Christie van der Haak
In the 1980s Christie van der Haak (1950) established her name as an artist with paintings of madonnas, which she partly covered with ornamental shapes. The ornament has been a constant in her work ever since. Around 2003, Christie van der Haak gradually switched from painting to designing textile patterns. First she used fragments from her paintings and then started to design specific patterns that she applies in autonomous works of art as gobelins and carpets but also as furniture upholstering and wall coverings. The design consists of a drawing on paper in A4 format that is mirrored up and to the side in the computer and consequently filled in with color. By changing the colors yhe same motif can change from calm to strongly expressive in your experience.
Christie van der Haak has carried out various assignments in recent years. In 2007 she upholstered the furniture of the Grand Hôtel Amrâth in the former Scheepvaarthuis in Amsterdam. Her fabrics make a perfect match with the Amsterdam School style of the building. She also designed fabric for the Dutch Textile Museum Tilburg for a twenty-five-meter-long bench by Piet Hein Eek. Later she cooperated with him to cover his ‘Jufferbank’ (damsel bench). More recently, her fabrics were used in the reception hall of the head office of the ING Bank Leeuwarden.
Christie van de Haak exhibited in museums in the Netherlands and abroad. At the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag her fabrics were combined with white Delft porcelain in the exhibition Delfts Wit in 2013. Here she also conceived and built the spectacular installation Sproken/Fairy Tales on the occasion of her winning the Ouborg Prize, an oeuvre award for The Hague artists.
In 2015, the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami commissioned her as the first living artist to do a project, as a contemporary component to the exhibition Modern Dutch Design, devoted to Dutch Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and the Amsterdamse School. In the project entitled MORE IS MORE, the facade and entrance hall of the museum were covered with her patterns.
More recently she exhibited in the Textile Museum Tilburg, the Dutch Glass Museum, Stadsmuseum Woerden, Museum de Lakenhal Leiden and Schunck Heerlen. Currently she has a solo exhibition titled Empress Maria of Brabant‘ at Kasteel Helmond, The installation with wall and floorcoverings, furniture, glass and fabrics focuses on the life of medieval Maria of Brabant (1189 – 1260), who played an important role in the culture and politics of her age. She also participates in Chapter 3hree curated by Maarten Spruyt in the HEM Zaandam.
| 1950 | born in The Hague, The Netherlands |
education |
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| 1968-1972 | Royal Academy for Visual Arts, The Hague,The Netherlands |
| lives and works in The Hague,The Netherlands | |
solo exhibitions |
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| 2021 | Nouveau Deco, Stedelijk Museum Kampen, NL |
| 2019 | Empress Maria of Brabant, Kasteel Helmond, The Netherlands Kniesper, Knasper, Knusper, Schunck, Heerlen, The Netherlands |
| 2017 | Dutch Design, Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk |
| 2016 | More is More, Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, USA Quest, Concordia Enschede, The Netherlands |
| 2015 | Enchanted, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands Fairy Tales, exhibition accompanying the Oubog Award, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands Christie van der Haak (with Geert Lap), Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | Stunned, with Suzan Drummen, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
| 2013 | Delft White, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands Heden, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2012 | Blason, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2010 | Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | Ocean, Maliebeeld, The Hague, The Netherlands Fabric, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2007 | Lacrymae, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | Blumenzweige, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands La Siège Perilou, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | Osmose, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Memorabilia, Stroom HCBK, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2001 | Jauchzend betrübt, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2000 | SBK, Bickerseiland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1999 | Unknown Heavens, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | SBK, KNSM-eiland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ceramic Millennium, KunstRAI, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1997 | C’est mourir un peu, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1996 | HCAK, The Hague, The Netherlands KunstRAI, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1994 | Lacrymosa, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands Kunstzaal Hengelo, The Netherlands |
| 1993 | Galerie Van den Berge, Goes, The Netherlands |
| 1992 | En suite, HCAK, The Hague, The Netherlands Galerie Van Rijsbergen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 | Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, De Beyerd, Breda, The Netherlands Galerie Van Rijsbergen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1990 | Galerie Stelling, Leiden, The Netherlands Galerie Van Rijsbergen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1989 | Galerie Van Rijsbergen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Galerie Van Esch, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 1987-1988 | Galerie Van Esch, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 1985 | La cause de notre joie, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 1984 | Markt 17, Enschede, The Netherlands Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1983 | Galerie Swart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1979-1992 | HCAK (The Hague Centre for Contemporary Art), The Hague, The Netherlands |
group exhibitions |
