Pim Blokker approaches the canvas as a game board. In his work the perspective continuously shifts or stretches out, and formal qualities and the physical act of painting both collide and merge. Blokker is not interested in illusion making but in linking personal associations to new depictions of reality. He sees the collective consciousness as something without a structure, end, or beginning, and plays with our fixed connotations and expectations of reality. This he does through juxtaposition, a confrontational use of logic and a slapstick kind of humor.
The lightness of a joke sets off the gravity of tragedy and visa versa. Juxtaposing hilarity and horror, two emotional extremes, allows him to examine somber issues in a playful way, to pass off absurdities as logical and to undermine seemingly established facts.
His work shows a certain lightness and openness what is particularly evident in the wall paintings he created especially for the gallery. The brushstrokes have a leisure like quality and remind of the optimism of some 1950’s paintings. Blokker knows his classics and can borrow iconography from the 80’s to give his own interpretation of all he likes to use.
The lightness of a joke sets off the gravity of tragedy and visa versa. Juxtaposing hilarity and horror, two emotional extremes, allows him to examine somber issues in a playful way, to pass off absurdities as logical and to undermine seemingly established facts.
His work shows a certain lightness and openness what is particularly evident in the wall paintings he created especially for the gallery. The brushstrokes have a leisure like quality and remind of the optimism of some 1950’s paintings. Blokker knows his classics and can borrow iconography from the 80’s to give his own interpretation of all he likes to use.
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PIM BLOKKER
Woerden 1974, NL
based in Amsterdam
Education
2000-2004, Royal academy of art, The Hague
Residencies
2019 Bethanien, Berlijn
2015-2016. KNIR, Rome, IT
2009-2010 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 NIKI Forence, IT
2006 Pienkow , PL
Stipends/Awards
2020 Mondriaan Fonds, werkbijdrage bewezen talent
2016 Mondriaan Fonds, werkbijdrage bewezen talent
2015. Ontwikkelingsbudget AFK
2013 Workbudget, STROOM, The Hague
2012 Basisstipendium, Mondriaan Fonds
2011 De Scheffer Prize
2010 George Hendrik Breitner Fonds / Fundatie van Santheuvel
2009 Slobbe Stichting Elisa Matilda Fonds
2006 Royal prize for painting
Solo Exhibitions
2022 give me green, and I give you grass, StigtervanDoesburg Amsterdam
2020 'Brick Moon' StigtervanDoesburg, Amsterdam
2017. Villa de bank, Enschede
2016. This and that, gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2016. gallery Edel Assanti, London, Uk
2014 Taking a Day Off, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2013 While The Elephant Walks, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2010 Chewing Gum as Constellation, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2007 Gallery De Aanschouw, Rotterdam
2007 Gallery lak, Leiden
2005 Sanquin, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
2022 best in show, Hyperbien Gallery, Paris
2020 Hazenstraatbienale, Amsterdam
2019 Rausch, Arti et Amiciae, Amsterdam
2019 Wall based wall, Gallery Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2019 Kleurplaten, Billytown, Den Haag
2019 Haagse heritage, Heden, Den Haag
2019 See the world throughout a pink glasses, Plus one gallery, Antwerpen
2019 Eucalipta, De Apotheek, Amsterdam
2018 Smudgen, gallery Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam
2018 Summer jam, a painting show, w139, Amsterdam
2018 Lust, Liquir, Laughter, Plus one Gallery,
2018 Hazenstraat biënnale, stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2018 The Merry go round, Gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2017. living in dreams, Brugge, B
2016. gallery Marion Scharmann&Laskowski, Koln, DE
2016. The picture club, American Academy, Rome, IT
2016 HEROES, gallery Vallois, Paris, FR
2015. trail&triumph, Royal Academy The Hague, Den Haag, NL
2015. 120 minutes, Art Brussels, BE
2015. Art Brussels, Brussel, BE
2015 Art Rotterdam, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary art
2015 Kunstverrein, Amsterdam
2014. laughter, the drawer, Parijs
2014. Event horizon, galerie gabriel rolt, Amsterdam
2014 Kickstart, W139, Amsterdam
2013 A Petite Art Fair, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2013 Das Ding, Billytown, Den Haag
