Rob Voerman Curriculum Vitae
1966 born in Deventer (NL)
Lives in Arnhem and works in Groessen (Netherlands)
Study
CABK Constantijn Huygens (sculpture), Kampen (NL) 1990-1996
Vestlandets Kunst Akademie, Bergen, Norway (4 months in 1995)
Solo Exhibitions
Xi'an Moca, Xi'an China
Eurasia University Museum, Xi'an, China
Ningbo Art Museum, Ningbo, China
Generator, Arnhem (NL)
Motel Spatie, Arnhem (NL) Large temporary site-specific work in
shopping centre Presikhaaf (curated by Claudia Schouten)
Cellen #6, Klooster Tiel (NL)
Museum Henriette Polak(Jeanne Oosting Award 2010), Zutphen, duo-exhibition with Emo Verkerk (NL)
“Tarnung,” Bregenzer Kunstverein/Magazin 4, Bregenz (A)
“Rob Voerman. Grafiek/Installation,” Flevodruk, Harderwijk (NL)
London (including presentation of installation on Bedford Square)
UCLA Hammer Museum, “Hammer Projects”, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions (selection)
"all natural 100% Collection". Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
"Good Space - Communities or the Promise of Happiness", Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany. (large outdoor installation and indoor exhibition)
Museum IJsselstein, "Vrijplaats bij MIJ" (exhibition and site-specific project), IJsselstein (NL)
"Stadsbeelden", Museum Flehite, Amersfoort (NL)
"Vouch", group-exhibition/artist-run sales-project, Loods 6, Amsterdam (NL)
"Biennial Gelderland", Arnhem/Nijmegen (NL)
Jahres-Ausstellung, Galerie Artoxin
"Into the Future: Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK
Nomadic Mountains, Schunck, Heerlen (NL) (curated by Jean-Bernard Koeman)
"Bye Bye De Stijl", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
Compilation 5 Jahre Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf (D)
38CC (duo-exhibition with Alicia framis), Delft (NL)
"Architecture as a Metaphor", Griffin Gallery, London
“(In)constancy of space”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL) (curated by
Neva Lukic)
Grafiek 2016, Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven (NL)
'Maelström, de Kracht van het ongrijpbare' in Arti et Amicitiae,
Amsterdam (Curated by Frans Franciscus and Arjen Lancel)
Kuub, Utrecht
China. (curated by Aaron Betsky)
Amsterdam Art Fair, Booth Upstream Gallery
Kunstpodium T, Master-Apprentice Project, Tilburg (NL)
Sculpture garden Anningahof, Zwolle (NL)
en Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi)
1st.Kinshasa Biennial (Yango Biennial), Democratic Republic of Congo
(curator Sitabile Mlotshwa)
Printmaking-exhibition, Pulchri, The Hague (NL)
“Inconstancy of space”, Mestrovic Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia (curated by
Neva Lukic)
“Coming Soon”, NAI/Bureau Europa, Maastricht (curator Saskia van Stein)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
“City of Ash”, Artspace g39, Cardiff, United Kingdom (curator Sam Perry)
Art Rotterdam (through Upstream Gallery) (NL)
Halle 14, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Baumwollspinnerei,
Leipzig, Germany (D)
"The glorious rise and fall...", K14, Den Bosch (NL)
"Vision vs. Confrontation", Mondriaanhouse, Amersfoort (NL)
Sculpture park Anningahof, public sculpture and group show, Zwolle (NL)
Artfair Pusan (South-Korea) through Art Amalgamated
The Armory Show, New York (through Upstream Gallery)
University Art Museum (curator Elyse Gonzales), Santa Barbara (USA)
Kunstenlab, Deventer (NL) Two-persons-exhibition with Miyuki Okuyama
"Going to the Etsch", Pictura, Dordrecht (NL)
"Going to the Etsch", Kruithuis, den Bosch (NL)
"Architektur Sommer Rhein-Main 2011" Site-specific installation in the
city of Offenbach (D) (curators Marcel Schumacher and Britt Bauman)
"De Stad 3D", Museum Hilversum (NL)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York (hvcca-benefit-auction)
"What if.." Rondeel Architectural Institute, Deventer (NL)
"Graphosbiennale", Den Bosch (NL)
"Urban Expressionism", Nest, Den Haag
“Brachen-Siedlung”, Nijmegen (NL), Duisburg (D) and Arnhem (NL)
“BeeldHalWerk”, Amsterdam
“Light Art Biennial 2010”, Linz, Austria
“Plan 10”, Cologne, Germany
"Habitat".Antwerp, Belgium. Site-specific project in Luchtbal
(curator: Bruno Herzeele)
Folie, with Dan Graham, Isa Genzken, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert
Smithson a.o.)
