30×23,5 cm, 2006, € 42,00
Editions du Regard, Paris

Beyond Photography
28,7×24 cm, 2008, € 39,00
Uitgeverij Voetnoot

Van der Weijden series made for exhibition FLASH / BACK Mauritshuis

Rembrandt’s Naked Truth

In 2015 Carla van de Puttelaar was asked by the Rembrandt House Museum to reflect on Rembrandt’s nudes. This resulted in the Rembrandt Series, which was exhibited in the Rembrandt House Museum in 2016, alongside an exhibition of Rembrandt’s work.

Carole Wilson Cohn about the portraits from the Women in the Art World Series: ‘Carla van de Puttelaar’s tribute to women is so visceral that each sitter is poised to tell youher story in a way few photographers can accomplish.When I saw her exhibit at Sotheby’s in New York, I was “blown away” by her sensitivity towards each subject.  It’s hard to discover the true DNA of a woman’s essence in photography.It’s even harder to combine that and the Art History of the Dutch Masters.  But Carla does it with her sensitive eye and extraordinary sense of detail in her photographs.Her work is truly a woman’s view of women. Unparalleled.’

Carole Wilson Cohn

Contact

Carla van de Puttelaar, Photography

Carla van de Puttelaar

carlavandeputtelaar@gmail.com