Charlotte Schleiffert. Portfolio

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Charlotte Schleiffert

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Longing for rituals, 2014, mixed techn. on paper, 254x138 cm

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What's coming...., 2013, mixed techn. on paper, 306x152cm

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Untitled(body and african print) mixed techn. on paper, 41x31cm, 2013 Collection: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

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Woman with child mixed techn. on paper 260x150 cm 2012

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Een ode aan het Stedelijk museum Amsterdam Mister Neville is going to the Stedelijk Museum, 2012,

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Homesick,

mixed techn. on paper, 177x142 cm, 2012

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Mister Harisson, 2012 mixed techn. on paper, 200x150 cm,

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Women with ship 2012

mixed techn. on paper, 317x152cm,

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Virginia, 2011,

acryl, pastelkrijt op papier, 300 x 151 cm

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Mr Johnson, 2011

Acrylic, pastel on paper 350 x 150 cm

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Woman with green mask 2011

Mixed techniques on paper 234 x 148 cm

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Mixed techniques on paper 288 x 150 cm

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Going East or West 2009

Mixed techniques on paper 300 x 150 cm

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Black Beauty

mixed techn. on paper 230x158 cm

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Groupshow

Charlotte Schleiffert & Douglas Kolk

AKINCI

Amsterdam

2009

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Tibetan Girl with Swards 2008

Mixed techniques on paper 308 x 150 cm

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Untitled (vrouw met doodshoofd), 2007, Mixed techn. on paper, 280 x 147 cm

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Save the world 2007

Mixed techniques 307 x 309 cm

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Collection Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

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Zonder titel (6)

pastel, krijt, acryl op papier 320x150 cm

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Woman with yellow dress 2005

pastel,acrylic on paper 320x150 cm

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Museum Het Domein proudly presents a

substantial collection of recent work by Charlotte Schleiffert (Tilburg, 1967). This artist gained

international recognition with her very expressive drawings and paintings featuring bright colours, impressive formats, and unconventional use of material such as fake fur and adhesive plastic. Issues related to gender play an important role in her engaged work, as do themes such as intoler-ance, power, violence, oppression, poverty, and alienation. The exhibition at Het Domein is primar-ily dedicated to the work Schleiffert has done in the past three years and other pieces that have rarely or never been displayed before. As part of the exhibition, the artist will create a new mural.

Rozen en pistolen is the first solo museum

exhibi-tion of Schleiffert's work since her exhibiexhibi-tion Feel

No Shame in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,

Rotterdam, in 2004. A constant feature in her drawings and paintings since this time are the hybridized beings that appear in them. They unite various cultures, times, and sexes. 'I want to create a mix of times and locations. My figures are not always happy with their lives and dream of an alternative. They embody the desire for another world,' Schleiffert explains. Travel has always been an important source of inspiration for her choice of subject and material. In 2007¬–2008 she was in residence at the Künstler-haus Bethanien in Berlin, and over the last few years she has been regularly living working and living in Xiamen, China, for longer periods. In Ber-lin Schleiffert discovered old-fashioned coloured wrapping paper as a background for her s

mall-scale political drawings. In China she started creating collages made of pieces of satin and calligraphic paintings on rice paper. What is striking about her new work is that Schleiffert has increasingly adopted the role of sculptor. While her earlier paintings often included

three-dimensional components, in her more recent work amorphous plaster objects and assemblages play a more independent role. Also new are the small-scale almost entirely abstract paintings that exude the artist's joy in painting.

The exhibition title Rozen en pistolen (Roses and

guns) reflects its content. The personal and the

political are always closely connected in Schleiffert's work. In her recent drawings and paintings, seemingly sweet depictions with flower motifs alternate with strongly engaged pieces.

With her recent flower and plant motifs,

Schleiffert returns to a preoccupation from the period in which she studied at De Ateliers. Even in the fairy-tale-like world that emerges from these works, disaster lurks. Several figures appear to be trapped in the vegetation; a male figure is entangled up to his crotch in a giant liana. Several recent series of drawings are imbued with visual material that Schleiffert has

encountered in newspapers and magazines. In these drawings, she attempts to extract pressing issues from the transience of current media. From a stance of personal engagement, Schleiffert makes a searing commentary on world problems in her work. 'My anger at the misuse of power, at injustice and hypocrisy, fuels my work. I am strongly against something or feel enormous aggression. Then a painting must be made,' she once stated in an interview. Just as Schleiffert borrows many of her titles and texts in her work from snippets of sentences from the print media, the title of this exhibition comes from the headline of an article in de Volkskrant

newspaper about the commemoration of the Six-Day War in Israel.

