statement In my practice, I investigate the connections between the hidden meanings within astronomy and mathematics. As an artist, I understand myself as an archeologist, one that is enthusiastically excavating imagined ancient sites of history. Within this mesmerizing realm, imagined constructions that are based on Berlin's urban architectural insanity, exist as sites for the cryptic rites and rituals of secret societies and arcane religions. I believe that how we discover ideas parallels how we discover our daily reality; through personal experience. An idea is the combination of personal perception and conceptual thought, and it is the job of the artist to select the ones that work, and discard the ones that do not. I do not seek out answers for the mysteries that I have discovered. Rather, the journey itself is the goal, and somewhere down the road I hope to find that one moment of clarity, that one haunting image, that one idea that can become the next drawing.
bio
born: 1978, Gouda, the Netherlands
education
Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, the Netherlands,Bachelor of fine arts, 2005
Grafisch Lyceum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands,Degree in graphic design and illustration, 2000
selected awards/honors
FID Drawing prize (shortlist) 2015
FID Drawing prize (shortlist) 2014
selected publications
MMX Open Art Venue Berlin, One Year One Book, 2011
FUKT, magazine for contemporary drawing #7.5, 2009
A5 Magazine #7 'hero', 2009
selected solo or two-person exhibits
Two-person show with Hannah Reber, Studio Kura, Nami Multifraktal, Fukuoka, Japan, 2015
Two-person show with Luuk Bode, Gallery Iris Cornelis, untitled, Rotterdam, Holland, 2010
Solo show, Center for Endless Progress, The BIG Announcement, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Solo show, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Dreamwatching, Berlin, Germany, 2009
selected group shows
Lage Egal projectspace at Frontviews Temporary,IF THIS THEN THAT, Berlin, Germany, 2015
Kunstverein Offenburg, Chaos Kosmos,Offenburg, Germany, 2015
Delicatessenhaus, Walk the line, Leipzig, Germany, 2012
WEI, Eindhoven, Tracks and traces, Holland, 2011 |
