About Galerie van Gelder
GALERIE VAN GELDER (1985) exhibits work by Dutch and foreign artists and prefers concept-oriented art.
Artfacts.net writes about GvG in 2022:
'Galerie van Gelder is an active Amsterdam-based blue-chip Private Gallery. Galerie van Gelder is a 37 year old Private Gallery showing mostly Painting with a focus on Conceptual Art.
Since they were established in 1985 they have had at least 301 exhibitions (218 solo shows and 83 group shows) with 234 artists (for more information, see shows).
Galerie van Gelder participated in no less than 32 art fairs, in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and elsewhere. The first fair Galerie van Gelder participated in was Stockholm Smart Show 1997 in Stockholm in 1997. They have most frequently exhibited with Art Rotterdam in Rotterdam, Netherlands (8 times) and KunstRAI in Amsterdam, Netherlands (7 times) and Art Basel (3 times).
Exhibitions are mostly male (70%), with female artists exhibited less (29%). The most exhibited artist is Klaas Kloosterboer. The average age of artists shown at Galerie van Gelder is 46.
The current average rank for artists at Galerie van Gelder is 14,493, with 3 artists among the top 1,000. The average rank of artists at Galerie van Gelder improved by 62% over the last five years.
The highest-ranked artists to exhibit with Galerie van Gelder are Joseph Beuys (ranked in Top 10) and Gerhard Richter (ranked in Top 10) . Of the 234 artists that have repeatedly exhibited with Galerie van Gelder, 72 improved their rank while at Galerie van Gelder. Galerie van Gelder discovered one artists currently in the top 100, 7 artists currently in the top 1,000 and 29 artists currently in the top 10,000.'
The gallery has made an exquisite name due to bringing artists into the spotlight at an early stage, who now thirty years later enjoy world fame and are very high on rankings like e.g. Artfacts.net: John M Armleder, Sylvie Fleury, Steven Parrino, Olivier Mosset, Lily van der Stokker, Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Marijke van Warmerdam. Artists of this generation such as Kristján Gudmundsson, Sigurdur Gudmundsson and later Hreinn Fridfinnsson worked in Amsterdam and contributed to the profile of the gallery. Well-known but underexposed artists such as JCJ Vanderheyden and Henk Peeters got a remarkable boost here after their first solo exhibition. Dutch artists such as Klaas Kloosterboer, Lily van der Stokker and Marijke van Warmerdam also started collaborating with Galerie van Gelder at the beginning of their career in the 1980s.
A new generation of artists from the Netherlands and abroad can be seen regularly in the gallery: Nicolas Chardon, Elvire Bonduelle, Salim Bayri, Nokukhanya Langa, Kimball Gunnar Holth, Lee McDonald, e.a.
In 2012 a multiple and edition website was launched: https://www.thearchiveislimited.com and covers by now more than 1000 editions.
'The greatest miracle in the visual arts is the relationship between seeing with the eye and seeing with the brain. If a work of art gives a beastly retinal blow, you want to keep watching. That pure vision immediately switches to the question of where in the work the tick is distributed and what is going on with the work as a whole.' KvG
Owners
Kees van Gelder, Iris van Gelder
Directors
Kees van Gelder