Tahné Kleijn Fotografie

Name: Tahné Kleijn Fotografie
Address: Helmond, NL
Telephone: +31628425385

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Tahné Kleijn Fotografie

Tahné Kleijn is a Photographer, Artist, Journalist and above all a storyteller.

18/06/2026

Today, another exhibition opens.

A selection from my series Silence Has the Final Word is now on view at ZonMw.
Created during the pandemic, these staged photographs explored isolation, uncertainty, and the strange stillness that settled over our daily lives. They emerged from a period in which the future felt impossible to imagine, while ordinary gestures suddenly carried enormous weight.

As political inquiries revisit the decisions made during COVID-19, I find myself returning to the questions that shaped this work. Not whether everything was handled correctly, but how collective experiences continue to live on within us. What do we remember? What do we choose to forget? And how do moments of crisis reshape the way we relate to one another?

I'm grateful that these images continue to open up conversations years after they were made.

17/06/2026

Last week, my solo exhibition Mijn Liefste Teun opened at

Through staged photography, the exhibition revisits my grandmother's life in the Dutch East Indies and explores the complexities of colonial inheritance, family memory, and the contradictions we carry across generations.

The work does not seek easy answers. Instead, it asks how love and prejudice, tenderness and complicity, can coexist within one person and continue to shape the stories we inherit.

The exhibition is free to visit every Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 11 July.
I would be honoured to welcome you there.

03/05/2026

Mijn liefste Teun began as a way of approaching my grandmother’s wartime history — not to reconstruct it literally, but to move closer to its emotional architecture.
The series draws from family archives, inherited stories, colonial history, and the fragile space between personal memory and historical silence.

Through staged tableaux, still lifes and carefully constructed interiors, I try to create images that feel suspended between tenderness and unease.
What interests me most is not only what is remembered, but how memory survives: through fragments, gestures, materials, atmospheres, and omissions.

This June, the series will be shown more extensively in my solo exhibition

28/04/2026

In between preparing for the upcoming solo exhibition, I’ve also started developing a new chapter within this ongoing body of work.

Working title: Pop (nickname for my grandmother)
This chapter centres around my grandfather, who was conscripted as a marine during the Second World War and survived being torpedoed twice.

At this stage, the work begins with research: archives, fragments, family stories, historical context, and the slow task of understanding what kind of visual language such a story asks for.

I never begin with the image alone. First, I need to know what kind of silence I’m entering.

23/04/2026

I’m very happy to share that on 11 June, my solo exhibition at will open.

The exhibition will bring together a large part of Mijn liefste Teun — a body of work rooted in family history, inherited memory, and the emotional residue of war.
A small part of the series was recently shown at UNSEEN, but this exhibition will reveal the broader arc of the work.

More details soon.

18/04/2026

Material matters.

A large part of Mijn liefste Teun is printed by on a paper chosen for its tactile, almost fragile surface. I tear many of the edges by hand to create an irregular finish that carries something of handmade paper — imperfect, vulnerable, physical.
That choice is not decorative. It comes directly from the world of the work itself.

In the camp, rough and modest materials were part of daily life: linen, mosquito nets, wood, improvised surfaces. I wanted the print itself to carry a memory of that material reality.

For me, the image doesn’t end at the photograph. The object has to speak too.

12/04/2026

This work is rooted in a story from my grandmother’s time in an internment camp during the Japanese occupation of the former Dutch East Indies.

She entered the camp while pregnant and, after a traumatic birth, was unable to produce breast milk.

To feed her baby, she made a substitute each morning from cow’s milk, red rice water, and palm sugar for extra calories. On a small gas burner, it took around forty minutes to bring the mixture to a boil.

Because there was no refrigeration, the process had to be repeated every single day. The bottles for later were buried in the sand in an attempt to keep them cool.
What moves me in this story is not only the hardship, but the labour of care it contains — the quiet, repetitive, improvised work of keeping a child alive under impossible conditions.

Part of Mijn liefste Teun.

07/04/2026

During / , five works from my series found new homes — including three still lifes presented in vintage frames.

These still lifes are based on the food my grandmother received while she was held in an internment camp (Tjideng) in the former Dutch East Indies. Each image is part of an edition of 8, yet the vintage frames make every piece physically distinct in scale, finish and presence.

I’m interested in that tension between repetition and singularity: the image as an edition, and the object as something irreducibly unique.

More from this body of work will be shown in my upcoming solo exhibition at Studio Seine.

29/03/2026

A little birthday note from / ✨

Today, I’m celebrating another year surrounded by the work that means so much to me.
If you’re visiting the fair, I’d be delighted if you stopped by to say hello — and perhaps wish me a happy birthday — at , booth J16.

I’d love to welcome you there.

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03/03/2026

So proud to share that, together with , I’ve been selected for a solo presentation within The Past Present at / at the end of this month.

Grateful for the trust, the collaboration, and the opportunity to show this work in such a strong context. More soon about what I’ll be presenting.

Hope to see you there 🤍.
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