Beat Streuli
Untitled

2005
photography | c-prints on Dibond
30 prints, each 175,5 × 117 cm

Streuli’s photographs do not provide an overview – only a part of reality is visible, and his protagonists are never entirely within the picture frame.
By photographing each city in the same manner, he reveals how urban-dwellers all over the world are both the same, and yet entirely different – from Tokyo (where one of the large photos also in the collection of the college was taken), to Cape Town.

He often reworks these images into monumental prints, such as Tokyo Shibuya, or even wall-filling installations, like the portraits which adorned the walls of the canteen of The Hague University of Applied Sciences from 2005 to 2020.
The 33 portraits were commissioned by The Hague University of Applied Sciences, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the building. They show a series of individuals that he has picked out from the continuous stream of people moving constantly around the University – anonymous faces, which at the same time are also universal.

Using 30 of the original 33 photographs, in 2020 the artist created a new design for the wall opposite Roland Schimmel’s work in the same canteen.