...Therefore, Art is Splendid - Ger van Elk

...THEREFORE, ART IS SPLENDID GER VAN ELK JAN 18 - MAR 02, 2019 | 202 BOWERY, NY | GRIMM

GRIMM is proud to present the first solo presentation of works by Ger van Elk (NL, 1941 – 2014) to be shown in the United States in 30 years, since his solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1975 and his solo exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York in the 1980s.

Van Elk is considered to be one of the pioneers in the Conceptual Art movement, although he never committed his practice to a singular classification.

His multifaceted oeuvre ranges from Arte Povera to Pop Art, from minimal site-specific interventions to innovative video presentations. Van Elk was active in the defining stages of an international generation of artists in the 1960s and partook in groundbreaking exhibitions such as When Attitudes Become Form and Op Losse Schroeven (both in 1969). Throughout his career, which spanned over five decades, Van Elk explored the limits of image-making and its relationship to reality, reconfiguring ordinary scenes and bringing them into the realm of the absurd with simple and efficient gestures as quotidian as the scenes themselves. His style has been in constant flux, embracing new techniques and innovative media, whilst maintaining a dialogue with the history of art.

Ger van Elk at RA3, Arte Povera +, Aziono Povere | Amalfi | 1968

Ger van Elk

The Co-Founder of the Word O.K - Marken (Nr. 6) 1971/1999 Color photograph in Plexiglass frame 71 x 71.5 cm | 28 x 28 1/8 in

The exhibition starts on the ground floor with a series of self portraits such as his iconic The Co-Founder of the Word O.K Marken (Nr. 6) (1971/1999). Where, in the archetypical Dutch village of Marken, the artist is walking with a smoked sausage dangling on a stick over his shoulder presented as a knapsack to personify the American expression to be ‘O.K.’. This work is the perfect example of Van Elk’s typical Dutch humor and absurdism often present in his work.

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMünchen, Munich (DE)

The Conclusion series consist of painted over photographs of different urban and rural landscapes, a historically Dutch genre, that are pulled into abstraction by the multiple layers of paint. The color of the acrylic paint is based on the main colors of the landscape. The landscape of the photograph becomes invisible, but the brushstrokes in the paint form a cloudy pattern that establishes a new landscape.

The title of the series, ‘Conclusions’, implies an end.

Possibly the end of painting, or photography, but the blank canvases can simultaneously be seen as new beginnings.

detail | Conclusions II - Vejer de la Frontera “Blue transparent” | 2012

Ger van Elk

Conclusions II - Vejer de la Frontera “Red” 2012 Acrylic paint on photograph on canvas 123 x 126 cm | 48 3/8 x 49 5/8 in

Ger van Elk

Conclusions II - Vejer de la Frontera “Blue transparent” 2012 Acrylic paint on photograph on canvas 123 x 126 cm | 48 3/8 x 49 5/8 in

installation view | Markus LĂźttgen Gallery (DE) | 2016

Ger van Elk

Sunset Moonrise Sologne (Une Nuit dans un Chalet Suisse) 1990 Acrylic paint on black and white photographs, lacquer on wood Dimensions variable

exhibition history

1999 - Mental Perspective, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

Ger van Elk

Fall of Senses 2004 Harddisc, LCD screen, in surround in oak frame 56 x 62 cm | 22 1/8 x 24 3/8 in Edition of 5 (#2/5)

Ger van Elk

The Waterfall - Eternal Family Piece 2002 Harddisc, LCD screen, in surround in oak frame 56 x 62 cm | 22 1/8 x 24 3/8 in Edition of 7 (#1/7)

Ger van Elk

Some Natural Aspects of Sculpture 1970-2002 Harddisc, LCD screen, in surround in oak frame 55 x 62 cm | 21 5/8 x 24 3/8 in Edition of 7 (#1/7)

Ger van Elk

The Flattening of the brook’s surface 1972-2002 Harddisc, LCD screen, in surround in oak frame 56 x 62 x 4 cm | 22 1/8 x 24 3/8 x 1 5/8 in Edition of 7 (#2/7)

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMünchen, Munich (DE) 1999 - Ger van Elk, De Cadillac en de Non/ The Cadillac and the Nun, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

In his iconic The Rose more Beautiful than Art, but Difficult, therefore Art is Splendid (1972) the hand of the artist is projected into a picture frame on the wall by a slide projector.

