CV
* 1959, Middelburg (NL)
Lives and Works in Amsterdam
Education
1979-1982 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
1982-1983 Croydon College of Art, London
1983-1985 Ateliers '63, Haarlem, NL
Awards
1986 Winner Royal Award in Fine Arts (Painting)
Residencies
2017 Van Doesbughuis, Meudon, FR
2011 Josef Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut, US
Selected Guest Tutorials
2018 De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2012 Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
2009 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Solo Exhibitions since 2001
2022 Seasons, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (cat)
Elements, Galerie Walter Storms. Munich
2021 Shadow, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2020 Vergezicht/View, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2019 Galerie Walter Storms, Munich (with Tim Freiwald and Marco Gastini)
2018 Sea/Land, In/Out, Two Diptychs for the Koorkerk, Middelburg
EN/EN (with Jan van Munster), Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2017 In Search of Red, Yellow and Blue, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2016 Display, EYES ONLY, Munich
Galerie Walter Storms, Munich (with Alan Charlton and Ulrich Erben)
2015 do re mi fa so la ti do, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
2014 Acts & Places, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Four Acts and Quartet, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
2013 4 Quartets, Sleeper Gallery, Edinburgh
2012 Spectrum, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2011 For Philip Guston (with Ton van Os), De Ketelfactory, Schiedam, NL (cat.)
2010 Cardinal Points, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (cat.)
Spring, Effearte Gallery, Milano
2009 Concept Space, Shibukawa, Gunma, Japan
Place, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort (cat.)
Celestial Chart, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 Orientation, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2006 Cardinal Points, Sleeper, Edinburgh, GB
Ultima Thule, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo, IT (cat.)
2004 12 Months, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2002 Vertical Thoughts, S.M.A.K., Ghent, BE (cat.)
2001 Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Going West, CCNOA (Center for Non-Objective Art), Brussels
Selected Group Exhibitions since 1999
2022 Original + Context, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2020 Meanwhile..., Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2019 Less is More, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
Private View, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
2018 Transformation of Geometry, Collections of Siegfried Grauwinkel, Berlin and Miroslav Velfl, Prague, Prague City
Galerie, Prague
Colour Bomb, Exposoruim Vrije Univesiteit, Amsterdam
2017 Take Part 2017 with Siegfried Grauwinkel, VSU, Saarbrücken
Het idioom van de abstractie / The Idiom of Abstraction, Art Chapel, Amsterdam
Big Art, De Zonnewijser, Amsterdam
Art Zuid, curated by Rudi Fuchs, Amsterdam (cat.)
Jeden Augenblick, GaleriePRINZIP, Munich
Colours of De Stijl, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort (cat.)
40 Years Walter Storms Galerie, Galerie Water Storms, Munich
2016 WestFarbe, Raum 2810, Bonn (cat.)
Excitement (curated by Rudi Fuchs), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Ritme en Regelmaat. 70 jaar abstractie in de kunst (curated by Diana Windt), Visual Art Centre Witteveen,
Amsterdam
Snapshot of a larger order, De Ketelfactory, Schiedam (cat.)
Julian Daspher & Friend, PS Project Space, Amsterdam
Spectral Spectrum, Hermitage, Amsterdam (cat.)
2015 Oysters with Lemon, Ventana244 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
…uiteindelijk werd het kunst, Stichting IK, Oost Souburg, NL
2013 Sammlung Grauwinkel. Konkrete Kunst 1982-2012, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, H
2012 Telling Stories, Akkuh, Hengelo, NL
Voor eeuwig de jouwe, Schunck, Heerlen, NL
2011 Dazzle the Evil Eye, Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2010 Place, Museum Kurhaus Kleve (DE)
Dutch Connection, Hebel 121, Basel, CH
2009 Art Nova, Slewe Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach, US
2009 10 Years Hydra Art School Projects, Hydra, Greece
Wahlverwandschaft, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen, NL (cat.)
2007 A Faithful Eye, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Chicago (cat.)
2006 Room with a view, Bouwfonds Art Collection, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (cat.)
20 Years Stadsgalerij, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL
Oceanic Waves, Kaapeli, Helsinki, FI (cat.)
2004 Heirs of Mondrian, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, NL
10 Years Slewe, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam (cat.)
2003 Up to now, Farewell Exhibition of Rudi Fuchs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Becoming, 1st Public School, Hydra, Greece (cat.)
2002 Among Ourselves, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL
1999 Recent Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Public Collections
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Museum Over Holland, Nieuwersluis
Museum Stadsgalerij, Heerlen
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
ABN AMRO Bank Art Collection, Amsterdam
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
BPD Art Collection, Amsterdam
Caldic Art Collection, Rotterdam
Houthoff Buruma Art Collection, Amsterdam
Thoma Art Collection, Chicago
Commissions
2019 View, Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
2017 Design for wall and floor for arcade SNBTS, Edinburgh (in collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects,
Edinburgh)
Design glass wall for NDA Archive, Wick, Scotland (in collaboration with Reiach and Hall Architects, Edinburgh)
Design 12 étalages for Lodenfrey, Munich (January-April)
2016 Design roof public entrance for parkinglot Beatrixpark, Beethovenstraat, Amsterdam
2015 Maggies, Lanarkshire, Scotland
2013 Cabinet, entree apartment canal house, Amsterdam
Publications/Monographs
Seasons, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo/Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2021 (with text by Rudi Fuchs and interview by Robert van Altena)
The Fifth Line. Thoughts of a painter, Steven Aalders interviewed by Robert van Altena, Koenig Books, London, 2017
In Search of Red, Yellow and Blue, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2017
Cardinal Points, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 2010 (with texts by Rudi Fuchs, Thomas Lange, Benno Tempel and Steven Aalders)
Place (Black, Brown, Beige, Grey & Ash), Mondriaanhuis, 2009
Ultima Thule, Galleria del Tasso, Bergamo, 2006
Vertical Thoughts, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2001 (with texts by Jan Hoet and Pietje Tegenbosch)