Bio
Anke Land is a dutch visual artist making drawings and tapestries that are informed by daily news, migration, transience and decay. She developes her digital jacquard woven gobelins at the TextilelLab TextielMuseum Tilburg NL. She has shown in: Grand Palais Paris (F); Museum Gouda (NL); Karlin Studios Prague (CR); TENT Tupajumi Rotterdam (NL); Project-Raum Bahnhof 25 Kleve (D): Museum CODA Art Apeldoorn (NL);Thorasminde Copenhagen (DK); Museum Kurhaus Kleve (D): Galerie plan. D. Düsseldorf (D); Muzeum Ferencváros Budapest (HU); OMNIA VANITAS european artists WWC-BF Bergen-Mons (BE); Art Fairs Amsterdam/ Rotterdam (NL); Land is co-founder with Pier Pennings of pARTytent, a traveling art space. Artists in Residence at Berlin (D); Land has been featured by NRC Handelsblad and several Art Magazins. Publication: text Alex de Vries:“Tapestry as an image”.
Tapestries and Drawings
The symbol of the skull embodies the work of Anke Land. For her, it is an icon of the preciousness of life; it represents not a memento mori but a memento vivere. By weaving in gold, she instills the skull with light, so it shimmers in the fabric: when you walk past, in one moment you see only the brilliance of gold; in the next you clearly see the skull. Thus it conveys the fragility and the fleeting nature of life.
This symbol connects all aspects of her work: brief moments captured in her diary drawings; the transience and decay in her tapestries of forests and trees; the hopeless vulnerability of migrants; the eternity of Charon the ferryman, transporting the dead to the underworld.
In her recent work Anke Land depicts humans in search of a new existence—a search they often pay for with their lives. The skull, then, also channels the pirate flag, once hoisted as a symbol of power and invincibility, but now a talisman to protect terrified and vulnerable people. The passengers on boats in her woven scenes seem to reach up, rising in gold like the phoenix from the flames.
Land works first as a draftsman, drawing with bold speed, yet still a direct and firm hand, in response to media images. She creates diary entries with pen, ink and paint on clear, transparent film and on this volatile material she captures impressions of people and events.
But Land has been searching for a way to make her work more tactile, and found this quality in weaving. In the TextilelLab in Tilburg (Netherlands) her work is rendered into computer data, guiding the loom to weave her tapestries. For Land, weaving in layers is the perfect technique for depicting the meaning of her work in physical terms. Within some parts of the scene the layers are woven tightly together, while in other parts they lie loosely and transparently over each other.
In these woven tapestries the scenes become even more timeless, more elusive, more wrapped in history than they do in her drawings. In this way, Land lends a historical resonance to current events: the craftsmanship of weaving connecting the past to the present . Her tapestries are woven with reflective materials so that when they catch the light they glow intensely, in accordance with traditional crafsmanship but with the abstraction of modern imagination.
Graduated at ArtEZ, Fine Arts, Arnhem NL
Exhibitions (selection):
2018
Radboud University Huygensgebouw Nijmegen NL SOLO
pARTytent – Janus Pannonius Muzéum, Pécs, HU. artists: Marieke Gelissen,Erzsi Pennings,Stefan Kasper, Pier Pennings, Aimée Terburg, Elizabeth de Vaal, Anke Land
B53,40 Self-portraits Contemporary Art Space -Arnhem. NL
‘Textiel’, Galerie De Kapberg, Egmond aan den Hoef NL
Ten years after- Projectraum-Bahnhof25.de Kleve D
Museum CODA: 055: Apeldoorn Art
2017
Salon Der Künstler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve D
Auf zu neuen Ufern, residency, curator Peter Kerschgens, ArToll Kunstlabor Bedburg-Hau D
Sint- Janskerk, Cartons, Gouda NL
HOE=HET NU ACECgebouwcentre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL,curator Peter Nijenhuis,
Love, Peace and Light, Kunstraum Dreiech/ArtCentre Frankfurt,D with Sandra Mann, Eric de Castro, Stefan Balkenol e.o.