By constantly rearranging the flowers in a vase, Van Elk is introducing movement to a tradition of still life painting.

Ger van Elk

The Rose more Beautiful than Art, but Difficult, therefore Art is Splendid 1972 Slide projection (color) projected onto watercolor in wooden frame Dimensions variable

exhibition history

1999 - Ger van Elk, De Cadillac en de Non/ The Cadillac and the Nun, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

Van Elk’s obsession with the forces of pressing, pushing and pulling is traceable throughout his creative period. In the sculpture Pressure Piece Sandwich (1992) – small monochromatic photographs are compressed with bolts behind uncoated fibreboard, their edges only peeking out around the perimeter. Colored paint leaks out around the boltholes in the middle of the board, as if emanating from the photographic images themselves.

detail | Pressure Piece Sandwich | 1992

Ger van Elk

Pressure Piece Sandwich 1992 Oil paint, lacquer, linen, wood and steel approx. 70 x 70 x 10 cm | 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 4 in

Los Angeles Freeway Flyer (1973-2003) shows colored contact prints of US freeways wrapped around six walking sticks. The images were taken by Van Elk during his study visits to LA and request a profound change of visual perception. He uses the photography and sculpture to emphasize his partially ironic examination of the difference between cinematic and photographic images, as well as between reality and reproduction.

detail | Los Angeles Freeway Flyer | 1973-2003

Ger van Elk

Los Angeles Freeway Flyer 1973-2003

Contact prints (color) wrapped around six walking sticks 68.5 x 505 cm | 27 x 198 7/8 in Edition 1+1

exhibition history

2016 - Markus Lüttgen Gallery (DE) 2009 - In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976, MoMA, New York (US) 1973 - Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

Another key video work from Van Elk’s oeuvre, Niet werkelijk Woef (1987) depicts a barking German shepherd projected onto the state flag of California.

With this installation Van Elk humorously responds to an argument between two of the principles of the Stedelijk Museum at that time, Rudi Fuchs and Wim Beeren –the barking dog representing Fuchs and the Californian bear is used as a metaphor for Beeren.

Van Elk was never shy of an argument, certainly not an artistic one.

Ger van Elk

exhibition history

Niet werkelijk woef

1999 - Ger van Elk, De Cadillac en de Non/ The Cadillac and the Nun, Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

1987 Slide projection (colored b/w slides) projected onto California Republic flag Dimensions variable

installation view | Bearable Lightness of Being | GRIMM Keizersgracht (NL) | 2017

Ger van Elk

Study (C de X) ‘Slash and Push’ 1996 Color photograph and acrylic paint, wooden frame 95 x 113 cm | 37 3/8 x 44 1/2 in

Ger van Elk

Cloudy Conscience (C de X) 1994 Color photograph and acrylic paint, wooden frame 95 x 113 cm | 37 3/8 x 44 1/2 in

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMĂźnchen, Munich (DE)

Ger van Elk

Sandwich Study ‘Tombe’ (C de X) 1994 Color photograph and acrylic paint, wooden frame 95 x 113 cm | 37 3/8 x 44 1/2 in

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMünchen, Munich (DE)

Ger van Elk

A piece for Increased Security 1986 Acrylic paint on color photographs on linen Dimensions variable

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMünchen, Munich (DE) 1996 - Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL) 1986 - Sonsbeek ‘86, Arnhem (NL)

For the second part of the exhibition works have been selected that reflect Van Elk’s fascination with landscapes and more specifically the horizon. From his Camping Art sculptures of the late ‘60s to the Rotterdam Horizon from 2000, Van Elk often brings the landscape that has inspired many artists before him to the realm of contemporary and conceptual art.

Ger van Elk

exhibition history

Camping Art 1

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMünchen, Munich (DE)

1967 Canvas, gauze with lace, metal tent poles, guy ropes, tent pins Dimensions variable

2003 - Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

Ger van Elk

Camping Art 2 1968 Canvas, metal tent poles, guy ropes, tent pins Dimensions variable

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMĂźnchen, Munich (DE) 2003 - Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

installation view | Kunstverein MĂźnchen | Munich (DE) | 2014

Ger van Elk

Rotterdam Horizon 2000 Color photograph on Plexiglass, canvas 30 x 275 x 30 cm | 11 3/4 x 108 1/4 x 11 3/4 in

exhibition history

2014 - The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, KunstvereinMĂźnchen, Munich (DE)

detail | Rotterdam Horizon | 2002

Again expressing his interest in nature, Van Elk’s Laantje in Middelharnis van Meindert Hobbema (1979) takes inspiration from a well-known 17th century Dutch landscape painting in the collection of the National Gallery in London (UK). Two stacks of photographs of trees are mounted on steel rods coming off the wall, creating a three-dimensional photographic representation of a two-dimensional painting and encapsulating Van Elk’s walk through a typical Dutch landscape.