2013 Hotel International, Cologne, DE
2012 Artissima19, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin IT
2012 Kunstvlaai2012, De SERVICEGARAGE, Amsterdam
2012 Not In A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2012 Door Schildersogen/ From a Painter’s perspective, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2011 What's Up: De Jongste schilderkunst van Nederland, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
2010 Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2010 10 ausgewahlte position, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf, DE
2009 Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2006. Royal prize for painting , Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
2006 Academy of fine Arts, Krakow PL
2004 Graduation show, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag
2003 International Student Triennial, Istanbul, TU
Woerden 1974, NL
based in Amsterdam
Education
2000-2004, Royal academy of art, The Hague
Residencies
2019 Bethanien, Berlijn
2015-2016. KNIR, Rome, IT
2009-2010 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2010 NIKI Forence, IT
2006 Pienkow , PL
Stipends/Awards
2020 Mondriaan Fonds, werkbijdrage bewezen talent
2016 Mondriaan Fonds, werkbijdrage bewezen talent
2015. Ontwikkelingsbudget AFK
2013 Workbudget, STROOM, The Hague
2012 Basisstipendium, Mondriaan Fonds
2011 De Scheffer Prize
2010 George Hendrik Breitner Fonds / Fundatie van Santheuvel
2009 Slobbe Stichting Elisa Matilda Fonds
2006 Royal prize for painting
Solo Exhibitions
2022 give me green, and I give you grass, StigtervanDoesburg Amsterdam
2020 'Brick Moon' StigtervanDoesburg, Amsterdam
2017. Villa de bank, Enschede
2016. This and that, gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2016. gallery Edel Assanti, London, Uk
2014 Taking a Day Off, PuntWG, Amsterdam
2013 While The Elephant Walks, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2010 Chewing Gum as Constellation, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2007 Gallery De Aanschouw, Rotterdam
2007 Gallery lak, Leiden
2005 Sanquin, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
2022 best in show, Hyperbien Gallery, Paris
2020 Hazenstraatbienale, Amsterdam
2019 Rausch, Arti et Amiciae, Amsterdam
2019 Wall based wall, Gallery Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2019 Kleurplaten, Billytown, Den Haag
2019 Haagse heritage, Heden, Den Haag
2019 See the world throughout a pink glasses, Plus one gallery, Antwerpen
2019 Eucalipta, De Apotheek, Amsterdam
2018 Smudgen, gallery Gerhard Hofland, Amsterdam
2018 Summer jam, a painting show, w139, Amsterdam
2018 Lust, Liquir, Laughter, Plus one Gallery,
2018 Hazenstraat biënnale, stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2018 The Merry go round, Gallery Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2017. living in dreams, Brugge, B
2016. gallery Marion Scharmann&Laskowski, Koln, DE
2016. The picture club, American Academy, Rome, IT
2016 HEROES, gallery Vallois, Paris, FR
2015. trail&triumph, Royal Academy The Hague, Den Haag, NL
2015. 120 minutes, Art Brussels, BE
2015. Art Brussels, Brussel, BE
2015 Art Rotterdam, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary art
2015 Kunstverrein, Amsterdam
2014. laughter, the drawer, Parijs
2014. Event horizon, galerie gabriel rolt, Amsterdam
2014 Kickstart, W139, Amsterdam
2013 A Petite Art Fair, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2013 Das Ding, Billytown, Den Haag
2013 Hotel International, Cologne, DE
2012 Artissima19, International Fair of Contemporary Art, Turin IT
2012 Kunstvlaai2012, De SERVICEGARAGE, Amsterdam
2012 Not In A Million Years, Jeanine Hofland Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
2012 Door Schildersogen/ From a Painter’s perspective, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2011 What's Up: De Jongste schilderkunst van Nederland, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht
2010 Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2010 10 ausgewahlte position, Kunstraum, Dusseldorf, DE
2009 Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2006. Royal prize for painting , Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
2006 Academy of fine Arts, Krakow PL
2004 Graduation show, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, Den Haag
2003 International Student Triennial, Istanbul, TU
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