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Born in 1975 in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands

Living and working in Danmark

Education

1992-1996  Academie voor Kunst en vormgeving ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL

Solo Exhibitions

2025
  • Casado Santapau Gallery, Madrid, ESP
2023
  • Topiary stories, Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
  • La Beauté du Diable Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, FR
  • Poplife, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2019
  • Museum Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk, NL
2018
  • ‘Nieuw Amsterdams Peil’ Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2017
  • Iris van Dongen – Thérèse Schwartze Award, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
2016
  • The hunter of no land, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR
  • Hydra, Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2014
  • Luis de Adelantado, Valencia, IT
2013
  • Amsterdam Drawing 2013, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2011
  • Temporary Devotion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  • Iris van Dongen, Luis de Adelantado, Valencia, IT and Mexico, MX
  • Wrong exit, Autocentre, Berlin, DE
2010
  • The Preparation, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2009
  • The curse of the monk, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR
  • Suspicious, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue)
2008
  • The ejaculation of the demon, with Dionisis Cavallieratos, The Breeder, Athens, EL
  • Suspicious, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
  • Hallucinations & Halleluja’s, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s Hertogenbosch, NL
2007
  • CODE (free code magazine) Bruxelles, BE
2006
  • Hooley (with Kimberley Clark), The Breeder, Athens, GR
  • Doomed with Grace and Pleasure, solo presentation Liste, Basel, CH
  • Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Liste ’06, Basel, CH
  • Galerie Bugada & Cargnel (Cosmic galerie) Paris, FR
2005
  • Mystery Zone, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
  • Aurelia, Salon 94, New York, US
  • Nox Noctis, GEM, Den Haag, NL (catalogue)
  • She is the Night, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  • ‘The mystery zone’, galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2004
  • Spleen, The Breeder, Athens, GR
2003
  • Mortality, TENT, Rotterdam, NL