Ger van Elk

Laantje in Middelharnis van Meindert Hobbema detail 1979 Photographs on two metal pins each: 100 x 5 x 3 cm | 39 3/8 x 2 x 1 1/8 in

Laantje in Middelharnis van Meindert Hobbema | 1979

Ger van Elk 1941 - 2014

2001

Ger van Elk, Galerie de Expedi

Lived and worked in Amsterdam, NL

2000

Der Horizont von Rotterdam, L Paris (FR)

EDUCATION

Galerie Jirí Švestka, Prague (C

1965-1966

Art History, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (NL)

1961-1963

Art History, Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, CA (US)

Ger van Elk, De horizon, een G

1959-1961

Art and Design College, Amsterdam (NL) (Instituut voor

Mental Perspective, Stedelijk V

Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, now Rietveldacademie)

Ger van Elk, Speurtocht naar e

1999

Museum Boijmans van Beunin

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2021

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) [Forthcoming]

2019

...Therefore, Art is Splendind, GRIMM, New York (US)

2017

Bearable Lightness of Being, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) Ger van Elk, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)

Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterda

Ger van Elk, De Cadillac en de

Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, E 1997

Horizonte-Seestücke, Bochum

Liliane et Michel Durand-Desse 1996

4 standpunten van het Kinselm

2016

Markus Lüttgen Gallery (DE)

(NL)

2015

The Horizon and Beyond, Borzo, Amsterdam (NL)

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Ger van Elk – L’Art Conceptuel, LAC, Sigean (FR)

Liliane et Michel Durand-Desse

The Terribly Good Art of Ger van Elk, Kunstverein München, Munich (DE)

Le Quartier, Quimper (FR)

2014 2012

Flatscreens, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)

1995

Galerie Ardi Poels, Maastricht

As Is, As Was/As Was, As Is, GRIMM and Borzo, Amsterdam (NL)

1994

Galerie In Situ / Ardi Poels, Ma

Ger van Elk, curated by Gijs van Tuyl, Gallery Bob van Orsouw,

Liliane et Michel Durand-Desse

Zurich (CH)

Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterda

2011

Conclusions, BORZO, Amsterdam (NL)

2009

Een Keuze Vanaf 1966, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (NL)

Sandwiches, Centre d’Art Con

2008

ONE ON ONE. GER VAN ELK. PUSH NOSE BALANCE SCULPTURE.

Ferrand, Clermont Ferrand (FR

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL) 2007

Momenten van Luciditeit, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (NL)

2005

Ger van Elk, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (NL)

2004

Der Abschied, ein bewegter Punkt am Horizont / A farewell, a Moving Point on the Horizon, Galerie M, Bochum (DE)

2003

Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

2002

Het Flatscreenprojekt, 7 Filmische Gedichten, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Hedge House, Wijlre (NL)

1993

1991

Sandwiches, Museum Boijman

Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterda

Art & Project/Van Krimpen, Ro 1990

Liliane et Michel Durand-Desse

Une Nuit dans un Chalet Suiss 1989

portret H.M. de Koningin voor V Mauritshuis, The Hague (NL)

1988

Perspective Fruit Pieces 1988, (US)

itie, Amsterdam (NL)

De la nature des genres/ Von der Natur des Genres/ On the Nature

Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert,

of Genre, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble Magasin, Grenoble (FR)

CZ)

Kunstverein, Düsseldorf (DE)

am (NL)

Massimo Minini, Brescia (IT)

Geestelijk Verschiet/The Horizon, a

1987

Portretten, Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

Sept pièces dans la tradition de l´autoportrait, Liliane et Michel

een Horizon/Search for a Horizon,

Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

ngen, Rotterdam (NL)

DRAC de Lorraine, Metz (FR)

Non/The Cadillac and the Nun,

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

Eindhoven (NL)

