Mick Govert Santman
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    Group Exhibition / Gallery Ballon Rouge, Rotterdam

2024    T.B.A.

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


Contact:



micksantman@gmail.com

+31 6 235 80 333