Galerie Baudelaire

Galerie Baudelaire, a gallery for international contemporary art photography, was established in 2002 by Henrik Barends and Anneke Pijnappel. Galerie Baudelaire shows photography with a pronounced evocative character, photography that surprises, intrigues, irritates and touches, photography in which fantasy, imagination and individuality take the lead, in the spirit of the art criticism of Charles Baudelaire.

At Photo London 2026, Galerie Baudelaire is presenting a solo show of work by the artist Jacquie Maria Wessels (NL), offering an overview of her recent artistic practice. The works on show explore the tension between nature and industry and enter into a dialogue with one another. Diverse in its thematic underpinnings, Wessels’ analogue photography is as poetic as it is sinister.

Jacquie Maria Wessels’ work is often the result of a long-term immersion in a well-defined subject. The subjects mostly serve as a framework to explore people's various social conditions and surroundings. She delicately gives meaning to these elements and lets them subtly reflect in her distinctly colourite autonomous work.

Wessels’ work is exhibited worldwide and is included in the collection of several museums, including the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (NL), Musée de la Photographie Charleroi (BE), Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography Amsterdam (NL), Vincent van GoghHuis (NL) and the Surinaams Museum in Paramaribo (SR) and various corporate and private collections. In 2023, Ludion (BE) published the photo book 'Garage Stills & Fringe Nature'.