BEREND STRIK
Born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands,1960
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Education
2001 Artist in residence, Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
1998–2000 International Studio Program, New York, NY
1986–1988 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Copilot, Voice and Vision, Galerie Fons Welters, The Netherlands
2021 The Needles with Deciphering the Artist’s Mind, Galerie Fons Welters, The Netherlands
2020 Short Summer Special, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 The Classics: Tom Claassen, Job Koelewijn, Maria Roosen & Beren Strik, Galerie Fons Welters,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 ONE WORK: Berend Strik, Deciphering the Artist’s Mind, EENWERK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Redefining Realness, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Decipher the Artist’s Mind, Stephane Simoens, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2014 Decipher the Artist’s Mind, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Studio in the Studio, Heden, The Hague, The Netherlands
Exhibiting the Studio, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Exhibiting the Studio, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Crushed, Stitched and Transfixed, Oslo Museum, Gallery IKM, Norway
Tumbled Topics, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
2010 May I Show You My Pictures, Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Strik / Siza, New Orleans, Vesteda, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Transfixed, Stitched Photographs, Blindarte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2009 Berend Strik, Galerie Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Thixotropy, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Berend Strik, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Lascivious Fortification, Shadow and Light, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
TexStyle, Blindarte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2004 Body Electric, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Free Style (New works by Berend Strik), Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 Ssssnnnniiiiffffff, Kabinett, Zürich, Switzerland
Art Basel Miami Beach Art Positions, Miami, FL
Binz 39, with One Architecture, Zürich, Switzerland
2001 Reproductive Rights are Human Rights, Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
2000 How did you dare scratch my white delicate chest?, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999 Projectroom, with Adam Kalkin, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Good Morning Herbert, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
In the Tree, International Studio Program, New York, NY
1998 Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Berend Strik & One Architecture, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
1997 But you... but you... but you are blinded by reality, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 Galerie Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
Sadness, Sluices, Mermaids, Delay, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4 Melon Chorals, Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
1992 Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991 Pas de Deux, with Hans van Houwelingen, H.C.A.K. Den Haag, The Netherlands
1990 Vliegenthart, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989 Beelden, Galerie ’t Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Group Exhibitions
2024 33 1/3 RPM, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Heem, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2023 Seth Siegelaub: When, What, How, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy
The Clown Spirit, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, IT’Zero and Other Heroes’, Paviljoen Welgelegen,
Haarlem,NL’Pays-Bas, l’autre pays des beaux-arts’, Centre D’art Contemporain, Meymac, France
2022 A Perfect Day, NDSM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Salon Hang 24/7, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Selected Works, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2020 When We First Arrived…, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C.
2018 Ars longa, vita brevis, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rendez Vous, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Who Are We Again, Arti & Amicitiea, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paradisio, The Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Forever Young?, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 The Raft Art is (not) Lonely, Mu.Zee, Oostende, Belgium
2015 Metamorphoses: Ovid in Contemporary Art, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands
2014 Reload, Biennale Gelderland, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Zomeren op de buitenplaats, Buitenplaats Beeckestijn, Velsen Zuid, The Netherlands
Threads: Textile in art & design, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, The Netherlands
2013 Kanaal 2013, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, The Netherlands
Wit – fotografie, kunst, design, mode, film, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Dread – Fear in the age of technological acceleration, curated by Juha van ’t, Zelfde, De Hallen,
Haarlem, The Netherlands
The Studio and the Studio, with Juha van ’t Zelfde, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hand Made: Long Live Crafts, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012 Through an open window, Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection, L’Institut Neérlandais,
Paris, France
Paralen in de Kunst, Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Collection presentation, SCHUNCK, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Figuurlijk, Museum Hilversum, The Netherlands
Topsy Turvy, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Valéry Proust Museum / White Cube Fever, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
Scenery, het landschap in de 21e eeuw, 37 PK, Haarlem, The Netherlands
I promise to love you, Caldic Collection, Kunstal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010 Acquisitions, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Perfect Solitude, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Just love me, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Declared Unobscene, Glasmuseum, Leerdam, The Netherlands
Een mooi ding, Museum Hilversum, The Netherlands
The Cassini Cuise II, Appr. Bouillonstraat 14, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2009 Redefining Landscape, Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Gagarin: the Artists in their own words (The First Decade), SMAK, Gent, Belgium
