Bio
Anke Land is a dutch visual artist making drawings and tapestries that are based on transience, decay and daily news, usually topical, but sometimes also looking back in history.. She developes her digital jacquard woven gobelins at the TextilelLab TextielMuseum Tilburg NL. She showed her work in: Grand Palais Paris (F); Museum Gouda (NL); Kommunale Galerie Berlin (D). 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); Contemporary Art at former main customsoffice, Frankfurt am Main (D); Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL; Land is co-founder with Pier Pennings of pARTytent, a traveling art space. Artist in Residence at Berlin (D); Land has been featured by NRC Handelsblad and several Art Magazins. Publication design: Eloi Koster, text Alex de Vries:“Tapestry as an image” Grants: Hüsserlstichting, Provincie Gelderland, Frank Van Der Wal fonds, ACEC, Van Reekum Cultuurfonds, Gemeente Apeldoorn, Residency Berlin, Residency Thorasminde Copenhagen.
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Art Award: Van Reekum Culture Prize.
Museum CODA Apeldoorn NL jury constists Piet Hazelebach (van Reekum Stichting), Rianne Groen (conservator CODA) en Peter ten Lohuis previous winner.
From the jury report, “We appreciate the tension between her (soft) use of textile materials and her content-based imagery, in which she uses, for example, processed war images. Unfortunately a very topical theme. We particularly like how Anke connects the historical context of her work, namely that of the narrative tapestry, with more contemporary themes. Anke Land’s work has roots in the past but also looks to the future. The plan she submitted has a clear direction and focus. We are excited about her ambition to apply the latest techniques to her work.”
Working Process
Fifteen years ago I started weaving to make my work more tangible. Until then I worked almost exclusively on semi-transparent and crystal clear carriers. That work was – and always is – about the emptiness in which humanity moves and seeks direction: the go-no-go in a journey from nowhere to nowhere. Since then I have been making gobelins in an intuitive and process-based way, in which materiality has played an increasingly important role. The use of transparency and transparent carriers has remained. I make my wallhangings in the TextilelLab of the Textile Museum in Tilburg (NL). There my work is developed and woven computer-controlled.
The content and framework of my work always starts with a long underground journey in my mind. Once the concept for the work has been formed there, I focus my research above ground on everything that can give shape to that concept. I often use photographic images that I make myself or recognize in the media and on the internet. Usually topical, but sometimes also looking back in history. The gobelin “Firestorm” is an example of this: the lights in the dark firmament are in reality the streets of burning Hamburg in the Second World War. The literally layered structure of weaving in the Jacquard technique is the perfect way for me to physically shape the content. I thus place my gobelins in a historical tradition: depicting stories about the ups and downs of the world.
In my gobelins the layers are sometimes tightly intertwined, then loosely tied together, sometimes densely, but often also laid transparently on top of each other. My choice of yarns, from tightly twisted to gossamer-thin threads, in materials that absorb, reflect or transmit light, allows my wallhangings to appear deep and dark, and then reflect the captured light – always an essential aspect of my work. reflect, and appear translucent when suspended in front of a translucent background. Thus, the traditional craftsmanship of the Jacquard weaver facilitates the abstraction of the modern imagination.
The Textile Lab’s Dornier weaving machines are computer-controlled, with almost unlimited design space. I make and edit my sculptures in my studio. I paint over mostly photographed images, sand away parts and add again. I then digitize the images to further translate them into the correct weaving pattern in the Textile Lab together with a product developer from the lab behind the computer.
The most recent step in my research is the “Unraveled” project.
I almost literally make my way through all the weaving tests and sometimes completely woven wallhangings that I have made over the past few years. I unravel them, while cutting them, in order to trace back all the individual steps in the process from design to execution and evaluate the results retroactively. Back to the bindings, the chosen materials, the colors, reflection, transparency, light and dark. The designs also return strongly fragmented. In this way completely new works are created, with their own, abstracted meaning.
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 eternity of Charon the ferryman, transporting the dead to the underworld.
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 craftsmanship but with the abstraction of modern imagination.
Studied: ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem NL
Exhibitions (selection)
2024
HOE=HETNU? ACEC Apeldoorn NL
Radboud University Huygensgebouw Nijmegen NL presentation: The Golden Ratio
Provincial House Arnhem Gelderland NL New Acquisitions
Hollandische Kunstlerhaus, Aachener Kunstroute, Aachen D Curated by Ron Jagers
Borrowed Spaces, initiative by Ronald de Ceuster, Deventer NL -with Patrick Mangnus + group
Museum CODA The Golden Ratio and The Making Of, Apeldoorn NL 15-12 2024 – 16-03-2025
Flausenrausch galerie plan.d. “Dusseldorf D
Arti et Amicitiae, SALON, Amsterdam NL
2023
Art,Award: Van Reekum Cultureprize.
