Hans Lemmen (1959) lives and works in an ancient farm at a remote location in Belgium. The farmlands with fertile löss soil were traditionally suitable for food cultivation. Human habitation has therefore been mentioned here early on, seeing many artifacts that can even be found quite close to the surface. This rich historical environment inspires him in his artistry. From an early age he built up an extensive collection of prehistoric tools. This provides his direct connection to the natural and cultural landscape and the intriguing human history.
Man and his environment are the seemingly inexhaustible source of his inspiration. He is particularly fascinated by the relationship between man and animal; our interpretation of freedom versus the use of animals for human gain. Lemmen likes to work in silence, in the flow of open-mindedness that appeals to his intuition and energy. You can see his work as an indictment of current world developments, or as a romantic vision of a distant past. His work is inspiring because you feel it pinches, that there is more going on than what he shows.
Hans Lemmen is mainly known as a sculptor and draughtsman of animals and human-like figures in indefinable landscapes. The rich (pre-)historical environment where he lives and works is his direct connection to our intriguing human history. He is particularly fascinated by the relationship between man and animal. His meetings over the years with kindred spirits, such as photographer and film-maker Roger Ballen (ZA) brought new challenges to express his artistic skill.
Lemmen also came across the work of photographer Tarek Ode, who for years has passionately documented, for archaeologists and for himself, the prehistoric traces of the Guanches, first inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Lemmen was provided with some dozens photographs out of his archive: tranquil mountain or desert landscapes with archaeological sites. By scratching off parts of the photo and drawing upon them with charcoal he created a wonderful chemistry between drawing and photograph.
A stay on Fuerteventura showed him graves from before the Spanish era, but also contemporary, improvised graves with inscriptions scratched into the cement, of people washed-up on the beach. His new work was thus unwillingly related to very topical issues. The ancient and the new tombs, the tired, drying island, refugees and mass tourism, they merge in it, just like photograph and drawing.
Man and his environment are the seemingly inexhaustible source of his inspiration. He is particularly fascinated by the relationship between man and animal; our interpretation of freedom versus the use of animals for human gain. Lemmen likes to work in silence, in the flow of open-mindedness that appeals to his intuition and energy. You can see his work as an indictment of current world developments, or as a romantic vision of a distant past. His work is inspiring because you feel it pinches, that there is more going on than what he shows.
Hans Lemmen is mainly known as a sculptor and draughtsman of animals and human-like figures in indefinable landscapes. The rich (pre-)historical environment where he lives and works is his direct connection to our intriguing human history. He is particularly fascinated by the relationship between man and animal. His meetings over the years with kindred spirits, such as photographer and film-maker Roger Ballen (ZA) brought new challenges to express his artistic skill.
Lemmen also came across the work of photographer Tarek Ode, who for years has passionately documented, for archaeologists and for himself, the prehistoric traces of the Guanches, first inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Lemmen was provided with some dozens photographs out of his archive: tranquil mountain or desert landscapes with archaeological sites. By scratching off parts of the photo and drawing upon them with charcoal he created a wonderful chemistry between drawing and photograph.
A stay on Fuerteventura showed him graves from before the Spanish era, but also contemporary, improvised graves with inscriptions scratched into the cement, of people washed-up on the beach. His new work was thus unwillingly related to very topical issues. The ancient and the new tombs, the tired, drying island, refugees and mass tourism, they merge in it, just like photograph and drawing.
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A film about the collaboration of photographer Roger Ballen and the Dutch painter and drawer Hans Lemmen.
The exhibition UNLEASHED was held at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature from 7 March to 4 June 2017.
These two artists have always dealt with the relationship between man and animal. Lemmen reinterprets the pictures of Ballen by adding drawings and paintings while Ballen cut out the drawings of Lemmen to paste them in his photos.
Film is directed by Saskia Vredeveld.
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In museum collection:
Museum de Buitenplaats
Bonnefantenmuseum
Museum Beelden aan Zee
De Domijnen
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
In corporate collection:
DSM
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Publications
2015 Of Beasts and Beings , catalogue Museum De Buitenplaats Eelde, text Patty Wageman
2011 Aun Terrenal, catalogue CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, text Omar Pacual Castillo
2011 Meeting the Caveman , Hans Lemmen. Drawings, limited edition handmade
2003 After Observation, drawings by Hans Lemmen, catalogue Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, text Jonieke van Es
2002 Lithomania, text Stijn Huijts
2001 de boom, text Hans Abelman Rotterdam.
