Werner Westdörp 

Atelier auf Zeit 2018
12 August to 07 October 2018
Opening on Friday, 14 September 2018 at 20:00
Welcome: Gudrun Thiessen-Schneider, artistic director
Introduction: Petra Beckers, Amsterdam
Exhibition of the work results: 15 September to 07 October 2018 Opening hours Wed-Sa: 15-18 h, Sun: 11-18 h / u.n.V.

Werner Westdörp has been working as a photojournalist at the "Grafschafter Nachrichten" in Nordhorn since 1987. In 1992, he photographed the last coherent company report of the global company NINO, which can be seen today in the Stadtmuseum Nordhorn. Westdörp received several author prizes for his reportage series.
For more than twenty years, fashion photographs have been created parallel to his work in the picture editorial department.  
The Amsterdam Project is also involved in the temporary studio for 2018, among others with the artist Sandra Büter. For decades Werner Westdörp has been documenting the work of fashion designer Kristina Kollwer from Nordhorn, creating entire photo series.
The temporary studio enables artists from the region to use the house as an experimental space and conclude with an exhibition.

The exhibition is accompanied by: an edition of seven digital prints in A3 format

and a catalogue with 68 pages and 59 illustrations (brochure in A4 format) / sold out!

So, September 23, 11:30 a.m. Werner Westdörp will guide through his exhibition.so, September 30, 7 p.m. Making-of: workshop talk.those involved in the project will report on their work.
So, 07 October 2018, 5 pm Finissage and last opportunity! With films and videos by Werner Westdörp and hat objects by Sandra Büter.

Photo shooting at Kunstverein / Grafschafter Nachrichten / published on 02.10.2018 https://youtu.be/aLP5KF8Y5hU  

The project is supported by the city of Neuenhaus and the Emsländische Landschaft e.V. for the districts of Emsland and Grafschaft Bentheim.