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Simon Schrikker (Utrecht 1973) is a painter, muralist and sculptor that lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the Minerva art academy, Groningen, the Royal Academy of Art in Gent (Belgium) and got his MFA at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede.
The works of Simon Schrikker are a battle between form and content, between painted matter and painted image. His subjects have an apparent simplicity: he paints stray dogs, sharks, squids and recently rocky seascapes. But these images are not illustrations from a book on animal life or nature. For one thing, the images seem to struggle to emerge from the paint. In this sense, these paintings clearly identify themselves as paintings. The medium is part of the message. And since the animals that Simon paints are associated with several degrees of danger and fear, there is also a certain aggression in his images. This aggression returns in the painterly way the surface is treated. As a result of this dialectic, Simon’s work flirts with expressive abstraction: the images arise from matter but immediately seem to disappear into it again, leaving the audience to unravel what it is they are looking at. This dialectic is the engine that propels Simon’s work: what moves on the canvas is, ultimately, a painterly gesture.
Recently his working field extended from exclusively oil paintings on canvas to watercolor, sculptures and murals.
Schrikkers work can be found both in private and corporate collections in the Netherlands and abroad.
The works of Simon Schrikker are a battle between form and content, between painted matter and painted image. His subjects have an apparent simplicity: he paints stray dogs, sharks, squids and recently rocky seascapes. But these images are not illustrations from a book on animal life or nature. For one thing, the images seem to struggle to emerge from the paint. In this sense, these paintings clearly identify themselves as paintings. The medium is part of the message. And since the animals that Simon paints are associated with several degrees of danger and fear, there is also a certain aggression in his images. This aggression returns in the painterly way the surface is treated. As a result of this dialectic, Simon’s work flirts with expressive abstraction: the images arise from matter but immediately seem to disappear into it again, leaving the audience to unravel what it is they are looking at. This dialectic is the engine that propels Simon’s work: what moves on the canvas is, ultimately, a painterly gesture.
Recently his working field extended from exclusively oil paintings on canvas to watercolor, sculptures and murals.
Schrikkers work can be found both in private and corporate collections in the Netherlands and abroad.
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Simon Schrikker (Utrecht 1973) woont en werkt in Rotterdam
>Opleiding
1999-2001 Dutch Art Institute (MFA), Enschede
1998 Koninklijke Academie voor de Schone Kunsten, Gent, België
1995-1999 Minerva, academie voor beeldende kunsten (Bachelor), Groningen
>Tentoonstellingen/Projecten (selectie afgelopen 4 jaar):
2024
-“Rijnmondiaal 2”, Groepstentoonstelling, Museum Vlaardingen
-“Aris Laan”, Kunsthal 45, groepstentoonstelling (Curator: Emo Verkerk) Den Helder
-DebSaysYes Art Space, groepstentoonstelling, Antwerpen, B
-Luycks Gallery, groepstentoonstelling, Tilburg
-(“P)REVIEW!”Frank Taal galerie, groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-“100 zine expo, Stickit”, Kelderman en van Noord, groepstentoonstelling, Eindhoven
-Werkperiode metaalwerkplaats Make Eindhoven
2023
-"Animal Kingdom", Ruby Soho Gallery, trio tentoonstelling (Florentijn Hofman & Rop van Mierlo), Den Bosch
-"Liars, Diamonds and Dogs", Galerie Larik, trio tentoonstelling (Marjolein de Wit & Michiel ten Bokum), Utrecht
-“Het Archief no.4”, het Archief groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-Werkperiode metaal werkplaats Make Eindhoven
-Masterclass glasblazen, glasatelier Riihimäki, Finland
2022
-“Wild Summer of Art”, BRUTUS, groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-Pop up in de ‘Koopgoot’, (All Caps Festival), solo presentatie, Rotterdam
-All Caps Festival, sculpturen in Mallegatpark, solo presentatie, Rotterdam Zuid
-“A Joy Forever #8”, Salontentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
-O&O werkperiode, CBK Rotterdam
2021
-“Minerva meets Leipzig”, groepstentoonstelling Drents Museum, Assen
-“Bringing the Band Back Together”, trio tentoonstelling Hilton Art Lab (Henny Overbeek & Onno Poeisz), Rotterdam
-“Counterpart”, groepstentoonstelling Provinciehuis Noord-Holland, Haarlem
-“A Joy Forever #7”, salontentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
-“Octozilla”, muurschildering in opdracht van Centrale Gemeente Verwarming, 2e Blekerhof, Rotterdam
2020
-"Royal Drippings", groepstentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
(Ellemieke Schoenmaker, Toon Bergham & Aquil Copier)