2015 Of Beasts and Beings , catalogue Museum De Buitenplaats Eelde, text Patty Wageman
2011 Aun Terrenal, catalogue CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, text Omar Pacual Castillo
2011 Meeting the Caveman , Hans Lemmen. Drawings, limited edition handmade
2003 After Observation, drawings by Hans Lemmen, catalogue Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, text Jonieke van Es
2002 Lithomania, text Stijn Huijts
2001 de boom, text Hans Abelman Rotterdam.
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Solo/duo tentoonstellingen:
2019/20
-Unleashed, Roger Ballen & Hans Lemmen
-Brussels Galerie Felix Frachon, Roger Ballen & Hans Lemmen
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Unleashed (segment)
2018/19
-Fuerteventura, Canary Island, artist residence connected to two museum presentations.
2018
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Unleashed (segment)
-Amsterdam, Amsterdam Rai/ Art Fair. Solo booth with galerie Helder
-Galerie Helder, Walkabout, solo
-Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Unleashed
2017
-Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Unleashed
2016
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Me Flesh, You Meat
2015
-Madrid, Blanca Soto Arte, Hunter-Gatherer
-Maasmechelen(B), CC Maasmechelen,
-JGR-VRZMLR -Eelde(Nl),
-Museum De Buitenplaats,
-Of Beasts and Beings -Amsterdam, Ornis A Gallery,
-A Contribution to Reality
2014
-Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Hibernaculum
2013
-Amsterdam, Ornis A Gallery, Hond en Horizonten
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, The true stories
2012
-Sevilla, Galeria Mecanica, Equivocal Evidence
-Tenerife, Instituto de Canarias Cabrera Pinto, aun terrenal
-Sittard(Nl), Museum het Domein, Common Sprits (duo with José Bedia)
-Diepenheim(Nl), Drawing Center, no reason to get excited
2011
-Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, CAAM,
-Aun Terrenal (duo withJosé Bedia) -Utrecht, Ornis A Gallery
2010
-Maastricht, galerie Wansink
2009
-Maastricht, galerie Wansink
2007
-Amsterdam, galerie The living Room
2006
-Amsterdam, galerie The living Room
2005
-Amsterdam, (Kunstrai) Galerie Wanda Reiff
-Tongeren(B),Gallo-Romeins Museum, a Stone with a View
2004
-Brussel, Fondacion Européenne pour la Sculpture, Mind the Gap
2003
-Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, Na de Waarneming
-Venlo(Nl), Limburgs Museum, Lithomania
2002
-Tongeren(B), Gallo-Romeins Museum, Lithomania
2000
-Vlissingen(Nl), W#AK/de Watertoren
Groepstentoonstellingen:
2015
-Koln(D), Martin Kudlek Gallery
-Paris, Galery Maubert
-Diepenheim(Nl), Drawing Center, Jubilee exhibition
2014
-Maastricht Bonnefantenmuseum, Beating around the Bush
-Sittard(Nl) Rabobank: three museums each present one sculpture.
2013
-Antwerp (Beveren), ab homine creatum (sculpture-parc)
2011
-Schiedam(Nl), Stedelijk Museum, All about Drawing
2009
-Osnabruck/Kalkriese(D), Colossal, curator Jan Hoet
2008
-Maastricht(Nl), Province House, acquisitions Museum het Domein 2006
-Amsterdam, The Living Room
2005
-Heerlen(Nl), Weird Walls, murals
2004
-Amsterdam, galerie Loerakker
2003
-Sittard(Ml), Stedelijk Museum het Domein,
2001
-Berg en Dal(Nl), Africa Museum, Ad Fontes 2000
-Monchen-Gladbach(D), guestpresentation IKOB
-Poitiers(F), galerie Wanda Reiff
1999
-Sittard(Nl), Stedelijk Museum Het Domein
1997
-Aken(D), Transit II
-Leuven,(B) Museum van der Keelen, Nature Morte?? -Maastricht(Nl), galerie Wanda Reiff
-Sittard(Nl), Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Hora Est
1995
-Venlo(Nl), Museum van Bommel van Dam, 1:1
-Sittard(Nl), Stedeliik Museum Het Domein, exchange Recife, Brasil
-Koln-Brauweiler(D), Rheinlandisches Museumsambt, 1:1
1994
-Hasselt(B), Kunstencentrum Begijnhof, Hoffelijkheden -Aken(D), Transit I
2019/20
-Unleashed, Roger Ballen & Hans Lemmen
-Brussels Galerie Felix Frachon, Roger Ballen & Hans Lemmen
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Unleashed (segment)
2018/19
-Fuerteventura, Canary Island, artist residence connected to two museum presentations.
