Willem Harbers

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Intro

Intro

“Yes, that is something that intrigues me about your work as well. Maybe you’re not a “mad scientist” after all, but rather an archaeologist of sorts who has come from the distant future, bringing with him material remains or “evidence” from our contemporary civilization which he dug up somewhere in an effort to understand mankind in the early twenty-first century. Because this man from the future has to somehow identify meanings, functions, and connections—which is not always possible from the remote future perspective—he has to invent them anew based on the few bits and pieces of information that he has already. I guess that’s why your work sometimes appears both archaic and futuristic at the same time. And that’s where I can see affinities between your works and those of Panamarenko and Auke de Vries. You all seem to be talking about contemporary society from a more or less outside position, as though you were looking at us from an entirely different perspective and commenting on the absurdities you discover in our culture, trying to figure us out—but not really grasping everything, so that your perspective is somewhat off. But this being “off” is what makes the works so fascinating. That’s what makes your works appear so “in between.” Maybe that’s why they can be read in so many different ways, on so many different levels…”

Gérard Goodrow 2019   More info

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Mondriaan fund

In 2021 the Mondriaan Fund awarded me grand for the coming 4 years.
So let’s do new projects together!
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Education

’94 – ’95
Accademia di belle Arti Carrara, Italy

’89 – ’93
Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam

’87 – ’89
Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam

Facts

2021
Artist Basic Grand from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam

2007
Basisstipendium from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam

2001
Basisstipendium from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam

1997
Winner contest young sculptors, Beeldenhof Sculpture, Asten

’94-’95
Stipendium Cultural Treaty with Italy, work and study year in Carrara, Italy

’94-’95
Working period at the Art Academy, Den Bosch, participant “Processes at Work” Den Bosch

1994
Startstipendium from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam

1994
studio and stipendium EKWC for young artists, Den Bosch

1993
Project at Studio Artland Paris, France

Pers

Press

Catalogs

2023
Die Grosse catalogus 2023
2023
Artzuid catalogus 2023
2022
Sculpture Park Anningahof: Sculptures 2022
2021
Ostrale O21: Atemwende/Breathturn
2019
Willem Harbers: “Be a Category…”
2019
The Project Gallery Athens: “Still Alive”
2017
Künstlerverein Walkmühle: “Naturliebe – erneuerbare Haltungen”
2016
Ostrale”O16: ERROR:X
2013
“Die Grosse”, Museum Kunstpallast Düsseldorf
2012
Willem Harbers “Labogrigneur ve uydu isler”
2011
Willem Harbers “Langzame Beelden in een Snelle Tijd”
Willem Harbers “Slow Sculptures in Speedy Times”
2009
Réalités Nouvelles
2009
non-crossovers
2005
Die 3. Dimension, Skulptur aktuell
2005
Beeldenhof Sculpture
2005
Borne
2001
Beeldenhof Sculpture
2000
De Walkuren
2000
’30 visions on Water’
1999
Beeldenhof Sculpture
1998
De Bestemming

Publications

2023
“Kleurexplosies op Artzuid” Review Paola van de Velde  in De Telegraaf

2021
“Like cyborg images from the body horror genre” Review Edo Dijksterhuis in Het Parool

2020
“Courage and Craftsmanship in 8 works of art” Art Viewer

2018
“Het Feilloze Systeem” Mister Motley

2017
“The Secret Life of machines” IQBeaute magazine

2013
“Somewhere in Between” interview op Limburg TV

2013
Interview met Willem Harbers: “Marmer is volkomen zichzelf”

2012
FD “Een goed verhaal kan je maken of breken”

2012
Interview EKAVART TV, Turkije

2011
Kunst van de Dag

2011
Els Noorduyn en Talent, magazine

2011
Artikel Trouw

2009
Artikel Trouw

2009
Jordaan & Gouden Reael

2009
De Echo

2007
Eindhovens Dagblad

2005
Noord Hollands Dagblad

Docent/Masterclasses

Docent/Masterclasses/lezingen

2018-now
Teacher MKXtra Art Academy Spatial. see MKXtra academie.
2017-2019
Teacher Minerva Art Academy Groningen “Spatial”. see Minerva Art Academy
2015-now
Masterclass Thinking 3D o.a. at Artzuid. see Artzuid
2007-now
Teacher MKstart preparatory year Spatial. see MKstart
2005-now
Teacher MK24 sculpture. see MK24
2000-now
Lectures and Artist Talks o.a. “The Way the Marble Travels”.  see oa Amsterdam Museum and Galery Zilberman

More info see contact

Links

Links

MIART art fair
Milano Italia.
Kunstadvies Hanneke Janssen
Eindhoven Netherlands.
Donopoulos International Fine Arts
Thessaloniki, Griekenland.
Galerie Franzis Engels
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Galeri Zilberman
Istanbul, Turkije.
Artfacts
Home of the Artist Ranking, the world’s largest Art database.
galleryviewer.com
the online art platform about contemporary artists and their leading galleries in the Netherlands

www.kunstkoop.nl
Platform professional galleries in the Netherlands.
KunstRAI
The art fair for contemporary art in Amsterdam
PAN Amsterdam
The national art and antique fair
Art Düsseldorf
The contemporary art fair of the Ruhrgebiet in Germany
Art Karlsruhe
One of the most important Art fairs in Germany today
Art Athina
The artfair for contemporary art in Greece.
MK24
The institute in Amsterdam for visual arts courses, with two courses by Willem. Have a look!!
Mondriaan Fonds
The Foundation in the Netherlands for Visual Arts.

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