Carlijn Mens
Hardinxveld-Giessendam, 1972
Lives and works in Dalem (ZH)
Carlijn Mens is represented by
BorzoGallery
Keizersgracht 321
NL – 1016 EE Amsterdam
+31(0)20 626 33 03
info@borzo.com
Education
2005-2009 Dutch Art Institute (DAI), Enschede
2000-2005 Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving / Joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Exhibitions and Projects
2022
Langs Lek en Linge, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
Transition, Papier biënnale, Museum RijswijkSporen van betekenis, Galerie Wit, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
Voorbij de onschuld, kunst op papier in de 21ste eeuw, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
2021
Vanwege Vincent, Stedelijk Museum Breda
2021
Opium, NPO radio4, interview. www.nporadio4.nl
2020
And there was light, (with Bas van der Wal), Wit Gallery, Wageningen
2018
Residency / Exhibition, Van Gogh House, Zundert
Art On Paper, BorzoGallery, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean/F
Roadside / Structures, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2016
Opposites Attract (with David Bade), MDZ Gallery, Knokke/B
Mensch / Man, Park 013, Tilburg
2015
Amsterdam Drawing, Art Affairs & BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2014
Carlijn Mens (with Wieteke Heldens), BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2013
RAW Art Fair, BorzoGallery, Rotterdam
BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Preserving The Artist / Mondriaan [Mondriaan], performance/statement, Opening of the renovated Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
traces (with herman de vries), Wit gallery, Wageningen
En mouvement, Maison Salvan | Grapheine Saison du Dessin Contemporain, Toulouse/F
2012
Faith Fear Face, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague
Preserved Places, Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean/F
Uit de schaduw (with Renie Spoelstra and Raquel Maulwurf), LUMC, Leiden
Drawing Centre, Diepenheim
KunstRai, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2011
Residency / Exhibition, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim
Shadows of Moments Passed, Ottenhuis, Diepenheim
A Preserved Place. Forest at Schoorl, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Time-Light-Dark. Preserved (Inside) Places, Webster University, Leiden
2010
Preserved Places Schoorl, Schoorl
Performance: Preserved Places, Dunes Festival, Schoorl
Line & Plane, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2009
Light, Air and Space (with Eva Besnyö and Ko Oosterkerk), BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2008
Ottilia Pribilla Gallery, Antwerpen/B
2007
Catching Light, Site etc., The Hague
Progress in Space, Kunstcentrum, Leiden
2006
Hole in the Brain (Film for symposium), Twente University, Enschede / Hoytema Foundation
2005
BIMRAB (with Felix Kubin and Resonance FM), W139, Amsterdam
Container. Performance / Installation, National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam
Container, Kriterion Film Festival, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions
2023
How to become a book (Michael Gibbs), Eva Gonggrijp – June Gibbs – herman de vries – Erik Kessels – Jan Voss – Jules Coumans – Sophie Calle – Carlijn Mens, Soledad Senlle Art Foundation, Amsterdam
2021
The landscape and the ordered imagination, Galerie Schless Art, Bergen/NL. www.schlessart.nl
Le Grand Finale, Galerie Wit, Wageningen/NL. www.galeriewit.nl
Because of Vincent, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda/NL. www.stedelijkmuseumbrda.nl
After the Hunt, Rijksmuseum Twente, 10 years of collecting, Twente/NL. www.rijksmuseumtwenthe.nl
2020
BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
DH2D, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder
2019
Armando’s Darlings, Chabot Museum, Rotterdam
Dromen of Trees, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
2018
The child in me, Zinder Kunstcentrum, Tiel
UWC Art for Impact, Outsider Art Gallery/Hermitage, Amsterdam
2017
Witteveen Drawing, Loods 6, Amsterdam
Zomer aan de Roosloot, Bergen
2016
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Wind and Clouds, Kunsthal 45, Den Helder
Les 10 ans de la Maison Salvan, Labège/F
