Mick Govert Santman
Gouda, 1999
Rotterdam Based
Gouda, 1999
Rotterdam Based
Mick Santman (1999, The Netherlands) is an artist photographer who creates photographs which are on the brink of minimalist abstraction. His work engages with themes such as the calmness of mind contrary to the stress-related demands of modern life, through the dynamic and fleeting interplay between nature and light.
Santman’s artistic process enfolds out of technical and visual curiosities deriving from the relationship between the photographic and phenomenological world. His first-hand practical approach provides a way for an in-depth inquiry where material expression allows ideas to evolve organically.With his work, Santman invites the viewer to consider the serene and the chaotic as innate properties of our natural environment in which the human finds its existence.
As an alumnus of the Willem de Kooning Academy (2023) in Rotterdam, he won the Threshold Prize (Drempelprijs) and was nominated for the Push Award. Later he was nominated for the Young Blood Award in the annual group exhibition Best of Graduates in the Ron Mandos gallery. At the start of 2024, he participated in the ONGEKEND Young Masters exhibition, organised at ADAMS auctions in collaboration with Kers Gallery.
Curriculum Vitae:
Exhibitions:
2025 And The Tides Will Change / Group Exhibition / Gallery Ballon Rouge, Rotterdam
2024 New Dutch Horizons / Group Exhibition / Schiphol Airport
2024 Auction + Preview / YOUNG MASTERS / Kers Gallery / ADAMS auctions, Amsterdam
2023 Group Exhibition / Kaapse Maria, Rotterdam
2023 Unseen Photo fair / Galerie Ron Mandos / Gashouder, Amsterdam
2023 Re-Generation / Group Exhibition / Stichting Kunstwerkt, Schiedam
2023 Best of graduates 2023 / Group Exhibition / Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2023 WdKA Graduation Show / Group Exhibition / Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
2022 Instruments of Interference / Group Exhibition / Sodafabriek, Schiedam
2021 InsideOUT / Group Exhibition / SKVR, Rotterdam
2019 Making (a) Public / Group Exhibition / Photo festival Schiedam
Awards and nominations:
2024 Open Call Ballon Rouge - Nominated
2023 Ron Mandos Youngblood Award - Nominated
2023 Drempelprijs - Awarded
2023 Push Award - Nominated
Education:
2017 - 2023 Fine arts; Photography, Willem de Kooning Academy
Internships:
2022 Studio 500watt