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Rob Voerman - Artist
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Maxine Hendy commented on Rob Voerman's photo
this is totally beautiful. I sat inside some of your work in Cobra and loved the feeling of being inside a kaleidascope and being able to see out and beyond. I love coloured light.
Profile Information
- Website
- http://www.robvoerman.nl
- Relationship status
- in a relationship, married
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Drawing, Installation, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture
- I am...
- Rob Voerman
1966 geboren / born in Deventer
Lives and works / woont en werkt in Arnhem
Soloexhibitions
Solotentoonstellingen
2010 Cobra Museum (curator: Katja Weitering), Amstelveen
2008 Solo presentation at Art Brussels (through Upstream Gallery)
2007 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Bregenzer Kunstverein, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria
Flevodruk, Harderwijk, The Netherlands (winner of printmaking
award 2007, county Gelderland)
2006 Architectural Association, London (solo-exhibition plus presentation
of public sculpture/installation on Bedford Square)
“Off Centre” commission for temporary public sculpture/installation,
Art Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
2005 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 Gallery Rhodes & Mann, London
UCLA Hammer Museum, Hammer Projects, Los Angeles
2003 Gallery Singel 74, Amsterdam
Goupexhibitions
Groepstentoonstellingen
2009 “Modernism as a ruin” , Kunst Museum Lichtenstein, Vaduz,
Lichtenstein
“Modernism as a ruin”, (curator: Sabine Folie, with Dan
Graham, Isa Genzken, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Smithson
a.o.) Generali Foundation, Vienna
“Double Dutch” Hudson Valley Centre for Contemporary Art,
Peekskill, NY
Public/permanent sculpture, Leidsche Rijn, Skor, Utrecht
“Different places / different stories” Public/temporary
sculpture, Roermond
“Stressed Spaces”, KW14, Den Bosch, the Netherlands
“Open Source,” Amsterdam Bijlmer, (curator: Helga
Lasschuijt, with Thomas Hirschorn, Jennifer Allora, Guillermo
Calzadilla etc.)
2008 “Apocalyptic Landscapes”, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Biennale “Art Grandeur Nature,” presentation of public
sculpture, Paris
Bodhi Art Group Gallery, Berlin (curator: Shaheen Merali)
2007 Presentation NADA Art fair, Miami (through Upstream
“Sculpture Now!” Galerie Hermann & Wagner, Berlin
“Shelter”, Museum de Fundatie. ‘t Nijenhuis, Heino, the
Netherlands (with Berlinde de Bruyckere, Maria Roosen etc.)
Galerie Thomas Rehbein (duo exhibition with Rainer
Neumaier) Cologne, Germany
2006 The Museum on Modern Art (MoMA), New York (new
acquisitions)
NADA Art Fair, Miami (through Upstream Gallery)
Biennale Province Gelderland, Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen, the
Netherlands
“Merz”, Kunstverein Bregenz (curator: Peter Lewis) Bregenz,
Austria
Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Museum Coda, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami (through Upstream Gallery)
Museum Katharinehof (winner of Euregio Award 2005)
Kranenburg, Germany
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, the Netherlands
Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Museum Braenderigaarden, Viborg, Denmark
2004 Taiwan Museum of Modern Art, Taipei
Cell Project Space, London
2003 Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg, Germany
International Print Centre, New York
2002 3 month residency, Delfina Project Space, London
Awards / Prijzen
2001 The Presse Papier Invitation Award, Québec, Canada
2nd prize Kwak & van Dalen & Ronday Printmaking award
2002 Pépinière Programme Europeènnes pour Jeunes Artistes, 2002, Paris
2005 1st prize Euregio Art Award, 2005
2007 1st prize Printmaking Award, Province Gelder4land
Work in collection of / Werk in collectie van
MoMA, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
KKR Office Collection, New York
Tishman Speyer Art Collection, New York
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Matteo Rossini Art Collection, Milan, Italy
Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen
Province of Gelderland
Arcadis
ABN-Amro Bank
and many other private- and non-private collections
- About my artwork
- Some years ago, I started a body of work in which I try to create the architecture of fictive communities living in remote areas or occupying existing city-landscapes.
The communities will consist of a mixture of utopia, destruction and beauty, a symbiosis of hippie-communities from the seventies, with their often highly decorated self-build structures, the cabin of the Uni-bomber hidden in the Montana forests, art-deco and other influences.
Romanticism combined with the grim qualities of terror.
It is often a direct translation of destruction in a purely aesthetic form.
Materialized explosions are being transformed to wonderful domes, made of cathedral-glass and wood. By their rich decoration, they often make people think of religious associations. Other buildings seem totally inward looking, staring back with dark windows.
The desire to change reality is materialized in architecture in which man try to flee society and start a utopian and completely autonomous world. On the other hand the work represents a mentality in which it tries to seek the conflict with this society. For example in the work “Moonshine”, in which an existing building is being annexed in a violent manner by a completely opposite architecture.
The work is an attempt to react on the rapidly changing society, an attempt to flee from it and an attempt to reflect on it without any moral judgment. Social changes with themes like terror, protectionism, fear for the unknown and the crash between religions, will definitely have had there impact on my work.
I have seen my own country for example been changed from a tolerant country into a country which is fairly for the outside world, by which it became more and more intolerant and more inward-focused.
But exactly pinpointing these influences and how my work can be analyzed, is impossible, as I work very much with intuition and the process is often partially unconscious. And I think that’s alright, as it gives people the possibility to look at my work in various layers and angles.
The ambition to change, deny or manipulate reality is so strong, that I feel the need to actually make spaces that people can use or where people can enter. Functions that on the surface seem to be conflicting where brought together in a specially developed space/installation.
The undermining and manipulation of existing structures in my work, is an element I see as a supplement of the already existing content of my work. Apart from making new sculptures and prints, I do would like to develop these installations and ideas more and more too.
I can even imagine that in the future I would make some permanent architectural features as well, beside my autonomous gallery- and museum-work
- Artists I like
- www.miyukiokuyama.com
- Centre of the artworld:
- my studio
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Comment Wall (16 comments)
- At 8:33pm on February 18, 2010,
Rolf Lorentzen said… - Like your work so much! Really fascinating architecture.
- At 10:02pm on April 21, 2009,
Michael Bowdidge said… - Really enjoying the strangeness of your work Rob, especially the sculptures...
- At 2:57pm on September 8, 2008,
nicolas said… - bonjour,
hope you had a good summer !
I invite you to discover my postcards, they are 75 X 100 cm. Lambda prints.
Nicolas
- At 7:50pm on August 25, 2008,
Raul de la Torre said… - GREAT WORK
- At 7:26am on July 30, 2008,
Fools Paradise said…
- Your work is absolutely stunning. There's nothing more to be said.
- At 9:33pm on July 29, 2008,
Susan Brown said… - There are only three pieces on the current roundup that I feel have any merit. Two are yours.
- At 5:47pm on July 15, 2008,
mira cedar said… - love your works. amaizing stuff. wish to know materials, media..
thanks for enjoyment.
- At 6:28pm on June 28, 2008,
Janna Alberts said… - Great work !
Invitation to the Recycle Art Group !
- At 12:44pm on May 16, 2008,
nicolas said…
- At 6:41pm on April 16, 2008,
kika nicolela said… - I really enjoyed your works! Congrats!
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