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BABS HAENEN
Born 1948, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Studio in Amsterdam since 1979
Teacher at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 1994-2013
EDUCATION
1974-1979 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
AWARDS/GRANTS
2020 Van Achterbergh Prize
2005 Nominated for the Dutch Ceramic Prize 2005
1991 Inax Design Prize for Europeans, Japan
2012 Mondriaan Fund, Visual Arts and Cultural Heritage
2003/1990 Fonds BKVB, the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts,
Design and Architecture
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2024 Geneva, Taste Contemporary ‘Crossing Paths‘ with Jacqui Poncelet)
2023 The Hague, Kunstmuseum ‘Porcelain Mountains’ (with antique
Chinese porcelain)
2022 Brussels, The Solo Project Contemporary Art, Taste Contemporary
(with Beppe Kessler)
2021 Geneva, Taste Contemporary ‘Pas de Deux’ (with Beppe Kessler)
2020 Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics Van
Achterbergh Prize exhibition
2018 New York, Hostler Burrows Gallery *
Geneva, Taste Contemporary ‘En Route’ *
Amsterdam, Frozen Fountain
2017 Shanghai, Two Cities Gallery ‘En Route’ *
Purmerend, Waterland Museum ‘The Silk Road’ (with Wil van
Blokland)
2015 Beijing, Beijing Design Week, Ubi Gallery (with Peter Hoogeboom)
2014 Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID, series Scholar’s Rock
2013 Amsterdam, Peter Rommers ‘IJ-Catchers’ (with Alexander Lichtveld)
2012 Amsterdam, Gallery vankrimpen ‘En Route’
2008 Haarlem, De Hallen/Frans Halsmuseum,
Haarlem, ABC- architectural centre
2002 New York, Garth Clark Gallery *
Additional Years: 1999, 1995, 1992, 1989, 1987
1998 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum ‘The Turbulent Vessel Ceramics
1991-1998’ *
1991 Düsseldorf, Hetjens-Museum/Deutsches Keramikmuseum *
Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Ceramic Museum ‘A decade of
Work’ *
1988 Amsterdam, Artoteek Zuidoost (with Ton van Gool)
1987 Amsterdam, Gallery Inart ‘ Les Ambiances Méditerranée’
1985 Vienna, Keramik Studio (with Pauline Wiertz)
Amsterdam, Gallery de Witte Voet
1984 Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum
1982 Amsterdam, Gallery de Witte Voet
Selected Group
2026 Brussels, Ceramic Brussels- Art Fair- gallery Fontana
2025 Providence, RISD museum , The Barkan Contemporary Ceramic
Collection ‘ A Shared Journey’
2024 Amsterdam, Rai- PAN Amsterdam , gallery Ramakers ‘ 30 years
anniversary’
Amsterdam, Yunus Emre Institute ‘On the Way to Porcelain: Blue –
White’
The Haque, Gallery Ramakers: Ien Lucas, Hieke Luik, Babs Haenen
presentation ‘Try and Treasure’- publication Babs Haenen-
Jap Sam books/ Archivorum+M.
Geneva, Taste Contemporary at the Fabienne Levy Gallery,
‘Transformative Boundaries’
2023 Amsterdam, Rai- PAN Amsterdam, gallery Ramakers
Geneva, Taste Contemporary at the Fabienne Levy Gallery
‘Transformative Boundaries’.
East Hampton, Onna House ‘Nature/Nurture’, Lisa Perry
London, Cromwell place ‘In Residence III’, TingYing Gallery
and Oliver Sears Gallery.
Seoul Cyper University, Netherland -Korea
‘Invitational Ceramic Exhibition’
London, Cromwell place ‘The Value in Things’, TingYing Gallery
2022 Rotterdam, Kunsthal, Women in Design ‘Here we Are’
Chengdu, ‘Blue Link’ Sino – Dutch Contemporary Ceramics
exhibition
New York, Salon Art + Design, Hostler Burrows Gallery
Geneva, Artgenève, Gallery Taste Contemporary
Sacramento, Mills Station Art and Culture Centre
‘Beneath the Surface: Origin Stories’, NCECA
London, Eye of the Collector, Two Temple Place, TingYing Gallery
2021 New York, Salon Art + Design, Hostler Burrows Gallery
Oberschleien, Schloss Lustheim ‘ Lust auf Lustheim’
(Meissen inspiriert modern keramik)
Shanghai, West Bund Art and Design, TingYing Gallery
London, Artifact, Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, Ting Ying Gallery
Heist op den Berg, CC Zwaneberg ‘This is the sound of C’,
curated by Kris Campo
London, Collect- International Art Fair for Contemporary Craft and
Design, TingYing Gallery
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art ‘Shapes from Out of
Nowhere’, ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection.