Museum CODA NL, Apeldoorn
In Absence, PXL-MAD Gallery, Hasselt B With o.a.Karen Wuytens, Ruudt Peters, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Ellen
Vrijsen, Hans Op De Beeck. Curated by Nadia Sels & Karen Wuytens.
Wasserturm Geldern D ” Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst”.
“Hoe= het Nu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL
Das Kleine Wunder, Galerie Plan. D. Düsseldorf D
2022
Arti et Amicitiae, SALON, Amsterdam NL
Museum CODA, Apeldoorn Art. NL
“ Tijdspinsels”: a.o. Somja Hillen, Pauline Nijenhuis, Astrid Polman, Koppelkerk Bredevoort NL
FOR-EVER? WAR, Anke Land, Dirk Knickhoff,Peter Clouth, Pier Pennings, Niederrheinischer Kunstverein, WeselD
De Vensterbank Grand Ladies, Amersfoort NL wwwdevensterbank.nl
Telpost Riverdate, galerie SK Verein Solinger Künstler 3.-V. Solingen D
Wasserturm Geldern D, Memento Mori.
“Hoe= het Nu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst NL
2021
First International Festival of Manuports, Kunsthalle Kotha, Helsinki F
FOR_EVER? WAR with Dirk D Knickhoff, Peter Clouth, Pier Pennings ACEC Apeldoorn NL
OUTSIDE ARTOLL Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau D
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.NL
“Hoe=hetNu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst NL
Ode aan 40 jaar De Nieuwe Gang Beuningen NL
• Artist in Residence, Telpost, Millingen NL with Pier Pennings
2020
A KOCSMA, AiR Pecsbagota,HU, St Ruimtevaart, Den Haag NL curator Elizabeth de Vaal
055, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn NL
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.NL
The Big Draw, ACEC Apeldoorn.NL
• Corona-Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Hoe=hetNu”, ACECbuilding, Apeldoorn/Kunstgemaal Bronkhorst (NL)
• “A Doodle a Day”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Flatterausstellung”, Galerie plan.d., Düsseldorf (D)
“Dance with the Devil” curator Anan Striker, Kunstenlab Deventer NL
• Stadsmuseum Woerden NL,- in den vreemde-.
• Secrets of Nature, Frankfurt am Main D, Sandra Mann (curator), Barbara Klemm, Anke Land, Justine Otto.
• Artist in Residence, Telpost, Millingen NL with Pier Pennings
2019
Uncle Abe’s Spitfire and Scrap & Shatter, Grote Kerk Veere NL Anke Land and Pier Pennings.
Arti et Amcitiae, UPDATE, Amsterdam, NL
THE GERMAN WAY OF LIFE 11, artists: Shusuke Ao, Bea Emsbach, Snezana Golubovic, Ichiro Irie, Jodlklub, Tom Kauth, Michel Klöfkorn, Anke Land, Le brothers, Sandra Mann, Corinna Mayer, Justine Otto, Gabriel Schäfer. Curator Sandra Mann, Frankfurt am Main D
VOUCH, 25 artists a.o..Anook Cleonne, Rosemin Hendriks, Brieke Drost, Lenneke van der Goot, Loods 6, Amsterdam NL
B53 Uncle Abe’s Spitfire and Scrap & Shatter with Pier Pennings, Arnhem Nl
Und die Wände Schauen Zurück” Galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
Material Sidekick, artists: Janske Hombergen, Irene Companjen, Miranda Rikken, Gabi Rets a.o. Curator: Nico Schulte, POPOP Nijmegen NL
SKULLSHOW, artists: Arno Coenen, Paul van Dongen, Hans van der Ham, a.o. Curator: Patrick Mangnus. ACEC Apeldoorn NL
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 NL
”Blümerant”, Plan.D. Düsseldorf D
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL
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.