BRAUS galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
artists Pier Pennings, Peter Clouth, Sonja Tintelnot, Andrea Isa, Anke Land.
2016
• BRAUS galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
artists Pier Pennings, Peter Clouth, Sonja Tintelnot, Andrea Isa, Anke Land.
• Aanwinsten 2011-2016 Museum Gouda NL
• DRAAD art with textile. Artists: Janske Hombergen, Fransje Killaars, Anke Land, Margriet Luyten, Linda Nieuwstad, Zeger Reyers, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Hinke Schreuders, Marije Vermeulen. ACEC – centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL.
• Art&Nuyens VM 23 Arnhem NL
• Apeldoorn Art ,CODA Museum 2016 Apeldoorn NL
• pARTytent reunion ACEC- centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn
• KunstRai – ARTFAIR Amsterdam NL Galerie Hugo Boogaard.
• Kunstenaars & Textiel, Kunstwest C-Lab expo Amsterdam NL. Femmy Duiven, Ria van Eijk, Barbara Broekman, Jenny Ymker, Pauline Nijenhuis.
2015
• Galerie plan.d. “Ever After” solo with Pier Pennings. Düsseldorf DE
• Galerie Oranjerie POP UP Goes ” Tactile Textile”
• Kunstverein Bahnhof25 Kleef DE, Das Leben ist eine Kartoffel
• Galerie Oranjerie solo; ” Caught in Gold”, Goes NL
• Galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf / Art&Nuyens Neueröffnung VM 23 Arnhem NL
• Omnia Vanitas, European artists WCC.BF. Mons BE
• pARTytent Galerie plan.d Düsseldorf DE Johan Nieuwenhuize, Brieke Drost/ Ronald de Ceuster, Bert Frings, Pier Pennings, Tamara Dees
• pARTytent Frankfurt- Eltville DE, Ten Words one Shot.
• FITAX, PARK Tilburg NL
2014
• Presentation new works bought by Province of Gelderland NL
• Galerie Oranjerie “Queens Garden” solo Amsterdam NL
• Kunstverein Projectraum-Bahnhof25 with Michael Picke, Kleve DE
• HOE=HET NU ACECgebouw Apeldoorn, NL
• pARTytent: Willem3 Vlissingen NL, Quartair The Hague NL, Kunstverein Projectraum-Bahnhof25 Kleve DE, Hinke Schreuders, Ferry Staverman, Pier Pennings, Marisa Rappard, Niels Broszat, Anke Land
• Fitax W139 Amsterdam NL
• Museum Waterland Tekenkabinet Purmerend NL
• Fitax Art-Rotterdam NL
• CODE ROOD De Kleine Kapel solo Arnhem NL
2013
• Tekenkabinet Kunstsalon Assen, NL
• HOE=HET NU ACECgebouw Apeldoorn NL
• Kunst op de Koffie Spijkerkwartier Arnhem NL
• Cascolab Wrapped&Packed Apeldoorn NL
• Museum Waterland Tekenkabinet Purmerend NL
• FTSSSHT GBK-MoBa, Arnhem.NL
• Museum of Ferencvaros Budapest HU “Going Mayar”, Pier Pennings , Elizabeth de Vaal, Desiree de Baar, Alphons ter Avest, Pietertje van Splunter
• Museum Gouda GENADE solo NL
• Dijkmagazijn GBK Winssen NL with Pier Pennings
• Re: Rotterdam NL Artfair
• Kunstenlab Kamerbreed Deventer NL
• Museum CODA Apeldoorn
2012
• HOE=HETNU ACEC Apeldoorn NL curated by Peter Nijenhuis
• Fitax Mediamatic Fabriek Amsterdam NL
• Wintersale Bosch Arnhem NL
• pARTytent Prague CR B.C.Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B ( Alex Jacobs & Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• ACEC gebouw “De verbeelding van Apeldoorn “ NL
• pARTytent Herceg Novi (Montenegro) B.C. Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B (Alex Jacobs & Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• pARTytent Budapest HU B.C. Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B (Alex Jacobs& Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• FITAX 500 Charlois Rotterdam NL
