biography of Rob Voerman
Rob Voerman
1966 born in Deventer
Lives and works in Arnhem
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (NL)
Stedelijk Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen (NL)
2008 Art Brussels (stand Upstream Gallery)
2007 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
“Tarnung,” Bregenzer Kunstverein/Magazin 4, Bregenz (A)
“Rob Voerman. Grafiek/Installation,” Flevodruk, Harderwijk (NL)
2006 “Rob Voerman: Bad Buildings, Good Spaces,” Architectural Association,
London (including presentation of installation on Bedford Square)
“Off Centre,” commission for temporary public sculpture/installation,
Art Council of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
2005 Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 “Building Backwards”, Rhodes+Mann, London
UCLA Hammer Museum, “Hammer Projects”, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2010 “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)
2009 “Modernism as a Ruin,” Generali Foundation, Vienna (curator: Sabine 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 Contemporary 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.)
2008 “Apocalyptic Landscapes,” Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Biennale “Art Grandeur Nature,” Paris (presentation of public sculpture,
curator: Olivier Marboeuf))
Bodhi Berlin, Halle am Wasser, Berlin (curator: Shaheen Merali)
2007 NADA Art fair, Miami (stand Upstream Gallery)
“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
2006 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (new acquisitions)
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)
2005 NADA Art Fair, Miami (stand Upstream Gallery)
Euregio Kunstpreis, Museum Katharinenhof, Kranenburg (D)
“Situaties/Laboratorium Flevoland,” Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (NL)
Museum Braenderigaarden, Viborg (DK)
2004 Taiwan Museum of Modern Art, Taipei
“The Beginning of the World,” Cell Project Space, London
2003 Kunstverein Kohlenhof, Nürnberg (D)
International Print Center, New York
Awards
2001 The Presse Papier Invitation Award, Québec (CDN)
2nd Prize Kwak & Van Daalen & Ronday Printmaking Award
2002 Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, 2002, Paris
2005 1st Prize Euregio Award, 2005
2007 1st Prize Printmaking Award, Province of Gelderland
2010 Winner Jeanne Oosting Award 2010
Residency
2002 Delfina Project Space, London (3 months)
2005 Galerie Hermann & Wagner, Berlin (2 months)
Collections (selection)
Museum of Modern Art, New York
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Deutsche Bank
Generali Foundation
Speyer Family Collection, New York
KKR Office Collection, New York
Matteo Rossini Art Collection, Milan
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn
Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen
E-1 Nation Collection, Amsterdam
Collection Brown
Plancius Collection
ABN-Amro Bank
artcollection KPN
Achmea kunstcollectie
Rabobank
Arcadis
Province of Gelderland
And other collections in The Netherlands and abroad
Publications (selection)
2010 "Aftermath, Installations, Sculptures, Works on Paper", with contributions from
Sabine Folie, David van der Leer and Tim Nolet, Published by Valiz Publishers
(www.valiz.nl)
2009 Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss (eds.), Spacecraft 2:
More Fleeting Architecture and Hideouts, Berlin: Gestalten Verlag
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 Contemporay Art, Peekskill, NY
Stressed Spaces, KW14, Den Bosch (NL)
2007 Rob Voerman: Grafiek/Installaties, Harderwijk: Flevodruk Harderwijk, text by
Gretchen Wagner
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
2006 Rob Voerman: A Vernacular of Life, London: AA Publications, text by
Anselm Franke
MERZ, Bregenz: Bregenzer Kunstverein; Magazin 4
2004 UCLA Hammer Museum "Hammer Projects", Los Angeles,
text by Aaron Betsky
Other
2008 Guest-teacher, Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen (NL)
Guest-teacher, Royal Academy of Art, the Hague (NL)
Lecturer, Stroom, The Hague (NL)
2006 Workshop Stage Design, Universität der Künste, Berlin
Lecturer, 2YK-Galerie, Berlin
Lecturer, Architectural Association, London
2003–2005 Lecturer, Sculpture, ArtEZ, Arnhem (NL)
2003 Guest-teacher, University of California, Los Angeles