Artists at Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague - 2012

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1. Marlies Adriaanse (b.1962) The Hague, The

Netherlands. Teacher’s College, crafts and textiles,

Delft 1986, Willem de Kooning Academy of Fine

Arts, Rotterdam 1989.

Sculpture, mixed media, performance.

Adriaanse builds experimental open constructions

with tubes made of rolled-up paper. At times, she

deforms the tubes by denting them or cutting out

sections, creating near-organic looking shapes. She

finds her inspiration while riding her bike, looking

to photograph constructions in the built

environment that interest her. These photos also

become starting points for the creation of

drawings and paintings. By adding, deleting and

changing sections of the picture plane, she mimics

and reveals a building process, rather than

rendering a finished architectural object.

Since 1997, in collaboration with M.T. Streefland,

Adriaanse has created multi-media installations

that make use of video, slides, found objects,

paintings and sound. Together, they create works

that reference vaguely familiar urban landscapes.

Since 2002 they have included performance in

their installations.

Adriaanse has been teaching art at a primary

school in The Hague, since 1992. She has exhibited

in situ in such spaces as The Hague University,

“ConStructure” (2011) and theatres (2010/2012).

With Streefland she exhibited most recently “ Cake

City 8.44” in Youth Theater De Krakeling,

Amsterdam(2012). Group exhibitions include

notably “Mizu Shobai, Watertrade” (2004) at the

GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague.

http://home.kpn.nl/mjadriaanse/CV.htm

http://members.tele2.nl/streefland-

adriaanse/

Marlies Adriaanse, Constructure, 2011 City Hall Atrium, The

Hague.

Marlies Adriaanse/Mariska Streefland, Cakestad (Cake City)

installation at the Vrije Akademie The Hague, 2006

Marlies Adraanse/Mariska Streefland, Touche de Beaute,

performance at Quartair, 2007

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2. Harold de Bree (b.Voorschoten, The

Netherlands) Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK)

The Hague,

Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam,

1987/1991

Sculpture, installation

Harold de Bree is obsessed with the architecture

and hardware of the war machine, and has

reconstructed many military objects, such as

fighter planes, tanks and guns, based on drawings

found on the internet. He has installed these life-

sized objects in such inappropriate places as city

parks and museums. Out of place and out of time,

the objects are stripped from their functionality.

This reveals not only their absurdity and by

extension, the absurdity of war, but also such

secondary qualities as beauty and practical design.

De Bree has exhibited his projects in group, two-

persons and solo shows throughout Europe, and in

Mumbai, India (2004). His projects have included a

Bailey bridge over a pond for Manifesta7 in

Trentino Italy, (2008) a Nazi submarine in the pond

of The Hague’s Gemeentemuseum, (2005) and

entrances to underground bunkers in Toijala,

Finland, (2003) The Hague Sculpture, (2007) and

ArtZuid Amsterdam (2009).

De Bree is represented by Galerie West in The

Hague

www.harolddebree.nl

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Harold de Bree, Typ XV11 Electroboten 2005 Life-size Nazi

submarine in the pond of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.

Harold de Bree, Bailey Bridge, 2008, Manifesta 7, Trentino

South Tyrol

Harold de Bree, 2006, Ingang 3 (Entrance 3) entrance to bunker

Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Sculpture exhibition.

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3. Geeske Harting (b. 1958 Haarlem, The

Netherlands) Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK)

The Hague, 1990.

Painting.

Harting was trained as a jewelry maker and

engraver before she joined the KABK to study Fine

Arts. Her drawings and paintings show an

attention for detail and a love for precision carried

over from these crafts. A deliberately slow working

process results in stilled narratives with an

increasingly light, soft palette of thin, transparent

colours.

Harting has been a member of Quartair from its

beginning in 1992, and currently is

secretary/treasurer of Foundation B 141 that

manages Quartair’s building. As a member of

Quartair she has participated in several exchange

projects abroad, including London (1993), Turku,

Finland (1998) and South-Korea (2007). She has

collaborated with others to organize several

exhibitions and events: with José den Hartog, she

co-curated Dicht op de huid (Close to the Skin)

(Quartair Den Haag, 1998), and, with Jessy

Rahman, X, de onbekende factor (X, the Unknown

Factor) and Ik woon hier (I Live Here) in het Atrium

van Het Haagse stadhuis (2002/2003).

Her paintings are in numerous private and

corporate collections, including Siemens, Sigma

Coatings, ABN Amro.

http://www.geeskeharting.nl

Geeske Harting, No Exit, 2011. Oil on canvas 13 x 18 cm.

Geeske Harting, Look at Me # 2 oil on canvas

50 x 60 cm

Geeske Harting, It’s My Party. Oil on wood 16 x 30 cm.

