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Gracia Khouw (1967) works in different media: paintings, murals, digital prints and animations. In commissioned situations in public space, she seeks to connect place and users of the space in different ways, such as architectural features or history of the location.
In her letter images, Gracia Khouw uses visual language in our visual culture. Rules of language and legibility are turned upside down to dissect the complex relationship between looking, reading and thinking. In her compositions with letters and signs, she uses strict ordering principles, such as symmetry and grid form, image rhyme or fragmentation. The works appear as visual poetry in which sound plays an important role.
FOUR LETTERS
What can you say with four letters? Gracia Khouw is fascinated by four-letter words. Concise words that refer to objects or people, as well as words that convey feelings or abstract concepts. The four-letter words symbolize fast, compact, efficient and standard, appropriate to our times. She began collecting the words starting in 2017; first the English ones and from 2022 the search has expanded to include Dutch and Indonesian words, the languages she is at home in.
WORD IMAGE
What is a word image? The word functions as an architectural framework, as four letters that together mean something. At the same time, she approaches letters as signs made up of horizontals, verticals and curves. In the arrangements of thick and thin lines and of colored surfaces, she is concerned with the interaction with the residual space and mutual coherence. You experience a tipping point between word and image, meaning and form.
LANGUAGE
How do the three languages come together? Inside the collection, Khouw found 36 words where the meanings coincide; they are the starting point for new word images, which have been executed as giclée prints in different formats and for animations. Also released is the publication BUKU-BOEK-BOOK.
In her letter images, Gracia Khouw uses visual language in our visual culture. Rules of language and legibility are turned upside down to dissect the complex relationship between looking, reading and thinking. In her compositions with letters and signs, she uses strict ordering principles, such as symmetry and grid form, image rhyme or fragmentation. The works appear as visual poetry in which sound plays an important role.
FOUR LETTERS
What can you say with four letters? Gracia Khouw is fascinated by four-letter words. Concise words that refer to objects or people, as well as words that convey feelings or abstract concepts. The four-letter words symbolize fast, compact, efficient and standard, appropriate to our times. She began collecting the words starting in 2017; first the English ones and from 2022 the search has expanded to include Dutch and Indonesian words, the languages she is at home in.
WORD IMAGE
What is a word image? The word functions as an architectural framework, as four letters that together mean something. At the same time, she approaches letters as signs made up of horizontals, verticals and curves. In the arrangements of thick and thin lines and of colored surfaces, she is concerned with the interaction with the residual space and mutual coherence. You experience a tipping point between word and image, meaning and form.
LANGUAGE
How do the three languages come together? Inside the collection, Khouw found 36 words where the meanings coincide; they are the starting point for new word images, which have been executed as giclée prints in different formats and for animations. Also released is the publication BUKU-BOEK-BOOK.
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> UPCOMING 2022/23
> Galerie van den Berge, Goes, with Ab van Hanegem, November 6 - December 18, 2022
> De/cipher, gkg-bonn (DE) curator Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, with Marjorie Welish, José Heerkens, Johanna Reich, a.o.
> HEEL KORT HEEL EVEN/ ENAM KATA-KATA, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, February 20 - 26, 2023
2021
Omstand, Arnhem – GEEN DADEN MAAR WOORDEN, Korrie Besems (curator)
Huis de Pinto, Amsterdam, Waar ik nu ben / Where I am now (s), project with wall installation, curator: Jacqueline Verhaagen
La Distance Entre Deux Lignes de Croisement (partie 2), Abstract Project, Paris (FR)
The Distance Between Two Intersecting Lines, ARTSPACE Arti et Amicititae, Amsterdam - with Gerda Kruimer
2020
Galerie De Zaal Delft, Methode, Thema en Keuzevrijheid (g), curated by Jaap van den Ende
Galerie Ursula Walter Dresden, Contemporary Contemplations #6 (g) curators Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke
De Cacaofabriek Helmond, DNA IKEA, November-December (g) curators Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk
De Vishal, Haarlem - Kleine Zaal, Alice’s Question
2019
PHK18 Rotterdam, CC#4 (g), site-specific work /wall painting Conversation Piece (g)
Pictura, Dordrecht, Het Woord Remembrance of 400 years Synod of Dordt, with Tanya Smit and Niels Post
ACEC Apeldoorn, Contemporary Contemplations #5, curators Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke (g)