London, London Art Fair, Viewing Room TingYing Gallery
London, Crafting a Difference at the Argentine Ambassador’s official
Residence, TingYing Gallery
Jingdezhen- International Ceramic Art Biennale
‘the Spirit of Porcelain’- New Art Museum of Jingdezhen Ceramic
University
2020 London, Gallery Catherine Prevoust, Group show of Women Artists
‘Time Suspended’, presentation by TingYing Gallery
London, Eye Viewing Room, Eye of the Collector, TingYing Gallery
London, Somerset House, Collect- International Art Fair for
Contemporary Art and Design, TingYing Gallery
Los Angeles, Hostler Burrows Gallery ‘Forest Primeval’, inaugural
group exhibition
Geneva, Sotheby’s, Taste Contemporary ‘Stillness and Movement’.
Geneva, Artgenève, Taste Contemporary
London, V&A Museum, Blanc de Chine, a continuous conversation
Otterloo, Tile Museum Otterloo, collection Capriolus
2019 London, V&A Museum, Blanc de Chine, a continuous conversation
Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum,
‘Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics’
Paris, Art Elyseés- Art & Design- Hgallery
Rotterdam, Phoebus Gallery, Ladekastproject
Paris, Helene Aziza ‘Entre eau et ciel: Amsterdam’ *
Den Bosch, Design Museum ‘Ghosts of Sunday Morning’ EKWC *
New York, Tefaf NY Spring, Hostler Burrows Gallery
San Francisco, Fog Design + Art, Hostler Burrows Gallery
New York, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum ‘Materiality: Masterworks from
The Miller Ceramic Art Collection’
Amsterdam, Arti et Amicitiae , Mix Ceramic Art and Beyond, 50-year
Sunday Morning EKWC
2018 Amstelveen, Kunstconsult 20th century Art/objects , 25-years
anniversary
Miami, Design Miami, Hostler Burrows Gallery
New York, The Salon Art + Design, Hostler Burrows Gallery
Den Bosch, Design Museum ‘Show Yourself’, ceramic collection
Benno Premsela
Shenzhen, China, Rich-Z Gallery
Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
‘Made in Holland, 400 year world brand’ *
Italy, Museo Civico e della ceramica di Ariano Irpino, Espresso and
Cappucino cups
2017 Amsterdam, PAN Art Fair ‘Hotel Panorama’, lobby curator Piet de
Jonge
Eindhoven, Dutch Design Week – Crafts Council ‘How&Wow’
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen‘Change the System’ *
Monaco, Artmonte-carlo, Taste Contemporary Craft
Jingdezhen, China,’ A City in Dialogue with the World’, collection of
Artworks by ‘Jingpiao’ International Ceramists, curator Zhu Legeng
LiLing, China, Classics Revived, International Ceramics Design
Invitational exhibition, Liling Ceramics Valley Museum
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum (Municipal Museum) ‘China Caracter’
Shigaraki- Japan, the Museum of Contemporary Artthe Shigaraki
Ceramic Cultural Park- the Dramatic Vessel *
Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID
Dublin, Farmleigh House ‘Vase- Function reviewed’ *
2016 Monaco, Artmonte-carlo, Taste Contemporary
Miami, Design Miami, Gallery VIVID
Liling, China, the Mode-International Ceramics Arts Invitational
Exhibition, Liling Ceramic Valley Museum *
Liling Ceramics Valley Museum
Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics ‘Sexy
Ceramics’ *
Kilkenny, National Craft Gallery ‘Vase- Function reviewed’ *
Milan, Palazzo Francesca Turati, project Masterly by Uniquole
‘The Dutch in Milano’ *
Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID
Geneva, Artgenève 2016, Taste Contemporary Craft
2015 Purmerend, Waterland Museum, Kleinbeeld 1
Amsterdam, Pan Amsterdam, Gallery VIVID
Antwerp, AD Gallery ‘the Beautiful Object’
Miami, Design Miami, Gallery VIVID
Beijing, Chinese National Treasure Museum of Arts,
World Tour Art Exhibition, Simon Ma, Julian Lennon,
Robert Zucherman, Babs Haenen, Zheng Juke
Milano, Jingdezhen Greenland Group, Ceramic culture and art
exhibition - KIP International Pavilion, Expo Milan ‘New China from
China’ *
Basel, Design Miami Basel, Gallery VIVID
Schiedam, Museum Schiedam ‘Kunst uit Huis, collectie Wilploo’ *
Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID
Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID, ‘Melancholia’
San Francisco, Fog Design+Art, Hostler Burrows Gallery
2014 Amsterdam, Gallery Rento Brattinga, Feeling good
New York, Hostler Burrows Gallery, the Salon Art+ Design
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum (Municipal Museum),
‘Clay! A century ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’ *
New York, Hostler Burrows Gallery ‘Six Women’
