NEXT
January 24 - April 13, 2025
opening Friday (!) 24 January, 17.00 hrs
Hans Koetsier
Friso Kramer
Peter Angermann
Alexander Schabracq
Maike Hemmers
After celebrating 25 years Galerie VIVID in 2024 we will give a preview of our
NEXT year, NEXT 5 Years (?), NEXT 25 years (?)
Hans Koetsier (1930-1991) a conceptual artist at heart, aimed to create art whose meaning would continue to change.This can be traced back to his part in the international Fluxus community of artists in the 1960s and 1970s. As their name suggested, everything must flow.
In the exhibition NEXT Galerie VIVID presents
the Kinetic Sculpture 'Tuimelaar" by Hans Koetsier made in 1970
Maike Hemmers (b.1987, Germany) is an artist based in Rotterdam. She engages with play, emotions, and relationships in collaborative material processes. Her primary mediums are colorful, fuzzy, and abstract pastel drawings, textile sculptures, and public activations, with the different strands often coming together in the form of temporary installations. In Maike's works, color is used as a bridge to connect asbtraction to the physical and mental body, and the body of the landscape we reside in.
Maike's practice is fundamentally shaped by a feminist critique of architecture and a queer and soft resistance: a rethinking of dominant structures through layers of affective material relations and the interconnected net of our basic collectivity. She researches and uses somatic practices, such as Processwork, to understand and depict how affects and relationships move through and between us. This has extended into foraging for natural pigments as a social and connective practice with the more-than-human, exploring the transformation of color as a local material. Recently, Maike has focused on play as a queer disorientation of our normalized and 'straight' behavior in space.
Maike received her MFA in 2017 at the Dutch Art Institute (NL). Her work has been shown at Kunstinstituut Melly (NL), Tent (NL), Milieu (CH), Firstdraft (AUS), among many others. In 2023, she was nominated for the Dolf Henkes Prize. Some of Hemmers' writing can be found online at Nero Editions and The Site Magazine. New series of work by Hemmers were shown at the Art Cologne 2024 by Galerie VIVID
Friso Kramer (1922-2019) an innovative Dutch design icon, was an active member in many influential design associations and a driving force behind the development of the Dutch modernist aesthetic from the 1940s onward. He was the son of accomplished architect Piet Kramer and earned a degree in interior architecture from the Institute of Applied Art in Amsterdam under director and architect Mart Stam.
During the 1950s, Kramer joined the Stichting Goed Wonen (Good Living Association), a design and industry partnership that was committed to postwar reconstruction and quality-of-life improvements through good design. The group forged many strong collaborations between artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, and customers, which resulted in widespread interest in modernist design principles and aesthetics in the Netherlands. Kramer, together with designers Wim Crouwel, Benno Wissing, and Paul and Dick Schwarz, founded the acclaimed Total Design Bureau in 1963. Their aim was to execute design ideas that would achieve “total design” or syntheses between the various design fields. This milieu had a profound influence on Kramer and inspired him to produce rational, minimalist furniture for the new age. Iconic designs from Kramer’s career include the Eames-inspired, steal and plywood Revolt Chair (1953), a true classic of midcentury Dutch industrial design and arguably Kramer’s most famous work
Peter Angermann (b.1945) combines socio-critical perspectives with absurdist humor. Forty years ago, Peter Angermann had his international breakthrough in Rotterdam. Curator Gosse Oosterhof presented a series of ground-breaking exhibitions at the Rotterdam based Galerie 't Venster, including a solo exhibition by Peter Angermann in 1981. This exhibition was part of the emerging figurative-expressionist art movement of that time. As brutal and violent as punk once shook up the world of pop music, this neo-expressionism manifested itself in the world of visual arts in the 1980s. And in Rotterdam it became clear that Angermann's work was part of this movement.
Initially, from 1966 to 1968, Peter Angermann, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Then, in autumn 1968, he was drawn to the class run by Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Constantly showered with his teacher’s praise, he nevertheless – or perhaps precisely for that reason – became co-founder of the legendary YIUP group, which from 1969 on attracted attention inside the academy, and above all in the Beuys class, through provocative actions that were directed even against Beuys himself. On leaving the academy in 1972, Angermann saw that in artistic terms, he had come away empty-handed; his passion for painting had not exactly been fostered by Beuys. Not until a year later Angermann made a new start in the field of painting. A meeting with his former classmate Milan Kunc proved exceptionally fruitful in this situation. Together they developed a new visual language that was closely oriented to everyday life, while simultaneously being fired by a witty, anarchic impulse. In 1979 Jan Knap joined the two friends, and Gruppe NORMAL was born. They championed the rejection of individualism and, in line with this, created a large number of joint works – paintings that in some cases were done in public. By 1981, however, each of the three members had progressed so far in his own artistic development that it was decided to disband the group. Standing now on his own two feet, Peter Angermann has retained the socio-critical impulse from his earlier works – coupled with that provocative and at times absurdist humour that marks many of his paintings to this day. After his launch in Rotterdam in 1981, Angermann had an exhibition of his paintings and drawings in the famous gallery of Riekje Swart in Amsterdam. In 1986 he surprised the world by exploring a genre which at that time was frowned on: en plein air painting. In the meantime, this group of works has found a permanent place in his oeuvre and has led him to discover a virtuosity as colourist that also distinguishes his mature, themed works. The two of them – his themed works and his landscapes – alternate without more ado in Angermann’s work, and it is this liaison that makes Angermann so unique in today’s art scene. In 2013 Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld organized a large exhibition about the work of Peter Angermann ‘Licht am Horizont’, accompanied by an extensive retrospective catalogue with the same title. In 2022 Angermann had his first solo exhibition at Galerie VIVID in Rotterdam.
Alexander Schabracq (b.1957), primarily a sculptor, also explores painting and design through deconstructivism.
Schabracq studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. From the early 1980s, Schabracq has developed a versatile oeuvre in various craft disciplines. His development has been influenced in terms of art content by contacts with artists such as André Volten, Ger van Elk, Alphons Freijmuth, Jean Tinguely and Reinier Lucassen.
In 1989 Schabracq founded the studio Spectra together with the architect Tom Postma. This collaboration resulted in the monumental and sculptural street furniture on the Nieuwmarkt (1989), the Rokin and the Damrak (1991) in Amsterdam. Characteristic of the artist are his exotic-looking modern variant of the totem pole and strange creatures, in which he draws inspiration from surrealism, Pop Art and the European variant of this, the nouveau réalisme. Because Schabracq claims to be inspired by these by definition modernist movements, and also quotes and adopts them extensively (appropriation art), his work from the 1980s is considered to belong to postmodernism.
Since 1987, Schabracq has made about thirty works that he calls "deconstructions".He showed these works at the famous Galerie Barbara Farber in Amsterdam, at the Art-FORUM in Zurich and in the following years on international stages. In 2021 Schabracq had his first solo exhibition at Galerie VIVID in Rotterdam.