• Galerie Van den Berge/ Museum Le Secet, Goes
• RE: Rotterdam, Art- Fair NL
• River of Hope Recyclart Brussels BE
• Museum Gouda, “Cartons” Sketches of Beauty ,drawings from 1552, stained- glass windows of the Netherlandish Renaissance
2011
• Museum CODA, “Forest Fairytales” Apeldoorn
• TENT Rotterdam, Tupajumi
• Wintersale Bosch, Arnhem
• P.ART of our life/ Museum Le Secet “Liefde in de Kunst” Zwolle
• Pécsbagotá Vollpension , Hungary
• ACEC gebouw “Samen Solo” Apeldoorn with Edith Meijering
• Kopenhagen Thorasminde “SWAP” Denmark, with Pier Pennings, Marije Vermeulen, Guido Nieuwendijk
• Museum Gouda “Exposed”, with Vittorio Roerade, B.C. Epker, Erzsi Pennings, Hieke Luik, Pier Pennings, Zeger Reijers
• Davos, harboursite Deventer, “The Incident Room”, curator Patrick Mangnus
Publications
* Salon der Künstler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve D, text Harald Kunde (2017)
• Nieuwe Veluwe:Het menselijk leven, geweven. geknoopt, vervilt, Gabriëlle de Nijs Bik (2016)
• http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/consumeer-de-kunst (2015)
• De Stentor:” Ze maken grote indruk op me”, Hemmy van Reenen (2015)
• Commission: Fotoserie voor uitgave : “De Facademaatschappij”, over het verschil tussen presentatie en werkelijkheid. Prof dr Gérard van Tillo. www.husserl.nl (2013)
• Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet (2012)
• Weven: “Gegrepen door de mogelijkheden van weven”, Selma Sindram (2011)
• Tapestry as an image, the work of Anke Land. Alex de Vries (2010)
• Zwart, uitgave CBK Apeldoorn i.s.m. Guido de Vries (2008)
• Labyrint: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Stichting Traveling Light, Alex de Vries, Pier Pennings (2007)
Collections
• Provincie Gelderland NL
• Museum Gouda NL
• Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst
• Museum CODA, Apeldoorn
• City of Apeldoorn
• Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen
• City of Berlijn DE
KunstArchif Peter Kerschgens D
Curatorship and other activities
• curator- DRAAD art with textile artists: Janske Hombergen, Fransje Killaars, Anke Land, Margriet Luyten, Linda Nieuwstad, Zeger Reyers, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Hinke Schreuders, Marije Vermeulen. ACEC – centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL (2016)
• “Wall of Fame”, the collection of Pier Pennings and Anke Land, CBK Apeldoorn (2010)
• Founder pARTytent with Pier Pennings (2012)
• Municipal counselor Art in Public Space (GABK), Apeldoorn NL (2004- 2010)
• Programming artist-initiative Archipel, Apeldoorn (1998-2000)
• Programming exhibitionspace “Het kruithuisje” (GABK), Apeldoorn NL (2004- 2006)
• Exhibition ‘Labyrint”, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (2006)
• Programming exhibitions with Marije Vermeulen, CBK Apeldoorn (2008-2009)
• “Black”, exhibition and round table discussions, CBK Apeldoorn (2008-2009)
• Member of the programming committee CBK Apeldoorn (2008 – 2010)
• Member of the balloting commission G.B.K. (2010- 2016)
”.