Dublin, Peppercanister Gallery at the Coach House Gallery,
Dublin Castle, Europe & Beyond ‘12 artists in clay’
Haarlem, Architectural Centre ‘Architectuur en Bouwen in het
Centrum’, 25 jaar ABC
Basel, Design Miami/Basel, Gallery VIVID
Amsterdam, Grote Amsterdamse scheurkalender 2014
Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, Gallery VIVID
2013 Amsterdam, Gallery Metis/Maria Chailloux ‘ Minimentaal II’
Pecs, Hungary, ‘Muzeum LeSecet Magyarorszag’
Amsterdam, Kunst Rai, Kunstconsult- Zuid Oost Beemster
Amsterdam, Peter Rommers Couture
Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
‘Salah-ad-Din- Mysterious Green’ teachers and students Gerrit
Rietveld Academie
Amsterdam, Gallery Metis/Maria Chailloux ‘Minimentaal II’
2012 Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum/ De Hallen ‘Maskerade’ *
Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum ‘Bloemen in de tuin’
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts
‘Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics’ *
2011 Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Temporary Stedelijk 2
Leeuwarden, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
presentation Modern Ceramics, collection JWN van Achterbergh*
Frankenthal ( Pfalz), Kunsthaus Frankenthal, Perron-
Kunstpreis ‘in der sparte porzellan’
Amsterdam, Rinus Beukema, private home presentation Art and
Jewellery
Amsterdam, Rai- Art Amsterdam, Gallery vankrimpen
Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, artfair, Gallery vankrimpen
2010 Rotterdam, Kunsthal ’Kleikunst, Steengoed’ , ceramics from
the collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Amsterdam, PAN Art Fair, Kunstconsult – 20th century (applied) art
The Hague, Gemeentemuseum (Municipal Museum)
Eigentijds Contemporary glass and ceramics’
Amsterdam, Rai- Art Amsterdam, Gallery vankrimpen
Leuven, Cypres Gallery ‘de kom’
COMMISSIONS
2021 Megève, private estate Rigo Saitta collection,
Wallpaper ‘Other Cosmologies’ - Jacqui Poncelet and Babs Haenen
Megève, private estate Rigo Saitta collection,
Fireplace ‘Frozen Light’, porcelain tiles , production Royal Tichelaar
Makkum
2020 Megève, private estate Rigo Saitta collection, artwork ‘Aqua Marine’,
porcelain tiles, production Royal Tichelaar Makkum
2011 Rotterdam, Eye Clinic Focus ‘Piece de Milieu’
2008 Haarlem, City theatre, porcelain ornament and tiles, designs and
models for the architect Erick van Egeraat, production Royal
Tichelaar Makkum
2005 Kats, Molenaar-Adriaanse, design and production fireplace
2003 Dordrecht, council-hall, Artwork- wall piece
1998 Amsterdam, Stichting Het Woningbedrijf Amsterdam, later Building
company Ymere ‘WAd tile’, production Royal Tichelaar Makkum
1995 The Hague, Ministry of Foreign Affairs ‘Le retour éternel du ciel’
1994 Schiphol, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport ‘Tulipière III’ 1996
COLLECTIONS
Europe:
Amsterdam Nederlandsche Bank
ABN AMRO- Art & Heritage
House Corporation Ymere
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Schiphol NV Airport Schiphol
Dordrecht Council-hall Municipal Dordrecht
Arnhem Museum for Modern Art
Leeuwarden Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics
Rotterdam Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
Eye Clinic Focus
Den Bosch Design Museum Den Bosch
Den Haag Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Hague Municipal Museum
Koninklijke PTT Nederland. NV
Düsseldorf Hetjens Museum / Deutsches Keramikmuseum
Haarlem Frans Halsmuseum
Hamburg Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
Heino Hannema – De Stuers Fundatie
Schiedam Stedelijk Museum
Otterloo Nederlands Tegelmuseum
Berlin Kunstgewerbe Museum
Düsseldorf Hetjens-Museum
London Victoria and Albert Museum
Lyon Lyon Museum of Modern Art
USA:
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
Pittsburgh Carnegie Institute Museum of Art
Syracuse Everson Museum of Art
Charlotte Mint Museum of Craft and Design
Houston Museum of Fine Art
Boise Boise Art Museum
Philadelphia Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sacramento Crocker Art Museum
Canada:
Toronto The George R. Gardener Museum of Ceramic Art
Japan:
Shigaraki The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art
Tokoname Inax Corporation,
Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramics Art
China: Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Beijing
Consulate of the Netherlands, Guangzhou
LiLing Ceramics Valley Museum, LiLing
Tongchuan Master Creative Park Art Gallery