Exposition 2009

Since the beginning of the North Sea Jazz Festival an art show has been part of the event. This year’s art show gives you a wide range of works of art and the best photography around.

North Sea Jazz Art Show with Blue Note cover photos and femal artists in ther spotlight.  

The Music Inspired Art Foundation, curators of the North Sea Jazz Festival art show, will present the legendary Blue Note photos of Francis Wolff and paintings and drawings of some female artists at this year´s festival.

Nowadays the photos that Francis Wolff shot during the Blue Note recording sessions in the fifties and the sixties are world famous. Several books with Wolff´s photos show the jazz life from the inside out. The original prints can be seen in Ahoy´ during the festival. The 70th anniversary of the famous Blue Note label is the reason to present these masterpieces at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and after the festival at the S-Town Gallery in Schiedam and the Central Library in Rotterdam.

Many female artists are presented in this years´ art show. Karin de Visser will present here large format mixed media series ´Divas´ and the Young Inger Levitus will bring her colorful paintings. The earthy abstract paintings of Mijpe will attract many visitors and Frisian artist Grytsje Jorritsma will show her vivid music drawings. A large painting of Guusje Kaayk, who is drawing at the festival every year, will mark the art show booth on the second floor. Easton Davy (USA) will present his new ´drip series

The photographers presented include Jaap van de Klomp and Peter van Breukelen. New in Rotterdam are two local photographers: old master Rob Verhorst (Getty Images) and young rising star Dimitri Hakke. Special attention is given to the album cover photography of Joel Brodsky who died in 2007. Collector Marc Janssen selected the incredible albums.