Group Exhibitions

2023
  • Les Sorcieres, Musée d’Arts et Traditions Populaires, Champlitte, FR
  • Schilderkunst nu, ABN-AMRO collectie, Singer Museum Laren, NL
  • Pop life, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2022
  • De nieuwe vrouw, Singer museum, Laren, NL
  • Portrait of a Lady, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles, BE
  • La Beauté du Diable, Museum Frac Franche Comte, Besancon, FR
2021
  • Paroles de Cheval, Haras National du Pin, FR
2020
  • L’homme Gris, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LUX
  • Een greep uit de collectie, Stedelijk museum Schiedam, NL
2019
  • Les enfants du paradis, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, FR
  • Villeurbanne, Part of / dans le cadre de Résonance, 15e Biennale de Lyon, FR
2018
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, Galerie der Standt Backnang, DE
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, Topicuv Salon, Prague, CZ
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, AT
  • Artists from Deutsche Bank collection, Frieze Art Fair London, GB
2017
  • Oog in oog, topstukken, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
  • Iconic, Knust Kunz, Munich, DE
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, Stadtgalerie Kiel (Kiel Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Arts), DE
  • Neue Schwarze Romantik, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, RO
2016
  • Art Brussels 2016, Tour & Taxis Avenue, Brussels, BE
  • La Grande Galerie du Foot, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, FR
  • de grote kunst show, stadsschouwburg Amsterdam, NL
  • Haute à porter, Modemuseum Hasselt, Hasselt, BE
2015
  • Dueñas del Arte, Las Atarazanas, Valencia, ESP
  • Paysages, rêvés de fin de siècles (XIXe – XXe siècles), Musée de Cambrai, Cambrai
  • Wunderkammer, Art Ptuj, Ptuj, SL
2014
  • Shit and Die, Pallazo Cavour, Turin, IT
  • Secret Passions, Private Flamish Collections, Lille, FR
  • presentatie staatsieportret, Paleis het Loo, Apeldoorn, NL
  • A Drawback, Quartair, Den-Haag, NL
  • The hidden picture, ING collection, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL
  • Tri Postal, commissaire, curated by Caroline David, Lille
  • Evil Clowns, (Kimberly Clark), HMKV, Dortmund, NL
  • Unknown Masterpieces, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, BE
  • presentatie schets staatsieportret, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
2013
  • The Legend of the Shelves – Autocenter, Berlin, DE
  • Collectie Hugo en Carla Brown, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, NL
  • Insitu, episode 3, Kimberly Clark, Berlin, DE
  • Video presentatie #5 : Kimberly Clark, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL
  • Gratis is het woord niet, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, NL
  • Soho house collection, Berlin, Miami Babington house, USA
2012
  • Devine and scary, Afrikamuseum, Berg en Dal, NL
  • Dicke, Verhoeven, Fortuyn, van Dongen, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
  • Figuurlijk, museum Hilversum, Hilversum, NL
  • Dead Lines. Der Tod in Kunst, Alltag Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal, DE
  • Invisible maps, Luis de Adelantado, Mexico, MX
  • Death and taxes, Tidens Krav, Oslo, NO
  • Into the woods, Galerie des galeries, Paris, FR
  • Point de Vue: 200 jaar Kunstacademie Den Bosch 1812-2012, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, NL
  • Hans Bayens & 35 kunstenaars ING Collectie: Hetliefdevolle oog, Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, NL
2011
  • Maîtres de Hollande au XXIème siecle, Institut néerlandais, Centre culturel des Pays-Bas, Paris, FR
  • A Fresh and Personal Feel, Gemeentemuseum’s Works on Paper, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, NL
  • Martin Skauen, Marc Bijl, Iris van Dongen, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  • ‘I like what you did,…’ NEST, Den-Haag, NL
  • Hollandse Meesters in de 21e eeuw, (19 documentaries, ) produced René Mendel, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL
  • La Vallée Patibulaire, Berlin, DE
  • All about drawing, Stedelijk museum Schiedam, NL
  • Point it at granny, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, DE
  • Rineke Dijkstra/C Noland/P Leguillon features D Arbus/K Clark, Hooley, De Hallen,Haarlem, NL
  • Going international, Flag art Foundation, New York, USA
2010
  • Gallery Luis de Adelantao, Valencia, ES
  • Smell of Pepper, Gallery Peter Bergman, Stockholm, SE
  • Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, GR
  • Get Behind me Satan and Push, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
  • Inter-cool, Hartware Medien Kunstverein, DE
  • Ever Prosperity, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, FR
  • Arrivals and Departure_Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, IT
  • Sur le Dandysme, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, ES
  • Madonna Psycho Slut, GRIMM Museum, Berlin, DE
2009
  • When the mood strikes… collection Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, BE
  • Towing the Line, Drawing Space:40 Cont. Dutch Artists,Defining the Moment in Holland,White box,NY,US
  • Forgotten bar project #4, Galerie im regierungsviertel, Berlin, DE
  • Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Wall Rockets, Albright Knox museum in Buffalo, NY, US
  • Clusters: 1-surrounding John Giorno, Brachfeld Gallery, Paris, curated by Sang Bleu, FR
  • Contemporary visitors, Pecs, HU
  • Ophelia, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL
  • Temporairy city, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
  • Empathie und abstraction, The Drawing Lab, Berlin, DE
  • Coeur de femme, Sophie Scheideker, Paris, FR
  • Contemporary visitors, Pecs, HUN
  • Forgotten bar project #4
  • T.I.C.A.B – Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, AL
2008
  • Wer ficken will, muss freundlich sein, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, DE
  • Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Wall Rockets, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, US
  • XXste Eeuw, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, NL
  • Cobra to contemporary, Artnews projects, Berlin, DE
  • Chambres à Part II, Paris, FR
  • Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, DE
  • The end was yesterday PART II, Kunstraum Innsbruck, AT
  • In the Shadows, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, DE (catalogue)
  • Zwart, CBK, Apeldoorn, NL
2007
  • Stranger than Paradise, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, CH
  • Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
  • Beyond Sensation, Brian White & Rona Cole Galleries, Channel Islands, GB
  • Gegen den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
  • Hello, I’m Crashing, Salon 94, New York, US
  • Soakers, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL
  • Leve de Schilderkunst, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
  • i.p.v. Mashkov, recente aankopen, Gemeente Museum Den-Haag, NL
  • Burning Marle, Lokaal 01, Breda, NL
  • 1672-2007, Artnews projects, Berlin, DE
  • Destroy Athens’1st Athens Biennale [Kimberly Clark], EL
2006
  • People, Madre Museo d’Arte Donna Regina, Naples, IT
  • Discreet Insidious Charm of the Bourgeoisie,Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, NL
  • Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
  • Doomed with Grace and Pleasure, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, FR
  • Bewitched, Clementine Gallery, New York, US
  • Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE
  • The discreet insidious charm of the bourgeoisie’, Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL
  • Memento Mori, MireilleMosslerLtd, New York, USA
  • Milly’s Maserati II, Madeleine Berkhemer invites guests, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
2005
  • New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK
  • Prague Biennale 2, expanded painting, Karlin Hall, Prague, CZ
  • Choosing My Religion, MAMA Showroom for Media and Moving Art Rotterdam, NL
2004
  • I just don’t know what to do with myself…, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT
  • The Dutch Show: Cont. Dutch Artists in Greek Collections, Netherlands Institute of Athens, GR
  • Expander, Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington Gardens, London, GB
  • Vixen, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL
2003
  • 6000 Watt, Antwerp, BE
  • Het Oog van de Vrouw, Slot Zeist, Zeist, NL
  • Het Oog van de Vrouw, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL
2002
  • Hofvijver in Poëzie en Beeld, Kunstpassage in Rijksmonument, Museum Bredius, Den Haag, NL
  • I Am a Camera, MU, de Witte Dame, Eindhoven, NL
2001
  • Tuin der lusten, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, NL
2000
  • Op de huid bekeken, SBK, Amsterdam, NL
  • Galerie Multiple XX, Rotterdam, NL