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4. Rens Krikhaar (b. 1982 Apeldoorn) Academy of

Visual Arts, Enschede, The Netherlands (ArtEZ-AKI

) 2005. Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KABK) The

Hague 2009.

Drawing and painting

In his prolific output of paintings and drawings,

Krikhaar beckons his viewers into other worlds,

phantasmagorical scenes that are like fragments of

never-ending stories. His images are based on

personal experiences that become, as in a dream,

entangled with things learned and seen and heard

of in the wider world. He is haunted by historical

and art-historical subjects. Dark Symbolist and

Romantic imagery work their way into his worlds,

but, using strange twists and overblown effects,

Krikhaar always manages to return to the

contemporary.

Since graduating in 2009, Krikhaar has participated

in several group exhibitions at Galerie Maurits van

de Laar in The Hague and in Paris: “Le salon du

dessin contemporain” Carrousel de Louvre (2012).

He has also exhibited at gallery De Fietsenstalling

in The Hague (solo 2010) and in group exhibitions

in Schiedam, Rotterdam and Groningen. In 2010

he spent a working period in Japan, and exhibited

in Tokyo in 2011.

Krikhaar is represented by Galerie Maurits van de

Laar.

http://www.renskrikhaar.com/

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Rens Krikhaar,Davey Jones’ Locker, 2011 oil on linen

30 x 40 cm

Rens Krikhaar, Voedt het Beest (Feed the Beast)

Drawing, negro pencil on paper

Rens Krikhaar, Holothuroidea. Negro pencil on paper

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Erik-Jan Ligtvoet (b. 1968 The Hague) Royal

Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague (KABK) (1992)

Drawing, sculpture, photography

Ligtvoet has a passion for drawing and an abiding

interest in the perception of space. Exploring the

two-dimensional representation of three-

dimensional space, he often uses multiple

photographs (from the internet, or his own) of a

specific place, to create drawings or paintings that

show various points of view on a single picture

plane. He also builds models in different scales,

beginning with large-scale mock-ups of highway-

overpass sections in the city of Osaka in 2008. He

has received a number of grants for his work.

Through a blog and Facebook page, Ligtvoet

maintains an active international internet network

with artists who explore the endless possibilities of

the craft of drawing. He has collaborated with

many different artists and groups to organize and

participate in drawing events and exhibitions.

From 2005 to 2010 he took part in yearly “gigs”

with Linas Jablonski’s Independent Drawing Gig

(IDG) in such places as Vilnius, Macedonia, South

Korea and Rotterdam, New York and Istanbul.

In 2010, building on these experiences, Ligtvoet

launched his own Independent Drawing Initiative

(IDI), an art-initiative and blog without a fixed

exhibition space. IDI participated in The First

Virtual Exhibition of Shows/The universal Standard,

which was live-streamed from gallery De Zwarte

Ruyter in Rotterdam to Gallery Trendbeheer at the

art fair Art Amsterdam (2010).

Most recently Ligtvoet curated Scratch Battle

(2011) in Arnhem, inviting artists to use large

windows of a closed bank building as drawing

surfaces.

http://www.erikjanligtvoet.nl/

http://erik-janligtvoet.blogspot.com/

Erik-Jan Ligtvoet Dance Hedphelym 2012, Graphite pencil

Erik-Jan Ligtvoet and IDI drawing collective, Scratch

Battle.(2011 Windows of closed bank building, Arnhem 2011

Erik-Jan Ligtvoet, Osaka Drive 2008.

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6.Ingrid Mol (b.1970) Royal Academy of Fine Arts,

The Hague (KABK) (1993)

mixed media, interactive performance, painting,

ceramics

Mol taps into the emotional sway of folk art to

create narrative three-dimensional works and

images that appear accessible but lead the viewer

into complex realms where reality and fiction,

history and present are thoroughly entangled. Her

simple, illustrative drawings announce and

illustrate multifaceted projects. Realistic, often

life-sized ceramic figures eventually become the

traces of these projects, memories of performative

and interactive events that they were part of. Mol

writes the dialogues for her epic projects herself,

and she collaborates with musicians and theatre

people, historians and a myriad of community

groups.

In April 2011 Mol realized a large-scale opera

project Boven het Land (Above the Land ) in

Oudewater, The Netherlands. The opera,

performed by and for the people of the town,

related to a massacre that took place here in 1576.

On the island of Java, Indonesia, she created the

project De Grote Onbekende (The Large Stranger) a

story about an artist who was sent to Indonesia to

do a feasibility study on the replacement of all

public sculptures on Java. Other projects include

De Vogelclub (The Bird Club) home-delivered art in

Ypenburg, The Netherlands, 2007; an installation,

Wachtend op Snijders Komst (Waiting for Snijder’s

Arrival) at De Tragiek, Art Fort near Vijfhuizen, The

Netherlands, and a sculpture Een Familiefoto

(AFamily Photo).

www.ingridmol.com

www.bovenhetland.com

Ingrid Mol, Above the Land, 2011 opera. Near the Clubhouse,

ceramic and motorcycle.

