Erwin Olaf Line-Up Saturday 30 July 2022
5 April 2022
Erwin Olaf is an internationally exhibiting artist whose diverse practice centres around society’s marginalised individuals, including women, people of colour, and the LGBTQ+ community. In 2019 Olaf became a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands after 500 works from his oeuvre were added to the collection of the Rijksmuseum. Taco Dibbits, Rijksmuseum director, called Olaf “one of the most important photographers of the final quarter of the 20th century”.
In 2018, Olaf completed a triptych of monumental photographic and filmic tableaux portraying periods of seismic change in major world cities, and the citizens embraced and othered by their urban progress. Like much of his work, it is contextualised by complex race relations, the devastation of economic divisions, and the complications of sexuality. Olaf has maintained an activistic approach to equality throughout his 40-year career after starting out documenting pre-AIDS gay liberation in Amsterdam’s nightlife in the 1980s.
This year alongside the iconic artists in Olaf's line-up, we will embark on an out of this world journey as Erwin Olaf brings a whole new vision of his to life at Milkshake Festival.
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