Galerie Roger Katwijk opens the new year 2025 with already the 5th solo exhibition of Dutch artist Annemieke Alberts at the gallery:
'A Colourshaped Room'.
What first stands out in Annemieke Alberts's new work are the colours.
Light, bright fields of colour masquerading as the walls, floors and ceilings of an imaginary room.
That space is sometimes empty, other times there are things randomly arranged leaning against something or something wonderful lying on the floor, carelessly left there.
The light comes through or in between on all sides, as if the connection between the walls is missing. The floors consist of thin tenuous planes that seem fluid rather than treadable.
Yet at first glance it looks solid due to monumental forms that hold up the structure. This is only appearances, as these spaces are not representations of existing places and cannot simply be entered.
In this solo exhibition at Roger Katwijk : A Colourshaped Room, it's all about mental space. Rooms that hold memories, or remind you of a dream.
In previous work, the approach to light, colour and space expressed occurred in all sorts of guises, including architectural spaces and later landscape paintings. In some canvases, she has applied the findings she gained outside to the interior space she paints.
In visual terms, she employs a neo-constructivist language of form, tending towards abstraction, but nevertheless proving personal through composition and handling of material.
Annemieke Alberts (Krommenie, 1963)
Annemieke Alberts studied drawing as a teacher in Amsterdam. Her participation in the 2011 Summer Exhibition at the GEM The Hague, where she won the jury prize, marked her breakthrough to the general public.The following year, she was given a solo exhibition at Pulchri Studio. In the same year, she participated in the talent show The New Rembrandt and was one of the participants in an exhibition at the Victory Gallery in Portland (US). 2012 was also the year Roger Katwijk first showed Alberts' painted open interior spaces in his gallery. solo exhibitions. In 2015, she participated in a group exhibition at the Mondrian House in Amersfoort and the art event Symposion in Gorinchem.
Recently, Alberts showed her work at Salon'18 , Rietveld Pavilion Amersfoort.Alberts' work is included in various corporate collections such as the VU medical centre, Erasmus Medical Centre, DELA, Triodos Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.