Ingrid Mol, Boven het Land (Above the Land) 2011, opera.

Steun Gerritsen returns to Oudewater. Ceramic figure, 2.20 m

Ingrid Mol/Quinten Smith, De Grote Onbekende (The Great

Stranger) installation in Yogyakarta, Java, 2007

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7.Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk (b. 1970 Waddinxveen,

The Netherlands) Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The

Hague (KABK) 1994,

Drawing, painting, ceramic sculpture

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk has always been fascinated

by historical and fairy-like characters – a mysterious

dream world, ancient and modern at the same time. His

surreal symbiosis of human and animal natural

elements, combined with religious symbolism, often

have a tragic-comical feel. Besides icons and metaphors

in his work, we see traditional decorative elements,

heroic garments and helmets from ‘ancient wars’ and

other humor-drenched ‘threatening’ symbolics.

Contrastingly we see endearing animals with the

characteristics of figures from various historical tales

and eras, human-like animals from a fairy-tale world or

from science fiction books or films. In his works Van den

Nieuwendijk combines his graphic, illustrative and

artistic skills to create a highly detailed harmonious

whole. (original Dutch text by Stan Petrusa, 2008)

Van den Nieuwendijk has exhibited his intricate ceramic

sculptures and paintings in solo exhibitions in The

Netherlands, most recently Er is eens... (Once upon a

Time) (2008) at the Gasunie Groningen, and Innovation

of History (2006) at KOCHXBOS gallery, Amsterdam. He

has participated in many group shows in The

Netherlands and abroad, notably at the International

Ceramic fair, Great China Museum, Jingdezhen, China

(2011); GROW UPS, groupshow in The center for

creative communications (CCC) in Shizuoka, Japan

(2010) and Ars Macabra Holandica at ABC Treehouse

gallery, Amsterdam (2007).

Public commissions include a relief for the Feijenoord

Soccer Club (2009) in Rotterdam, and a monument in

honor of the Dutch comic writer Maarten Toonder

Rotterdam (2002). Van den Nieuwendijk’s work is in the

collection of the San Bao museum, Jingdezhen, China.

2011 and in many private collections.

Van den Nieuwendijk is represented by Kochxbos

gallery, Amsterdam and Mothership (art agency),

Rotterdam

http://www.cirque.nl/

http://cirquedepepin.blogspot.com

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, Afterwar Delight, 2006. Ceramics

(Majolica), Height 190 cm,

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk, Perpetua Porseline, 2010.

Porcelain vase, height ca. 3.50 m.

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk,The Knight of Prosperity and Wealth, 2011, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm

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8. Jessy Theo Rahman (b. 1961 Paramaribo,

Surinam) Free Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague

1985, Royal Academy of fine Arts (KABK) The

Hague, 1990.

Mixed media, interdisciplinary and performance

art.

Rahman borrows his artist statement from an old

Surinam song: “boesi bari wo wo jo wo wo jo, a no

bari wo wo jo wo wo jo,” which freely translated

means: “the bush is crying out in excitement, and

yes indeed it is no ordinary sound.” Born in the

former Dutch colony of Surinam, Rahman sees

himself as a product of his mixed heritage formed

by customs and manners of the plantation owners,

slaves and contract workers who came from many

different parts of the world. Most of his playful

interactions with audiences that range from adults

and children to animals and plant life, are based in

this rich cultural background.

Rahman has extensive organizational experience

with artists groups and international exchange

projects. He is co-founder and current president of

Foundation B141, which manages the art studios

of Quartair, and has curated and co-curated many

exhibitions in the Quartair gallery and other spaces

in The Netherlands. His experience abroad

includes working periods in Surinam (1994) and

India (1997). Since 2004 he is a co-curator of Nine

Dragon Heads, International Environment Art and

Performance Movement, Seoul, South Korea. With

Quartair, he has exhibited his installations and

performance art work in Switzerland, Italy, Bosnia-

Herzegovina, South Korea, Sweden and Canada

(Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre). Recent

exhibitions include Microbial Art Climatology with

fellow artist and scientist Wim van Egmond, at the

Bi Art Festival, Lana, Bolzano, in Italy (2010). http://www.jessyrahman.nl/

http://www.9dragonheads.com/artists/Jessy%20Rahman/jessy

rahman.htm

Jessy Rahman Sperwer (Sparrow-Hawk) Performance. Korea,

2007

Jessy Rahman, Digging and Diving to Identity 2011.

Performance 9dragonheads Symposium, Bielersee Switzerlan

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9. Pietertje van Splunter (b.1968 Goedereede,

The Netherlands) Royal Academy of Fine Arts

(KABK) The Hague 1990.

