Resume

Rene de Rooze

www.renederooze.com

 

Solo exhibitions:

2025 “Hilton Hotel”, Mainz, Germany.

2024 “Iranian Muses”, Galery Y2, Groningen

2021 “Vexillum Patriae II”, Portiersloge Groningen

2018 “Vexillum Patriae”, Kunsttorentje , Almelo

2017 Community Art Project met ART4City en Pushkinskaya10, St Petersburg, Russia

2016 "Свобода, ведущая народ", Portiersloge , Groningen

2015 "Der Fremde in Mir II, SKPN, Groningen

2014 "NUR NUR II", Kunsttorentje, Almelo
2013 "Galaxis Coincidentia", Hilton Hotel Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2012 "Galaxis Coincidentia", Hilton Hotel Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2012 "Galaxis Coincidentia",Portiersloge,Groningen

2010 “BurqaBlues”, Portiersloge, Groningen

2006 “Eingang und Ausgang” Kunstonderneming Oosterkade, Groningen

2005 Galerie “Frontaal, Appingedam

2005 “De Punt van Reidistan”, Film OOG-TV, Groningen

2001 “TEM Galerij”, N.H.L., Leeuwarden

2000 Galerie “Kunstfaktor”, Berlin
2000 Galerie “Frontaal”, Appingedam
1999 Literatur Werkstatt, Pankow, Berlin
1999 “Space and Identity”, Galerie “Outline”, Amsterdam

1998 Galerie “H.O.”, Berlin
1997 Galerie “Studio im Hochhaus”, Berlin

1994 Galerie “Vromans”, Amsterdam
1994 Galerie “Frontaal”, Appingedam
1993 Galerie “de Voorruit”, Groningen

1991 Galerie “Markant”, Langeloo

1989 Galerie “Markant”, Langeloo

1987 “Zwolsche Algemene”, Nieuwegein

1982 Galerie “van Hulsen”, Leeuwarden

 

Group exhibitions:

2024 “Wintersalon”, Y2, Groningen

2022 “Wintersalon”, Y2 , Groningen

2022 100 x Kunst in de Akerk, Groningen

2021 Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

2020 Bart Art Box, Thesinge, Groningen

2018 Marc Chagall Museum, Vitebsk. WitRusland. 4th Marc Chagall Seminar.

2016 "Galaxis Coincidentia" at Bloemrijk Vertrouwen, Aldstjerk
2016 "Galaxis Coincidentia", at Kunstingang, Ten Kate, Ter Apelkanaal

2016 "Investigation" at SMAHK, Assen

2015 "Der Fremde in Mir", SMAHK, Assen

2012 "00", Galerie T.A.S, Groningen

2010 “Sehnsuchtsorte II”, Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum, Emden, Germany
2010 “Nurart” Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin

2009 “Papier, Pappe und Koerner” Galerie Herold, Bremen, Germany

2008 “Angst en bezwering”, Forma Aktua, Groningen
2007 “Geld Maken”, Forma Aktua, Groningen
2006 “Motherland”, Inhalexhale@Kunstvlaai6, Amsterdam
2006 “Eingang und Ausgang” Kunstonderneming Oosterkade, Groningen

2005 “Die Toteninsel” Video, Galerie Kunstfaktor, Berlin

2003 “Voeten in Bedrijf”, Kunstonderneming Oosterkade, Groningen
2002 Galerie “68ELF”, Cologne, “Tussenkleur/ Zwischenfarbe”
2001 “Noorderlicht” Manifestatie, Galerie “ Pictura”, Groningen

1999 Galerie “Noord”, Groningen
1998 “Davka”, Jüdisches Leben in Berlin”, Ahawa Gebouw, Berlin
1998 “Museum Modern Art”, Hünfeld, Germany
1998 “Aa Kunst 98”, Aa Kerk, Groningen