2018
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Unleashed (segment)
-Amsterdam, Amsterdam Rai/ Art Fair. Solo booth with galerie Helder
-Galerie Helder, Walkabout, solo
-Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, Unleashed
2017
-Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Unleashed
2016
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, Me Flesh, You Meat
2015
-Madrid, Blanca Soto Arte, Hunter-Gatherer
-Maasmechelen(B), CC Maasmechelen,
-JGR-VRZMLR -Eelde(Nl),
-Museum De Buitenplaats,
-Of Beasts and Beings -Amsterdam, Ornis A Gallery,
-A Contribution to Reality
2014
-Paris, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Hibernaculum
2013
-Amsterdam, Ornis A Gallery, Hond en Horizonten
-La Laguna, Tenerife, Galeria Artizar, The true stories
2012
-Sevilla, Galeria Mecanica, Equivocal Evidence
-Tenerife, Instituto de Canarias Cabrera Pinto, aun terrenal
-Sittard(Nl), Museum het Domein, Common Sprits (duo with José Bedia)
-Diepenheim(Nl), Drawing Center, no reason to get excited
2011
-Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, CAAM,
-Aun Terrenal (duo withJosé Bedia) -Utrecht, Ornis A Gallery
2010
-Maastricht, galerie Wansink
2009
-Maastricht, galerie Wansink
2007
-Amsterdam, galerie The living Room
2006
-Amsterdam, galerie The living Room
2005
-Amsterdam, (Kunstrai) Galerie Wanda Reiff
-Tongeren(B),Gallo-Romeins Museum, a Stone with a View
2004
-Brussel, Fondacion Européenne pour la Sculpture, Mind the Gap
2003
-Den Haag, Gemeentemuseum, Na de Waarneming
-Venlo(Nl), Limburgs Museum, Lithomania
2002
-Tongeren(B), Gallo-Romeins Museum, Lithomania
2000
-Vlissingen(Nl), W#AK/de Watertoren
Groepstentoonstellingen:
2015
-Koln(D), Martin Kudlek Gallery
-Paris, Galery Maubert
-Diepenheim(Nl), Drawing Center, Jubilee exhibition
2014
-Maastricht Bonnefantenmuseum, Beating around the Bush
-Sittard(Nl) Rabobank: three museums each present one sculpture.
2013
-Antwerp (Beveren), ab homine creatum (sculpture-parc)
2011
-Schiedam(Nl), Stedelijk Museum, All about Drawing
2009
-Osnabruck/Kalkriese(D), Colossal, curator Jan Hoet
2008
-Maastricht(Nl), Province House, acquisitions Museum het Domein 2006
-Amsterdam, The Living Room
2005
-Heerlen(Nl), Weird Walls, murals
2004
-Amsterdam, galerie Loerakker
2003
-Sittard(Ml), Stedelijk Museum het Domein,
2001
-Berg en Dal(Nl), Africa Museum, Ad Fontes 2000
-Monchen-Gladbach(D), guestpresentation IKOB
-Poitiers(F), galerie Wanda Reiff
1999
-Sittard(Nl), Stedelijk Museum Het Domein
1997
-Aken(D), Transit II
-Leuven,(B) Museum van der Keelen, Nature Morte?? -Maastricht(Nl), galerie Wanda Reiff
-Sittard(Nl), Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Hora Est
1995
-Venlo(Nl), Museum van Bommel van Dam, 1:1
-Sittard(Nl), Stedeliik Museum Het Domein, exchange Recife, Brasil
-Koln-Brauweiler(D), Rheinlandisches Museumsambt, 1:1
1994
-Hasselt(B), Kunstencentrum Begijnhof, Hoffelijkheden -Aken(D), Transit I
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