Multi-disciplinary , mixed media.

Van Splunter plays with the idea of “expanded

painting” by creating overlays of painting and non-

painting. Initially assuming a painter’s position,

concepts of colour, composition and two-

dimensionality are taken across the borders

between painting and sculpture, installation art,

architecture and new media.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows

throughout the Netherlands as well as in South

Korea, Germany, Sweden and Canada(Toronto’s

Harbourfront Centre). In collaboration with Zeger

Reyers (under the name Broos) she has won many

public art commissions in The Netherlands.

Van Splunter has received a number of rewards

and grants. In 1996 she maintained a studio in

Iceland for a year. She is a co-founder of Quartair,

and its current president. She has helped to

organize many artist group exchanges and curated

“Do not Disturb,” at Gallery 68-elf (2001) in

Cologne, Germany and “From Left to Right’ at

gallery 54 (2007) in Göthenburg, Sweden.

http://www.pietertje.net

Pietertje van Splunter, Nat.Lab. 2011. Zinder Festival, The

Hague.

Broos (Pietertje van Splunter/Zeger Reyers) Anas Penelope

2008. Floating church, near Woerden, The Netherlands

Broos (Pietertje van Splunter/Zeger Reyers. Deer from the

series Ygdrasil Commission from RIVM Bilthoven

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10. Elizabeth de Vaal (b. 1950 Rotterdam) Willem

de Kooning Academy, postgraduate studies at

Ateliers (formerly Ateliers’ 63) Amsterdam.

Mixed media, multi-disciplinary and painting.

De Vaal sources her work in texts, diagrams and

images, often found in unfamiliar environments

encountered in her many travels and artist

residencies. Her curiosity and fascination with

unknown spaces and histories, lead to the creation

of enigmatic paintings and in situ multimedia

works.

De Vaal has received a number of awards in The

Netherlands. She has exhibited extensively in

galleries and museums in her home country,

notably a retrospective at the Central Museum in

Utrecht (1986). Abroad, she has shown solo in

Hungary, and has participated in group exhibitions

in South Korea, Germany, and Indonesia. Most

recently she participated in the Cross Art

exhibition in Bonn, Germany, curated by Jean-

Christophe Ammann (2005). Since 2004, de Vaal

lives and works for part of the year in Hungary,

where she taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the

University of Pécs. In the nearby village of

Pécsbagota she initiated an artist-in-residency

program in 2007 and opened the Keret Emese

Galéria + Y in 2009.

http://www.elizabethdevaal.nl/

Elizabeth de Vaal, Vangnet voor lastige versperringen (Safety

Net for Difficult Obstructions).2011, Acrylic and oil on canvas

80 x 100 cm

Elizabeth de Vaal, Vangnet voor boze buren. (Safety Net for

Angry Neighbours.2011, Acrylic and oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm

Elizabeth de Vaal, Laat op Aarde (Late on Earth) 2011, Acrylic

and oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm

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11.Thom Vink(b. 1965 Leiden, The Netherlands)

Free Academy, The Hague, 1984, Royal Academy

of Fine Arts (KABK) The Hague, 1990.

Multi-disciplinary, mixed media.

Vink makes art in response to the urban spaces he

moves around in, and to the objects he finds

there. In his large scale installations, he draws

attention to the physicality of the site, integrating

the building’s actual space into the work. For his

drawings, he turns his attention to antiquated

ways of obtaining and dispersing information; he is

intrigued by images, graphs and narratives, found

on the pages of dusty books rather than in the

space-less environment of the internet’s

information highways. Selecting and re-arranging

such images, and sometimes combining them with

video projections, Vink’s works stir up memories of

dreams, of stories and experiences that feel

connected to the body, and are remembered in

the bones.

Vink maintains a studio at Quartair and spends a

major part of the year abroad, primarily in Finland

and Japan. Solo exhibitions include “Moth House”

Stroom Center for Visual Art and Architecture, The

Hague(2010); “Evidence” in gallery Muu in

Helsinki, Finland (2004); “Home'”in gallery 300m3

in Gothenburg, Sweden (2004); “Complex” in

Aaltonen Museum in Turku, Finland (2005); and

“Changers” in Youkobo Art Space in Tokyo, Japan

(2009). He has participated in group exhibitions,

collaborations and artist’s residencies in many

different countries, most recently a collaborative

video installation Dust II (2011) presented in Saara

Ekström’s retrospective exhibition, Kiasma

Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland.

Vink has received numerous grants since 1995 and

his work can be found in the collections of several

museums and galleries in Finland and The

Netherlands

http://www.thomvink.com/

Thom Vink, Moth House, 2010 Installation View, Gallery

Stroom, The Hague. 2 video projections, dripping water, pool.

Thom Vink, Moth House, 2010 Installation View.

Thom Vink, Moth House, 2010, Installation View.