RESET I and MODERNISM
Sept 5 – Nov 28, 2015
Frank Ammerlaan (*1979, geboren in den Niederlanden, lebt und arbeitet in London)
Frank Ammerlaan ist Maler, arbeitet parallel jedoch seit einigen Jahren auch medienübergreifend mit Skulptur, Fotografie und Video. Ammerlaan studierte an der Gerrit Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam und am Royal College of Art in London. Sein Werk wurde mit verschiedenen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter der Scheffer Prize (2013), der Royal Prize of Painting, der Land Securities Prize RCA, der Doha Studio Art Prize (alle 2012) und der Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize (2007).
Die Bilder von Frank Ammerlaan entstehen an den Randzonen zwischen Medien, Materialien und Prozessen. So verwendet er oft fluoreszierende, metallische Flüssigkeiten und Chemikalien, die seine Werke wie Öllachen schillern lassen. Mit ihren undeutlichen Oberflächen ziehen sie den Blick an, bieten ihm jedoch keinen Halt durch ein zentrales Sujet.
Dabei sind Ammerlaans Werke keine abstrakten Gemälde. Weder konstruiert er seine Bilder nach einem vorgefassten Plan, noch benutzt er den Malprozess, um ein wiedererkennbares, charakteristisches Ergebnis zu reproduzieren. Ammerlaan testet aus, was Malerei kann und wie sie ihm dabei helfen kann, seinen Ideen und Fragen über die Welt nachzuforschen. Ihn interessiert das Verhältnis zwischen dem Nicht-Darstellbaren, dem Sublimen und der inneren Schönheit natürlicher Reaktionen.
„Das Interesse des Künstlers am Nicht-Darstellbaren und Unbekannten ist komplexer und verwickelter: Während sein Misstrauen gegenüber jeglicher Form von Autorität ein subtiles politisches Statement ist, agiert er ebenso zögerlich in Bezug auf romantischere Formen von Sublimität wie etwa die Natur.“
– Snejana Krasteva
Studium
2002 College for Wood and Furniture Amsterdam
2007 BA Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam, Fine Art Department
2012 MA Royal College of Art, London, Painting Department
Duo / Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 Frank Ammerlaan, Particles of Dust, Upstream gallery Amsterdam
2016 Frank Ammerlaan, MOONLESS, Bosse & Baum Gallery, London 8th April
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, Outside the wireframe, SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brasil
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, The Extended Arms of the Transom, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, Faith by Proxy, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, ABC, Berlin
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, Christopher Crescent, Brussels, with Salome Ghazanfari
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, Reforming Intervals, Laure Genillard, London
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, Dordrechts Museum, The Scheffer Award
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, MACC Museo d’Arte Conteporanea, Calasetta, Italy
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, The Armory Show, New York
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, A+B, 4 windmill Street gallery, London
2012 Frank Ammerlaan, Day’s End, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam
2011 Frank Ammerlaan, Unlit, PS Project Space, Amsterdam
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2017 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2016 Sparkling like the surface of the ocuan at night, Garage, Rotterdam
2016 RESET II, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016 Snipers Choir, SNAP Lion, France by PS Project Space
2016 Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2015 From a painter’s perspective, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2015 Transformer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Desire of the Other, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
2015 Reset 1, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2015 1 (um), Boatos BFA, São Paulo
2015 Open Studio’s, Pivô, São Paulo
2015 Absence, (Looking for Hammershøi), David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2014 Alchemy, NEST, NL
2014 PS 1999-2014, 15 years anniversary exhibition
2014 KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Some Things Perishable, NEST, NL
2014 Projections, Art Rotterdam
2014 Academy Now, Bologna, Italy
2013 Love Illumination, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2013 ArtInternational, Istanbul
2013 Open Cube, White Cube Gallery, Mason’s Yard, London
2013 Every bird brings a different melody to the garden, Harrington Way, London
2013 Concrete Fragments, Morgan Concrete, London
2013 They died with their boots on, Teksas, Denmark
2012 Painting without paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2012 Nature / Structure, Upstream gallery @ Dutch Design Week
2012 Royal Award for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam
2012 Co/Lab, Los Angeles with PS Project Space
2012 Stereopsis, Tannery Arts, Drawing Room, London
2012 Land of the seven moles, PS Project Space, Amsterdam
2012 Graduation Show, Royal College Of Art
2012 Mapping the horizon, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2011 New Space, Boetzelaer | Nispen Gallery, London
2011 Royal Award of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2011 Zomeratelier 2011, CBK Zeeland
2011 Interim Show, Royal College of Art
2011 Life is elsewhere, The Crypt Gallery, London
2011 PEP, Post-Museum, Singapore
2010 Royal Award of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2010 UND#6, Schwartz Gallery, London
2010 Derivation, Skånes konstförening Malmö, Sweden
2010 Art blossom, Brug 9, Amsterdam
2010 Magnitude, ALPINEUM produzentengalerie Luzern
2010 Amsterdam-Berlin, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2010 Marsupial, Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2009 Let’s Take It Outside, De Service Garage, Amsterdam
2009 Royal Prize of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2009 Quantumvis 5, Rc De Ruimte & De Service Garage
2009 UND#5, Nice, France
2009 Power to the paint, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2009 .NL, DREI, Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Köln, Germany
Auszeichnungen
2013 De Scheffer Award, The Netherlands
2013 Residency Fondazione MACC Museo d’Arte Conteporanea, Calasetta, Italy
2012 Royal Award for Painting The Netherlands ’12 / Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst
2012 Land Securities Studio Award, Royal College of Art, London, Graduation Show
2010-2012 Fonds BKVB/Mondriaan Fonds, Studiebeurs buitenland / Study bursary abroad
2010 Hendrik Muller Fonds
2009 Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB / Mondriaan Fonds
2009 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
2007 Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize, Graduation Show
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Frank Ammerlaan (*1979, born in the Netherlands, lives and works in London)
Frank Ammerlaan is a painter, but for the past few years he has also worked across various media with sculpture, photography and video. Ammerlaan studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademy in Amsterdam and at the Royal College of Art in London. His work has received a number of awards, including the Scheffer Prize (2013), the Royal Prize of Painting, the Land Securities Prize RCA, the Doha Studio Art Prize (all in 2012) and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize (2007).
