about
Of Dutch heritage, the photographer Aimée Hoving was born in 1978 in Belgium, before settling in Switzerland at an early age. Bridging two cultures – not really Dutch (she never lived there), nor really Swiss (she is not naturalized) – she carries in her a bit of both.
She loves nature, passionately, and beautiful things that have their own story to tell, but it is mostly people and their stories that fascinate her. She has a penchant for portraying her family and friends, in their own surroundings.
Aimée Hoving studied at the ECAL and obtained a BA in visual communication with a specialization in photography. She has participated in several international group exhibitions, and has been granted the Swiss Design Award and won the Leenards Foundation Award.
Aimée works in the tradition of the Great painters: The court portraits of Velázquez, the distinct light of a Vermeer… Her work has a special power. She manages to capture in a glance the immensity of a life in the making. Aimée has confronted her own shadows and brought them into light. There is a touch of alchemy in her work.
Aimée Hoving has worked for many magazines: Wallpaper, Liberation, Vogue Japon, Les Echos Dimanche, Die Weltwoche, Encore.
Isabelle Cerboneschi — ALL-I-C
Aimée Hoving
b. 1978, Ottignies, Belgium
Dutch citizen
Lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland
Gallery representation : Bildhalle
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EDUCATION
École Cantonal d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), Switzerland
BA in visual communication, Photography, 2002
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International School of Geneva, Switzerland
AWARDS
2022 Critical Mass – Finalist
2021 Prix Virginia, Jury’s Choice
2021 Critical Mass – Finalist
2021 Lucie Foundation – The Portrait Project – Finalist
2021 14th International Color Awards, Honorable Mentions – Category Fine Art
2021 14th International Color Awards, Category Portrait (nominees)
2020 COCA, Center of contemporary artists – Finalist
2020 6thFAPA, Fine art Photography Award – Nominee
2020 13th International Color Awards, Honorable Mentions
2019 TIFA – Tokyo Foto Awards Honorable Mentions – Fine Art/Portrait
2019 ND Awards – Honorable Mentions (two pictures awarded)
2019 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards – Winner – Category Children
2019 14th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards – Honorable Mentions – Category Children
2019 bifa — Budapest International Photo awards – Honorable Mention – Category Fine Art/Other
2019 IPA — International Photography awards – Honorable Mention – Category Fine Art/Other
2019 IPA — International Photography awards – Honorable Mention – Category Fine Art/ Portrait
2019 13th Pollux Award – Honorable Mentions in Category Fine Art (two pictures awarded)
2019 13th Pollux Award – Honorable Mentions in Category Children
2019 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Bronze winner in Portraiture/Children
2019 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris – Honorable Mention in Fine Art/People
2019 MIFA – Moscow Foto Awards – Gold in Category People/Children
2019 MIFA – Moscow Foto Awards – Bronze in Category People/Portrait
2019 5th FAPA – Fine art Photography award – 3rd place Category – Open theme
2019 All About Photo, “Particular Merit Mention”
2019 12th International Color Awards, 3rd place — Honor of Distinction — Category Fashion
2019 12th International Color Awards, Category Fine Art (nominees)
2019 12th International Color Awards, Category Portrait (nominees)
2019 12th International Color Awards, Category Fashion (nominees)
2018 PDN Faces: Portrait Photography Contest, Category Children/Babies
2018 Critical Mass top 50
2018 Environmental Portraits, Juror’s award by Elizabeth Avedon
2018 11th International Color Awards, 1st place — Outstanding Achievement — Category Children of the World
2018 11th International Color Awards, Category Fine Art (nominees)
2018 New Photo, Dutch Photography talent 2018 (selected)
2010 Prix culturel de la fondation Leenaards
2009 Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial (selected)
2009 The Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography, NY, USA (selected)
2005 International Photography Award IPA (selected)
2004 Fnac Photography Award (selected)
2004 Swiss Federal Grant
2003 8th VGF Young Talent Award for Photography (selected)
2003 FIAMH, Villa Noailles, 18th Festival International de Mode et de Photographie (selected)
2001 Breguet Watch poster competition, 200th Anniversary of the Tourbillon, 3rd prize
EXHIBITIONS
2024 WHEN IMAGES TAKE CARE, curated by Danaé Panchaud, group show at Centre de la Photographie Genève, Switzerland
2024 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at SAATCHI GALLERY, London, United Kingdom
2024 Bahay Contemporary x Art Resonance, group show, Switzerland
2024 ART PARIS, group show with Bildhalle, France
2024 Flora Imaginaria, group show at The Society of the Four Arts, Florida, USA
2023 PAN AMSTERDAM, group show with Bildhalle, The Netherlands
2023 10 YEARS BILDHALLE, group show at Bildhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 CIVILIZATION THE WAY WE LIVE NOW, group show at SAATCHI GALLERY, London, United Kingdom
2023 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at IPFO, International Photo Festival Olten, Switzerland
2022 212 Photography Istanbul, group show at Yapi Kredi bomontiada, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 Flora Imaginaria, group show at Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida, USA
2022 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at Hyundai Seoul, South Korea
2022 “J’existe”, curated by Julia Hountou, group show at Galerie du Crochetan, Monthey, Switzerland
2021 6th edition of Alt.1000 festival, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at La Brévine in the Neuchâtel Mountains, Switzerland
2021 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
2021 IPFO, exhibition at the International Photo Festival Olten, Switzerland
2020 Des Seins à Dessein, group show at Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2020 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at SCoP, Shanghai Center of Photography, China
2020 Praxis, Portrait, Juried by Carl Corey, group show at Praxis Gallery, Photographic Arts Center, USA
