Robbie Cornelissen
Robbie Cornelissen (1954) has a reputation for making gigantic drawings which, apart from their dimensions, are especially impressive because of their abundance of detail. In the libraries, cities or halls depicted by him man is absent; consequently, the architectural fantasy retains a certain neutrality so that the observer can wander round the rooms undisturbed. The library is a recurring theme in his work. Not only as a metaphor for the power of knowledge or a collective memory, but also as some kind of giant computer that seems to be developing into a living creature with organic forms. Over the last years Robbie Cornelissen pushes the boudaries of the medium by experimenting with computer aided design in animations as The Capacious Memory and The Labyrinth Runner or by having the audience participate in his work.
In 2011 he invited visitors and students in making a twenty meter long, horizontal line drawing during his solo exhibition Studio Vertigo at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In his animation The Black Room he concentrates on the basics of drawing. Using only charcoal on paper he investigates the aspects of perspective and space, abstraction and figuration and the transition from two to three dimensional. In total sixty animations are linked up together. They are meant to be shown simultaneously on three screens in a u-shaped space in a constantly varying compilation, allowing the work to continuously rejuvenate itself. In 2015 he won the professional jury award for this work at the Holland Animation Film Festival.
1954 | born in Utrecht, The Netherlands (NL) |
education |
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1973 -1980 | Biology and Ecology, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, NL |
1982 – 1984 | Vrije Academie, The Hague, NL |
1984 – 1987 | Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL |
lives and works in Utrecht, NL | |
solo exhibitions |
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2022 | The Undertow, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Canada |
2021 | Terra Nova, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany Places We Have Never Been Before, with Karin van Dam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2020 | The Compacted Line, Artspace Kuub, Utrecht, NL |
2019 | Ayumi Gallery/Cave, Tokyo, Japan Art on Paper, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium |
2018 | The Battle of Hernen’, Castle of Hernen, Hernen, NL The Other Room, Art Mûr, Berlin, Germany |
2017 | The New Room, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2016 | The Life of Lines, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, NL Haven’s Factory, Kogan Gallery, Paris, France |
2015 | Galerie Art Mur, Montreal , Canada |
2014 | The Black Room 2014, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Kennedy van der Laan, Amsterdam, NL |
2013 | Anticipation, Kogan Gallery, Paris, France God is in the Details, Stedelijk Museum, Kampen, NL |
2012 | Mémoires à venir, Kogan Gallery, Paris, France |
2011 | The Capacious Memory, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL Studio Vertigo, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL Galerie Art Mur, Montréal, Canada |
2010 | Pueblo, Bacinol, Delft, The Netherlands |
2009 | Art Amsterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL |
2008 | Living Room, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL |
2007 | The Capacious Memory, Galerie Art Mur, Montreal, Canada Het Grote Geheugen, CBK Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, NL |
2006 | Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2005 | Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy |
2004 | Stichting KIK, Kolderveen, NL |
2003 | Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Motive Gallery, Haarlem, NL CBK Provincie Utrecht, Amersfoort, NL |
2001 | Archipel, Apeldoorn, NL |
1997 | VB Galerie-Kunstuitkijk, Deventer, NL |
1996 | Grafisch Atelier, Utrecht, NL |
1992 | A. Wulfse startgalerie, Amersfoort, NL |
1991 | Galerie Bert Mertens, Utrecht, NL |
1990 | Galerie Trajekt, Utrecht, NL |
group exhibitions |
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2023 | The Undertow, with Karin van Dam, Museum Rijswijk NL Drawing Now, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Paris, France |
2022 | MOVING UP, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Terra Nova, Galerie Art Mûr, Estonian Pavilion Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Paréidolie, Marseille, France Départ, 30 year anniversary Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2021 | Equipe II, 30 year anniversary Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Terra Nova, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal, Canada Constructing Worlds, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL |
2020 | Falling Ashes, with Liedeke Taen, Plaatsmaken, Arnhem, NL Utrecht Down Under, Utrecht, NL |
2019 | Karachi Biennale, installation with Karin van Dam, Karachi, Pakistan This Must Be The Place, with Rik Smits, Dirk Zoete, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2018 | De Line Up, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL |
