Rob Birza 1962

Woont in Amsterdam. Werkt in Weesp.

Vertegenwoordigd door:

Willem Baars Projects

Rob Birza has undeniably already had an impressive career ; two solo exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam during his twenties, numerous exhibitions throughout Europe in the past four decades and he has executed a multitude of public commissions all over the Netherlands.

Though a first glance at his oeuvre might be confusing; playful takes on Stella’s shaped canvases and Schwitters-esque abstract compositions are alternated by colourful still lives with flowers and grand paintings depicting scenes of the Afghan war. Curator and director Ann Demeester of the Frans Hals museum pointed out while introducing his series from 2016 (Shifting Circles), that throughout this oeuvre there always one constant : the fragile line between abstract and figurative. In the Shifting Circles series (2016) this was pre-eminently displayed through a play between background and foreground and a system to which the circles of colour seemed to stick.

In his most recent series, titled Drifting Circles (2017), Birza has chosen to abandon symmetry and to take a more loose approach to his system of circles. The artist is not afraid to revert to a lazy and mischievous approach in order to undermine his own system and painting in general. Rebellion creates new opportunities and possibilities. It is precisely this type of anarchy that played a defining role in the development of abstract art.

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SUMMER EXHIBITION 2018

Floating Circles, Art Rotterdam 2019

Shifting Circles XIII

2016

Tentoonstellingen

ART ROTTERDAM 2021

Daan van Golden, Jan Elburg, Jaap Berghuis, Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Rob Birza, Lucassen, Bob Bonies, Emo Verkerk, Morgan Betz

1 jul - 4 jul 2021, Amsterdam, Nederland

Floating Circles

Rob Birza

14 sep - 12 oct 2019, Amsterdam, Nederland

Art Rotterdam 2019

Frans Mossou, Emo Verkerk, Rob Birza, Morgan Betz, Lucassen

6 feb - 10 feb 2019, Rotterdam, Nederland

SUMMER EXHIBITION 2018

Jan Van Den Dobbelsteen, Piet Dieleman, Rob Birza

18 jul - 4 aug 2018, Amsterdam, Nederland

Drifting Circles

Rob Birza

16 sep - 21 oct 2017, Amsterdam, Nederland

In museumcollectie van:

SCHUNCK

Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch

Museum De Pont

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Stadsgalerij Heerlen

Noord-Brabants Museum

In bedrijfscollectie van:

De Nederlandsche Bank

DSM

Bouwfonds

Schiphol

CV

EDUCATION

1988 Danish Turistrad Scholarship
1986-1987 Ateliers 63- Haarlem
1980-1985 St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts and Design- Breda

AWARDS

1998 Sandberg Prize (Oeuvre Award)- Stichting Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
1988 Aanmoedigingsprijs- Stichting Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

From the blue play till shifting circles
De Nederlandsche Bank – Amsterdam (NL)

Shifting Circles
Willem Baars Projects – Amsterdam (NL)

2014

Systems in Warped Space
Willem Baars Projects – Amsterdam (NL)

2013

Rob Birza
Grafisch Atelier ‘t Gooi – Hilversum (NL)

2012

Shifting Systems
Willem Baars Projects - Amsterdam (NL)

2010

Willem Baars Projects- Art Amsterdam- paintings (text by Cornel Bierens)
No more Holidays (ceramics)- ParKt - Amsterdam (NL)

2009

Pinballmandalamachine
Gemeentemuseum - The Hague (NL)

2007

Beautiful Misery #2
Galleria Giorgio Persano – Turin (IT)

2006

Beautiful Misery
Galerie Fons Welters - Amsterdam (NL)

2005

Afghanistan
Galleria Giorgio Persano – Turin (IT)

Dialogen in de schilderkunst 4: Poep Bruin (with Morgan Betz), De Overslag- Eindhoven (NL)

2003

One is Free, Galerie Fons Welters - Amsterdam (NL)

2001

Cold Fusion
SMAK – Gent (BE)

2000

Cold Fusion 2000
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

1998

Cosy Monsters from Inner Space (the drawings)
De Pont Foundation - Tilburg (NL)

Digital Treble Discoveries – Unplugged
(Part of From the Corner of the Eye- Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam), Stedelijk Museum Bureau - Amsterdam (NL)

Cosy Monsters from Inner Space (the Paintings), Galerie Fons Welters - Amsterdam (NL)
Power Flower Portraits

Fries Museum - Leeuwarden (NL)

1997

Lasca
Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery- Los Angeles (US)