2020 SE Center, Family, Juried by Aline Smithson, group show at SE Center for Photography, USA
2020 14thJulia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, group show at FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2020 SE Center, Open, Juried by Susan Burnstine, group show at SE Center for Photography, USA
2020 artgenève, Switzerland
2019 Childhood, Juried by Anne Berry, group show at photo place Gallery, Vermont, USA
2019 Galerie Joy de Rouvre, Fiac, Nocturne des galeries parisiennes, Paris, France
2019 13thPollux Exhibition, group show at FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2019 Personal Narrative, Juried by Ralph Hassenpflug, group show at photo place Gallery, Vermont, USA
2019 Water, Juried by Elizabeth Avedon, group show at photo place Gallery, Vermont, USA
2019 #50 RED, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2019 BeyondFashion, curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer, group show at ArtisTree, Hong Kong
2019 artgenève, Switzerland
2018 Environmental Portraits, Juried by Elizabeth Avedon, group show at photo place Gallery, Vermont USA
2018 Pictures of her, solo show at Galery Joy de Rouvre, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 10 Years Laleh June, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2017-18 New Dutch Talent, 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Anonymats d’aujourd’hui, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Travail. Photographies de 1860 à 2015, National Museum of Zurich, Switzerland
2015 What are we waiting for, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Death becomes you, Janus Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland
2013 Le corps mis en scène, Extravaganza, Galerie du théâtre du Crochetant, Switzerland
2013 The Youth Code, Christophe Guy Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2012 Earthly Delights, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Aimée Hoving & Anoush Abrar, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Rétrospective, Fashion Photography, Cannes, France
2011 9th International Festival of Fashion Photography, Cannes, France
2011 Rose Méditative, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2010 Be Blue, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2010 8th International Festival of Fashion Photography, Cannes, France
2009 Now: Art of the 21st Century, Phillips de Pury, London, UK
2009 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Albin O Kuhn Library and Gallery Albin O Kuhn, USA
2009 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, USA
2008 Screenings Award – Update – Salon für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
2007 Girl Parade, Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2007 The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
2006 Portrait Prize 2006, exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Boston Art Institute, Boston, USA
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2006 Dresscode, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St-Gallen, Switzerland
2006 Dialectic, solo show, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Preview, exhibition at the Swiss National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 The Deadly Sins, International Biennial of Nancy, France
2006 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow 2005-2025, Exhibition at the Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
2005 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Exhibition at the Gallery Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2005 10th Edition of the Voie Off Festival, d’Arles, France
2005 New Photographers 2006, Curated by Getty Images and presented at the “Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival 2005”, France
2005 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-2025, Exhibition at the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 RETRO — PROSPECTIVE: Espace Malraux, Scène national de Chambéry, France
2004 Soirée Shot ’04, Zurich, Switzerland 2004 Swiss Design 2004 – Innovation, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 HGK, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Basel, Switzerland
2004 HGKL, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
2004 Maison Européenne de la photographie, Paris, France
2004 Renc’art, École d’art appliqués Vevey, Switzerland
2003 Image House Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 8th VFG Young Talent Award for Photography, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 FIAMH, Villa Noailles, 18th International Fashion and Photography, Hyères, France
2003 Exhibition at the Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France
2002 Pro Helvetia, Exhibition at the Swiss Cultural Center Paris, France
PUBLICATIONS
2022 L’Officiel Türkiye
2022 Harper’s Magazine, New York
2022 Flora Photographica: Masterworks of Contemporary Flower Photography, by W. A. Ewing & Danaé Panchaud, ed. Thames & Hudson
2022 212 Magazine “Herland” Issue Thirteen – Spring/Summer
2021 Journal le Matin Dimanche
2020 Des Seins à Dessein
2020 Le Monde d’après : et après ?, ed. Good Heidi Production
2020 Eltern Family
2020 Family, ed. Michael Pannier
2020 Open, ed. Michael Pannier
2019 Childhood, ed. PhotoPlace Gallery
2019 Personal Narrative, ed. PhotoPlace Gallery
2019 Water, ed. PhotoPlace Gallery
2019 212 Magazine “Awakening” Issue Seven – Spring/Summer
2019 The eye of photography
2019 AAP Magazine “Special Edition All About Photo Awards 2019”
2019 PDN Photo District News – Faces winner’s Gallery
2018 Elle Switzerland
2018 Environmental Portraits, ed. PhotoPlace Gallery
2018 New Photo, Dutch Photography talent 2018, ed. x publishers B.V.
2016 Anonymous, Urban Life in Contemporary Photography, ed. Musée de l’Elysée
2013 Extravaganza
2011 Master Mind, ed. Viction: workshop Ltd
2009 Hearst 8×10 Photography Biennial
2007 Ecal a Success Story in Art and Design, ed. ECAL
2007 New York Arts Magazin vol. 12
2006 Photographic Portrait Prize, ed. National Portrait Gallery Publications
2005 ReGeneration, 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, ed. Thames & Hudson
2005 CMYK Book, ed. Lloyd & Associated gmbh
2004 ECAL Photography, ed. ECAL
2004 Swiss Federal Design Competition “SWISS DESIGN”, ed. Swiss Federal Office of Culture
2004 Das Magazin
2003 Vogue France
2003 Catalogue 18th International Fashion and Photography, ed. Villa Noailles-FIAMH
2003 8th VFG