2017 | Art The Hague Drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Kantelpunt (Tipping Point), with Karin van Dam, Cacaofabriek, Helmond, NL 6 ème Biennale du Dessin, Musée des Beaux Arts de Mont-Saint Hilaire, Canada Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Paris, France |
2016 | Track & Trace I & II, 25 years Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL Drawing Rooms II, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany Inner City, Cityscapes Foundation, Amsterdam, NL Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL The Inconstancy of Space, Struggle for Identity, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL Move the Line, Horst Janssen Museum, Oldenburg, Germany Van Gogh’s Mini’s, Moti Museum, Breda, NL Le Contemporain Dessiné, Musée des Arts Décoratifs au Louvre, Paris, France Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Paris, France Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL |
2015 | Constructeurs d’Absurde, Bricoleurs d’Utopie, CAC Meymac, France Archi-Sculptur, Fondation Villa Datris, Isle sur La Sorgue, France Anders Abstract, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, NL Henk van Os komt thuis, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, NL Urbane Beelden, KuuB ruimte voor kunst, Utrecht, NL Utrecht Down Under, Under Control, Gevangenis Wolvenplein, Utrecht, NL Move ON, 100 years of Animation Art, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL |
2014 | De stad in mij (The City within me), Museum IJsselstein, NL Geest van de Plek, Museum Arnhem, NL Amsterdam Drawing, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL Time Being Time, Museum of Contemporary Art Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina The City, Museum IJsselstein, NL Surreal Worlds, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL Staged City, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL |
2013 | World in Images, Kunstpodium ZaalZuid, , Hengelo, NL I love Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, NL Mooove, Villa Zebra , Rotterdam, NL Call of the Mall, Art Manifestation, Utrecht Central Train Station, Utrecht. NL Zoetermeer Utopia, Townmuseum Zoetermeer, Zoetermeer, NL |
2012 | Scope New York, Galery Art Mur, New York, USA Living-Being, Songzhuang Art Gallery, Beijing, China (cat.) Arte Buenos Aires, Galerie Mirta Demare, Buenos Aires, Argentina Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL |
2011 | Une terrible beauté est née, La 11e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France SCOPE Basel, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Basel, Switzerland Art Amsterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL Drawing Now Suite, Paris, France All about Drawing, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL |
2010 | De Ketelfactory, Schiedam, NL Texture Maps, NEST, The Hague, NL Diepsel, Galerie 37 Spaarnestad, Haarlem, NL Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Maurits vd Laar, Paris, France |
2009 | Towing the Line, Drawing Space, White Box, New York, USA Stressed Spaces, KW 14, Den Bosch, NL Close Encounters, Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, NL Allemaal Engelen, Museum het Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, NL Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris, France |
2008 | Paradise Lost, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Paris, France |
2007 | Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL Under Control, Vrije Academie, The Hague, NL Contour 2007, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, NL Comfort – Discomfort, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, NL Art Amsterdam, Galerie Dubble B, Amsterdam, NL |
2006 | Art Rotterdam, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Rotterdam, NL Kunstfort Vijfhuizen, NL |
2005 | Galerie Loerakker, Amsterdam, NL Tekeningen zomer, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht (with Hans de Wit), NL Papier, schaar, steen, Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, NL |
2003 | Tekenen des tijds, Stichting KW 14, , Den Bosch, NL KunstRAI, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, Amsterdam, NL Tussen droom en daad, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL Intravention, W 139 in Onze lieve heer op zolder, Amsterdam Inclinations, York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
2002 | Motive Gallery, 4 x tekeningen, Haarlem, NL Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL 4e salon van Utrechtse kunstenaars en vormgevers, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL |
2001 | Artis, Den Bosch, NL Galerie Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Maas, NL Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL |
2000 | Zinnenprikkelend, CBK Provincie Utrecht, Amersfoort, NL |
1999 | Kunstmanifestatie De dubbelkamer, Schiedam, NL Galerie Outline, Stichting ZET, Amsterdam, NL Kunst boven de bank, Archipel, Apeldoorn, NL |
1998 | 3e Salon van Utrechtse Kunstenaars en vormgevers, Centraal Museum (Stadhuis), Utrecht, NL |
1996 | Past transparencies, Nouvelles Images, The Hague , NL |
awards |
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2018 | Fentener van Vlissingen Award, Utrecht, NL |
2015 | Winner of the special jury prize, Holland Animation Festival, for animation The Black Room |
2013 | Boellaardprijs, Utrecht, NL |