Roel Arkestijn

Museum Het Domein, Sittard (NL), September 2011

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Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Solo exhibitions

2015

‘Indonesië: heden en verleden’ Erasmus Gallery, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2014

Rock Paper Sciccors, Charlotte Schleiffert& Gluklya, Akinci Gallery Amsterdam 2013

Overleven is hard werken, CBK Drenthe, Assen Charlotte Schleiffert, Heden, The Hague

Hotwave#6, Charlotte Schleiffert/ M.R. Adytama P. Charda, Cemeti Arthouse,Yogyakarta,Indonesia Pongo pygmaeus,Morus bassanus and comrades, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp, Belgium

Spring, Gallery Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany 2012

Mr.Routledge and the Lions,Akinci Galerry Amsterdam New Drawings, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp, Belgium 2011

Rozen en pistolen, Museum Het Domein Sittard

When the second voice does not occupy a stable position, Maddy Arkesteyn en Charlotte Schleif-fert

Pictura, Dordrecht 2010

Save The World, Gallery Akinci(Attachment) Amsterdam

Home Rock Butterflies,Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) 2009

Drawings,Akinci Gallery Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam

Douglas Kolk, Charlotte Schleiffert, Gallery Akinci Amsterdam 2008

Berlin Works,Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) Schlusselszene, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Germany) 2007

Never Let Me Down,Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam 2006

Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (installation) Gallery Barbara Gross, Munich (Germany)

You Speak Too Much, Palais fur aktuelle Kunst/Gluckstadt(Germany) 2005

Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (installation)

Charlotte Schleiffert, Zachary Wollard, Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich (Germany) 2004

Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (rear space) Sabine Wachters Gallery,Knokke (Belgium)

Feel No Shame, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam Muka, International Youth Print Exhibition, Auckland (New Zealand)

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2003

Strong People, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen (China) Strong People,Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (China)

2001

Centre Culturel Francais de Turin,(with Michael Kirkham) Turin (Italy) Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium)

2000

Breath With Me, Buro Leeuwarden,Leeuwarden 1999

Heizel,Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium)

Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam,(with Michael Tedja)Amsterdam Tent,(with Hulya Yilmaz) Rotterdam

1998

Attitudes 3, Stadsgalerij Heerlen,Heerlen

Banket 8, Archipel(with Maddy Arkestein) Apeldoorn 1997

Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium) 1995

Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium) 1994

Gallery Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015

Going to the zoo, Kersgallery Amsterdam 2014

“I am not doing anything until I feel the need” curated by Joanneke Meester, Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam

Wanderlust, guest curator Sasha Dees,Centrum beeldende Kunst Zuidoost AmsterdamAmsterdam Drawing, An Art Fair for Original Works on Paper,booth Akinci Gallery Amsterdam

Hotwave 2010-2013, Groupshow with residents of Cemeti Arthouse, Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia The Amsterdam Trail,Frans Faber-Tribal Arts, Amsterdam

I Wish I Had A River, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels(Belgium) Art Rotterdam,Akinci Gallery

All atitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam 2013

De Grote Kunstshow, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Ik hou van Holland. Nederlandse kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. All is Giving, Public Artspace, Groningen

The Partaker Partakes Of That Which Changes Him, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven

Groupshow:Marie Cloquet, Dirk Zoete,Guy Rombouts,Filip Vervaet, Andrew Webb,Marc Rossignol, Charlotte Schleiffert, Luc Deleu, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp(Belgium)

Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam, booth Annie Gentils Gallery

“De Stad, de kunstenaar en het museum”, 25 jaar stadscollectie Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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de tentoonstelling) Pulchristudio, the Hague, ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond,Galerie de 7e Hemel, Bussum, Atrium, City Hall, The Hague

The Glorious Rise and Fall… (and so on),Voormalig Groot Zieken Gasthuis ‘s-Hertogenbosch Art Cologne, Akinci Gallery

Art Rotterdam, Akinci Gallery 2012

Amsterdam Drawing, An Art Fair for Original Works on Paper, Amsterdam, Akinci Gallery

Through An Open Window, Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (France)

I love this city! Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)

Figuurlijk, de menselijke figuur in de beeldende kunst, Museum Hilversum

De Nederlandse identiteit?Half suiker, half zand.De recente geschiedenis door de ogen van Mister Motley, De Paviljoens Almere

Salvo,Gallery Annie Gentils,Antwerp (Belgium)

Hong Kong International Art Fair ,Annie Gentils Gallery (China) Art Rotterdam/Akinci Gallery

2011

Sweatboxing 2,Showroom Mama/Leto Gallery Warchau(Poland) Ik Jij Wij/Rabo Kunstzone,Utrecht

I Should Have Done That, Nest,The Hague

Ode aan Merina Beekman ‘Dazzle the Evil Eye’,Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort Hollandse Meesters,filmportretten van kunstenaars, Kunsthal Rotterdam

