Elisabeth Tonnard
From 13 June to 25 July 2018

Born in 1973, Elisabeth Tonnard is a Dutch artist and poet working in artists’ books, photography and literature. Since 2003 she has published over forty books in which texts and images extracted from the cultural archive are processed and laid out to exhibit their latent messages. The works range in scale and method from a book that is completely invisible to a book that is a swimming pool. The books are held in numerous collections including the Centre Pompidou, Columbia University, Getty Museum, MoMA Library, New York Public Library and Tate Library. The work has won several awards, most recently the Kleine Hans 2013. In 2014 the Van Abbemuseum presented a retrospective of her bookworks. In 2017 De wolk, Tonnard’s experimental reworking of the poetry of P.C. Boutens, was published as part of the Dutch Slibreeks and her substantial poetry debut Voor het ideaal, lees de schaal was published by het balanseer in Belgium.