MICHAEL BERKHEMER (1948)
ACADEMY OF FINE ART, ARNHEM, THE NETHERLANDS
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
| 1973 |
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1979 Various group and solo exhibitions |
| 1980 |
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Galerie d’Theeboom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1981 |
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Galerie d’Theeboom, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1985 |
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Kunstenaarscentrum Bergen (duo), The Netherlands |
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Stichting Beeldende Kunst, Arnhem (duo), The Netherlands |
| 1986 |
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De Kijkdoos, Bennekom (duo), The Netherlands |
| 1987 |
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Elsevier Bonaventura, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1988 |
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Stichting Passepartout, Lelystad (duo), The Netherlands |
| 1990 |
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Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 |
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Matena en Van Aardenne, Den Haag (duo), The Netherlands |
| 1993 |
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Galerie Cirq, Heusden, (duo), The Netherlands |
| 1994 |
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Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1996 |
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Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1997 |
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Interferenties, Museum Henriëtte Polak, Zutphen, The Netherlands |
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Het Oude Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands |
| 1999 |
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Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam (duo), The Netherlands |
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Nicolette Brink Kunstzaken, Nieuwerbrug (duo), The Netherlands |
| 2000 |
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William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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Galerie Billing Bild, Baar, Switzerland |
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Ingenieurbüro Laqua, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany |
| 2001 |
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Parallele Universien, Gruppe Grün, Bremen (duo), Germany |
| 2004 |
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Galerie Billing Bild, Baar, Switzerland |
| 2005 |
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Galerie Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Museum Waterland, Purmerend, The Netherlands |
| 2007 |
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Galerie Billing Bild, Baar, Switzerland |
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A Print Retrospective, Wildwood Press, St. Louis, MO, USA |
| 2008 |
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2009 Michael Berkhemer, retrospective, Museum Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, The Netherlands |
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Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 1986 |
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Nieuw Perspectief, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1987 |
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Notre Dame des Arts, Ubbergen, The Netherlands |
| 1988 |
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Notre Dame des Arts, Ubbergen, The Netherlands |
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Het Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 |
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Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Aleph, Almere, The Netherlands |
| 1992 |
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Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
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Colour - Matter - Energy, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1993 |
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KunstRai (Galerie Maria Chailloux) Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Stichting 40 - 45, Headquarters Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1994 |
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KunstRai, Colour – Matter – Energy (Galerie Maria Chailloux) Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1995 |
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Bewogen Verleden, Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, The Netherlands |
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Groeten aan Dordrecht, Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands |
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Colour – Matter – Energy, Kunsthalle Oberhausen, Germany |
| 1996 |
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Galerie Jansen en Kooy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Art Multiple, (Galerie Jansen en Kooy) Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Multiples, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Art Fair Stockholm (Galerie Jansen en Kooy) Sweden |
| 1998 |
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Colour – Matter – Energy, Nederlandse Bank and Hoge School van Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2000 |
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Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, USA |
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Into Gold, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands |
| 2000 |
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2005 Represented at Art Fairs in Frankfurt and Cologne (Octagon)Germany |
| 2002 |
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Editions 2002, Chelsea (Wildwood Press) New York, NY, USA |
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Grafiek Nu, Singer Museum, Laren, The Netherlands |
| 2003 |
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Galerie Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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De verborgen Kindertekening, Het Oude Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands |
| 2003 |
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2008 Represented repeatedly at Art Chicago (Wildwood Press, St. Louis, MO), USA |
| 2004 |
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Kunst Zürich (Galerie Billing Bild) Switzerland |
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Galerie Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2005 |
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Kunst Zürich (Galerie Billing Bild) Switzerland |
| 2006 |
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Convoi Exceptionelle, Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Art Amsterdam (Galerie Clement) The Netherlands |
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Galerie Clement, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Flow, Satellite Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach (Wildwood Press) USA |
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Klein Grafiek van Grafiek Nu, Museum de Buitenplaats, Eelde and Voerman Museum, Hattem,
The Netherlands |
| 2007 |
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Art at the Hilton, Dubai, Onderneming en Kunst, Emirate of Dubai |
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Wildwood Press/Ten Years Bennington College Usdan Gallery Bennington, Vermont USA |
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Art Amsterdam (Galerie Clement) The Netherlands |
| 2008 |
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Pulchri, Den Haag, The Netherlands |