1995 Kunstencentrum “Niggendijker”, Groningen
1995 Natuur Museum, Groningen

1992 “Les 4Z’ Arts”, Lons-le-Saunier, France
1992 Galerie “de Voorruit”, Groningen
1991 “Noordkunst 91”, Int. Artfair, Zuidlaren

1991 “de Krabbedans”, Centrum voor Hedendaagsche Kunst, Eindhoven
1990 Galerie “de Ruimte”, Liesbeth Lips, Amsterdam

1988 “Allersmaborg”, Ezinge
1987 “Noordkunst 87”, Int. Artfair, Zuidlaren

1984 Cultureel Centrum, Heerenveen

1980 Galerie “Het Lokaal”, Groningen

 

Other professional activities:

 

2024 Travel to Madagascar
2023 Lecture Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Fine Arts

2022 Lecture at University of Groningen: “Enterpreneurship and Leadership”

2021 Artist Residence organised by: Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia
2019 Travel to Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

2018 Artist Residence organised by: Marc Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus.

2017 Lecture on the Dutch artist Armando at the Lomonosov Moscow State University
2017 Artist Residence in Pushkinskaya10, St Petersburg, Rusland
2016 Travel to Belarus and Russia (St Petersburg and Moscow)
2015 Travel to Iran
2015 Guest Curator at SMAHK, Assen under the title: "Der Fremde in Mir"
2014 Travel to Georgia and Armenia
2013 Travel to Romania
2013 Participation in the performance “En Verder” of Rosa Sijben and gallery MAMA, Rotterdam
2007- 2013 Research on ornaments and styling of synagogues in the East and Middle of Europe, in progress.
2011 Travel to Latin America: Colombia, Peru, Bolivia en Chile.
2009 Travel to India, research on color and culture.
2008 Production and making of the movie "Swanlake Burqa Blues"
2008 Travel to the Ukraine and Moldova incl. Uman en Odessa
2007 Travel to the Ukraine (Lviv and western part, former Polish and Habsburg part)
2006 Travel to China/ Tibet
2005 Production and making of the movie “De Punt van Reidistan”, short movie broadcasted on OOG-TV, Groningen
2005 Production and making of the movie "Die Toteninsel”, artist video clip, shown in gallery "Kunstfaktor" Berlin
2004 Travel to Thailand Laos en Cambodia
2003- 2004 Installation, decor design for the theatre play “Vincent en Ik”, ZID Theater Amsterdam (Karolina Spaic director; Sebo Bakker play; David Haneke video; Jan Fabre text)
2002 Guest curator for gallery 68ELF Cologne under the title :
“Zwischenfarbe/ Tussenkleur”
2000 Travel to former Dutch New Guinea, Papua Barat / Irian
Jaya I lived her in my childhood time 1957-1961.
1990- 2000 Regular stay in Berlin, living and working: 1994 2000
1991 Guest curator Noordkunst 91, under the title "at the boundaries of geometry"
1989- 1990 Participation at “Cahier Collection” published at Philip Elchers, Groningen
1987 Organisation of the exhibition "EL Lissitzky" at the Groninger Synagogue, together with Henk Puts
1986 Publication of “De Drie Gratiën te Jeruzalem” at publishing house “Hoge Bomen Collectie” te Haren
1986 Publication of “Verborgen Landschappen/ Gelezen Tekening” in
corporation with Holly Moors (private publication)
1986 Contribute to the Poem cyclus “Berlijn een Winterreis” of Remco
Ekkers (signed edition of 100)
1983- 1984 Stay in Jerusalem, study of Hebrew at an Ulpan, research of installations with stones
1976- 1988 Several travels to the Middle East: Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egypt en Morocco)
1974- 1983 Regular stay in Berlin.
1977- 1979 Several design commissions


Work in collections of, articles, catalogues and interviews with::

