Studio Cooper-van Ingen
Paviljoensgracht 20
2515BP The Hague



Gita Cooper-van Ingen has developed an oeuvre primarily composed of photography, film, silkscreen prints, publications, and installations. In her practice, Cooper-van Ingen (re-)engages with the notion of the personal being both political and poetical. Photography is the central framework through which she engages with relationship between images, art making and history, as well as documentation. Incorporating autobiographical elements in her practice has opened up new questions on the complex, fluid nature of authorship and performance in relation to portraiture.

Gita Cooper-van Ingen was born in London and was raised in Los Angeles, Munich, Berlin and Rome and now lives and works in The Netherlands. She holds an undergraduate degree in Criticism, Communication, and Curation from Central Saint Martins, London and a postgraduate degree in Photography & Society from the Royal Academy of The Arts (KABK) in The Hague.

Gita is the Creative Director and Editor at DER GREIF, an organisation for contemporary photography. She currently also teaches at the KABK.

Selected Exhibitions


Solo

2019
Petaline, Reggio Emilia at Marella (part of the MaxMara group)

Group

2020
DECODE DRESS CODE - Group Show curated by Katharina Täschner, Sophie Opitz & Daria Bona, Goethe Institut Paris

2019 
False Positives, Publication, KABK/The Hague

2018 
The Family of No Man: Revisioning the world through non-male eyes. Curated by Natasha Christia and Brad Feuerhelm, Arles, France

2017 
Global London, Offprint, London

2016
Krakow Photomonth 2016, A Process, curated by DER GREIF, hosted by Lars Willumeit


Selected Talks & Nominations


2022 C/O Berlin Talent Award. Nominated. 

2021
Undisciplining Photography, symposium organised by Rotterdam Fotomuseum and The Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague. 

2018 
De Donkere Kamer Live, Amsterdam. Pitch presentation. 

Selected Curatorial Projects


2019 - 2020
Blame The Algorithm, co-curated exhibition with Broomberg & Chanarin and DER GREIF, Stadtmuseum München, Munich

2019
Dancing in Peckham, auxiliary events curated during Photo London

The Adventure of the Empty House – co-curated a show featuring works by Thomas Albdorf, Munich

2018
Guest Editor for YUCA magazine, Issue III, “Sound & Time” issue

2017
Thread Count, curated by DER GREIF at Unseen Photofair, Amsterdam


Education


2018 - 2020 MA (distinction) Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK), The Hague (NL)
2017 - 2018 MA Photography, ECAL, École Cantonale d’art de Lausanne
2011 - 2014 BA (Hons), Central Saint Martins, Criticism, Communication and Curation, London (UK)


Images: © Gita Cooper - van Ingen