1986

m Kunstvermittlung, Bochum (DE)

Five Dutch Landscapes, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US) Massimo Minini, Brescia (FR)

ert, Paris (FR)

1985

meer, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL) Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

1984

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)

o (NL)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)

ert, Paris (FR)

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL) Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

(NL)

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

aastricht (NL)

1983

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

ert, Paris (FR)

Modern Flowers of 1982, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)

am (NL)

Plus-Kern, Brussels (BE)

ns-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (US)

ntemporain, D.R.A.C. de Clermont

1982

Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)

R)

Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)

am (NL)

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)

otterdam (NL)

Recent painting and sculpture and a selection of earlier work, Jean

ert, Paris (FR)

Bernier, Athens (GR)

se, Art & Project, Slootdorp (NL)

1981

Vergaderzaal Raad van State,

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US) Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) 1980

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Ger van Elk Nederlands Paviljoen, 39e Biennale, Venice (IT)

Three works by Ger van Elk Ma

Kunsthalle, Basel (CH)

& Project, Amsterdam (US, NL

Op´t tweede gezicht (Russian Diplomacy), Stedelijk Museum,

1970

Amsterdam (NL) ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (FR) 1979

1978 1977

How Van Elk Inflates his Left F Amsterdam (NL)

1969

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)

Koninklijke Academie voor Kun

(with Boezem en Dibbets) (NL

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

1968

Galerie Swart, Amsterdam (wi

Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd, London (UK)

1966

Plestik Plastieken, Galerie Swa

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (US)

1965

Instituut voor Kunstgeschieden

Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco (US)

1962

Adynamische Werken, Museum

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE) Kunstverein, Brunswick (DE) The Missing Persons, Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (DE)

Freedom: the Fifty Key Dutch A

den Hartog Jager, Museum de

1976

Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd, London (UK)

2018

Amsterdam Magisch Centrum,

1975

Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels (BE)

2017

Humor, Frans Hals Museum de

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

2015

Animals in Art – Collectie De H

1974

1973

Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven (DE)

Barneveld (NL)

Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd, London (UK)

In Search Of… Ger van Elk and B

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

Broken Landscapes, Stedelijk M

Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd, London (UK)

Spiegeloog, Museum Arnhem,

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Silence out Loud, Museum Kra

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)

Photo Stories, Gemeentemuse

Wide White Space, Antwerp (BE)

Resonance(s), Maison Particul

Wide White Space / Le Bailli, Brussels (BE)

Broken Landscapes, Ludwig M 2013

Ik hou van Holland. Nederlands

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Mezzanine Gallery, Halifax

Schiedam, Schiedam (NL)

(CA)

When Attitudes Become Form,

About the Reality of G. Morandi (en andere werken), Art & Project,

Cobra tot Dumar. Collectie de H

Amsterdam (NL)

Double Dutch, Richard Saltoun

Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven (DE) 1971

Bad Thoughts, Stedelijk Museu

Galerie Ernst, Hannover (DE)

Claire S. Copley Gallery, Los Angeles (US) 1972

2014

Paul Klee-Um den Fisch, 1926, Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

2012

Dark and Deadpan: Pop in TV a American Art, New York (US)

ade this Spring in California, USA, Art

Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)

L)

Mapping the Horizon, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

Foot with his Right One, Art & Project,

A Dutch Landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES) Light Years: Conceptual art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, The Art

nst en Vormgeving, ‘s-Hertogenbosch

Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)

L)

It Happened in Pomona, Art at the edge of Los Angeles, Pomona

ith Boezem en Dibbets) (NL)

College, Museum of Art, Panoma (US)

art, Amsterdam (NL)

2011

nis, Groningen (NL)

Taking Place, Stedellijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) Weltsichten, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (DE)

m Fodor, Amsterdam (NL)

2010

Weltsichten, Situation Kunst Bochum (DE)

2009

Henri-Edmond Cross & Ger van Elk, Musée Malraux, Le Havre In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960 – 1976,

Artworks since 1968, curated by Hans

MoMA, New York (US)

e Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)

2008

Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)

, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

2007

Artissima, Turin (IT)

e Hallen, Haarlem (NL)

2006

Continuum, Biennale d’art contemporain, Musée Malraux, Le Havre

Heus-Zomer, Museum Nairac,

(FR) PLUG IN, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (NL)

