ENCHANTED Christie van der Haak paintings, textileworks, ceramics 29 November – 20 December 2015 Christie van der Haak (1950) has been awarded the Ouborg Prize 2015 for her extensive body of work. In the 1980s she made a name for herself with paintings of madonna’s that were partly covered wiith ornamental shapes. Since then ornament…
Robine Clignett work on paper 25-10 through 22-11-2015 Colour has always been the central focus in the work of Robine Clignett (1948). She has searched for the deepest black, experimented with natural pigments but has also collected literary, historical, chemical and physical facts and insights concerning colour. She bundled them in small publications that were…
Amsterdam Drawing 2015
Jan Brokof, Dieter Mammel installation, works on paper, video paintings 12 September – 18 October 2015 Jan Brokof (1978, Schwedt, German Democratic Republic) recently discovered the account by the 16th-century German adventurer Hans Staden about his travels and his stay with a tribe of cannibals in Brasil. The explorer describes this new exotic world and…
RUN RUN RUN installation Elsbeth Ciesluk 28 June – 26 July 2015 after that by appointment through 5 September Elsbeth Ciesluk (1986) takes objects from her direct personal environment and subtly transforms their meaning in her work. For instance, she produced a series of casts of steam iron soleplates that, with their points facing upwards,…
drawings, film Belgian sculptors, parallel to Vormidable Eva de Leener, Sophie Muller, Johan Tahon Dirk Zoete, Ruben Bellinkx 24 May – 21 June 2015 This year’s sculpture exhibtion at the Lange Voorhout The Hague and Museum Beelden aan Zee Scheveningen focuses on Belgium. The exhibtition titled Vormidable shows works by thrity five contemporary Belgian sculptors.…
Robert Nicol (UK), Olphaert den Otter paintings 25 April – 17 May 2015 Robert Nicol (1980, UK) uses acrylic on perspex to paint in a direct way minutely detailed landscapes and interiors in which the spectator will soon discover absurd and grotesque elements. Minuscule men are busy hoisting a lump of ice or lugging an…
Tobias Gerber, Stan Klamer ruimtelijk werk, uitgeknipte tekeningen, werk op papier 29 maart t/m 19 april 2015 Tobias Gerber (1961, Düsseldorf) staat bekend als tekenaar maar maakt ook ruimtelijk werk dat vaak verwant is aan zijn tekeningen. Hij laat nu vijf keramische wastafels zien waarvan de waterstraal als het ware gestold is in de…
22 febr – 22 mrt 2015
Nour-Eddine Jarram, Erik Pape drawings, paintings 11 January – 15 February 2015 In the 1990s Nour-Eddine Jarram (1956) became known for paintings in which he mixes works by Dutch masters with themes from Islamic visual culture. He replaced the heads of the physicians from Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson with tulips, for example. Over the past year,…