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Works in Progress/Prints From Wildwood Press Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa USA Curator Dan Strong |
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Art Chicago 2008 Merchandise Mart Chicago, IL USA |
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Aqua Art Miami Wynwood Distict Miami. Florida USA |
| 2009 |
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Art Chicago 2009 Merchandise Mart Chicago, IL USA |
| 2009 |
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2010 Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam The Netherlands |
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Commissions |
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| 1991 |
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Painting (5 panels), acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm, commissioned for a public space by the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1991 |
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Painting (5 panels), acrylic on canvas, 200 x 200 cm, Antonius Verpleeghuis, IJsselmonde, The Netherlands |
| 1993 |
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Silkscreen, 35 x 30 cm, edition of 10 , Stichting 40 – 45, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1994 |
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Silkscreen, 60 x 46 cm, edition of 175, TC TeamConsult, The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 1995 |
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Installation of 7 Wall Sculptures, 140 x 20 – 110 x 5 cm, acrylic on canvas on wood, Gemeentelijke Geneeskundige en Gezondheidsdienst, City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 |
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Design of the color scheme for the facades of Het Fort, Schilderswijk, The Hague, commissioned by de Principaal via Maria Chailloux, The Netherlands |
| 1999 |
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Installation of 28 Wall Sculptures, gold leaf on wood, 28 x 18 x 2 cm; Painting, acrylic on canvas, 390x 210 cm, Bravilor Bonamat BV, Heerhugowaard, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
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Installation of 11 Wall Sculptures, gold leaf on wood, 90 x 20 x 3 cm, Cruise Ship M.S. Statendam V, commissioned by Onderneming & Kunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
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Installation of Wall Sculptures for three conference rooms: 10 wall sculptures, platinum leaf on wood, 170 x 28 x 3 cm; 10 wall sculptures, gold leaf on wood, 80 x 18 x 3 cm; 13 wall sculptures 80 x 30 x 3 cm, gold leaf on wood, Loyens & Loeff, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
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Two Silkscreens, 74 x 56 cm, edition of 50 each, Royal Nederland Levensverzekeringen, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 2002 |
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Installation of 5 Wall Sculptures, gold leaf on wood, 50 x ? 15 cm, Joost en Marcelle Kuiper-Gerlach, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2003 |
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Installation of Wall Sculptures for three interior spaces: 7 wall sculptures, 130 x 13 x 3 cm; 5 wall sculptures, 60 x 4 x 3 cm; 10 wall sculptures, 30 x 10 x 3; all gold leaf on wood, Cruise Ship Serenade of the Seas, commissioned by London Corporate Art, London, England – Oslo, Norway |
| 2006 |
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Two Paintings, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, 120 x 100 cm, ING Headquarters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2008 |
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Wall Sculpture, oxidated copper leaf on wood, ? 150 x 4 cm, Corporate Collection, The Netherlands
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| 2008 |
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Design for a Wall, silkscreen on aluminium, three parts: 251 x 573 cm, 163 x 160 cm, and 251 x 573 cm, Cruise Ship Solstice, commissioned by International Corporate Art, Oslo, Norway |
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Selected Bibliography |
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N. Scheepmaker, ‘Ik kwam ontzettend kwaaiig van de academie af. Ik ben jarenlang kwaaiig gebleven’, interview with Michael Berkhemer, Avenue, April 1976, pp. 30-33 |
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Eric Beets, ‘‘Magische’ gouaches en ‘Wintertent’ in het KCB’, Alkmaarse Courant, 9 January 1986 |
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F. Op de Coul, ‘Expositie Berkhemer in Heusden. Sterke beleving van materie en vormen’, Brabants Dagblad, 19 April 1993 |
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A. Matena, Bewogen verleden, Zwolle 1995, pp. 18-19 |
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B. Jonckheer, De kunstenaars van AXA-Leven, Den Haag 1996, pp. 4-7 |
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L. Delfgaauw, Bij het werk van Michaël Berkhemer. Interferenties. Schilderijen van Michaël Berkhemer, Zutphen (Museum Henriëtte Polak) 1997 |
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A. den Ridder, ‘Michael Berkhemer exposeert in Museum Henriëtte Polak. Schilden van gestold licht’, Gelders Dagblad, 5 February 1997 |
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R. Kulschewsky, Austragungsort. Verein für Aktuelle Kunst Ruhrgebiet e.v. 1982-1997, Oberhausen 1997, p. 103 |
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R. Adam, C. Robertson, Intaglio: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint, London 2000, pp. 228-229 |
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M. van Ark, Het Fort. Schilderswijk behoudt karakteristiek complex, Den Haag 2000 |
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J. Daniel, ‘Michael Berkhemer, Recent Works on Paper’, Saint Louis Post Dispatch, 30 January 2000 |
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T. Stierli, ‘Abstraktion und Expression,’ Neue Zuger Zeitung, 8 September 2000 |
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F. Hirsch, ‘Make it Big’, Art on Paper, 6 (2001), p. 25 |
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A.W. Lloyd, ‘Art under the Arch’, Art in America, July 2001, pp. 43-47, 112 |
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E. van Uitert, ‘Een kunstschilder die zijn objecten patineert met bladgoud’, Kunstschrift, 45 (2001) 6, pp. 42-45 |
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H.-J. Manske, ’Franz Immoos und Michael Berkhemer’ in: P.-J. Splettstösser, 30 Jahre Gruppe Grün 1971-2001, Bremen 2002, pp. 165-167, 222-4 |
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Grafiek Nu 10, exib. cat. Laren (Singer Museum) 2002, p. 34 |
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Royal Nederland. Kunstcollectie, 2002/03, Utrecht 2003, pp. 13-15 |
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M. Visser, ‘Serenade of the Seas’, Kunstbeeld, 9 (2003) p. VI |
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R. Ayers, ‘Art Basel Miami: The new fairs, part 2: Flow’, www.artinfo.com, 8 December 2006, |
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klein Grafiek van Grafiek Nu , exhib. cat. Eelde, (Museum de Buitenplaats) / Hattem (Voerman Museum) 2006/07, p. 12 |
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C. Homburg, ‘I am not a printmaker, I am a painter who makes prints’, and J. Klein, Interview with Michael Berkhemer in: Michael Berkhemer: A Print Retrospective, St. Louis MO, USA (Wildwood Press) 2007 |
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C. Homburg (ed.), Michael Berkhemer, with essays by C. Homburg, E. van Uitert, interview by J. Klein, eng/ned, 160 ps, 2008, Waanders Publishers, ISBN 978-90-400-8520-8 |
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