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Boris van Berkum (b. 1968) was born in the Netherlands and identifies as a Neo-artist. He fuses styles and forms of various periods, cultures and religions in his art. Van Berkum works in ceramic and bronze, epoxy-paste and even fondant icing. In the early 1990s, Boris lived in Prague, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He supported his studies by producing political cartoons and illustrations for English-language newspapers. When he returned to the Netherlands, Van Berkum established MAMA, 'showroom for media and moving art' in Rotterdam in 1997. He served as its director until 2007. Since leaving MAMA he has reinvented himself as a visual artist and has appropriated traditional and modern techniques. Van Berkum is currently working on a programme "Neo Afro, Winti 3D" where he assists Winti priestess Marian Markelo in reviving and introducing mask-dancing and the use of sculpture in the Winti religion and ritual. The art of van Berkum is collected by public collections like Museum Boijmans van Beuningen and the Groninger Museum.
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Articles
Media
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Over de kunstenaar
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Media
Marian Markelo zegent Kabra Blauw pronkobject in. Depot Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
Tentoonstellingen
CV
Education
1992-1993 Academy Umeni Vitvarny (Academy for Fine Arts)
Prague Czech Republic
1988-1989 Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
1980-1998 Montessori Lyceum Rotterdam Gymnasium
Cultural management
2022 present - Cool Clay Collective foundation
founder, member executive committee
2014- present Winti Bal Masqué creative director
2000-2005 Mothership founder, CEO & owner partnership
1997-2007 MAMA showroom for Media and Moving Art Rotterdam
founder & director
Solo- exhibitions
2021 Snake Charmer Hilton Art lab Rotterdam
2021 Snake Charmer Object Rotterdam
curator Anne v d Zwaag
2018 AFRICA not African? drawings & silkscreens
Upstair’s at Erix Berlin, curator Eric D. Clark
2014 Kabra mask exhibition Amsterdam Museum curator Annemarie de Wildt
2014 Mama Aisa XXXL central library Rotterdam
2011 Mega-renaissance Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
curator Sjarel Ex
2010 Recent works Witzenhausen gallery
Group-exhibitions
2022 – 2023 Unpacking Boijmans Depot Boijmans van Beuningen
curator Alexandra van Dongen
2023 Gold Afrika museum Berg en Dal curator Wouter Welling
2022 -2023 Healing Power Afrika museum curator Wouter Welling
2021 Test Lab European Ceramic Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL
curator Ranti Tjan
2021/2022 AIR in Southeast # 2020/2021 curator Renske de Jong
2021 Healing Power, Tropen Museum Amsterdam
curator Wouter Welling
2020 Permanent collection, het Dolhuys museum van de geest
2019 To Return Opposite gallery Jingdezhen
curators Liu Zongna & Song Tao (Beijing)
