CV

1960 Aalten, Netherlands
1979 - 1984 Academy of Visual Arts Kampen and Arnhem
lives and works in Huis ter Heide, Netherlands



Exhibitions:
  • 2011    Pan Amsterdam, with Hidde van Seggelen Gallery
  • 2011    "Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art", Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA (group)
  • 2011    "Lives saved, thanks to the doctor/the arts", Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (group)
  • 2011    Festival ZwArt, Zwolle
  • 2011    "Tast-Zin", Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (group)
  • 2011    "Novelties", Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London (solo)
  • 2010    "Abstract Trouvé", K09, Groningen (group)
  • 2010    "Re En Act", Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (group)
  • 2010    Art Rotterdam / Tefaf Maastricht / Pan Amsterdam, with Hidde van Seggelen Gallery
  • 2009    Tefaf Maastricht / ViennaFair / Art Amsterdam / Pan Amsterdam, with Hidde van Seggelen Gallery
  • 2009    "The Cassini Cruise", Maastricht (group)
  • 2009    "SuperStories", 2nd triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt (group)
  • 2008    "Wish for Peace", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo) 
  • 2008    "On Superfluous Things", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)
  • 2007    "More than one", new contemporary prints and multiples from the Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Collection, Vanderbilt Fine Arts 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)

Articles:

  • 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
  • 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:

  • 2011    TAST-ZIN, kunstenaars en hun materiaalgebruik / Atelier Barbara Broekman (with dvd)
  • 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 University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville
  • AkzoNobel Art Foundation
  • Hedge House, Wijlre
  • De Nederlandsche Bank
  • Rabo Artcollection
  • Caldic Collection
  • private collections Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, UK, Switzerland