Of “Verborgen Landschappen/ Gelezen Tekening” issues are in the collection of the Groninger Museum and the Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven.
The “Hoge Bomen Collectie” book is in the collection of museum Meermanno- Westreenianum, The Hague. Several works of art are in the collections of private collectors, governmental institutions and centers of visual art. The Marc Chagall Musuem of Vitebsk has two paintings in its collection. Vexillum Patria, altered CCCP flag, is in the collection of “Museum of Non Conformist Art”, Sint Petersburg, Russia. Two paintings are in the collection of the “Mark Rothko Art Centre”, Daugavpils, Latvia

Reviews in including:

Berliner Morgenpost, Die Welt, Jüdisches Berlin, Journal de Jura, Vrij Nederland, Rotterdams Dagblad, , Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, Leeuwarder Courant, Winschoter Courant, Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad, Eindhovens Dagblad, Dagblad van het Noorden, en de UK (Universiteitskrant RUG).

Catalogs:

Catalog 17thSeminar Mark Rothko Art Centre , Daugavpils, Latvia
Catalog/ Flyer “Marc Chagall Seminar IV, Vitebsk 2018

Catalog / Flyer "Der Fremde in Mir" 2015
Catalog “Noorderlicht- A Sense of Space” (2001)
Catalog “Davka” (1998)
Catalog “Reduktiver Kunst der Dritten Generation” Hünfeld (1998)
Catalog Aa Kunst (1998)
Catalog Noordkunst (1991)
Catalog Hoge Bomen Collectie (1987)
Catalog Noordkunst (1987)
Catalog Art ’86 Basel (1986)

Interviews for radio and TV:

Radio Noord (NL), Radio Multi Kulti- (D.), Radio B 1- (D.), Radio 1- (NL) T.V: RBB (D.), Radio 5 (Schuim en AS)- NL), OOGRadio, TVNoord. DeutschlandFunk.de, SwissRadio1. Mark Rothko Art Centre TV.

Rene the Rooze was born in Amsterdam 1955, but grew up in the beautiful albeit poor paradise of Dutch New Guinea. The jungle started 100 meters from his home and its colors, the heat, the indigenous people and the smells of the many tropical fruits and plants make up his earliest memories.

Then, on a cold rainy day in 1961 he arrived with his family in Rotterdam after a boat journey of over six weeks. Shortly after their arrival his mother died of cancer. Both experience that made a mark on his life.

Since, Rene de Rooze has travelled far and wide. Every travel was a search for a lost culture and lost colors and a one year stay in Jerusalem was part of that search.


As from 2000 on, Rene has started to explore the influence of his past and tries to fit elements of these early memories into his attitude towards contemporary visual art in Western Europe. He attempts to make a fresh start and to discard unnecessary baggage by forgetting what he has learned at the Academy of Arts and after.

What he learned was useful in wielding the modern visual language. However, Rene remained conscious of other elements from long ago and far away, that did not seem to fit in. By removing this excess baggage and letting go of concepts, these elements resurface.

Besides, De Rooze's art is characterized by a deep fascination for the tactile and the use of various materials. Graduated from the Minerva Academy with material paintings, he lets texture and material take center stage in his work. Even in his current paintings, the pronounced structure of oil paint plays an important role. His art reflects a development since 2007, in which color, chance, and empty, indefinite spaces are given more emphasis. De Rooze lets go of fixed rules and focuses on the pleasure of painting, also called "plaisir de paintre".

 

Since 2016, De Rooze has created the series "Abstracte Galaxis Coincidentia Portretten", in which he pays tribute to his muses, women from India, Iran, and Italy. These portraits are not literal representations but rather interpretations that show an interaction between model and painter. His experience in former Dutch New Guinea and the encounter with the Indian and Indonesian culture, imbued with mysticism and spirituality such as Goena Goena, may have had an unconscious influence on his work. The influences of his Indonesian aunts, who shared a bond with the mystical, formed a basis for his abstract portraits.

 

These works are translated into "color fields", in which he combines colorful touches of acrylic paint and oil paint. By using spatulas, squeegees or by pouring paint, De Rooze creates color spots that embody the character of the person depicted. He describes this unique approach as Abstract Romanticism, a style in which emotion, intuition and color meet.