2019 Healing power Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
curator Wouter Welling
2018 Dutch circle of Sculptors 100 years,
Pulchri Den Haag curator Jeroen Damen
2017/2018 Sticky Business Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
curator Marije Vogelzang
2017 Making of Mama Aisa DordtYart Dordtrecht Netherlands
2016 Ritual and the Sacred Route du Nord Rotterdam
curator Hans van der Ham
2016 Hollandaise New Art Projects London UK, curator Ken Pratt
2016 Bal! Royal Palace Soestdijk Soest Netherlands
curator Anne van der Zwaag
2016 Persian Poems Seedz Rotterdam Vluchtelingenwerk Nedereland
2015 Diversity and Inclusion: Challenging Implicit Bias –
University Leiden curator CBK Zuidoost Amsterdam
2015 Arte Concordia – Sculpture exhibition Rotterdam
curator Olpheart den Otter
2015 MOM contemporary masks
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuid Oost Amsterdam
2014 Goethe Dialegs Goethe Institut Barcelona Spain
curator Robert Punkenhofer
2014 The Individual Is Lost Zic Zerp Gallery Rotterdam
2014 Down to Earth gallery Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Catch my Drift Zic Zerp gallery Rotterdam
2013 Slavery - contemporary arts included?
Galerie Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Digitale Kunstroof/ Digital Art Heist
3d-printing Set-up/ het gebouw Utrecht
2012/2013 Abundantia Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Peter van der Coelen
2012 Raw Art Expo, Raw Art Fair Rotterdam curator Bob Smit
2012 The Kids Are Alright, 15 years MAMA, Kunsthal Rotterdam curator Gerben Willers
Public collections
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam,
Groninger Museum, Museum Het Dolhuys Haarlem, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, Dutch Ministry of Justice,
Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, Amsterdam Museum,
Suriname Museum Paramaribo
Public Art
2002 Ode aan Marten Toonder,
Binnenrotte Rotterdam, commissioner City of Rotterdam
Artist in residencies
2021/ 2022 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center,
Oisterwijk (ceramics)
2020 Heinen Delftsblauw Putten (ceramics)
2019/2020 BijlmAIR Amsterdam Zuid-oost (research)
2019 NA artist in residency Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2016 Paradise Tiles Isfahan Iran (mosaic, tiles & calligraphy)
2015 Pottery Workshop Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2014 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics)
2010 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics)
2007 Beeldenstorm / Make Eindhoven (bronze)
2002 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center Den Bosch (ceramics)
Curriculum vitae Boris van Berkum
Performances
2023 October Winti Bal Masqué 2 Theater Rotterdam
2022 inauguration Kabra blauw lidded pot depot Boijmans van Beuningen
2019 - present Memri Waka Amsterdam,
performance Kabra mask initiative of the Amsterdam Museum
2013- present Kabra ancestor dance-mask Libation,
National Commemoration of Slavery, Oosterpark Amsterdam.
2013- present performance Kabra mask Kabra Neti,
winti ancestor ritual Muiderkerk Amsterdam
2013-2017 mask-dance Keti Koti celebration Afrika Museum
2015-2016 Kabra mask 40 performances
Wijksafari Bijlmer Adelheid Roosen Amsterdam,
2015 Afrofuturism Now – Worm Rotterdam NL
2014 Papa winti mask-dance
Witte de With art-festival Rotterdam
2014 Kabra mask-dance at Kabra Neti
winti ancestor ritual, Sunclub Rotterdam
2014 mask-dance Motel Mozaique Rotterdamse Schouwburg
2014 Winti Bal Masqué Laurenskerk Rotterdam
Grants
2021 Stimuleringsfonds Project grand Vormgeving
2021 Droom en Daad Project grand Makers loket
2019- 2023 Mondriaanfonds Stipendium for Established Artists
2019 Fonds Kwadraat
2016 Art of Impact development grand
(Ministry Education Culture & Science)
2016 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
2016 CBK Rotterdam Project grand Research and Development
2015 Mondriaanfonds Project grand residency Iran Isfahan