Galerie Asbaek- Copenhagen (DK)

1996

The Beautiful Tragedy of Intensity-show
Galerie Fons Welters - Amsterdam (NL)

Attidudes 2: Rob Birza en Rob Scholte
Stadsgalerij Heerlen - Heerlen (NL)

1995

Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen- Cologne (DE)

De Nederlandsche Bank- Amsterdam (NL)

1994

REAL. My Fuckin Kangaroo is damn right! (and so is my Pelican)
De Vleeshal - Middelburg (NL)

1992

The Aquarium
Gemeentemuseum The Hague, The Hague (NL)

1991

Birza
Stedelijk Museum- Amsterdam (NL)

De Satelliet
Nederlandsche Bank- Amsterdam (NL)

1990

Galerie van Krimpen- Amsterdam (NL)

1989

Rob Birza: Nieuwe Schilderijen
Galerie 't Venster- Rotterdam (NL)

1988

First Blossom
Galerie van Krimpen- Amsterdam (NL)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

Summer Jam, a painting show.
W139, Amsterdam

Summer Exhibition
Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam

2016

Opwinding
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

2014

Stop Making Sense
Dordrechts Museum (NL)

2013

Back to Earth: Von Picasso bis Ai Weiwei- die Wiederentdeckung der Keramik in der Kunst- Gerisch-Stiftung
Neumünster (DE)

2011

De Foute Beelden
Galerie Nouvelles Images - The Hague (NL)

2009

Drie tot de derde macht- SBK Breda (NL)
Beeldentuin Aningahof- Zwolle (NL)

2008

SM in De Nieuwe Kerk
De Nieuwe Kerk - Amsterdam (NL)

2007

W139 Colored
W139 - Amsterdam (NL)

2006

Room with a view: De Bouwfonds Kunstcollectie
Gemeentemuseum- The Hague (NL)

Autonomia
Galerie LUMC- Leiden (NL)

2005

Een reis door de collectie
(curated by Carel Blotkamp), Stedelijk Museum- Amsterdam (NL)

Contemporary Artists from The Netherlands
Hopkins Center - Darthmouth College- Hanover- New Hampshire- (US)

2004

Lustwarande 04
Park de Oude Waranda- Tilburg (NL)

Secrets of the nineties
Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem (NL)

Migrating Identity- Transmission Reconstruction
Arti et Amicitae - Amsterdam (NL)

2003
Bison Caravan
Aarhus Kunstmuseum- Aarhus (DK)

2002

Contemporary Art from The Netherlands
European Central Bank- Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Hofvijver in Poezie en Beeld, Kunstpassage in Rijksmonument
Museum Bredius/ Haags Historisch Museum- The Hague (NL)

2001

Cairo Biennial
Cairo (EG)

The Presentation
Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam (NL)

Wir sind die Ander(en)
Herford Museum (DE)

Bollywood has arrived
Passenger Terminal - Amsterdam (NL)

2000

Zeitwenden. Ausblick
Kunstmuseum Bonn/ Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig- Vienna- Germany/ Austria1999 Bad-Bad- That is a good excuse

Staatliche Kunsthallen Baden-Baden (DE)

Spring
Foundation for Indian Artists - Amsterdam (NL)

Glad IJs
Stedelijk Museum- Amsterdam (NL)

1998

From the Corner of the Eye
Stedelijk Museum- Amsterdam (NL)

Surfacing. Contemporary Drawing
I.C.A.- London (UK)

The Centre Holds. Report from the art scene Netherlands
(Curator: Rudi Fuchs)- Galerie Gmurzynska- Cologne (DE)

De Salon
Abandoned City Hall of Utrecht (NL)

1997

Flemish and Dutch Painting
(Curators: Rudi Fuchs and Jan Hoet)- Palazzo Grassi- Venice (IT)

Topping Out
Städtische Galerie- Nordhorn (on location in Alte Weberei) (DE)

Einde Eeuw Tableau Vivant
(Curator: Wim Beeren)- Pulchri Studio- The Hague (NL)

Wahlverwandtschaften (Europäische Malerei im Gespräch)
Casino Luxembourg and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)

1996

Peintres Néerlandais et Flamands d'aujourd'hui
De Beyerd- Breda (NL)

The Other Self
Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (NL)

Deep in the woods (De Muze als Motor- Beeldende Kunst in Brabant- 1945-1996)

De Pont Foundation- Tilburg (NL)
Birza- Puckey- Scholte- Galerie Hohental und Bergen- Cologne (DE)