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Jochem Rotteveel

1976
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Education 

  • 2004-2009     Koninklijke Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, The Hague, The Netherlands
  • 1995-2000     Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Communicatiekunde and modern English, Groningen, The Netherlands 
  • 1999-2000     Concordia University, Communications & Media, Montreal, Canada

 

The Rotterdam visual artist, Jochem Rotteveel describes himself as a painter, who utilises special materials: adhesive foil and tape. For more than ten years, these materials have served as Rotteveels ‘paintbrush’ and ‘paint’ as he continually refines his technique with each new work.

 

Represented by: Galerie Bart (Amsterdam), Gärna Art Gallery (Madrid)

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Rotteveel feels connected with hard-edge and colourfield painters Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Piet Mondriaan, Peter Halley and Ellsworth Kelly. But also with colorists Josef Albers, Vincent van Gogh, Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano, Henry Matisse, and Hella Jongerius. In the tradition of Robert Rauschenberg and Isa Genzken, Rotteveel approaches their material in the conviction that every type of material could be appropriate for art, as long as it is able to surprise the artist.  

 

‘Foil paintings’ are characteristic of Jochem Rotteveel’s works: panels covered with shiny, pleated pieces of adhesive foil in striking colour combinations. With foil and tape, Jochem Rotteveel investigates several boundaries. By folding the foil, they add volume onto flat surfaces, stretching the boundary between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional. The material becomes pasty but does not reveal its origins. The spectator does not know whether it is metal, plastic, or ceramic. 

 

Rotteveel is interested in investigating the effects of colour, interrogating in their works questions such as ‘how do you evoke feelings by combining colours?’ Although there is often no hidden message behind the colour combinations in Rotteveel’s works, the artist does consider the psychological dimensions of colours and the feelings they evoke. 

 

As Rotteveel does not physically blend colours, they aim to blend the colours optically. By following the creases, the viewer blends the colours in each work optically. Whether the colours lie in line with each other or clash, they always teach the viewer something new about themselves and each other. On their works on dibond panel, Rotteveel folds the foil around the edges of the panel. This raises the question: where does the work stop and where does the carrier start? Is there even a front and a back?

 

Jochem Rotteveel works on dibond panels but also creates large murals. The murals address all the questions raised above yet add another question around eternity and value, since all murals are temporary. After each exhibition, they are taken down and the only image that remains is the image inside the viewer’s head. These murals make a statement, to prove that art should not necessarily hold eternal value, for the real value of art lies in the moment of experience. 

 

In his latest project, Rotteveel collaborated with the fashion designer, Thomas Vermeer. Knowledgeable in the properties of fabric, Vermeer remained crucial to the realisation of Rotteveel’s visions of colour work. The works produced by the pair are provocative and intriguing in their employment of colour, shapes, material, and texture. Showcased at Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, the exhibition is lively and vivid to visitors’ eyes.

 

‘I work according to hard-edge painting, painting abstract areas of colour, not with paint but with adhesive foil. When you paint areas of colour, and especially when you work with foils – you can’t mix or blend colours. The relationship between the colour area is therefore very important, and I started to delve more and more into that.’ 

Selected Events

Group Exhibitions: 