2014 Mondriaan fund Project grand
2013 Fonds 21 Project grand
2013 CBK Rotterdam development grand
2013 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
Catalogues and publications
2022 Happinez 8 pages about winti & the aban winti art collection
2021 De (weder-) geboorte van Mama Aisa
essay author Bart Krieger, Freelance curator
2021 Metamorfosen essay author Alexandra van Dongen, conservator Preindustrial design Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
2021 Healing power exhibition catalogue Museum van Wereldculturen author Markus Balkenhol, publisher Sidepress
2019 My Afternoon with an Alien Folk Artist essay by Darius James
2017 Neo Afro in Afrofuturism,
essay by Aminata Cairo & Jeroen Deckers publisher Punt Komma
2016 Afrikaanse renaissance author dr. Paul Faber article
exhibition-catalogue Arika 010 Wereldmuseum
2016 Paleis Soestdijk door de ogen van kunstenaars
review group expo Bal! Volkskrant author Anne v Leeuwen
2015 Mask-dancing in contemporary Winti ritual Material Religion Journal, author dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertens instituut
2015 Negotiations around the Kabra mask Material Religion Journal, author Annemarie de Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2015 Winti Kabra and the Limbo imagination Material Religion Journal
author Wayne Modest director Museum van Wereldculturen, professor Faculty of Humanities Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2015 The Dancing Kabra Mask Africanah.org author Annemarie the Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2013 Sweet Sixteen 16 years showroom MAMA, Showroom MAMA
2012 City Collection catalogue, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
2012 Top 100 Dutch Artists, Elsevier magazine
2011 Mega Renaissance catalogue Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2011 Mega Renaissance Exhibition review Museum Boijmans,
Ceramics & perception magazine US
Television
2022 Report inauguration Kabra Blauw dekselpot in Depot Boijmans van Beuningen OPEN local tv station
2019 Iedereen Verlicht NTR program about spirituality in the Netherlands
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 NTR Report National commemoration abolishment of Slavery (National Dutch broadcast)
2013 NTR Report National commemoration abolishment of Slavery (National Dutch broadcast)
Documentary
2023 Free space NTR documentary Uur van de Wolf dir. Karen Junger
2021 Kabra Blauw the making of an object of desire dir. Marieke van der Lippe
2021 Behind the Kabra Mask, director Marieke van der Lippe, ABAN foundation
2018 Drie vrouwen, director Ida Does NTR
2011 Moving Statues Arttube Boijmans TV, video-interview artist Boris van Berkum
Art-talks & Lectures
2022 public lecture about Kabra blauw
with Alexandra van Dongen curator Boijmans
2022 Kabra Blauw and Mama Aisa lecture, couse: the anthropology of art and material culture. University college Universiteit Utrecht with Dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertensinstituut & Marleen de Witte
2021 Crash Course: Media Art & Sculpture V_2 Rotterdam
2019 Ode aan Marten Toonder Lecture Rotary Club Rotterdam
2017 The Making of Mama Aisa Dortyart Dordrecht with Noraley Beyer
2017 Afrika 010 curator Paul Faber Afrika 010 Wereld Museum Rotterdam
2017 Artist practice BKAdemie Rotterdam
2016 workshop WdKA art academy Rotterdam
2015 Pecha Kucha Arminius Rotterdam
2014 about the Kabra mask Amsterdam Museum Amsterdam
1992-1993 Academy Umeni Vitvarny (Academy for Fine Arts)
Prague Czech Republic
1988-1989 Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
1980-1998 Montessori Lyceum Rotterdam Gymnasium
Cultural management
2022 present - Cool Clay Collective foundation
founder, member executive committee
2014- present Winti Bal Masqué creative director
2000-2005 Mothership founder, CEO & owner partnership
1997-2007 MAMA showroom for Media and Moving Art Rotterdam
founder & director
Solo- exhibitions