Anke Land is a dutch visual artist making drawings and tapestries that are informed by daily news, migration, transience and decay. She developes her digital jacquard woven gobelins at the TextilelLab TextielMuseum Tilburg NL. She has shown in: Grand Palais Paris (F); Museum Gouda (NL); Karlin Studios Prague (CR); TENT Tupajumi Rotterdam (NL); Project-Raum Bahnhof 25 Kleve (D): Museum CODA Art Apeldoorn (NL);Thorasminde Copenhagen (DK); Museum Kurhaus Kleve (D): Galerie plan. D. Düsseldorf (D); Muzeum Ferencváros Budapest (HU); OMNIA VANITAS european artists WWC-BF Bergen-Mons (BE); Art Fairs Amsterdam/ Rotterdam (NL); Land is co-founder with Pier Pennings of pARTytent, a traveling art space. Artists in Residence at Berlin (D); Land has been featured by NRC Handelsblad and several Art Magazins. Publication: text Alex de Vries:“Tapestry as an image”.
Tapestries and Drawings
The symbol of the skull embodies the work of Anke Land. For her, it is an icon of the preciousness of life; it represents not a memento mori but a memento vivere. By weaving in gold, she instills the skull with light, so it shimmers in the fabric: when you walk past, in one moment you see only the brilliance of gold; in the next you clearly see the skull. Thus it conveys the fragility and the fleeting nature of life.
This symbol connects all aspects of her work: brief moments captured in her diary drawings; the transience and decay in her tapestries of forests and trees; the hopeless vulnerability of migrants; the eternity of Charon the ferryman, transporting the dead to the underworld.
In her recent work Anke Land depicts humans in search of a new existence—a search they often pay for with their lives. The skull, then, also channels the pirate flag, once hoisted as a symbol of power and invincibility, but now a talisman to protect terrified and vulnerable people. The passengers on boats in her woven scenes seem to reach up, rising in gold like the phoenix from the flames.
Land works first as a draftsman, drawing with bold speed, yet still a direct and firm hand, in response to media images. She creates diary entries with pen, ink and paint on clear, transparent film and on this volatile material she captures impressions of people and events.
But Land has been searching for a way to make her work more tactile, and found this quality in weaving. In the TextilelLab in Tilburg (Netherlands) her work is rendered into computer data, guiding the loom to weave her tapestries. For Land, weaving in layers is the perfect technique for depicting the meaning of her work in physical terms. Within some parts of the scene the layers are woven tightly together, while in other parts they lie loosely and transparently over each other.
In these woven tapestries the scenes become even more timeless, more elusive, more wrapped in history than they do in her drawings. In this way, Land lends a historical resonance to current events: the craftsmanship of weaving connecting the past to the present . Her tapestries are woven with reflective materials so that when they catch the light they glow intensely, in accordance with traditional crafsmanship but with the abstraction of modern imagination.
Graduated at ArtEZ, Fine Arts, Arnhem NL
Exhibitions (selection):
2018
Radboud University Huygensgebouw Nijmegen NL SOLO
pARTytent – Janus Pannonius Muzéum, Pécs, HU. artists: Marieke Gelissen,Erzsi Pennings,Stefan Kasper, Pier Pennings, Aimée Terburg, Elizabeth de Vaal, Anke Land
B53,40 Self-portraits Contemporary Art Space -Arnhem. NL
‘Textiel’, Galerie De Kapberg, Egmond aan den Hoef NL
Ten years after- Projectraum-Bahnhof25.de Kleve D
Museum CODA: 055: Apeldoorn Art
2017
Salon Der Künstler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve D
Auf zu neuen Ufern, residency, curator Peter Kerschgens, ArToll Kunstlabor Bedburg-Hau D
Sint- Janskerk, Cartons, Gouda NL
HOE=HET NU ACECgebouwcentre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL,curator Peter Nijenhuis,
Love, Peace and Light, Kunstraum Dreiech/ArtCentre Frankfurt,D with Sandra Mann, Eric de Castro, Stefan Balkenol e.o.