Education

1984-1985 Art History at the RUG. te Groningen
1980-1982 CPDB curriculum at ABK Minerva. (teachers license)
1975-1980 ABK Minerva, Groningen (Art Academy Minerva)
1967-1973 HBS-b at the Rijnlands Lyceum te Oegstgeest

René de Rooze lived in:

Amsterdam
Manokwari (Dutch New Guinea)
Zeist
Voorschoten
Lisse
Maastricht
Groningen
Jerusalem
Groningen
Berlin
Groningen

Relevant work experience: Education/ Workshops

2020- present Art Workshops for Gropher, PhD researcher of the RUG- University of Groningen
2016- 2017 Leading a visual arts project for Refugee Children at the AZC Emmen
2013- 2016 Workshops at the het AZC te Drachten/ Emmen for the foundation "De Vrolijkheid"
2012- 2017 Workshops Visual Arts at Naschoolse Activiteiten, IVAK, Delfzijl
2008- 2012 Workshops Visual Arts at Naschoolse Activiteiten, Vensterscholen
Groningen
2007- 2010 Guest Seminars at ABK Minerva, post-academic work field preparation
1992- present Teacher Visual Arts at the foundation Buitenkunst, summer-workshops
in Drenthe and Randmeer (Children-groups 6-11 year, Teens 12-15
year, Adults). Collaboration with workshops disciplines dance, music en theatre.
2001-2004 Teacher Audio Visual at the Noorder Poort College (MBO Welzijn)
1994-2000 Teacher Visual Arts at VHS (Volks Hoche Schule) Steglitz,
Hoehenschoenhausen en Weissensee te Berlin, Germany (workshops)
1989-1994 Teacher Visual Arts at the Meenschaar te Bedum
1982-1994 Teacher Visual Arts at Amateur Arts Centre Karwei/ Meldij in
Drachten

Managerial and coordinator activity's:

2014 - present Member of the X Arts group, Groningen. Thinktank on improvments of the Visual Arts in the northern provinces of the Netherlands,. Members: Groninger Museum, Art Academy Minerva, Centre of Visual Arts Groningen, Galleries and artist group HaViK.

2006- 2015 Chairman HVK, cooperating in the policy of creating artist studios in Groningen member of the contact group. (OCSW, ROEZ, Carex, LOA, Woningbouwverenigingen Groningen, Wethouder van Cultuur)

2015 Curator of "Der Fremde in Mir", at the SMAHK, Assen, with as artists: Tanya Uri, Joseph Semach, Monali Meher, Ilya Rabinovich and René de Rooze.
2009-2010 Member of the board of the counsel for work and participation at the the foundation “Weerwerk”, from the municipality Groningen.
2002 Curator for Gallery Elf68 Cologne under the title “Zwischenfarbe”
Video- Installation and Theatre participation.
1991-1993 Secretary of HVK, Groningen, Organization for Arts studio's in Groningen
1991 Curator for the Art-show "Noordkunst 91". Zuidlaten, NL
1989-1990 Member of the board of Centre of Amateur Art / Meldij Karwei, Drachten, NL
1986 Initiator of the exhibition “El Lissiztky” in the Groninger Synagogue.
Lissizky's works of the collection of the "van Abbe Museum" and "Stedelijk Museum" in loan.

Co-productions :

2003 co-production with ”Sanders Geluk”, “De nieuwe Soberheid” (New Frugality) production: in Las Palmas, Rotterdam
2003 ZID Theater Amsterdam: “Vincent en Ik”: Stage design.
2002 co-production with theatre director Fransje Kraay: “Kwetsbaar”, Buitenkunst
2000 co-production with theatre director Marieke Küttschreuter. “Zij gaan”,
Buitenkunst
1996 Simultaneous translator in Neu Koln exchange program teens of Germany and Israel (German Hebrew) Berlin.