Small selection of artworks, exhibitions and publications, prior to my collaborative projects.
Narcissus and the Pool of Corruption
Narcissus and the Pool of Corruption, my second major solo exhibition took place in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (1995). The installation combined paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection with additional borrowed and copied artworks, photographs and photocopies that were presented using framing devices such as museum storage racks, pin boards and mirrors. Narcissus and the Pool of Corruption was accompanied by a publication with texts by Hanneke de Man and Mieke Bal.
De Zondeval / The Fall
An installation at the Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, the Netherlands with an accompanying publication, in which the connection between religious and artistic understandings of creation and creativity, gender roles and superficial preconceptions regarding the fall of men were playfully explored. During the opening visitors were offered a picnic on the artificial grass in the gallery space.
Theatrum Mundi I
In Praise of Folly by the Dutch polymath Erasmus of Rotterdam inspired this specially created installation for the Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria. Part of the exhibitionOppositionen und Schwesterfelder.
Theatrum Mundi II
Five virtually identical flags incorporating illustrations by the artist Holbein for Erasmus of Rotterdam’s book The Praise of Folly were juxtaposed in the Rotondo at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
Life
A twenty-seven metre long and three metre high wall-painting, with an accompanying publication, in the former CBK (Centrum Beeldende Kunst) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Diptychs
Two in a series of five fibreglass diptychs that were produced in 1986 while I was studying at De Ateliers (formerly known as Ateliers ’63). These works are part of a process that enabled me to move from an abstract visual language to a figurative one.
Curatorial Project
Commitment
In 2002 I was commissioned by the Foundation for Visual Art, Design and Architecture (now part of Mondriaan Fonds) to curate an exhibition at Las Palmas warehouse, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Commitment brought together works and projects produced by one hundred and twenty visual artists, designers and architects who were based in the Netherlands and who were supported by the funding body between 1999 – 2001.