Harmen Brethouwer

Born 1960

Education:

1979 - 1980  CABK, Kampen

1980 - 1984  ABK, Arnhem

Selected exhibitions:

• 2024    "Traditie als Werkplaats", Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, (solo)

• 2021    "Meanderlust", Hidde van Seggelen, Hamburg (solo)

• 2015 "Design Derby, Netherlands - Belgium (1815 - 2015)", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (group)

• 2013 "Old School", Hidde van Seggelen Gallery, London (solo)

• 2013 "Hand Made", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (group)

• 2012 "Through an open window, Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection", Institut Néerlandais, Paris (group)

• 2011 "Reading Pictures: Text and Image in Contemporary Art", Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, USA (group)

• 2009 "SuperStories", 2nd triennial of contemporary art, fashion and design, Hasselt (group)

• 2008 "Wish for Peace", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo) 

• 2008 "On Superfluous Things", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)

• 2003    "Lautloses Irren", Postbahnhof, Berlin, curated by Harm Lux (group)

• 2003    "Art Deco", Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)

• 2001    "Precious Objects", Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden (solo)

• 2001    "Locus Focus", Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem (group)

• 2001 "Mobile Wall System", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (group)

• 1999    "Fighting Crickets", Stately Home of Oud-Amelisweerd / Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)

• 1998    "From Foreign Shores", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (group)

• 1997 "Chinoiseries", Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (solo)

Selected publications:

• 2024    Harmen Brethouwer, "Scratching Lacquer", with an essay by Monika Kopplin, Hidde van Seggelen, ISBN 978-3-9819511-5-8

• 2022 Harmen Brethouwer, "Exquisite Corpse", with an essay by Michael Young, Hidde van Seggelen, ISBN 978-3-9819511-3-4

• 2009 Harmen Brethouwer, "False Abstracts", with an essay by Hans den Hartog Jager, De Zwaluw Publishers, ISBN 9789077794487 (sold out)

• 2008 Harmen Brethouwer et al., "On Superfluous Things", De Zwaluw Publishers, ISBN 9789077794227 (sold out)

Work in collections:

• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

• Centraal Museum, Utrecht

• Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar

• Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem

• Lisser Art Museum, Lisse

• Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag

• Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht

• Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville

• AkzoNobel Art Foundation

• De Nederlandsche Bank

• Rabo Art Collection

• private collections Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, UK, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, USA