Harmen Brethouwer
 
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Biography

Harmen Brethouwer / Aalten, NL, 1960 / lives and works in Huis ter Heide, NL

Education: Christian Academy of Visual Arts Kampen 1979 - 1980 / Academy of Visual Arts Arnhem 1980 - 1984

Recent exhibitions:

  • 2009    "Four Easy Pieces", Het Torentje, Almelo (solo)
  • 2009    Art Athina, with Mirta Demare
  • 2009    Tefaf Maastricht / ViennaFair / Art Amsterdam / Pan Amsterdam, with Hidde van Seggelen
  • 2009    "The Cassini Cruise", Maastricht (group)
  • 2009    "SuperStories", 2nd triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt (group)
  • 2008    "Indices of Deprivation", Hidde van Seggelen, London (solo)
  • 2008    "Wish for Peace", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo) 
  • 2008    "To Burn Oneself with Oneself", de Appel, Amsterdam (group) 
  • 2008    "On Superfluous Things", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)

Recent articles:

  • 2009   Dora Brandt: "Brethouwer toont Vier Gemakkelijke Beelden", de Roskam, issue 13
  • 2008   Lien Heyting: "Pioenroos met gouden blaadjes", NRC, Cultureel supplement, April 4th
  • 2008   Angela van der Elst: "Het nut van het nutteloze", De Groene Amsterdammer, issue 15
  • 2008   Linda Boersma: "Kegel en vierkant", Museumtijdschrift, issue 3

Selected earlier exhibitions:

  • 2007    "More than one", new contemporary prints and multiples from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection, Vanderbilt Fine Art Gallery, Nashville, USA (group)
  • 2006    Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (solo)
  • 2003    "Lautloses irren", Postbahnhof, Berlin, curator Harm Lux (group)
  • 2003    "Art Deco", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)
  • 2003    Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (solo)
  • 2002    "Dutch ceramic work", Dutch embassy, Jakarta (group)
  • 2001    "Precious Objects", Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden (solo)
  • 2001    "Locus Focus", Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem (group)
  • 2000    Liste 01 Basel, with gallery de Expeditie (solo)
  • 2000    Galerie de Expeditie (solo)
  • 1999    "Fighting Crickets", Stately Home of Oud-Amelisweerd / Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)
  • 1998    "From foreign shores", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (group)
  • 1997    "Chinoiseries", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)
  • 1997    Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam (solo)
  • 1996    "New Age Dada", Kunstraum, Berlin (group)
  • 1990    Galerie Hans Gieles, Amsterdam
  • 1988    Galerie Hans Gieles, Amsterdam (solo)
  • 1987    "Beelden in de koepel", Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (solo)
  • 1986    Galerie Hans Gieles, Amsterdam (solo)
  • 1986    "As far as Amsterdam goes", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (group)
  • 1985    "Green Works", De Gele Rijder, Arnhem (solo)
  • 1985    "De Bewering", Aorta, Amsterdam (group)
  • 1983    "Sculpture", Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem (group)

Selected earlier articles:

  • 2006    Dirk Limburg: "Kijken in een muil", NRC, April 14th
  • 2004    Julie Berger Hochstrasser: "Wisselwerkingen Redux", Points of Contact, Bucknell University Press, pp. 68-72, ISBN 0-8387-5602-6
  • 2001    Masha Karatas: "Chinoiserieën in museum het Princessehof", Aziatische Kunst issue 4, pp. 36-37
  • 2001    Masha Karatas: "Een bezoek aan het atelier van Harmen Brethouwer", Keramika issue 4, pp. 6-11
  • 2001    Anne Berk: "Dossier Nederlandse kunst - Harmen Brethouwer", Kunstbeeld issue 6, p. 44
  • 2000    Sandra Smallenburg: "Harmen Brethouwer", NRC, March 24th
  • 1999    Anne Berk: "Schoonheid uit de as herrezen", Kunstbeeld issue 7, pp. 56-57
  • 1999    Wouter Prins: "Op atelierbezoek bij Harmen Brethouwer", Origine issue 2, pp. 20-24
  • 1997    Marina de Vries: "Galerie", Het Parool, June 20th

Publications:

  • 2009    Harmen Brethouwer, "False Abstracts", with an essay by Hans den Hartog Jager, De Zwaluw Publishers, ISBN 9789077794487
  • 2008    Harmen Brethouwer et al., "On Superfluous Things", De Zwaluw Publishers, ISBN 9789077794227, English edition / 9789077794272, Dutch edition
  • 2005    Harmen Brethouwer, "Untitled (fachwerk) I - XII, designs for framework panels"
  • 2005    Galerie de Expeditie / Harmen Brethouwer, "In Vitro", with a text by Hester Eymers, ISBN 9080379638
  • 2004    Harmen Brethouwer, "Delft Waves, part 1, SWAN", with texts by Alex de Vries and Neelke Doorn, ISBN 9077794018 

Group catalogues:

  • 2009    Genius Loci, Het Torentje, Almelo, ISBN 9789081385336
  • 2009    SuperStories, 2nd triennal of contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt, ISBN 9789058563040
  • 2008    U-Home, De Nieuwe Salon, CBKU, Utrecht, ISBN 9789074690478
  • 2003    Lautloses Irren: ways of worldmaking, too..., Berlin, flux I bell sTRUcTURs / Harm Lux
  • 2001    Sonsbeek 9: Locus Focus, Arnhem, ISBN 9080643823
  • 1999    Diary 1999, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, ISBN 90-6918-193-2
Work in collections:
  • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  • Centraal Museum, Utrecht
  • Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
  • Vanderbilt Fine Art Gallery, Nashville
  • AkzoNobel Art Foundation
  • Hedge House, Wijlre
  • De Nederlandsche Bank

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