“Modernism as a Ruin,” Kunst Museum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
“Double Dutch,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemp. Art, Peekskill, NY
“Different Places — Different Stories” (presentation temporary/
public sculpture), Roermond (NL)
“Stressed Spaces,” KW14, Den Bosch (NL)
“Open Source,” Amsterdam Bijlmer (curator: Helga Lasschuijt,
with Thomas Hirschorn, Allora & Calzadilla, a.o.)
Biennale “Art Grandeur Nature,” Paris (presentation of public sculpture,
curator: Olivier Marboeuf))
Bodhi Berlin, Halle am Wasser, Berlin (curator: Shaheen Merali)
“Sculpture Now!,” Herrmann & Wagner, Berlin
“Shelter,” Museum De Fundatie/’t Nijenhuis, Heino (NL)
(with Berlinde de Bruyckere, Maria Roosen, a.o.)
“Rainer Neumaier/Rob Voerman,” Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Cologne
NADA Art Fair, Miami (stand Upstream Gallery)
“Kunst werkt. Biënnale Gelderland”, Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL)
“Merz”, Kunstverein Bregenz Bregenz, Austria (A) (curator: Peter Lewis)
“Bild — Skulpur,” Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin
“The Square Root of Drawing, ” Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
Coda Museum, Apeldoorn (NL)
Euregio Kunstpreis, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg (D)
“Situaties/Laboratorium Flevoland,” Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL)
Museum Braenderigaarden, Viborg (DK)
“The Beginning of the World,” Cell Project Space, London
International Print Center, New York
Commissions
Sketch for commission Jagersrust, Ossendrecht (NL)
Permanent pavilion World Innovation Exhibition Center, Xi'an
Sketch for commission public sculpture in Slijk-Ewijk (NL)
Commission for a model representing the history of the Industry for the new
extension of the Historical Museum in Frankfurt, Germany
(Commissioned by Portaal Housing Corp. and Kunstbedrijf)
Commission for the entrance-hall for a new office of Achmea (insurance-company based in The Netherlands)
Awards
2nd Prize Kwak & Van Daalen & Ronday Printmaking Award
Residency
Collections (selection)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Kinshasa, DR of Congo
Deutsche Bank
Generali Foundation
Speyer Family Collection, New York
KKR Office Collection, New York
Matteo Rossini Art Collection, Milan
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn of the
Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen
E-1 Nation Collection, Amsterdam
Collection Brown
Plancius Collection
ABN-Amro Bank
Art collection KPN
Achmea Kunstcollectie
De Nederlandse Bank
Rabobank
Arcadis
Province of Gelderland
And other collections in The Netherlands and abroad
Publications (selection)
Marta Herford / Kustmuseum Ahlen
Artforum, Sonbeek16
NY Times, about Sonsbeek16
Shenzhen, China (text by Aaron Betsky)
Tubelight, exhibition Park, Tilburg (NL)
Folkwang, Essen, publisher Revolver Verlag and WeltKunstZimmer,
Düsseldorf (D)
“The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art”, The Art, Design & Architecture Museum of the University of Santa Barbara (USA) by Elyse A. Gonzales, with an essay by Brian Dillon.
Art Tomorrow, article by Paul Eachus
Year-Report Mondriaanfoundation (NL)
Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss (eds.) Beyond Architecture: Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag
Modernism as a Ruin, An Archaeology of the Present, Sabine Folie (eds.) Generali Foundation, Vienna
Hammer Projects: 1999-2009, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
Un-Folded, Paper in Design, Art, Architecture and Industry, Birkhäuser
Verlag, Luzia Kälin and Mareike Gast (eds.)
Double Dutch, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Stressed Spaces, KW14, Den Bosch (NL)
Rob Voerman: Tarnung/Camouflage, Bregenz: Bregenzer Kunstverein;
Magazin 4, texts by Max Hollein and Sabine Folie
Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss (eds.), Spacecraft 1: Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag
MERZ, Bregenz: Bregenzer Kunstverein; Magazin 4
text by Aaron Betsky
Other
Guest-teacher and Lecturer Eurasia University, Xi'an
Lecturer Xi'an Art University
Lecturer Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), China
Lecturer and guest teacher Art-academy Den Bosch (NL)
Lecturer and guest teacher Artez, Arnhem (NL)
Guest-teacher Art School Const. Huygens, Zwolle (NL)
Guest-teacher Art School Utrecht (NL)
Lecturer Art School Const. Huygens, Zwolle (NL)
Lecturer Art School Artez, Arnhem (NL)
Guest-teacher, Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (NL)
Lecturer, Stroom, The Hague (NL)
Lecturer, 2YK-Galerie, Berlin
Lecturer, Architectural Association, London