Barbara broekman

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ABOUT

Barbara Broekman (Amsterdam, 1955) creates monumental artworks based on textile patterns and techniques. In her work she examines the relation between art, textiles and universal human themes such as love, loss, repression and conflict. Her work places the personal experience in a larger context. Dazzling compositions zoom in and out on life, from micro level to the entire universe. Her work is always related to the world around her, in subject as well as working methods, and transcends the boundaries between autonomous and applied art. Time consuming processes as well as a close collaboration with clients and specialised craftsmen are an essential part of her work. Broekman was trained in textile art at the Rietveld Academy and the California College of Arts, Berkeley, USA. Her work has been collected by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Museum, the Textiel Museum in Tilburg and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York.

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Curriculum Vitae

BARBARA BROEKMAN (1955)

Education

1978 - 1982 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam

Textile Arts, Textiles Department

1980 - 1981 California College of Arts, Berkeley, Ca. USA

MFA, Textiles Department

Large scale commissions ( selected )

Hotel Arena, University of Amsterdam, Law faculty, Arti et Amicitiae, Palace of Justice Amsterdam

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital Amsterdam

Exhibitions

2018 KunstRai, My Second Skin (solo)

Museum Gorkum, voor de draad ermee (group)

Amsterdam Museum, DE MOOISTE STAD, Amsterdam door de ogen van

Eberhard van der Laan (group)

WGKunst-De Hallen, Amsterdam, Op Drift (solo)

CODA, Apeldoorn, The beauty of the Battle (group)

2017 Galerie Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, A smart girl is prepared (for her

future), (duo Barbara Broekman and Tinkebell)

Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Sits, katoen in bloei (group).

2016 Kranenburg, Bergen, Nauw verweven (group)

Kunstmaand Ameland, Reformed church of Ballum (solo)

Provinciehuis Haarlem, Dreef exposities: averechts (group)

CODA, Apeldoorn, Vernieuwd Verleden (group)

Gallery vriend van Bavink, Macht - 2016 (group)

2015 Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk (solo)

City Hall, Amsterdam (solo)

2014 Amsterdam Museum My Town: a celebration of diversity (on view

permanently)

Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag Zomerexpo (group)

Delta Lloyd (solo)

Object Rotterdam (solo)

Hotel Arena (solo)

38CC Repeat 2.0 (group)

Realisme (groep)

Galerie De Oranjerie (solo)

2013 Menno Kroon (group)

Arti et Amicitiae Arti Salon (group)

Hotel Arena (solo)

Textielmuseum Eyes on nature: wall hangings (group)

2012 - 2013 Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam: My Town: a celebration of diversity (solo)

2012 Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle: FundatieFusions: Open Mouths (solo)

Paleis Oranienbaum, Oranienbaum Germany: Dutch Design and the house

of Orange (group)

Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag Zomerexpo (group) winner 1st prize

Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam (solo)

Realisme, Amsterdam (group)

Shell, Amsterdam, The Hague (solo)

Zand, Eindhoven (solo)

2011 Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg: The making off (groep)

Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam: Tast-Zin Artists and their use of materials

(group) Concept, organisation, realisation, finances by Barbara Broekman

Art - Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam (solo)

Inside Design, Amsterdam (solo)

Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam (solo)

Espace Enny, Laagkeppel (solo)

De Centrale, Groesbeek (solo)

2010 Galerie Zand, Eindhoven (solo)

Espace Enny, Laag Keppel (group)

ArtAntique, Utrecht (solo)

Delta Lloyd, Amsterdam (solo)

OHRA, Arrnhem(solo)

Galerie Rademakers ‘Mixed Motifs’ (solo)

2009 Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Den Bosch ‘Faith’ (solo)

Friesland Bank, Leeuwarden (solo)

2008 De Rijp ‘Kunst op Kamers’ (group)

Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg ‘From Labyrinth till big Mama’ (group)

PAN – Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam, Art Amsterdam

2007 Flatland Gallery (solo) & ‘Exotica’ (group)

Art Rotterdam, Art Paris, Art Brussels, Art Amsterdam, Paris Show Off

Galerie Majke Hüsstege (duo)

2006 PAN Amsterdam (group)

2005 Galerie Binnen (Solo)

2003 – 2004 Embroiderers’ Guild, ‘Art of the Stitch’ (travelling group exhibition)

Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead (UK), Textile Museum Tilburg (NL), Hall

Place, Bexley (UK)

2002 FAXX, Stage for Contemporary Art, Tilburg (solo)

2001 4th Triennial of Tapestry and Industrial Textile Design, Tournai (BE)

‘Le Textile Néerlandais’ exhibition on Dutch Contemporary Textiles (group)

2000 Gallery Thema, Bordeaux (solo)

1998 FAXX, stage for contemporary art, Tilburg

10 works of art created for the City of Tilburg

International Textile Triennial, Lódz, Poland (group)

Kunsthal Rotterdam / the Fund for the Visual Arts, Design and

Architecture

‘Viewpoints’, 10 years of Dutch Design (group)

1997 Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg

‘Portrait of Barbara Broekman 1982–1997’ (solo)

Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem

‘Lamination in Color’ (solo)

16 wall tapestries from the series ‘Mother and Child’

1996 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

‘Two series’ (duo)

Exhibition featuring eight wall tapestries

1993 Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg

‘Description’ (solo)

1991 Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris, France

7th International Festival du Lin (group)

1990 German Textile Museum, Krefeld, Germany

‘Dutch Textile from 1923 till present’ (group)

1989 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

‘14 Designs for ‘De Ploeg’

Museum of Modern Arts, Gent, Belgium

‘14 Designs for ‘De Ploeg’

1988 Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg

‘From Sketch to Product’

Singer Museum, Laren (group)