ISCP > FALL BENEFIT AUCTION 2019 > 01/10 - 16/10 on Artsy and event at Nancy Hoffman Gallery NY (g)
2018
Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NY Prints, curator Ewerdt Hilgemann (s)
Galerie N-Z in Arendonk (B), Constructor, curators Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen (17/11 - 06/12 (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, AWP Retrospect, curator Jasper van der Graaf (g)
De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Billy Combinaties, curators Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk (g)
10-Years-IS-Projects Leiden, curators Iemke van Dijk and Guido Winkler (g)
2017
Transmitter, Brooklyn NY (US) OPPLER (g)
OPENLUCHT MUSEUM DE LAKENHAL, Leiden 100 JAAR NA DE STIJL (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, ABSTRACT WALLPAINTINGS III (g)
2016
Rijnstate, Arnhem, UBI PUS - site specific work (s)
2015
Galerie Werfkade, Hoogezand, Vrijheid van geest / MANWRK - site specific work (g), curator Saskia Monshouwer
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia (US), Territory of Abstraction (g)
Stichting IK (IK Foundation), Flushng (NL), Collection of Ferdi Koelega
WeinerWalls, Amsterdam (s) XXXL - site specific work
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, (US), Doppler Shift (g)
2014
De Vishal, Haarlem, Klaar! / CROSSOVER - site specific work (g)
Heden, The Hague, Mediaheyhey - site specific work (s)
Gigant, Apeldoorn, Sound Flick (g) animation
2013
Parallel Art Space, NY (US), DOPPLER (g) RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
ParisCONCRET, Paris (FR), Flat Colour (g)
Galerie Hein Elferink, Space, Expanding (g) with Henriëtte van ‘t Hoog, Mischa Rakier, Sonia Rijnhout
2012
Kunstvlaai/Festival of Independents 2012, Omelette Optimism - site specific work
Kunst & Complex, R’dam/ AGA, A’dam/ Fluctuating Images, Berlijn/Trenutak.39, Zagreb (HR) Dopplerstop (g)
RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Supermarket 2012, Stockholm (SE), (g) in collaboration with IS Projects
Museum Le Secet, Mural, (g), different locations
2011
Art Amsterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Art Karlsruhe (DE), Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, with Torgeir Husevaag (d)
Kunstcentrum Bergen, Taal en Teken 2 (Language and Sign part 2) (g)
Arti et Amicitiae, AMICUS site specific work (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, Patronen (Patterns) (g)
Graphos Biennale, ‘t Kruithuis, Den Bosch (g)
2010
GKG Bonn (DE), Lebt Theo? (g)
Artwalk Amsterdam, Superstrak (g), ARIA- 5 site specific work
Phoenix, Brighton (UK), Hot Plate (g)
2009
Galerie Hein Elferink, with Elisabeth Sonneck (d)
Galerie Hein Elferink, START (g)
CCNOA, Brussels (BE), KT site specific work in projectspace (s)
Pictura, Dordrecht – Drukwerk buiten de marge, SWINDEN - animation
DOK, Delft – The Painting Says “Pring” (s)
2008
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence (FR), - Project Papier Peints (g)
2007
Museum Prinsenhof/Nusantara, Contour 2007, site specific work (g)
Blaak 10, WdK Galerie, Rotterdam – Watching the River Flow, (g)
2006
CBK Apeldoorn, BILLBOARD #3 / DINGDING (s) site specific work
Groothandelsgebouw, Rotterdam, Chaos en Orde (Chaos and Order) (g)
outLine, Amsterdam, AMUT TUMA, (s)
SAFE, Dalfsen, SAINTE VICTOIRE #1, met Sonia Rijnhout (d)
2005
FW: Painting, L.O.F.T Berlin (DE), (g)
FW: Painting, Montanus 5 Diksmuide (BE), (g)
Galerie Jan Colle, Ghent (B), with Ward Denys (d)
2004
TENT. CBK Rotterdam, prospecten van nooit vermoed schoon…(g)
Archipel, Apeldoorn, ECHO #1, with Arjan Janssen en Jan Maarten Voskuil
2003
Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, ladenkastproject (flatfiles project), 3 drawings (g)
2002
Erasmus Universiteit, AHAHA, site specific work (s)
2001
De Kromme van TENT.CBK Rotterdam, TAKKAT, site specific work (s)
2000
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, De Salon (g)
(s) solo (d) duo (g) group
Public art / commissions
2020 City of Delft, sketch design for Halstraat, in collaboration with 38 CC + Zoetmulder Architects
2020 City of Amsterdam/Bureau of Statistics, Information and Reasearch, designs for glass panels
2017 - 2018 Gemeente Zaanstad, banner for Czar Peter area, Zaandam
2016 Gemeente Zaanstad / Prorail, Sketchdesign Kogertunnel (Koog-Zaandijk Railway station)
2015 Barney Agerbeek/In de Knipscheer, artwork ‘Rood. Wit met blauw’, bookcover collection of poems,
ISBN 978-90-6265-874-9
2015 Wit Industries, artwork for mudguard design
2012 - 2014 Municipality of Heusden-Zolder, (BE) – designs for artwork in new library,
in collaboration with DMT Architects, Antwerp
2011 GGD Amsterdam, sketch design for air pollution station
2010 Stroom DH, infographics in publication DH// – ‘Mapping Hague Artists’
2009 DOK Library Concept Center, Delft – site specific work on glass windows
2007 - 2009 Municipality of Heemskerk & Beverwijk, Broekpolder – ZOADW,
public art commission for KPN Broadband distribution center
2009 Biotext, Nijmegen – TOEN, sketch design for public artwork
2005 CBK Rotterdam – RAIRIARAU, design for multiple
2002 - 2003 Woonbron Rotterdam, Glaura, artwork for entrance office building of housing cooperation