In Stitches, Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Towing the Line, Drawing Space (40 Dutch artists defining the moment in Holland), White Box,
New York, NY
Zwervende tentoonstelling #14 (Monologue Interieur), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The New Collection, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Group show, curated by Eva Kolarik, Art Prague, Czech Republic
Ruhezeit Abgelaufen, Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
The Cassini Cruise, Gubbelstraat 38, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 New Media, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium
PLATFORM PARADISE, Einhawd, Israel
Black is Beautiful, Stedelijk museum in De Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SWAF (Puber über Alles!), Kunsteyessen, Alkmaar, The Netherlands
Mooi Niet, Collectie Museum Het Domein, Gourvernement, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2007 Video Vortex 2, OOG, Montevideo/Time based arts, Pri>Material Matters, Kunsthallen Brandts
Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2002 Kritische Utopisten, Stroom hcbk, The Hague, The Netherlands
Material Matters, Norrköping Kunst Museum, Norrköping, Sweden
Hiroshima Art Document, Hiroshima, Japan
Life in a Glasshouse, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
No I.D., Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai, India
Land, Steigereiland-Noord, IJburg, Stichting Drei Birken auf der Heide, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
It’s Unfair, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
2001 Stemming from movement, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Bollywood has arrived, Passenger Terminal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Presentation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Pleidooi voor intuïtie, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Biennale de Lyon, France
1999 Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tales of the Tip. Art on garbage, voormalige vuilnisbelt/former garbage dump Bavel, Breda,
The Netherlands
Trouble Spot. Painting, MUHKA/NICC, Antwerp T’Z’Art, New York, NY
1998 Vous Etes Ici: silkscream series, Kunstraum Neue Kunst, Hanover, Germany
1997 The People’s Choice, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Positions < 40, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, The Netherlands
In de collectie, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Het Eigen Gezicht. Rijksakademie 1986–1997, een keuze van Auke de Vries, Museum Beelden aan
Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Loose Urbanism, NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Wat af is, is niet gemaakt, Utrechtse School, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Welcome back to the human race, Peninsula, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1996 The Other Self, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
Abendland, Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Münster, The Netherlands
Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
1995 Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Other Self, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Vandehra Gallery, New Delhi, India
1994 Rendez-vous provoqué, Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxemburg
Rendez-vous provoqué, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Het Grote Gedicht. Nederlandse beeldhouwkunst 1945–1994, Grote Kerk, The Hague, The Netherlands
Casco Show, Stichting Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands, with Adam Kalkin
Borduren 2000, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
1993 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Scuola, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice, Italy
Dutch: Phillip Akkeman, Henri Jacobs, Joep van Lieshout, Berend Strik, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Du fil à repeindre, FRAC, Montpellier, France
1992 Mssr B’s Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Welcome Stranger, Stadhouderskade 112, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
UNFAIR (Art Cologne), Galerie Fons Welters, Cologne, Germany
1990 A Collection, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989 Mik, Leijenaar, Strik, Museum ’t Kruithuis, Den Bosch ‘Capital Gains’, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
1988 Een Grote Activiteit, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987 Capital Gains, De Zaak, Groningen, The Netherlands
Awards
2015 Elisabeth van Thuringen Prijs
1993 Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Bonn
1990 Charlotte Köhler Prijs
1987 Prix de Rome, 2e Prijs Beeldhouwen
Projects and Residencies
2018 Livingstone Projects Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013 Waterlandplein Amsterdam
2007/2009 Josef, One Architecture. Deventer
2006 Herdenkings Rembrandt munt, 10 euro, 5 euro, Ministerie van Financien, Den Haag
Postzegel Berend Strik, TPG Post, 39 eurocent 2006
3, drie glas in lood ramen , Gemeente Huis Gorinchem
2006/2010 Waterlandplein, Amsterdam, 9 Butterflies
2006/2009 Villa Industria, Regevterrein, Hilversum
2004 Vita Nova, director chamber opera ; Korzo Den-Haag, t’Venster St. Jan , Maastricht,
Grand theater Groningen
2003–2004 Buxus 48, Veldhuizen, Leidsche Rijn
2003 Vivaldi (Drentepark), Zuidas
1999–2004 House of Hearts (Tourette-twin dwelling), with One Architecture
2002 Jan Schaefer-monument (animation, 3 min), SWD, Amsterdam
1997–2000 Jimi Hendrix-monument, Vredenburg, Utrecht
1997–1998 The Wondrous I (film), with Janica Draisma:
- Dans op Drie (tv, Nederland 3), 1998
- 7th International Festival for Dance in the Media Keulen/Cologne 1999
- Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris 2000
- Short Film Festival of the Iranian Young Cinema Society, Teheran 2000
- Juli Dans, Amsterdam 2002
1997–1998 The Wondrous II (film), with Janica Draisma
1997 European Recovery Program 1947–1997 (10 guilders coin), Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt, Utrecht.
1996–2005 De Moderne Moraal (12 stained windows), Paradiso, Amsterdam, with Hans van Houwelingen
1996–2001 Frühschoppenpavillion, Stiegl/ASK Maxglas, Salzburg, with One Architecture
1995 Worked for four months with local craftspeople in New Delhi Ne Pas Parsifal, Festival aan de Werf,
Utrecht (music, dance production, 90 min)
1992 Embroidered portraits of Queen Beatrix for the burgomaster-and-aldermen’s room, city hall, Gouda
Nagels als zenuwcellen, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (theatre, dance
production, 30 min.)