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Steven Aalders, born in 1959 in Middelburg, lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied in London at Croydon College of Art and at Ateliers 63 in Haarlem. Aalders has developed a rigorous and sustained painting practice in which color, structure, and perception are central. Working primarily with the primary colors red, yellow, and blue, his paintings emerge through an intensive process of mixing, calibration, and intuitive adjustment. Rather than treating color as fixed, Aalders approaches it as relational; defined by proximity, contrast, and subtle shifts in intensity. His work engages with modernist abstraction while remaining grounded in the perceptual experience of looking, where color becomes both subject and system.
Over the past decades, Aalders has exhibited widely in the Netherlands and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include presentations at Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and Museum Kurhaus Kleve. His work has also been shown in various European and international gallery and institutional contexts, often in dialogue with historical color theory and modernist abstraction.
Public Collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Museum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, NL
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL
Schunck*, Heerlen, NL
ABN AMRO Art Collection, Amsterdam, NL
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
BPD Art Collection, Amsterdam, NL
Houthoff Buruma Collection, Amsterdam, NL
The Over Holland Collection, NL
Thoma Art Collection, Chicago, US
Aalders’ practice is consistently rooted in a dialogue with historical color theory and modernist painting, in which painting becomes a precise yet open-ended investigation into how color constructs space, rhythm, and perception.
Over the past decades, Aalders has exhibited widely in the Netherlands and internationally. Selected solo exhibitions include presentations at Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and Museum Kurhaus Kleve. His work has also been shown in various European and international gallery and institutional contexts, often in dialogue with historical color theory and modernist abstraction.
Public Collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Museum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, NL
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL
Schunck*, Heerlen, NL
ABN AMRO Art Collection, Amsterdam, NL
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
BPD Art Collection, Amsterdam, NL
Houthoff Buruma Collection, Amsterdam, NL
The Over Holland Collection, NL
Thoma Art Collection, Chicago, US
Aalders’ practice is consistently rooted in a dialogue with historical color theory and modernist painting, in which painting becomes a precise yet open-ended investigation into how color constructs space, rhythm, and perception.
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