Sander van Wettum

Sander van Wettum was born in 1987 in Zoetermeer, a city designated as a growth center in 1962 because of space problems in The Hague. The artificial landscape of his childhood still resonates in his photography, in which he deals with the experience of abstraction and alienation in the built environment. Office gardens during late hours and deserted seaside resorts in winter are examples of places he explores with his camera. The resulting images find their way into a wide range of media, ranging from spatial installations to films and photo books. In 2021, Van Wettum published his first monograph, "Hibernation," with the Eriskay Connection. Van Wettum received his MFA from the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam in 2012. He lives in Rotterdam, where he works as an artist and commercial photographer. He recently exhibited at Museum Hilversum (2023), OMI Rotterdam (2021)-and published series in NRC Handelsblad (2022).