2021 Snake Charmer Hilton Art lab Rotterdam
2021 Snake Charmer Object Rotterdam
curator Anne v d Zwaag
2018 AFRICA not African? drawings & silkscreens
Upstair’s at Erix Berlin, curator Eric D. Clark
2014 Kabra mask exhibition Amsterdam Museum curator Annemarie de Wildt
2014 Mama Aisa XXXL central library Rotterdam
2011 Mega-renaissance Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
curator Sjarel Ex
2010 Recent works Witzenhausen gallery
Group-exhibitions
2022 – 2023 Unpacking Boijmans Depot Boijmans van Beuningen
curator Alexandra van Dongen
2023 Gold Afrika museum Berg en Dal curator Wouter Welling
2022 -2023 Healing Power Afrika museum curator Wouter Welling
2021 Test Lab European Ceramic Center EKWC Oisterwijk NL
curator Ranti Tjan
2021/2022 AIR in Southeast # 2020/2021 curator Renske de Jong
2021 Healing Power, Tropen Museum Amsterdam
curator Wouter Welling
2020 Permanent collection, het Dolhuys museum van de geest
2019 To Return Opposite gallery Jingdezhen
curators Liu Zongna & Song Tao (Beijing)
2019 Healing power Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
curator Wouter Welling
2018 Dutch circle of Sculptors 100 years,
Pulchri Den Haag curator Jeroen Damen
2017/2018 Sticky Business Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
curator Marije Vogelzang
2017 Making of Mama Aisa DordtYart Dordtrecht Netherlands
2016 Ritual and the Sacred Route du Nord Rotterdam
curator Hans van der Ham
2016 Hollandaise New Art Projects London UK, curator Ken Pratt
2016 Bal! Royal Palace Soestdijk Soest Netherlands
curator Anne van der Zwaag
2016 Persian Poems Seedz Rotterdam Vluchtelingenwerk Nedereland
2015 Diversity and Inclusion: Challenging Implicit Bias –
University Leiden curator CBK Zuidoost Amsterdam
2015 Arte Concordia – Sculpture exhibition Rotterdam
curator Olpheart den Otter
2015 MOM contemporary masks
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuid Oost Amsterdam
2014 Goethe Dialegs Goethe Institut Barcelona Spain
curator Robert Punkenhofer
2014 The Individual Is Lost Zic Zerp Gallery Rotterdam
2014 Down to Earth gallery Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Catch my Drift Zic Zerp gallery Rotterdam
2013 Slavery - contemporary arts included?
Galerie Sanaa Utrecht
2013 Digitale Kunstroof/ Digital Art Heist
3d-printing Set-up/ het gebouw Utrecht
2012/2013 Abundantia Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen curator Peter van der Coelen
2012 Raw Art Expo, Raw Art Fair Rotterdam curator Bob Smit
2012 The Kids Are Alright, 15 years MAMA, Kunsthal Rotterdam curator Gerben Willers
Public collections
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam,
Groninger Museum, Museum Het Dolhuys Haarlem, Kunstuitleen Rotterdam, Dutch Ministry of Justice,
Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs, Amsterdam Museum,
Suriname Museum Paramaribo
Public Art
2002 Ode aan Marten Toonder,
Binnenrotte Rotterdam, commissioner City of Rotterdam
Artist in residencies
2021/ 2022 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center,
Oisterwijk (ceramics)
2020 Heinen Delftsblauw Putten (ceramics)
2019/2020 BijlmAIR Amsterdam Zuid-oost (research)
2019 NA artist in residency Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2016 Paradise Tiles Isfahan Iran (mosaic, tiles & calligraphy)
2015 Pottery Workshop Jingdezhen China (porcelain)
2014 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics)
2010 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center, Den Bosch (ceramics)
2007 Beeldenstorm / Make Eindhoven (bronze)
2002 EKWC European Ceramic Work Center Den Bosch (ceramics)
Curriculum vitae Boris van Berkum
Performances
2023 October Winti Bal Masqué 2 Theater Rotterdam
2022 inauguration Kabra blauw lidded pot depot Boijmans van Beuningen
2019 - present Memri Waka Amsterdam,
performance Kabra mask initiative of the Amsterdam Museum
2013- present Kabra ancestor dance-mask Libation,
National Commemoration of Slavery, Oosterpark Amsterdam.