Bas Jan Ader, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)

Museum, Schiedam (NL)

Summertime, Galerie m, Bochum (DE) 2005

A Guest + a Host = a Ghost, Hedge House, Wijlre Vertiges, Printemps de septembre, Toulouse (FR)

Arnhem (NL)

anenburgh, Bergen (NO)

Dutch Pop Art & the Sixties, Cobra museum, Amstelveen (NL)

um, Amsterdam (NL)

Territoria, Art from the Netherlands, Prato and the Bisenzio Valley

eum Den Haag, The Hague (NL)

(IT)

liere, Brussels (BE)

Le Néo-impressionisme, de Seurat à Paul Klee, Musée d’Orsay,

Museum, Koblenz, Germany (DE)

Paris (FR) 2004

se kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum

Museum de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo (ES) Winterthur Museum (US)

, Fondazione Prada, Venice (IT)

Grenzüberscheitung, Galerie m Bochum (DE)

Heus-Zomer, Singer Laren (NL)

The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982,

n, London (UK)

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)

and the Movies, Whitney Museum for

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US) 2003

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Ger van Elk

2002

Curated by Douglas Fogle of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Uit tijd Geplukt - Bloemen in B

(US)

De Lakenhal, Leiden (NL)

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)

Concept/Construct: Photograp

Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo (ES)

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna B

Winterthur Museum (US)

Les Extrême se Touchent, Insti

Conceptuele Kunst 1965-1975 uit Nederlandse en Belgische

Zomer 1992, Art & Project, Slo

collecties, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) 2001 1999 1996

1995

L.A. 70-75, Gallery Christine B

(NL)

Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery

World Wide Video Festival, Flash, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Collection Stéphane et George d’Art contemporain, Palaisdes

20 Jaar Verzamelen, Tentoonstelling van de Bouwfonds

Picturale - een keuze uit de Rij

Kunstcollectie, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)

Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-He

Stroomgeest, Bentveld (NL)

Vies dÁrtistes, Musée des Bea

Landscapes, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (NL)

(FR)

Openingstentoonstelling MAC, Marseille (FR)

1988

Nature Mortes, Liliane et Miche

Reconsidering the object of art: 1965-1975, The Museum of

De Kunstcollectie van het Bouw

Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)

Amsterdam (NL) 1987

Hollands Landschap, Museum

de Vassiviere, Limousin (FR)

L’Epoque, la Mode, la Morale, l

Sculpturen Uit de Collectie van Marlies en Jo Eyck,

Paris (FR)

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)

Photography and Art, Los Ang

1994 Du Concept a l’image, Art Pays-Bas XX Siècle Arc, Musée

Angeles (US) 1986

Collection des oeuvres photogr

Wide White Space, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (BE)

Ardenne, Reims (FR)

Het Gedicht, Grote Kerk, The Hague (NL)

Troyes Paysages Contemporai

Tutte le strade portano a Roma, Palazzo de Esposizione di Roma,

Paris Terrae Motus 2, Fondazio

Rome (IT)

Sonsbeek ‘86, Arnhem (NL)

Portrait, Still Life, Landscape, een Keuze van Robert Wilson, 1992

1990

(NL)

d’Art Moderne de la Ville deParis, Paris (FR)

1993

Art 22 ‘91’, Basel (CH)

Blue Moon. Vanuit de Beweging, Groninger Museum, Groningen

Du Paysage Incertain, Vergule Fragment, Centre d’art contemporain

1994

1991

1985

Oeuvres sur Papier, Liliane et M

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)

Een Keuze/Eine Auswahl, Kun

Nouvelle Espace, Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

Wat Amsterdam Betreft… As fa

The Comfort Zone, The Living Room, Amsterdam (NL)

Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Beeldende Kunst en Poëzie, Museum

1984

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

phy in Los Angeles Art, 1960-1980,

Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

Beach (US)

De Nederlandse Identiteit in de Kunst na 1945, Rijksmuseum Van

itut Néerlandais, Paris (FR)

Gogh, Amsterdam (NL)

ootdorp (NL)

1983

Modern Dutch Painting, Athens (GR), XVIIe Biennale, Sao Paulo (BR)

Burgin, New York (US)

1982

Art & Project, Amsterdam (NL)

y, Santa Monica, California (US)

‘60-’80 Attitudes/Concepts/Images, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

es Uhoda, Portrait d’une Collection

(NL)