BRAUS galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
artists Pier Pennings, Peter Clouth, Sonja Tintelnot, Andrea Isa, Anke Land.
2016
• BRAUS galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
artists Pier Pennings, Peter Clouth, Sonja Tintelnot, Andrea Isa, Anke Land.
• Aanwinsten 2011-2016 Museum Gouda NL
• DRAAD art with textile. Artists: Janske Hombergen, Fransje Killaars, Anke Land, Margriet Luyten, Linda Nieuwstad, Zeger Reyers, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Hinke Schreuders, Marije Vermeulen. ACEC – centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL.
• Art&Nuyens VM 23 Arnhem NL
• Apeldoorn Art ,CODA Museum 2016 Apeldoorn NL
• pARTytent reunion ACEC- centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn
• KunstRai – ARTFAIR Amsterdam NL Galerie Hugo Boogaard.
• Kunstenaars & Textiel, Kunstwest C-Lab expo Amsterdam NL. Femmy Duiven, Ria van Eijk, Barbara Broekman, Jenny Ymker, Pauline Nijenhuis.
2015
• Galerie plan.d. “Ever After” solo with Pier Pennings. Düsseldorf DE
• Galerie Oranjerie POP UP Goes ” Tactile Textile”
• Kunstverein Bahnhof25 Kleef DE, Das Leben ist eine Kartoffel
• Galerie Oranjerie solo; ” Caught in Gold”, Goes NL
• Galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf / Art&Nuyens Neueröffnung VM 23 Arnhem NL
• Omnia Vanitas, European artists WCC.BF. Mons BE
• pARTytent Galerie plan.d Düsseldorf DE Johan Nieuwenhuize, Brieke Drost/ Ronald de Ceuster, Bert Frings, Pier Pennings, Tamara Dees
• pARTytent Frankfurt- Eltville DE, Ten Words one Shot.
• FITAX, PARK Tilburg NL
2014
• Presentation new works bought by Province of Gelderland NL
• Galerie Oranjerie “Queens Garden” solo Amsterdam NL
• Kunstverein Projectraum-Bahnhof25 with Michael Picke, Kleve DE
• HOE=HET NU ACECgebouw Apeldoorn, NL
• pARTytent: Willem3 Vlissingen NL, Quartair The Hague NL, Kunstverein Projectraum-Bahnhof25 Kleve DE, Hinke Schreuders, Ferry Staverman, Pier Pennings, Marisa Rappard, Niels Broszat, Anke Land
• Fitax W139 Amsterdam NL
• Museum Waterland Tekenkabinet Purmerend NL
• Fitax Art-Rotterdam NL
• CODE ROOD De Kleine Kapel solo Arnhem NL
2013
• Tekenkabinet Kunstsalon Assen, NL
• HOE=HET NU ACECgebouw Apeldoorn NL
• Kunst op de Koffie Spijkerkwartier Arnhem NL
• Cascolab Wrapped&Packed Apeldoorn NL
• Museum Waterland Tekenkabinet Purmerend NL
• FTSSSHT GBK-MoBa, Arnhem.NL
• Museum of Ferencvaros Budapest HU “Going Mayar”, Pier Pennings , Elizabeth de Vaal, Desiree de Baar, Alphons ter Avest, Pietertje van Splunter
• Museum Gouda GENADE solo NL
• Dijkmagazijn GBK Winssen NL with Pier Pennings
• Re: Rotterdam NL Artfair
• Kunstenlab Kamerbreed Deventer NL
• Museum CODA Apeldoorn
2012
• HOE=HETNU ACEC Apeldoorn NL curated by Peter Nijenhuis
• Fitax Mediamatic Fabriek Amsterdam NL
• Wintersale Bosch Arnhem NL
• pARTytent Prague CR B.C.Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B ( Alex Jacobs & Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• ACEC gebouw “De verbeelding van Apeldoorn “ NL
• pARTytent Herceg Novi (Montenegro) B.C. Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B (Alex Jacobs & Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• pARTytent Budapest HU B.C. Epker, Elizabeth de Vaal, Pier Pennings, V&B (Alex Jacobs& Ellemieke Schoenmaker), Zeger Reyers
