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at the intersection of collage, painting and video
Probing the boundaries of each, resulting in unique abstractions:
An intertextual dialogue opens up between his artworks, and allows for a surprising tone to the assemblage. Krijno describes the process of photographing these ephemeral structures as a private physical performance, with the camera being the audience.
Often working with discarded found materials, he interprets and re-organises them in a non-linear manner in the pursuit of finding alternative structures for how meaning and matter are constructed and perceived.
Using his body and movements based on gestural abstraction, creating a direct link between the body and the natural flow. Re-introducing a dynamic relationship with nature, bringing nature back into the world in reaction against the man-made- manufacturing process
With a filmmaking background, working in the theatre and experimental video fields both as video editor & cameraman. Nico Krijno switched camps to the field of visual arts around 2008.
His photographic practice with its focus rooted in process and experimentation is realised in a variety of media, formally and technically diverse. combining analogue and digital and cameraless tools resulting in participatory installations, sculptural interventions, video+sound
He has exhibited work across Europe, Asia and the US, and worked for major brands like Givenchy, Caron, Loewe, Kartell
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📍️Currently in South Africa making and thinking.
Sport in FocusCOLLECTION OF THE OLYMPIC MUSEUM AND PHOTO ELYSÉE 28.03 – 18.08.2025
Groupshow: 21.11. - 06.12.2024
On Archives
THRYVE Group X ThirdSpace ZURICH
thirdspace.ch
Arles, France (July 1 – September 29, 2024)
Olympism Made Visible, partnership between the Olympic Museum and Photo Elysée
Paris (July 26 – August 11, 2024)
The Olympic Museum, in partnership with various locations to ticket holders during the Olympic Games
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Maison de l’Amérique Latine, works from Olympism made Visible series
Los Raros/Las Raras, Nuevas Narrativas del Collage Contemporáneo, Valladolid, Spain, May 10 - 7 July 2024
Solo Presentaion at Asama International Photo Festival 2023 - PHOTO MIYOTA in Japan 7/15 - 9/3 2023
SOLO SHOW: Resistance Relapse 29 June — 12 Aug 2023
Huw Davies Gallery / Photo Access Canberra Australia
Group Show: Distortion: Where to Now? Cultural Goods Gallery Toronto, Canada
Recent: Past
The Constellation ,The Ravestijn Gallery, 21 January - 4 March 2023
One of a kind - 10 year anniversery show with unique pieces.
The Ravestijn Gallery 3 September - 22 October
BELFAST PHOTO FESTIVAL. 2-30th June 2022 Solo outdoor Presentation ︎
Screen Age III: Still Life - RIGA PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNIAL 2022, April 22 – June 12| Riga Art Space,Latvia. ︎︎︎(Installation)
ART ROTTERDAM. GROUPSHOW THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY, Rotterdam 19 -22 May 2022
Exclamation Mark | The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam 12 March - 23 April 2022
Subject Object Exhibit @ Saint Lawrence University, Brush Art Gallery
January 19 – February 26, 2022 Curated by Sarah Knobel
THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE. GROUPSHOW THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY, AMSTERDAM
17 July - 11 September 2021
UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach,Online Viewing Rooms Dec 2,3,4,5,6
The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media Oslo, Norway February 21–May 16, 2020

FAQ (NATURE VS. CULTURE)
- im not interested in hunting for the perfect moment.
- I use photography to create new worlds within my perceived reality, to ask questions about memory, photography and its (re)presentation
- I use analogue and digital tools to create my work, and explain the world to myself - i also use the clone stamp and the lasso tool.
- instead of capturing emotion i would rather like to evoke an emotional response within the viewer that is strangely familiar.
- (Trompe-l'œil, Making strange, Verfremdung) Alchemy
- i do not work in linear series, but instead in one continuous and interwoven body of work. like a conversation that never stops,
- new ideas are constantly added, shifting over time, reprising old ideas and adding new ones.
- im not just interested in whats infront of the camera, but also what lies behind, underneath and just to the side of the frame.
- good ideas are more important than sharp and colourful pretty pictures
- Photographs should hardly ever be propped up with text
- This is also a lie
- The basic tenets of Gestalt Theory: Proximity, Similarity, Continuity, Closure, and Connectedness
- Gutt Feelings through my one right eye
- i use the tools of video, photography, and painting to create my art
- i can cite direct influences as coming from photographers, Michael Schmidt, Roe Ethridge, the legendary John’s Divola and Gossage, Lucas Blalock and Robert Cumming (also Richard Tuttle)
- An image taken with a smartphone is just as important as an image taken on a large format view camera or a potato pinhole camera.
