2019

Judith Samen – Come Closer

Dr. Stephan Mann, for the exhibition catalog *come closer* – Niederrheinischer Kunstverein, 2019

2015

Someone else ate it.

"On the Gastrosophical Relevance of Judith Samen's Photographs," by Jörg Scheller

Judith Samen’s photographs have often been traced back to the works of the Old Masters—to vanitas images, still lifes, and bourgeois portraits. The iconographic references have been sifted through down to the smallest detail.

2010

will have been

Image and Time in the Works of Judith Samen

Jörg van den Berg, 2010, for the catalog *EATING THE UNIVERSE*

2003

Amsterdam, May 3, 2003

Speech by Suzanne Dechert, Melkweg Gallery, Amsterdam, on the occasion of the opening of Rob Malasch’s solo exhibition at the Galerie serieuze zaken in Amsterdam

Yesterday—May 2—marked exactly 10 years to the day since Judith Samen’s works were exhibited in Amsterdam. The exhibition featured three photographs from the series with which she had previously won the German Youth Art Prize.

2002

Judith Samen

Photographic portraits derive their tension from the visual presence of the model as an individual and from the model’s place within contemporary social structures. The boundaries of these two frames of reference, however, resist hasty attempts to pin them down.