  • 2022    Galerie Bart, Duo exhibition ‘BOOST’ with Thomas Vermeer
  • 2021     Gärna Art Gallery, Estampa Art Fair Madrid with Fernando de Ana, Lucia Gorosteguí, Albert Pinya, and Enrique Solá 
  • 2021     Gärna Art Gallery with Fernando de Ana, Lucia Gorosteguí, Albert Pinya, and Enrique Solá
  • 2021     Art Rotterdam, Duo exhibition with Marleen Sleeuwits
  • 2021     NL = US, ‘Entanglement in the Anthropodreamscene’ with Silvia B., Niels Post, Cindy Wright, a.o.
  • 2020     HorizonVerticaal, ’10 Year Anniversary’ with Jan van der Ploeg, Sander van Deurzen, Boris Tellegen, Sander Reijgers, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Rob Bouwman, Harold de Bree, Marjolijn de Wit and Thijs Zweers
  • 2020     Zaal Zuid, ‘Vlakleuruimte’ with Celia Hadeler and Cindy Bakker
  • 2020     Stedelijk Museum Kampen, ‘Ammehoela’ with Ed van der Elsken and Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek, plus an intervention in the permanent presentation
  • 2020     Garage Rotterdam, ‘Through the Looking Glass’ with Sylvia B., Antye Guenther, Steven Maybury, Olivier Scheffer and Lavinia Xausa
  • 2020     Studio Omstand, ‘Hooglicht’ with Marena Seeling, Simon Oud, Franck Gribling, Kathleen Huys, Isolde Venrooy, Maaike Kramer, Hans Everaert and Richard van der Aa
  • 2020     Gärna Art Gallery Madrid
  • 2020     Villa Zebra, ‘De Moestuin’ and artist in residence with a.o. Nicky Assman, Stefan Cools, Britt Dorenbosch, Anne Geene, and Olphaert den Otter
  • 2019     Villa Zebra, ‘De Moestuin’ and artist in residence with a.o. Nicky Assman, Stefan Cools, Britt Dorenbosch, Anne Geene, and Olphaert den Otter
  • 2019     Big Art Fair, Galerie Bart with Jerry Kowalsky and Marleen Sleeuwits
  • 2019     PARK, ‘Let’s Stick Together’, duo exhibition with Ien Lucas
  • 2018     Kunstpodium T, ‘Master Apprentice’, participant and curator at TAC with Demi Levy, Ioannou Anestis and Lieve Rutte
  • 2018     Grafisch Atelier, ‘NO-TIME’ with Thomas Trum, Dineke van Oosten, Harry Markusse, Graphic Surgery, and Gijs van Lith
  • 2018     Salon Salon, ‘The main addition’, participant and curator with Sander Reijgers, Tonio de Roover, Kevin Bauer, Jonathan Gaarthuijs and Dineke van Oosten
  • 2017     Positions Art Fair Berlin, with Galerie Bart
  • 2017     ACEC, ‘Abstract Wallpaintings III’ with a.o. Willem Besselink, Rob Bouwman, Piet Dieleman, Gracia Khouw, and Clary Stolte
  • 2017     De Vishal, ‘Regenerate’ with a.o. Gijs van Lith, Jan van der Ploeg, Sander Reijgers, Vincent Uilenbroek, and Jan Maarten Voskuil
  • 2015     Galerie Bart, Nijmegen 
  • 2015     Art Concordia, project curated by Olphaert den Otter
  • 2015     The Performance Factory with a.o. Remco Dikken and Jans Muskee
  • 2015     De Hallen Amsterdam, ‘Behind the Veil’ with Meindert Gozewyn van Soest, Jurriaan van Hall, Bart Domburg, a.o.
  • 2014     Art in Redlight art fair, Beurs van Berlage 
  • 2014     Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, ‘I am not doing anything until I feel the need’
  • 2014     Espacio Naranjo, Madrid, ‘Urban Cultura Fest’
  • 2013     Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum (DE), ‘King Size’ with a.o. Lizan Freijsen, Wandschappen, Rolf Bruggink
  • 2013     HorizonVerticaal, ‘Painting towards the outside edge’ with a.o. Marcel van den Berg, John Blake, Bonno van Doorn, Bas van den Hurk, Wouter Klein Velderman
  • 2013     Gallery Weekend Berlin, ‘Me Amsterdam, You Berlin’ with Galerie Bart
  • 2012     PREVIEW BERLIN with Galerie Bart
  • 2012     Nieuwe Vide, ‘Colour Blocking’ with Susanne Bruynzeel, Fleur van Dodewaard, Esther Tielemans, Pim Trooster and Fabian Westphal
  • 2012     Art Rotterdam with MKgalerie
  • 2011     SWAB Barcelona, La Pan gallery
  • 2011     Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, Graduation exhibition
  • 2011     Movies That Matter Festival, Amnesty International 
  • 2010     Frontviews gallery Berlin, ‘Statics and the Movement in between’
  • 2010     MKgalerie Berlin 
  • 2010     Art Amsterdam with MKgalerie
  • 2010     MKgalerie Rotterdam 2009

 

Solo Exhibitions: 

  • 2022    IE Art Projects (UAE) 
  • 2020    Studio Seine, ‘Night Stars’
  • 2020    Galerie Bart, ‘flatFOLDfoil’
  • 2014     Nhow Hotels, Rotterdam, during international opening
  • 2013     Rijnstate Hospital Arnhem 
  • 2011     Aantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, ‘Into the Unknown’ 
  • 2011     Art Amsterdam with MKgalerie
  • 2011     MKgalerie Berlin 
  • 2011     Art Rotterdam with MKgalerie
  • 2011     MKgalerie Rotterdam, ‘De Tegenruimte’

 

Residencies: 

  • 2021            Vincent van Gogh Huis
  • 2021            Expo Bart
  • 2018–19     Villa Zebra
  • 2014            Espacio Naranjo, Madrid
  • 2011             Pantocrator Gallery, M50, Shanghai
  • 2011             Glogauer Berlin

 

Collections: 

  • Stedelijk Museum Kampen
  • Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
  • Villa Zebra
  • KPMG
  • Kamerik
  • Till Richter Museum
  • Private collections in the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Germany

 

Additional Events:

  • 2021     Minerva Art Academy / Guest lecture
  • Grote Nederlandse Kunst Kalender
  • Temporary Art Centre (TAC),  permanent installation
  • Curator (Master Apprentice program at Kunstpodium T and Salon Salon in Rotterdam)
  • Guest lecturer at Academie Minerva Groningen
  • Guest writer for Trendbeheer
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