-Glasschildering op locatie Marconiplein, Foundation MESH, Rotterdam
-Artist In Residence (muurschildering) Drents Museum, Assen
-Werkperiode metaal werkplaats Make Eindhoven
>Highlights vanaf 1999 tot 2020:
-Solotentoonstelling met catalogus, Drents Museum, Assen
-Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, werk op zaal vaste collectie
-Kunstmuseum Den Haag, werk op zaal vaste collectie
-Solotentoonstellingen bij diverse galeries in binnen en buitenland
-Koninklijke Schildersprijs, publieksprijs 2005
>Collecties
-Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
-Kunstmuseum, Den Haag-Drents Museum, Assen
-Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam
-Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg
- Ploum, Lodder & Princen, Rotterdam
-VUMC Amsterdam
-Isala ziekenhuis Zwolle
-CBK Rotterdam
>Publicaties eigen werk:
2022 -Constructive Optimism, a5 zine oplage 100 Stickit Publishing, Utrecht
2021 -Octomania, a5 zine oplage 100 Stickit Publishing, Utrecht
>Recensies/Publicaties
2023
-“Ode aan de dieren”, (Elsbeth Grievink) 2 december, Financieele Dagblad
-“Ruby Soho heeft de primeur met parade van kunstenaarstrio”, (Mark van de Voort) 5 december, Brabants Dagblad
2022
-Hilton Art Lab, publicatie van overzicht tentoonstellingen, auteur/uitgave Herman Lamers, Rotterdam
2021
-“The Books Happen”, publicatie, auteur Henny Overbeek, Uitgave UDC Publishers, Den Bosch
-“Geen hond te bekennen”, (Jaap Timmers) 12 augustus, Haarlems Dagblad
>Opleiding
1999-2001 Dutch Art Institute (MFA), Enschede
1998 Koninklijke Academie voor de Schone Kunsten, Gent, België
1995-1999 Minerva, academie voor beeldende kunsten (Bachelor), Groningen
>Tentoonstellingen/Projecten (selectie afgelopen 4 jaar):
2024
-“Rijnmondiaal 2”, Groepstentoonstelling, Museum Vlaardingen
-“Aris Laan”, Kunsthal 45, groepstentoonstelling (Curator: Emo Verkerk) Den Helder
-DebSaysYes Art Space, groepstentoonstelling, Antwerpen, B
-Luycks Gallery, groepstentoonstelling, Tilburg
-(“P)REVIEW!”Frank Taal galerie, groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-“100 zine expo, Stickit”, Kelderman en van Noord, groepstentoonstelling, Eindhoven
-Werkperiode metaalwerkplaats Make Eindhoven
2023
-"Animal Kingdom", Ruby Soho Gallery, trio tentoonstelling (Florentijn Hofman & Rop van Mierlo), Den Bosch
-"Liars, Diamonds and Dogs", Galerie Larik, trio tentoonstelling (Marjolein de Wit & Michiel ten Bokum), Utrecht
-“Het Archief no.4”, het Archief groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-Werkperiode metaal werkplaats Make Eindhoven
-Masterclass glasblazen, glasatelier Riihimäki, Finland
2022
-“Wild Summer of Art”, BRUTUS, groepstentoonstelling, Rotterdam
-Pop up in de ‘Koopgoot’, (All Caps Festival), solo presentatie, Rotterdam
-All Caps Festival, sculpturen in Mallegatpark, solo presentatie, Rotterdam Zuid
-“A Joy Forever #8”, Salontentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
-O&O werkperiode, CBK Rotterdam
2021
-“Minerva meets Leipzig”, groepstentoonstelling Drents Museum, Assen
-“Bringing the Band Back Together”, trio tentoonstelling Hilton Art Lab (Henny Overbeek & Onno Poeisz), Rotterdam
-“Counterpart”, groepstentoonstelling Provinciehuis Noord-Holland, Haarlem
-“A Joy Forever #7”, salontentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
-“Octozilla”, muurschildering in opdracht van Centrale Gemeente Verwarming, 2e Blekerhof, Rotterdam
2020
-"Royal Drippings", groepstentoonstelling Galerie Luycks, Tilburg
(Ellemieke Schoenmaker, Toon Bergham & Aquil Copier)
-Glasschildering op locatie Marconiplein, Foundation MESH, Rotterdam
-Artist In Residence (muurschildering) Drents Museum, Assen
-Werkperiode metaal werkplaats Make Eindhoven
>Highlights vanaf 1999 tot 2020:
-Solotentoonstelling met catalogus, Drents Museum, Assen
-Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, werk op zaal vaste collectie
-Kunstmuseum Den Haag, werk op zaal vaste collectie
-Solotentoonstellingen bij diverse galeries in binnen en buitenland
-Koninklijke Schildersprijs, publieksprijs 2005
>Collecties
-Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
-Kunstmuseum, Den Haag-Drents Museum, Assen
-Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam
-Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg
- Ploum, Lodder & Princen, Rotterdam
-VUMC Amsterdam
-Isala ziekenhuis Zwolle
-CBK Rotterdam
>Publicaties eigen werk:
2022 -Constructive Optimism, a5 zine oplage 100 Stickit Publishing, Utrecht
2021 -Octomania, a5 zine oplage 100 Stickit Publishing, Utrecht
>Recensies/Publicaties
2023
-“Ode aan de dieren”, (Elsbeth Grievink) 2 december, Financieele Dagblad
-“Ruby Soho heeft de primeur met parade van kunstenaarstrio”, (Mark van de Voort) 5 december, Brabants Dagblad
2022
-Hilton Art Lab, publicatie van overzicht tentoonstellingen, auteur/uitgave Herman Lamers, Rotterdam
2021
-“The Books Happen”, publicatie, auteur Henny Overbeek, Uitgave UDC Publishers, Den Bosch
-“Geen hond te bekennen”, (Jaap Timmers) 12 augustus, Haarlems Dagblad
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