Beaux-Arts, Charleroi (BE)

Amsterdam ‘60/’80, Twintig jaar Beeldende Kunst, Museum Fodor,

jksaankopen 1984-1989,

Amsterdam (NL)

ertogenbosch (NL)

1981

aux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre

Documenta 7, Kassel (DE) 1981 Portrait de Nicéphore en Tant que Peintre, Maison de la

1980

Culture, Chalon sur Saône (FR)

el Durand-Dessert, Paris (NL)

Spoleto Artist and Camera, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (UK)

wfonds, Stedelijk Museum,

City Museum & Art Gallery, Stroke-on-Trent (UK) DLI Museum and Arts Center, Durham Cartwright Hall, Bradford

Overholland, Amsterdam (NL)

(UK)

la Passion, Centre Georges Pompidou,

België - Nederland/Knooppunten en Parallellen in de Kunst na 1945, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (BE)

geles County Museum of Art, Los

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL) Kunst in Europa na ‘68..., Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst +

raphiques du FRAC Champagne

1979

Centrum voor Kunst en Cultuur, Gent Incontri, Ghent (BE) Concept Narrative Document/Recent Photographic Works from the

ins, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (BE)

Morton Neumann Family Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,

one Amelio, Naples (IT)

Chicago (US) With a Certain Smile, InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zürich

Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

(CH)

nstRai 85, Amsterdam (NL)

ar as Amsterdam Goes, Stedelijk

European Dialogue/The Third Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery 1978

of New South Wales, Sydney (AU) La Biennale di Venezia 38, Venice (IT) Door Beeldhouwers Gemaakt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

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Ger van Elk 1997

Hét Holland Müvész, Museum Mücsarnok, Boedapest Documenta 6, Kassel (DE) Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)

1976

Reflektie en Realiteit, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (BE) Reflection and Reality, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK) Art & Project at the 9th Floor, Fine Arts Building, New York (US)

1974

Word/Works, Mount San Antonio College Art Galleries, Walnut, California (US)

1972

Documenta 5, Kassel (DE)

1971

Sonsbeek Buiten de Perken, Park Sonsbeek etc., Arnhem (NL) Prospect Projektion, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (DE)

1970

Between Man and Matter/10e Biennale Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo (JP)

1969

Op Losse Schroeven/Situaties en Cryptostructuren, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) Verborgene Strukturen, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE) When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Bern (CH) Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (DE) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (UK)

1968

Rassegna d’Arti Figurative, Arsenali, Amalfi (IT) Junge Kunst aus Holland, Kunsthalle, Bern (CH)

1967

Signalement 67, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

COLLECTIONS

Abn Amro Art Foundation, Am

Aegon Kunstcollectie, The Hag

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buff

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicag

Buitenplaats Kasteel Wijlre, Wij

Collectie Brecht, Naarden (NL)

Collection Liliane and Michel D

De Heus-Zomer Collection, Ba

François Pinault Collection, Pu

of Contemporary Art, Venice (I

Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem ( Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Goldman Sachs, London (UK) Houthoff Buruma, Amsterdam

Huis Marseille museum voor fo

ING Collection, Amsterdam (NL

Kunstcollectie KPN, The Hague

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Lisser Art Museum, Sassenhei

Museum on Contemporary Art

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

AWARDS

Musée de Peinture, Grenoble (

2004

Oeuvreprijs voor de beeldende kunst, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam (NL)

Museum voor Religieuze Kunst

1996

J.C. van Lanschot Prijs voor Beeldende Kunst (NL)

National Gallery of Victoria, Me

1983

David Röell-Prijs (NL)

The Scottish National Gallery, E

Museum Boijmans van Beunin

Rabobank Collection, Utrecht (NL) Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (NL)

msterdam (NL)

Rijksmuseum Twenthe (RMT), Enschede (NL)

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Sanders Collection, Haarlem (NL)

falo, NY (US)

Schiphol Kunstcollectie, Schiphol (NL)

go, IL (US)

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

jlre (NL)

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Gent (BE)

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Tate Modern, London (UK)

Durand-Dessert, Paris (FR)

The Brecht Collection, Naarden (NL)

arneveld (NL)

TNT Post Kunstcollectie, The Hague (NL)

unta della Dogana Museum

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)

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(NL) The Hague (NL) (NL)

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