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Bram Herens * 23 - 06 - 1963

Lives and works in the city Schoonhoven

The Netherlands

 

Study

 

Royal Academy of Fine Arts - The Hague - 1987 / 1992

 

Prizes and Stipends

 

STROOM HCBK The Hague - Incentive painting prize 1992

Fund for visual arts, design and architecture Amsterdam - Starting stipend 1993 / 1994

Art prize Gouda - firts prize contemporary painting 1994

Royal grant for free painting - nomination and exhibition Royal Palace Amsterdam 1994

Art prize Gouda - second prize contemporary painting 1995

Fund for visual arts, design and architecture Amsterdam - Starting stipend 1995 / 1996

Fund for visual arts, design and architecture Amsterdam - Basic grant

1997 / 1999 and Basic grant 2000 / 2002

 

Exhibitions

 

Pulchri Studio The Hague - Debut exhibition 1992 and group exhibition 1993

HCAK The Hague center for contemporary art - individual exhibitions 1993 - On the cutting edge - curator Philip Peters

Gallery Nouvelles Images The Hague - Seven young artists / exhibition among others Job Koelewijn, Michael Raedecker, Bram Herens 1994

Gallery Nouvelles Images - The Childrens garden 1994 - egg tempera paintings, and lithographs Wartebiene - Jörg Immendorff

STROOM HCBK The Hague - Starters on the way - Toussaintkade exhibition 1994

Gallery Nouvelles Images The Hague - Past Transparancies 1995 - group exhibitions from 1995 till 2000 - among other artists, Armando, Frank van Hemert, Auke de Vries.

UCBK Visual arts center Utrecht - duo exhibition with Cock Sjardijn ( Leiden ) "Longing for an imaginary paradise" 1994 curator / conservator Wouter Welling

KunstRAI Amsterdam - Foundation Schröder - exhibition 1998 - Wall tile installation portraits in Delft Blue ( and yellow )

Underground gallery - art collector Van Sint Fiet Maastricht - 2001

Museum of religious art Uden - exhibition New Acquisitions 2005 / 2006

Kunstliefde Utrecht - group exhibition "Magic" 2007

Muzeeum Vlissingen - Michiel De Ruyter the naval hero as art - 2008

Museum Gouda - Salon 1 - 2009

Museum Gouda - Salon 2 - 2012

Mediville Van Sint Fiet Maastricht - Atelier van Lieshout - painting installation 27 portraits - 2014 / 2015

Museum Gouda - Salon 3 - 2015

Art foundation Firma Van Drie Gouda - Humane and Moral painting 2015

Firma Van Drie in collaboration with Museum Gouda - Only beyond the chestnuts the world begin - after a poem by Paul Celan - New paintings 2016

Pulchri Studio The Hague - Weissenbruchzaal duo exhibition with Cock Sjardijn ( Leiden ) New paintings "Princess Mia"

Town hall Schoonhoven - Watercolors installation - 2022

GoudAsfalt - Art event / summer festival with group exhibition 2022

Town hall Schoonhoven - painting installation "The wall of princess Mia"

 

Quote - For my studio easel i step into the past, the present and the future.

 

Publications

 

Gallery Nouvelles Images The Hague - Seven Young Artists - curator / authors Cato Cramer - Erik Bos - 1994

HCAK The Hague - On the cutting edge - catalog exhibition curator / author art historian Philip Peters 1993

Longing for an imaginary paradise - catalog exhibition curator / conservator Afrika Museum Wouter Welling 1994

Religious experiences - Book essays - author Koert van der Velde - uitgeverij Van Gennip 2007

Kerugma - Images and Announcement - author Cathérine Verviers - uitgeverij Gooi en Sticht 2014

TROUW news paper - Interview journalist Joost van Velzen - 2017

Reviews and essays in various news papers over the years such as - Het Parool - NRC Handelsblad - Trouw - De Volkskrant - Financieel Dagblad.