- I knew all of this before, but was unable to express it
- im interested in sculpture and form, but the main concern is the transformation created by the camera. the thing becoming something else
- my work can be read as a sampler of photographic genres, portrait, landscape, nude, & still life images all sit next to each other to reveal and explore the medium and its limitations.
- the only aspect of my process that i value is my intellectual curiosity through experimentation. (strategy)
- The day i would start knowing where the work is going i would stop (goal)
- an ode to effort
- My work is inside my body. (mind/body/technology)
- I use what i find lying ‘around’ and convert and transform this debris through a kind of creative alchemy into a theatrical mise en scene
- This urban ‘jetsam and flotsam’ comes with its own knowledge, a built in aesthetic which i unearth and explore in my constructions
- Im Always trying to surprise myself, and come up with unsolvable pictures i havent seen before, to get beneath the surface.
- the indecisive moment
- i believe in the power of the single image, but im currently more interested in the role of associative patterns and the contiguities of perception revealed when images are sequenced in a book or on a wall
Olympism made Visible
How To Leave Your Body Behind, Tique Art
Six Questions for
Nico Krijno
A Unique Vision: Local Artist Nico Krijno
ASX: Chaos in the Landscape: Nico Krijno’s How to Leave Your Body Behind
ARTFORUM: Inaugural Henie Onstad Triennial Launches
Phroom, Nico Krijno
GUP Magazine: Nico Krijno Lockdown Collages
British Journal of Photography: Evidence of Work. Nico Krijno’s Hypnotic Stills
How To Leave Your Body Behind, Tique Art
Six Questions for
Nico Krijno
A Unique Vision: Local Artist Nico Krijno
ASX: Chaos in the Landscape: Nico Krijno’s How to Leave Your Body Behind
ARTFORUM: Inaugural Henie Onstad Triennial Launches
Phroom, Nico Krijno
GUP Magazine: Nico Krijno Lockdown Collages
British Journal of Photography: Evidence of Work. Nico Krijno’s Hypnotic Stills
ILIKETHISART
NEW GESTURES: Fabricated to be Photographed
Whatiftheworld
New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed
NEW GESTURES: Fabricated to be Photographed
Whatiftheworld
New Gestures: Fabricated to be Photographed
Leave Your Body Behind
reviewed by Collector Daily
Discover 6 Must-See Booths at AIPAD’s Photography Show
reviewed by Collector Daily
Discover 6 Must-See Booths at AIPAD’s Photography Show
Unseen Platform - New Work
ASX
Nico Krijno: Enemy of Convention
ITSNICETHAT
Loving Nico Krijno’s eclectic portfolio of beautiful surprising photographs
HUFFPOST
10 Outstanding Solo Exhibitions to Experience in London in April
ANother
A New Photographic Exhibition Celebrating All Things Ugly
ANother
The Sustainable Creativity of Edun's Africa
Huxley/Parlour
The Fluid Right Edge
ASX
Nico Krijno: Enemy of Convention
ITSNICETHAT
Loving Nico Krijno’s eclectic portfolio of beautiful surprising photographs
HUFFPOST
10 Outstanding Solo Exhibitions to Experience in London in April
ANother
A New Photographic Exhibition Celebrating All Things Ugly
ANother
The Sustainable Creativity of Edun's Africa
Huxley/Parlour
The Fluid Right Edge
ITSNICETHAT
Nico Krijno’s new work steps into energetic and chaotic set design
SelfPublishBeHappy
10 Questions:
Elephant Magazine
Photography’s Truth Paradox
Fotoroom
Selected Works: Nico Krijno
British Journal Of Photography
BJP issue7867: Cool + Noteworthy in 2017
On This Date in Photography
March 22 Erosion:
CreativeBoom
Photographer Nico Krijno turns the still life upside down
with playful digital deconstructions
Nico Krijno’s new work steps into energetic and chaotic set design
SelfPublishBeHappy
10 Questions:
Elephant Magazine
Photography’s Truth Paradox
Fotoroom
Selected Works: Nico Krijno
British Journal Of Photography
BJP issue7867: Cool + Noteworthy in 2017
On This Date in Photography
March 22 Erosion:
CreativeBoom
Photographer Nico Krijno turns the still life upside down
with playful digital deconstructions