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| 2021 | EQUIPE 1, 30 year anniversary Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Den Haag, NL |
| 2020 | Chapter 3hree, curated by Maarten Spruyt, HEM, Zaandam, The Netherlands Different than Usual, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2018 | Art Deco in Glass, National Glassmuseum Leerdam, The Netherlands Once Upon a Time…, with Suzan Drummen, Museum Escher in het Paleis The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2017 | Big Art, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, De Zonnewyser, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Amsterdam Art Fair 2017, with Elmar Trenkwalder, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Netherlands Paint it Soft, Schunck, Heerlen, The Netherlands Kunststof 2017, 5 leading textile artists, Municipal Museum Woerden, The Netherlands |
| 2016 | Design Miami, Basel, Galerie Vivid, Miami, USA Track & Trace I and II, 25 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands Design Miami, Basel, Galerie Vivid, Basel, Switzerland Bal, Paleis Soestdijk, The Netherlands Switch, Dutch Design on the Move, Textielmuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Art Rotterdam, Galerie Vivid, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2015 | Design Miami, Basel, Galerie Vivid, Miami, USA Arte Concordia 2015, Avenue Concordia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Design Miami, Basel, Galerie Vivid, Basel, Switzerland Heden Haagse Lente, Atrium Town Hall, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2014 | 7 Centuries of Leiden Cloth, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands Painting Adrift, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands |
| 2013 | A Sea of Glass, Nationaal Glasmuseum Leerdam, The Netherlands Collection Hugo and Carla Brown, Kasteel de Keukenhof, Lisse, The Netherlands Drawing Cabinet, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2012 | En Suite, JCA de KOK, The Hague, The Netherlands Dutch Design, Schloss Oranienbaum, Germany |
| 2011 | Twenty, 20 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2010 | 6 x 6 artists, Maliebeeld, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2009 | The Unexpected, ceramics in modern and contemporary art, Municipas Museum Den Bosch, The Netherlands |
| 2008 | From Labyrinth to Big Mama, Audax, Textilemuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands |
| 2007 | Contour – Continuity, present and past, 111 artists in Delft Museums, Delft, The Netherlands |
| 2006 | A stitch in time….a fashion odyssey, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2nd Shift, 15 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2005 | Colour Fair, Sikkens Foundation, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Coloured Design, Aalst, Belgium Galerie Maurits van de Laar (with Erik Pape), The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2004 | Nature, Haagse Kunstkring, The Hague, The Netherlands Connections, with Diederik Gerlach, Martin Assig, Elizabeth de Vaal, Gamal Ez, Gezira Art Center, Caïro, Egypt Kunst-RAI, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Melbourne Art Fair, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Australia Made in Tilburg, Audax, Textilemuseum, Tilburg, The Netherlands Link 20 years, Maliebeeld, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2003 | Kunst-RAI, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 | An anatomical dream, Stroom HCBK, The Hague, The Netherlands Art without Church, Museum voor religious art, Uden, The Netherlands |
| 2001 | The Collector in the Studio 1, 10 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 2000 | The Big Stream II, ‘Safra Harvest’, Arte Cont. da Holanda, Evora en Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal |
| 1999 | Galerie Lola Nikolaou, Thessaloniki, Greece The Big Stream I, ceramic works at the Binnen Dieze, Museum Het Kruihuis, Den Bosch, The Netherlands Art Artina, Athens, Greece Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | What’s the weather like in The Hague? Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands Artina, Galerie Suzanne Biederberg, Athens, Greece |
| 1997 | Statengalerie, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 1996 | Kiteproject, Museum Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch, The Netherlands Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom Museu Regional, Evora, Portugal From Ouborg to Akkerman, Dutch masters from the Municipal Collection, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 1993 | Galerie In Situ, Aalst, Belgium Municipal Collection, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands Galerie Metis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1992 | The Resurrection, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, The Netherlands Palau Pedralbes, Museum for ceramics, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1991 | Brutto Gusto, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ExpoHenk, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1989 | Purchases for the Dutch State’s Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands New Purchases, Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| 1988 | De Boterhal, Hoorn, The Netherlands |
| 1986 | Focus on The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 1985 | Kunstmesse Forum, Galerie Swart, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 1984 | Quality Described and Undescribed, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, NL |
awards |
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| 2015 | Ouborg Award |
| 2012 | Heden, lifetime award |
publications |
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| 2021 | Celebrating Patterns, graphic design Studio Renate Boere, Jap Sam Books, NL |
| 2015 | Fairy Tales, Stroom Den Haag & Jap Sam Books, NL |
| 2012 | Everything has a Soul, Heden Den Haag, NL |
| 1991 | Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst, Museum De Beyers, Breda, NL |
| 1990 | Struggle, Galerie Van Rijsbergen, Rotterdam, NL |
| 1985 | La Cause de Notre Joie, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL |
