Jacqueline Hassink

Jacqueline Hassink (15 July 1966 – 22 November 2018) was a Dutch visual artist based in New York City.

Early life and education Hassink was born in Enschede, the Netherlands and received training at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

Career

While Hassink trained as a sculptor, she worked mainly in photography. She created several global art projects on the theme of world economic power, and is known for projects like her first, The Table of Power (1993–95), in which she photographed the boardrooms of 21 of the largest multi-national corporations in Europe. She re-visited this topic in spring of 2009 after a global recession with The Table of Power 2 (2009–11). Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; ICP in New York;Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Guangzhou Museum of Modern Art, Guangzhou. Her follow-up book, The Table of Power 2, was nominated for the 2012 Paris Photo/ Aperture Book Award. The book appeared on the shortlist for the PHotoEspaña Best Photography Book of the Year Award, and received special mention though it did not win the award. Hassink's work has appeared in The Financial Times, Le Monde, The New York Times, El País, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reuters, Financial Times Deutschland, D2, De Standaard, NZZ, Newsweek and Wired.

Hassink was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University in conceptual photography and at the International Center for Photography in New York.

She died of cancer on 22 November 2018.

Books The Table of Power, Menno van de Koppel, (Amsterdam), February 1996, and September 2000, Female Power Stations: Queen Bees, Menno van de Koppel (Amsterdam), October 1999, Mindscapes, Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel), March 2003, The Power Book. London: Chris Boot, 2007, Domains of Influence, I.B. Tauris (London), June 2008, Quarry Walls, self-published, July 2008. Car Girls, Aperture, April 2009, Car Girls pocket edition, Aperture, September 2009, The Table of Power 2, Hatje Cantz, December 2011, The Table of Power 2 Special Edition I (walnut), Hatje Cantz, January 2012, The Table of Power 2 Special Edition II (cherry), Hatje Cantz, January 2012, The Table of Power 2 Special Edition III (red gum), Hatje Cantz, January 2012, Black Walls, self-published, November 2012 View, Kyoto, Hatje Cantz, March 2015, Unwired, Hatje Cantz, March 2018,