HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN

Carina Ellemers

Description

“There is a nakedness about this art, something is exposed to the bone/grain. Should we call these works paintings? Their sensations of animated form may suggest otherwise… Before our eyes we see fabrics (a product of craft and spirit) undergo infinitesimal mutations. Ellemers’ art touches the point where material becomes spirit.”

Mark Kremer | curator schrijver


The work of filmmaker and artist Carina Ellemers (1965) is all about assembling and arranging. Ellemers work refers not only to abstract art and minimalism, but also to everyday life through the examination of the sensuality of fabrics. During her period at the Rijksakademie, where she studied in the period from 1989 to 1991, she became fascinated by the vulnerable beauty of the blank, virgin canvas. With found fabrics from all over the world, from tea towel to velvet, she creates ‘stitched paintings’ in which she plays an intricate game with light and shadow, horizontals and verticals, with openwork and closed parts.

Biography

Carina Ellemers
born 1965, Amsterdam

lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Education

1990 – 1992

Rijksakademie (department graphics and multimedia) – Amsterdam

1984 – 1990

Gerrit Rietveld Academie (department audio visual) – Amsterdam

Selected solo exhibitions

2023

Saturate, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery, Hamburg

2022

Es Balok, Gallery Lemaire Amsterdam 

ICE OVER THE IJ (IJS OVER HET IJ) – on the ferry (IJveer) between NDSM-wharf and Central Station Amsterdam (IJveer) – in the context of the Amsterdam Ferry Festival

2019

Sanquin, Amsterdam

2017

Code Rood, De kleine kapel, Arnhem

2015

One size fits all, gallery Witteveen, Amsterdam

2014

Pintohuis, Amsterdam

2013

At a house next to Jewish Historic Museum – Amsterdam

2011

Stof, Studio Dorens, Amsterdam

2009

The Kraijenhoff – Amsterdam

1996

 Gallery Van Gelder, Amsterdam

1994

Sanguine, Amsterdam

Selected group exhibitions

2024

TEFAF Maastricht, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

2023

Doorkijken, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch

Creatieve kosmos, Open studio Kraijenhoffstraat 34, Amsterdam

Eye on art, Het filmblik, Eye Amsterdam

TEFAF Maastricht, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

Art Cologne Germany, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

2022

TEFAF Maastricht, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

NINE, a summer group show – HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery, Hamburg

2020

Common Ground, Janknegt Gallery Brink 2b, Laren

Oft Art, SBK Loods 6, Amsterdam

Contemprorary Contemplations #6,Galerie Ursula Walter, Germany

The Future is Female,CODA museum – Vosselmanstraat 299 Apeldoorn, curator Francis Boeske

2019

PAN Amsterdam, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

SANAA Selected!, Galerie Sanaa, Utrecht

HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery, Hamburg

Sketch for a video-installation Es balok as result of research made possible by Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Hidde van Seggelen Gallery – Hamburg visiting Ellen de Bruijne Projects Amsterdam

Art Rotterdam, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

2018

PAN Amsterdam, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN Gallery

Contemporary Contemplations II, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

The Amsterdam Trail, Amsterdam

Color and Movement, Broft gallery, Leerdam

Contemporary Contemplations l, Arti, Amsterdam

2017

Crossover Artgallery, München

2016

Uniciteit, authenticiteit, Galery Espace Enny, Laag Keppel

Minimal Frequencies, Arti – Amsterdam

Gallery Witteveen, Amsterdam

Studio Van Dusseldorp, Tilburg

2015

Sanquin – Amsterdam

Carina Ellemers and Arno Kramer, presume, DAK, Utrecht

Modest Masters, Bergen

2014

Fitax500 at W139 art-trade, Amsterdam
Galerie Espace Enny, Laag Keppel

2013

Franzis Engels, Amsterdam
Paths to Paradise, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede

2011

Franzis Engels, Amsterdam

2010

Ton de Boer, Amsterdam

2008

Ton de Boer, Amsterdam

2003

Arti, Amsterdam

1996

Sanguine, Amsterdam

1995

Gallery van Gelder, Amsterdam

Arti, Amsterdam

1994

Royal Subsidy Royal Palace, Amsterdam

Film

2013

Six short films about the significance of Saint Nicolas in six European countries, a series developed with producer SeriousFilm

2012

What Real African Women Wear, research grant Prins 

2007-2008

Amsterdam keeps silence, with support of The Netherlands Film Fund

2007

Documentary ‘Tijn… Tino, adopted photographer in search of family portrait, camera, sound, production and editing, première broadcasted on television Human
Moving Pictures three, Diabolo, shown in ‘a night of short art films’ Lloyd Hotel Cultural Embassy, Amsterdam

2002

Documentary ‘Fail or Pass’, première broadcasted by Human and awarded in the main competition of the Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece

1999

Moving Pictures three, Diabolo’, with Wilfried de Jongresearch for a feature film, how is organ transplantation related to the passion of the body

1998

Short film ‘Moving Pictures two’

1996

Short film ‘Moving Pictures one’


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