Biography
1968 born in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Weesp.
1994-95 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (postgraduate)
Solo Exhibitions
2012 Space, Light & Silence, Marian Cramer Projects
2010 Lessness, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam
Transit (duo with Batykó Róbert), ACB gallery, Boedapest
Lessness, Voss gallery, Düsseldorf
2009 Jurriaan Molenaar, Art Amsterdam, stand Tanya Rumpff gallery
2008 Precisely that! (duo with Han Schuil), ACB gallery, Budapest
2007 Nightshift, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem
2006 Ablakok, ACB gallery, Budapest
2005 Unisono in duplo, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Logo Building (duo with Tobias Hauser), Fiebach & Minninger gallery, Cologne
2004 Passage, Fiebach & Minninger gallery, Cologne, cat.
Passage, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem
2003 Unbuilt, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem
2002 40% Architecture, INMO gallery, Los Angeles
2000 Holocene, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem
1999 Odyssee 2000, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
1998 Flight 44, Tanya Rumpff gallery, Haarlem
1996 Ten Areas, Art & Project gallery, Amsterdam
Group Exhibitions
2014 Acquistitions 2008-2013, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2014 No Man’s Land (duo with Robert Batyko), Marian Cramer Projects
2013 Cool! Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2011 Alumni Rijksakademie (duo with Tim Ayres), Marian Cramer Projects
2011 VOTH, Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2011 After Zero, Borzo, Amsterdam
2010 25 years Tanya Rumpff gallery, last groupshow
Vienna Art Fair, stand ACB gallery
Art Amsterdam, stand galerie Voss
Art Rotterdam, stand Tanya Rumpff gallery
2009 This entire year the painting Outlook (100 x 220, 2001) hangs in the Dutch Parliament, The Hague
Collection Ron Klein Breteler, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Scherp gesneden/raak getypeerd, Tricot Winterswijk
2008 Intern & extern, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder
Exhibition 1, Tricot Winterswijk
2007 Growth. Acquisitions 2003-2007, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2006 Friends for life, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2004 4 Dutch Artists, ACB gallery, Budapest
Ten years Wim Izaksstipend, Dordrechts Museum
2003 Ansichten & Ausblicke, Fiebach & Minninger gallery, Cologne
The Seven Year Itch, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2002 The choice of 10 private collectors, De Beyerd, Breda, cat.
2001 Clean, W 139, Amsterdam
INMO gallery, Los Angeles
2000 Kapinos gallery, Berlin
1999 Wim Izaks Stipend 1998 (winner), Art Association Diepenheim, cat.
The Altena-Boswinkel Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam,
cat.
1998 4 young artists, Nouvelles Images gallery, The Hague, cat.
The Bermuda Triangle, W 139, Amsterdam, cat.
1997 Password: Being, W 139, Amsterdam
1996 Collection OCÉ, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, cat.
Bibliography
2010 ‘Trendsetter Tanya Rumpff changes hunting-field’, Het Financieele Dagblad, April 30th
2009 Proven quality still sells, Het Financieele Dagblad, November 17th
Bruinsma, P., Creative talent Jurriaan Molenaar, Algemeen Dagblad, May 25th
2008 Takács, G., Jurriaan Molenaar, Manager Magazin (Hungary), June
Smolders, R., Bull’s eye, publication of the Tricot Winterswijk Foundation, May
2006 Heller, L., Balance between security and claustrophobia, Budapester Zeitung, September 4th
Sadée, T., Painting like an architect on LSD, NRC Handelsblad, September 8th
2005 Reinders, A., The eye keeps moving, as in Piranesi’s work, Het Parool, January 12th
Leij, M., Two views on the city, NRC Handelsblad, May 19th
Smets, S., Heavy and light, Rotterdams Dagblad, May 31st
2004 Galleryselection, NRC Handelsblad, December 16th
2001 Keijer, K., Cast shadows on the wall, Het Parool, March 16th
2000 Ankerman, K., Modern Ulysses, Het Financieele Dagblad,
November 25th
Hendriks, J., With ‘Holocene’ Jurriaan Molenaar is more dynamic than ever, Haarlems Dagblad, November 23rd
Keijer, K., Dazing panorama’s without horizon, Het Parool, November 30th
1999 Pontzen, R., Jurriaan Molenaar, Vrij Nederland, September
J.K., Dutch painter in Friedrichshain, Friedrichshainer, May
1998 Schumacher, R., Watching slowly, Het Parool, November 19th
Smallenburg, S., Jurriaan Molenaar, NRC Handelsblad, September 11th