All About Drawing;100 nederlandse kunstenaars, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam,Schiedam 2010

Op Papier Gezet, Centraal museum Utrecht

Dialogue 2010, World Expo Shanghai, Dutch Cultural Center Shanghai (China) Cabinfever, Tupajumi, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (USA)

Der Himmel Uber Antwerpen,Gallery Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) 2009

Trendbeheer Meets Proximity, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (USA) Towing The Line, Drawing Space.White Box, New York City (USA) Dialogue, Ceac 10 years anniversary, Xiamen (China)

De Ideale Vrouw, Noord Brabants Museum, s’Hertogenbosch Trendbeheer, Rotterdam

200 Jaar PRix De Rome, Kunsthal, Rotterdam Rebelle, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem

Stressed Spaces, Parkeergarage Paleiskwartier, s-Hertogenbosch Tekens Van Leven En Dood,Gemak, The Hague

2008

Let Op Kijk Uit, Museum Jan Cunen,Oss

Eyes Wide Open, aankopen Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam The Furious Gaze, Cultural Center Montehermoso, Vitoria (Spain) Wintertentoonstelling, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium) 2007

Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam

Leve De Schilderkunst! Terug Naar De Figuur, Kunsthal Rotterdam Nieuwe Gezichten, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden

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2006

Take it(as it comes)Universal Studios, Beijing (China) Virtual&Physical, Muka Gallery, Auckland (New Zealand) Under The Skin, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (Germany) Breaking The Rules, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam 2005

Projekt Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Dutch Artist In China, Nederlands Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam Black/White,Museum voor Moderne Kunst,Arnhem

(Getting Rid Of)Madonna,Kunsthaus Dresden(Germany) 2004

Premio Del Golfo 2004,Biennale Europea Arti Visive La Spezia,Centro Arte Moderna e Contempora-nea, La Spezia(Italy)

Secrets of the ’90s,Museum of Modern Art,Arnhem Verf/Paint, Stadsgalerij Heerlen

Micrcosmos,Centraal Museum Utrecht

Freundschaftsmachine, Gallery Annie Gentils, Antwerp(Belgium) 2003

Gallery Sabine Wachters, Knokke(Belgium) Body Double,Gallery Rob de Vries,Haarlem

Monologue Exterieur, Loerakker Gallery, Amsterdam 2002

Buiten Zinnen, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Painting Passion Pays Bas, Insttut Neerlandais,Paris(France)

Among Ourselves,Nederlandse Kunst Na 1940,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Political Correct?Dutch!,Galerie Krinzinger,Salzburg (Austria)

Political Correct?Dutch! Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna (Austria) 2001

De Voorstelling:Kunst Uit Nederland In Het Stedelijk Paleis, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Unbrealkable, Arti et Amicitiae

2000

Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Five Continents And A City,Third International Salon Of Painting,Mexico City(Mexico) Het Paard Van Troje, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden

I Fiori Del Mio Giardino, Associazione Culturale Per L’Arte Moderna, Lucca(Italy) 82,65% Verf, Een Keuze Uit De Aanwinsten 1991-2000, Stadsgalerij, Heerlen 1999

De Keus Van De Kunstkritiek, Nieuwspoort, The Hague

Subreal/The Human Condition, Galerie INMO, Los Angeles(USA) Glad Ijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1998

De Vertelling, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

De Leugenaars;(N)on Line, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

Een Keuze, werk van kunstenaressen uit museumcollecties, Grote Kerk, The Hague 1997

Stadscollectie, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Einde Eeuw Tableau Vivant, Pulchri Studio,The Hague

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1996

Ver na Vermeer, Nederlandse En Vlaamse Schilders, De Beyerd, Breda 1995

Stroomopwaarts, H.A.L, Rotterdam 1994

Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Art Transit,Ateliers des artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marseille (France) 1993

Koninklijke Subsidie Voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam

Awards

1999 Prix De Rome (first Price)

Catalogs

Charlotte Schleiffert, Feel No Shame,

Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NAI Publishers Rotterdam 2004 Charlotte Schleiffert, You Speak Too Much,

Palais Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Gluckstadt (Germany) 2006 Charlotte Schleiffert, Schlüsselszene,

Künstlerhaus Bethanien,Berlin (Germany) 2008 Charlotte Schleiffert,Hotwave#6

Cemeti Art House/ Heden

Yogyakarta, Indonesia/The Hague, The Netherlands

Residencies

1997 Lived and worked in Barcelona (Spain) 2003 CEAC, Xiamen (China)

2003- 2010 Lived and worked in Xiamen, China 2007/2008 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Germany) 2012 Atelier Holsboer(Cite des Arts),Paris (France) 2013 Cemeti Arthouse, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)