The images produced by Ammerlaan are created on the fringes between media, materials and processes. He often uses fluorescent, metallic liquids and chemicals that make his works shimmer like pools of oil. Their indistinguishable surfaces draw the viewer’s gaze without providing a central subject as a point of reference.
Ammerlaan’s works are, nevertheless, not abstract paintings. He neither constructs his images according to a preconceived plan, nor does he use the painting process to reproduce a recognisable characteristic result. Ammerlaan experiments with what painting can do and how it can help him to explore his ideas and questions about the world. He is interested in the relationship between the unrepresentable, the sublime and the inner beauty of natural reactions.
”The artist’s interest in the unrepresentable and unknown is complex and convoluted: While his mistrust of all forms of authority is a subtle political statement, he reacts just as hesitantly when it comes to more romantic forms of sublimity, such as nature.”
– Snejana Krasteva
Education
2002 College for Wood and Furniture Amsterdam
2007 BA Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy Amsterdam, Fine Art Department
2012 MA Royal College of Art, London, Painting Department
Solo / Duo exhibitions (selection)
2017 Frank Ammerlaan, Particles of Dust, Upstream gallery Amsterdam
2016 Frank Ammerlaan, MOONLESS, Bosse & Baum Gallery, London 8th April
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, Outside the wireframe, SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brasil
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, The Extended Arms of the Transom, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2015 Frank Ammerlaan, Faith by Proxy, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, ABC, Berlin
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, Christopher Crescent, Brussels, with Salome Ghazanfari
2014 Frank Ammerlaan, Reforming Intervals, Laure Genillard, London
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, Dordrechts Museum, The Scheffer Award
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, MACC Museo d’Arte Conteporanea, Calasetta, Italy
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, The Armory Show, New York
2013 Frank Ammerlaan, A+B, 4 windmill Street gallery, London
2012 Frank Ammerlaan, Day’s End, Upstream Gallery Amsterdam
2011 Frank Ammerlaan, Unlit, PS Project Space, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions (selection)
2017 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2016 Sparkling like the surface of the ocuan at night, Garage, Rotterdam
2016 RESET II, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2016 Snipers Choir, SNAP Lion, France by PS Project Space
2016 Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2015 From a painter’s perspective, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2015 Transformer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2015 Desire of the Other, Annka Kultys Gallery, London
2015 Reset 1, Priska Pasquer Gallery, Cologne
2015 1 (um), Boatos BFA, São Paulo
2015 Open Studio’s, Pivô, São Paulo
2015 Absence, (Looking for Hammershøi), David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2014 Alchemy, NEST, NL
2014 PS 1999-2014, 15 years anniversary exhibition
2014 KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Some Things Perishable, NEST, NL
2014 Projections, Art Rotterdam
2014 Academy Now, Bologna, Italy
2013 Love Illumination, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2013 ArtInternational, Istanbul
2013 Open Cube, White Cube Gallery, Mason’s Yard, London
2013 Every bird brings a different melody to the garden, Harrington Way, London
2013 Concrete Fragments, Morgan Concrete, London
2013 They died with their boots on, Teksas, Denmark
2012 Painting without paint, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2012 Nature / Structure, Upstream gallery @ Dutch Design Week
2012 Royal Award for Painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam
2012 Co/Lab, Los Angeles with PS Project Space
2012 Stereopsis, Tannery Arts, Drawing Room, London
2012 Land of the seven moles, PS Project Space, Amsterdam
2012 Graduation Show, Royal College Of Art
2012 Mapping the horizon, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2011 New Space, Boetzelaer | Nispen Gallery, London
2011 Royal Award of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2011 Zomeratelier 2011, CBK Zeeland
2011 Interim Show, Royal College of Art
2011 Life is elsewhere, The Crypt Gallery, London
2011 PEP, Post-Museum, Singapore
2010 Royal Award of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2010 UND#6, Schwartz Gallery, London
2010 Derivation, Skånes konstförening Malmö, Sweden
2010 Art blossom, Brug 9, Amsterdam
2010 Magnitude, ALPINEUM produzentengalerie Luzern
2010 Amsterdam-Berlin, Forgotten Bar, Berlin
2010 Marsupial, Supermarket Art Fair, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2009 Let’s Take It Outside, De Service Garage, Amsterdam
2009 Royal Prize of Painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2009 Quantumvis 5, Rc De Ruimte & De Service Garage
2009 UND#5, Nice, France
2009 Power to the paint, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2009 .NL, DREI, Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Köln, Germany
Awards
2013 De Scheffer Award, The Netherlands
2013 Residency Fondazione MACC Museo d’Arte Conteporanea, Calasetta, Italy
2012 Royal Award for Painting The Netherlands ’12 / Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst
2012 Land Securities Studio Award, Royal College of Art, London, Graduation Show
2010-2012 Fonds BKVB/Mondriaan Fonds, Studiebeurs buitenland / Study bursary abroad
2010 Hendrik Muller Fonds
2009 Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB / Mondriaan Fonds
2009 Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
2007 Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize, Graduation Show
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RESET II AND FUTURISM
Sep 3, 2016 – Jan 21, 2017