2000 WBR West Rotterdam – sketch design for public artwork in Rotterdam West
Curatorial projects
2012 Space, Expanding concept groupshow (cat.)
2010 Oog in oog (Eye to Eye), a project with 7 Amsterdam artists for the Police of Amsterdam-Amstelland:
meeting, presentation catalog
2009 TRANSIT, In Between Leaving and Arriving concept and groupshow with site specific work + artist talk,
Retort Projectspace, Amsterdam, www.transit-retort.blogspot.com
2007 Gruppenbild, a group show with 22 Belgian and Dutch painters;
in collaboration with Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen (cat.)
Residencies
2017 ISCP (International Studio Curatorial Program) , Brooklyn NY (US)
2010 Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee (BE)
> Galerie van den Berge, Goes, with Ab van Hanegem, November 6 - December 18, 2022
> De/cipher, gkg-bonn (DE) curator Susannah Cremer-Bermbach, with Marjorie Welish, José Heerkens, Johanna Reich, a.o.
> HEEL KORT HEEL EVEN/ ENAM KATA-KATA, De Bouwput, Amsterdam, February 20 - 26, 2023
2021
Omstand, Arnhem – GEEN DADEN MAAR WOORDEN, Korrie Besems (curator)
Huis de Pinto, Amsterdam, Waar ik nu ben / Where I am now (s), project with wall installation, curator: Jacqueline Verhaagen
La Distance Entre Deux Lignes de Croisement (partie 2), Abstract Project, Paris (FR)
The Distance Between Two Intersecting Lines, ARTSPACE Arti et Amicititae, Amsterdam - with Gerda Kruimer
2020
Galerie De Zaal Delft, Methode, Thema en Keuzevrijheid (g), curated by Jaap van den Ende
Galerie Ursula Walter Dresden, Contemporary Contemplations #6 (g) curators Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke
De Cacaofabriek Helmond, DNA IKEA, November-December (g) curators Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk
De Vishal, Haarlem - Kleine Zaal, Alice’s Question
2019
PHK18 Rotterdam, CC#4 (g), site-specific work /wall painting Conversation Piece (g)
Pictura, Dordrecht, Het Woord Remembrance of 400 years Synod of Dordt, with Tanya Smit and Niels Post
ACEC Apeldoorn, Contemporary Contemplations #5, curators Gerda Kruimer and Rene Eicke (g)
ISCP > FALL BENEFIT AUCTION 2019 > 01/10 - 16/10 on Artsy and event at Nancy Hoffman Gallery NY (g)
2018
Art Affairs, Amsterdam, NY Prints, curator Ewerdt Hilgemann (s)
Galerie N-Z in Arendonk (B), Constructor, curators Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen (17/11 - 06/12 (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, AWP Retrospect, curator Jasper van der Graaf (g)
De Meerse, Hoofddorp, Billy Combinaties, curators Guda Koster and Frans van Tartwijk (g)
10-Years-IS-Projects Leiden, curators Iemke van Dijk and Guido Winkler (g)
2017
Transmitter, Brooklyn NY (US) OPPLER (g)
OPENLUCHT MUSEUM DE LAKENHAL, Leiden 100 JAAR NA DE STIJL (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, ABSTRACT WALLPAINTINGS III (g)
2016
Rijnstate, Arnhem, UBI PUS - site specific work (s)
2015
Galerie Werfkade, Hoogezand, Vrijheid van geest / MANWRK - site specific work (g), curator Saskia Monshouwer
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia (US), Territory of Abstraction (g)
Stichting IK (IK Foundation), Flushng (NL), Collection of Ferdi Koelega
WeinerWalls, Amsterdam (s) XXXL - site specific work
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, (US), Doppler Shift (g)
2014
De Vishal, Haarlem, Klaar! / CROSSOVER - site specific work (g)
Heden, The Hague, Mediaheyhey - site specific work (s)
Gigant, Apeldoorn, Sound Flick (g) animation
2013
Parallel Art Space, NY (US), DOPPLER (g) RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
ParisCONCRET, Paris (FR), Flat Colour (g)
Galerie Hein Elferink, Space, Expanding (g) with Henriëtte van ‘t Hoog, Mischa Rakier, Sonia Rijnhout
2012
Kunstvlaai/Festival of Independents 2012, Omelette Optimism - site specific work
Kunst & Complex, R’dam/ AGA, A’dam/ Fluctuating Images, Berlijn/Trenutak.39, Zagreb (HR) Dopplerstop (g)
RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Supermarket 2012, Stockholm (SE), (g) in collaboration with IS Projects