Amsterdam Drawing, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Art Cologne, BorzoGallery, Köln/D
Paper Made, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Art Rotterdam, BorzoGallery, Rotterdam
2015
Night and Day, Gallerie Dusseldorp, Tilburg
Symposion II, Gorinchem
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Art Cologne, BorzoGallery, Köln/D
Drawn / Signed, Vishal, Haarlem
Kunsthal 45, Den Helder
Witteveen Gallery Amsterdam
Art Affairs, Amsterdam
2014
Dancing Light. Let It Move You, Huis Marseille, Marseille House, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Kunstbunker, Nürnberg/D
10 jaar Wit, Wit Gallery, Wageningen
Crossing Lines, The Big Draw, Work Place, Antwerpen/B
El Hombre ha Meurto, Casa de Cultura del Estado de Tobasco, Mexico City
Wit Gallery, Wageningen
BorzoGallery, Art Brussels/B
Le pas et la page, Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains/F
Inspiraton, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen
Dia de Mexicanistas, University, Groningen
BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Rob Scholte Museum, Den Helder
2013
Pupil / Master, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg
Black & White Black & White, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem
Rob Scholte Museum, Den Helder
The Art of Collecting, Curated by Sjoerd Buisman, De Vishal, Haarlem
C = 299792458 m/s, Provinciehuis, Haarlem
Miracle, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen
2012
Le Salon, Galérie Point to Point, Montpellier/F
BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Mix on location, Rob de Vries Gallery at Castellum Aquae, Bloemendaal
2011
Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen
Natuur 1 (with Armando, Sjoerd Buisman, Willem den Ouden), Rob de Vries Gallery, Haarlem
Loods 6, Amsterdam
Art in Rooms 6, De Rijp
Witteveen Gallery Amsterdam
Art Amsterdam, BorzoGallery
2010
Schoorlse Kunsten 2010, Schoorl
2009
Kunsthal, Den Helder
Gasthoven 09, Aarschot/B
Regenerated, Curator Annelies Nagels, De Warande, Turnhout/B
Ottilia Pribilla Gallery, Antwerpen/B
2008
Kunstvlaai 08, Amsterdam
Light at Sea, Den Helder
2007
Here as the Centre of the World. A Transnational Research Project, DIA, Enschede
For where we are we are not, Villa Noailles, Hyères/F
Brains Unlimited, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
Sign here, Curated by Alex de Vries, Gallery 25 Limited, Amsterdam
2006
Here as the Centre of the World. A Transnational Research Project, Beiroet/LEB
Dutch Art Institute op de Kunstvlaai 6, Curated by Lisette Smits, Amsterdam
Graphics 1, Graphic Art Project, Breda
2005
Point of View, Kruithuis, Den Bosch
Art for sail, Loods 6, Amsterdam
Publicity / Media
2018
Esther van Rosmalen, ‘Carlijn Mens, de schaduw als metafoor van de beweging,’ Interview about the residency at the Van Gogh Huis, Zundert
2017
Panorama Pijbes, NPO[Dutch Public Broadcasting], 5 april 2017
2016
Cees de Boer, Introduction to Roadside / Structuren, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam
Cees de Boer, Introduction to Mensch / Man, Park013, Tilburg
2015
Alex de Vries, Een denkbeeld doet zich voor – Night & Day[A Mental Image Occurs – Night & Day], Tilburg: Studio Van Dusseldorp.
Alex de Vries, ‘Is Getekend. Een dozijn overwegingen bij het tekenen[Was Signed. Some Musings About Drawing], www.mistermotley.nl (25-04-2015)
2013
Lisette Pelsers, Introduction to traces (herman de vries and Carlijn Mens), Wit Gallery, Wageningen
Carlijn Mens at Maison Salvan
2012
Arno Kramer, ‘Carlijn Mens’; herman de vries, ‘dit is – het is’; Rob Scholte, ‘Over de mens Carlijn’ in Negende Tekeningencahier. Carlijn Mens. Preserved Places, Diepenheim: Kunstvereniging, 2012
Arno Kramer, ‘De waarde van zwart. Raquel Maulwurf, Carlijn Mens en Renie Spoelstra’ [‘The Value of Black. Raquel Maulwurf, Carlijn Mens, and Renie Spoelstra], in: Uit de schaduw [Out of the Shadow], Leiden: LUMC
Tineke Reijnders, ‘Echte schaduw en verzonnen licht. Kunstenaar Carlijn Mens,’ [Real Shadow and Invented Light. The Artist Carlijn Mens], in Ons erfdeel , 55 (2012), nr.3, pp.130-132 55 (2012), nr.3, pp.130-132
2011
Arno Kramer, ‘Shadows of moments passed,’ Diepenheim: Het Ottenhuis
Liz Miller, ‘Preserved (Inside) Places,’ Leiden: Webster University
2007
Alex de Vries, ‘Carlijn Mens: An Open Book,’ Enschede: Dutch Art Institute