• FITAX 500 Charlois Rotterdam NL
• Galerie Van den Berge/ Museum Le Secet, Goes
• RE: Rotterdam, Art- Fair NL
• River of Hope Recyclart Brussels BE
• Museum Gouda, “Cartons” Sketches of Beauty ,drawings from 1552, stained- glass windows of the Netherlandish Renaissance
2011
• Museum CODA, “Forest Fairytales” Apeldoorn
• TENT Rotterdam, Tupajumi
• Wintersale Bosch, Arnhem
• P.ART of our life/ Museum Le Secet “Liefde in de Kunst” Zwolle
• Pécsbagotá Vollpension , Hungary
• ACEC gebouw “Samen Solo” Apeldoorn with Edith Meijering
• Kopenhagen Thorasminde “SWAP” Denmark, with Pier Pennings, Marije Vermeulen, Guido Nieuwendijk
• Museum Gouda “Exposed”, with Vittorio Roerade, B.C. Epker, Erzsi Pennings, Hieke Luik, Pier Pennings, Zeger Reijers
• Davos, harboursite Deventer, “The Incident Room”, curator Patrick Mangnus
Publications
* Salon der Künstler, Museum Kurhaus Kleve D, text Harald Kunde (2017)
• Nieuwe Veluwe:Het menselijk leven, geweven. geknoopt, vervilt, Gabriëlle de Nijs Bik (2016)
• http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/consumeer-de-kunst (2015)
• De Stentor:” Ze maken grote indruk op me”, Hemmy van Reenen (2015)
• Commission: Fotoserie voor uitgave : “De Facademaatschappij”, over het verschil tussen presentatie en werkelijkheid. Prof dr Gérard van Tillo. www.husserl.nl (2013)
• Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet (2012)
• Weven: “Gegrepen door de mogelijkheden van weven”, Selma Sindram (2011)
• Tapestry as an image, the work of Anke Land. Alex de Vries (2010)
• Zwart, uitgave CBK Apeldoorn i.s.m. Guido de Vries (2008)
• Labyrint: Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Stichting Traveling Light, Alex de Vries, Pier Pennings (2007)
Collections
• Provincie Gelderland NL
• Museum Gouda NL
• Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst
• Museum CODA, Apeldoorn
• City of Apeldoorn
• Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen
• City of Berlijn DE
KunstArchif Peter Kerschgens D
Curatorship and other activities
• curator- DRAAD art with textile artists: Janske Hombergen, Fransje Killaars, Anke Land, Margriet Luyten, Linda Nieuwstad, Zeger Reyers, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Hinke Schreuders, Marije Vermeulen. ACEC – centre for contemporary culture Apeldoorn NL (2016)
• “Wall of Fame”, the collection of Pier Pennings and Anke Land, CBK Apeldoorn (2010)
• Founder pARTytent with Pier Pennings (2012)
• Municipal counselor Art in Public Space (GABK), Apeldoorn NL (2004- 2010)
• Programming artist-initiative Archipel, Apeldoorn (1998-2000)
• Programming exhibitionspace “Het kruithuisje” (GABK), Apeldoorn NL (2004- 2006)
• Exhibition ‘Labyrint”, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (2006)
• Programming exhibitions with Marije Vermeulen, CBK Apeldoorn (2008-2009)
• “Black”, exhibition and round table discussions, CBK Apeldoorn (2008-2009)
• Member of the programming committee CBK Apeldoorn (2008 – 2010)
• Member of the balloting commission G.B.K. (2010- 2016)
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