Willem de Rooij - Dirk Valkenburg

Foreword
Bart Rutten

Designing Difference
Willem de Rooij and Karwan Fatah-Black

ESSAYS
Life and Work
Dirk Valkenburg: A Painter in Amsterdam and Suriname
Mark Ponte

The Rebellion at Palmeneribo
Frank Dragtenstein

The Standardized Production of Dirk Valkenburg’s Trophy Still Lifes
Julie Hartkamp

Dirk Valkenburg’s Hunting Still Lifes in a Colonial Context
Maurice Saß

Dirk Valkenburg as a Portrait Painter: Education and Network
Sabine Craft-Giepmans

Appraisal
The History of Renaming and Reinterpreting Dirk Valkenburg’s Gathering of Enslaved People on One of Jonas Witsen’s Plantations in Suriname
Rebecca Parker Brienen

The Market Appreciation and Provenance of Dirk Valkenburg’s Oeuvre
Matthies Klink

Tropics
Histories and Historicities: Beyond the Picture Frame
Renzo S. Duin, Philip Dikland, Agir Axwijk

Traumascapes, or When Dirk Valkenburg’s Landscape Paintings Are Seen from the Perspective of the Subaltern
Renzo S. Duin and Agir Axwijk

Slavery as an Aquatic Still Life
Alex van Stipriaan

Meta Race Play and Historical Rescue
Will Furtado Fredo

Visual Culture
Dirk Valkenburg’s Coconuts
Benjamin Schmidt

Edenic Tropics and Decadent Humanity
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Labouring Bodies: Dirk Valkenburg’s Gathering of Enslaved People on One of Jonas Witsen’s Plantations in Suriname in Context
Sarah Thomas

Afterword
The Meaning of a Flag
Karin Amatmoekrim

CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ
Introduction
Game and Hunting Scenes
Animal Scenes
Fruit Still Lifes
Works Made in Suriname
Portraits
Copies after Lost Portraits
Dirk Valkenburg’s Estate Inventory: A Transcription
Bibliography
Archives
Databases
Author Biographies
Index

INSTALLATION VIEWS
List of Exhibited Works

Biography

Willem de Rooij (b. 1969) creates temporary installations that explore the politics of representation across various media. Appropriation and collaboration are central to his artistic method, and his projects have stimulated new research in art history and ethnography. In 2000 De Rooij won the Bâloise Art Prize, and he was nominated for the Hugo Boss Award in 2004 and the Vincent Award in 2014. He was a Robert Fulton Fellow at Harvard University in 2004 and a DAAD fellow in Berlin in 2006. He represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Venice Biennale with Jeroen de Rijke, his collaborative partner from 1994-2006. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Portikus Frankfurt (2021), LAXart, Los Angeles (2019), IMA Brisbane (2017) and Consortium, Dijon (2015). De Rooij has taught and lectured extensively since 1998. He is Professor of Fine Art at the Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main since 2006, and advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam since 2015. In 2016 he co-founded BPA// Berlin program for artists, and became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. De Rooij’s works can be found in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles and MOMA, New York. Melchior d’Hondecoeter (1636-1695), Willem de Rooij and Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer (eds.), Volume 2 from Intolerance, published for an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Dusseldorf (Feymedia Verlagsgesellschaft) 2010.

Karwan Fatah-Black (b. 1981) is lecturer in social and economic history at Leiden University and senior researcher at the Royal Dutch Institute of South-East Asia and Caribbean Studies. He is a scholar of Dutch colonial history specialized in the Atlantic world and slavery. He is a prolific author and participant in public debates on the future of the colonial past.