Museum Le Secet, Mural, (g), different locations
2011
Art Amsterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Art Karlsruhe (DE), Galerie Hein Elferink (g)
Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, with Torgeir Husevaag (d)
Kunstcentrum Bergen, Taal en Teken 2 (Language and Sign part 2) (g)
Arti et Amicitiae, AMICUS site specific work (g)
ACEC, Apeldoorn, Patronen (Patterns) (g)
Graphos Biennale, ‘t Kruithuis, Den Bosch (g)
2010
GKG Bonn (DE), Lebt Theo? (g)
Artwalk Amsterdam, Superstrak (g), ARIA- 5 site specific work
Phoenix, Brighton (UK), Hot Plate (g)
2009
Galerie Hein Elferink, with Elisabeth Sonneck (d)
Galerie Hein Elferink, START (g)
CCNOA, Brussels (BE), KT site specific work in projectspace (s)
Pictura, Dordrecht – Drukwerk buiten de marge, SWINDEN - animation
DOK, Delft – The Painting Says “Pring” (s)
2008
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence (FR), - Project Papier Peints (g)
2007
Museum Prinsenhof/Nusantara, Contour 2007, site specific work (g)
Blaak 10, WdK Galerie, Rotterdam – Watching the River Flow, (g)
2006
CBK Apeldoorn, BILLBOARD #3 / DINGDING (s) site specific work
Groothandelsgebouw, Rotterdam, Chaos en Orde (Chaos and Order) (g)
outLine, Amsterdam, AMUT TUMA, (s)
SAFE, Dalfsen, SAINTE VICTOIRE #1, met Sonia Rijnhout (d)
2005
FW: Painting, L.O.F.T Berlin (DE), (g)
FW: Painting, Montanus 5 Diksmuide (BE), (g)
Galerie Jan Colle, Ghent (B), with Ward Denys (d)
2004
TENT. CBK Rotterdam, prospecten van nooit vermoed schoon…(g)
Archipel, Apeldoorn, ECHO #1, with Arjan Janssen en Jan Maarten Voskuil
2003
Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, ladenkastproject (flatfiles project), 3 drawings (g)
2002
Erasmus Universiteit, AHAHA, site specific work (s)
2001
De Kromme van TENT.CBK Rotterdam, TAKKAT, site specific work (s)
2000
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, De Salon (g)
(s) solo (d) duo (g) group
Public art / commissions
2020 City of Delft, sketch design for Halstraat, in collaboration with 38 CC + Zoetmulder Architects
2020 City of Amsterdam/Bureau of Statistics, Information and Reasearch, designs for glass panels
2017 - 2018 Gemeente Zaanstad, banner for Czar Peter area, Zaandam
2016 Gemeente Zaanstad / Prorail, Sketchdesign Kogertunnel (Koog-Zaandijk Railway station)
2015 Barney Agerbeek/In de Knipscheer, artwork ‘Rood. Wit met blauw’, bookcover collection of poems,
ISBN 978-90-6265-874-9
2015 Wit Industries, artwork for mudguard design
2012 - 2014 Municipality of Heusden-Zolder, (BE) – designs for artwork in new library,
in collaboration with DMT Architects, Antwerp
2011 GGD Amsterdam, sketch design for air pollution station
2010 Stroom DH, infographics in publication DH// – ‘Mapping Hague Artists’
2009 DOK Library Concept Center, Delft – site specific work on glass windows
2007 - 2009 Municipality of Heemskerk & Beverwijk, Broekpolder – ZOADW,
public art commission for KPN Broadband distribution center
2009 Biotext, Nijmegen – TOEN, sketch design for public artwork
2005 CBK Rotterdam – RAIRIARAU, design for multiple
2002 - 2003 Woonbron Rotterdam, Glaura, artwork for entrance office building of housing cooperation
2000 WBR West Rotterdam – sketch design for public artwork in Rotterdam West
Curatorial projects
2012 Space, Expanding concept groupshow (cat.)
2010 Oog in oog (Eye to Eye), a project with 7 Amsterdam artists for the Police of Amsterdam-Amstelland:
meeting, presentation catalog
2009 TRANSIT, In Between Leaving and Arriving concept and groupshow with site specific work + artist talk,
Retort Projectspace, Amsterdam, www.transit-retort.blogspot.com
2007 Gruppenbild, a group show with 22 Belgian and Dutch painters;
in collaboration with Luc Hoekx and Arjan Janssen (cat.)
Residencies
2017 ISCP (International Studio Curatorial Program) , Brooklyn NY (US)
2010 Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee (BE)
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