2013- present performance Kabra mask Kabra Neti,
winti ancestor ritual Muiderkerk Amsterdam
2013-2017 mask-dance Keti Koti celebration Afrika Museum
2015-2016 Kabra mask 40 performances
Wijksafari Bijlmer Adelheid Roosen Amsterdam,
2015 Afrofuturism Now – Worm Rotterdam NL
2014 Papa winti mask-dance
Witte de With art-festival Rotterdam
2014 Kabra mask-dance at Kabra Neti
winti ancestor ritual, Sunclub Rotterdam
2014 mask-dance Motel Mozaique Rotterdamse Schouwburg
2014 Winti Bal Masqué Laurenskerk Rotterdam
Grants
2021 Stimuleringsfonds Project grand Vormgeving
2021 Droom en Daad Project grand Makers loket
2019- 2023 Mondriaanfonds Stipendium for Established Artists
2019 Fonds Kwadraat
2016 Art of Impact development grand
(Ministry Education Culture & Science)
2016 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
2016 CBK Rotterdam Project grand Research and Development
2015 Mondriaanfonds Project grand residency Iran Isfahan
2014 Mondriaan fund Project grand
2013 Fonds 21 Project grand
2013 CBK Rotterdam development grand
2013 Mondriaanfonds Project grand
Catalogues and publications
2022 Happinez 8 pages about winti & the aban winti art collection
2021 De (weder-) geboorte van Mama Aisa
essay author Bart Krieger, Freelance curator
2021 Metamorfosen essay author Alexandra van Dongen, conservator Preindustrial design Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
2021 Healing power exhibition catalogue Museum van Wereldculturen author Markus Balkenhol, publisher Sidepress
2019 My Afternoon with an Alien Folk Artist essay by Darius James
2017 Neo Afro in Afrofuturism,
essay by Aminata Cairo & Jeroen Deckers publisher Punt Komma
2016 Afrikaanse renaissance author dr. Paul Faber article
exhibition-catalogue Arika 010 Wereldmuseum
2016 Paleis Soestdijk door de ogen van kunstenaars
review group expo Bal! Volkskrant author Anne v Leeuwen
2015 Mask-dancing in contemporary Winti ritual Material Religion Journal, author dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertens instituut
2015 Negotiations around the Kabra mask Material Religion Journal, author Annemarie de Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2015 Winti Kabra and the Limbo imagination Material Religion Journal
author Wayne Modest director Museum van Wereldculturen, professor Faculty of Humanities Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
2015 The Dancing Kabra Mask Africanah.org author Annemarie the Wildt conservator Amsterdam Museum
2013 Sweet Sixteen 16 years showroom MAMA, Showroom MAMA
2012 City Collection catalogue, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
2012 Top 100 Dutch Artists, Elsevier magazine
2011 Mega Renaissance catalogue Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
2011 Mega Renaissance Exhibition review Museum Boijmans,
Ceramics & perception magazine US
Television
2022 Report inauguration Kabra Blauw dekselpot in Depot Boijmans van Beuningen OPEN local tv station
2019 Iedereen Verlicht NTR program about spirituality in the Netherlands
2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 NTR Report National commemoration abolishment of Slavery (National Dutch broadcast)
2013 NTR Report National commemoration abolishment of Slavery (National Dutch broadcast)
Documentary
2023 Free space NTR documentary Uur van de Wolf dir. Karen Junger
2021 Kabra Blauw the making of an object of desire dir. Marieke van der Lippe
2021 Behind the Kabra Mask, director Marieke van der Lippe, ABAN foundation
2018 Drie vrouwen, director Ida Does NTR
2011 Moving Statues Arttube Boijmans TV, video-interview artist Boris van Berkum
Art-talks & Lectures
2022 public lecture about Kabra blauw
with Alexandra van Dongen curator Boijmans
2022 Kabra Blauw and Mama Aisa lecture, couse: the anthropology of art and material culture. University college Universiteit Utrecht with Dr. Markus Balkenhol Meertensinstituut & Marleen de Witte
2021 Crash Course: Media Art & Sculpture V_2 Rotterdam
2019 Ode aan Marten Toonder Lecture Rotary Club Rotterdam
2017 The Making of Mama Aisa Dortyart Dordrecht with Noraley Beyer
2017 Afrika 010 curator Paul Faber Afrika 010 Wereld Museum Rotterdam
2017 Artist practice BKAdemie Rotterdam
2016 workshop WdKA art academy Rotterdam
2015 Pecha Kucha Arminius Rotterdam
2014 about the Kabra mask Amsterdam Museum Amsterdam
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