Forreal, galerie Hugo Boogaard, Amsterdam 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
+Nieuwe Veluwe: Schoonheid die vooraf gaat aan vernietiging. Ans van Berkum,2024 in musea, 0020.nl Anke Land wint met tapijt cultuurprijs 2023 De Gelderlander, Anke Land wint met tapijt cultuurprijs. 2023 Stedendriehoek, Fraaie bijdrage voor ontwikkeling kunstenaarschap. 2023 Am Rhein und Lippe, “Künstler im Kampf gegen den Krieg”.2022 NRZ Wir am Nierderrhein: “Da Keimpt doch etwas auf”.2022 De Vensterbank, Amersfoort, interview Jantine Kremer 2022 NRZ Ersten Wesel Höhse Schermbeck: “Von Krieg und Grauen”.202 Niederrhein Nachrichten: “Von der Keimkraft des Krieges”.202 FOR_EVER? WAR, lezing Denker des Vaderlands, Paul van Tongeren, ACEC Apeldoorn. Moderator Paul Baart.2021 Deze bijzondere expositie over Bonifatius’ reizen is vanaf vandaag te zien in Stadsmuseum Woerden, Danielle Verwey 2020 ApeldoornDirect, interview Hoe=HetNu Amrutha Mol 202 In de Vreemde, Stadsmuseum Woerden. Tien textielkunstenaars en de reizen van Bonifatius.2020 Interview: In de Vreemde, Teatske de Jong 2020 PZC ” Oom Bram is na 78 jaar toch nog geland” Jan van Damme. 2019 Frankfurter Neue Presse, “Unheimliche Gemütlichkeit”. 2019 Vouch, Lost Painters 2019 Niek Hendrix The German Way of Life 11, Zeitgnössische Kunst im ehemaligen Hauptzollamt Frankfurt am Main, D 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) Lost Painters Re:Rotterdam 2013 Trendbeheer Re:Rotterdam 2012• Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet (2012) Trendbeheer: Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet, Zwolle (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
• Gemeente Apeldoorn
• Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen
• City of Berlijn DE
KunstArchif Peter Kerschgens D
Gemeente Groningen
Grant Provincie Gelderland
Grant Frank vd Wal fonds
Provincie Gelderland
Niederrheinischer Kunsyverein
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 with Anne van As, 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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Anke Land is a dutch visual artist making drawings and tapestries that are based on transience, decay and daily news, usually topical, but sometimes also looking back in history.. She developes her digital jacquard woven gobelins at the TextilelLab TextielMuseum Tilburg NL. She showed her work in: Grand Palais Paris (F); Museum Gouda (NL); Kommunale Galerie Berlin (D). 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); Contemporary Art at former main customsoffice, Frankfurt am Main (D); Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL; Land is co-founder with Pier Pennings of pARTytent, a traveling art space. Artist in Residence at Berlin (D); Land has been featured by NRC Handelsblad and several Art Magazins. Publication design: Eloi Koster, text Alex de Vries:“Tapestry as an image” Grants: Hüsserlstichting, Provincie Gelderland, Frank Van Der Wal fonds, ACEC, Van Reekum Cultuurfonds, Gemeente Apeldoorn, Residency Berlin, Residency Thorasminde Copenhagen.
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Art Award: Van Reekum Culture Prize.
Museum CODA Apeldoorn NL jury constists Piet Hazelebach (van Reekum Stichting), Rianne Groen (conservator CODA) en Peter ten Lohuis previous winner.
From the jury report, “We appreciate the tension between her (soft) use of textile materials and her content-based imagery, in which she uses, for example, processed war images. Unfortunately a very topical theme. We particularly like how Anke connects the historical context of her work, namely that of the narrative tapestry, with more contemporary themes. Anke Land’s work has roots in the past but also looks to the future. The plan she submitted has a clear direction and focus. We are excited about her ambition to apply the latest techniques to her work.”
Working Process
Fifteen years ago I started weaving to make my work more tangible. Until then I worked almost exclusively on semi-transparent and crystal clear carriers. That work was – and always is – about the emptiness in which humanity moves and seeks direction: the go-no-go in a journey from nowhere to nowhere. Since then I have been making gobelins in an intuitive and process-based way, in which materiality has played an increasingly important role. The use of transparency and transparent carriers has remained. I make my wallhangings in the TextilelLab of the Textile Museum in Tilburg (NL). There my work is developed and woven computer-controlled.
The content and framework of my work always starts with a long underground journey in my mind. Once the concept for the work has been formed there, I focus my research above ground on everything that can give shape to that concept. I often use photographic images that I make myself or recognize in the media and on the internet. Usually topical, but sometimes also looking back in history. The gobelin “Firestorm” is an example of this: the lights in the dark firmament are in reality the streets of burning Hamburg in the Second World War. The literally layered structure of weaving in the Jacquard technique is the perfect way for me to physically shape the content. I thus place my gobelins in a historical tradition: depicting stories about the ups and downs of the world.
In my gobelins the layers are sometimes tightly intertwined, then loosely tied together, sometimes densely, but often also laid transparently on top of each other. My choice of yarns, from tightly twisted to gossamer-thin threads, in materials that absorb, reflect or transmit light, allows my wallhangings to appear deep and dark, and then reflect the captured light – always an essential aspect of my work. reflect, and appear translucent when suspended in front of a translucent background. Thus, the traditional craftsmanship of the Jacquard weaver facilitates the abstraction of the modern imagination.
The Textile Lab’s Dornier weaving machines are computer-controlled, with almost unlimited design space. I make and edit my sculptures in my studio. I paint over mostly photographed images, sand away parts and add again. I then digitize the images to further translate them into the correct weaving pattern in the Textile Lab together with a product developer from the lab behind the computer.
The most recent step in my research is the “Unraveled” project.
I almost literally make my way through all the weaving tests and sometimes completely woven wallhangings that I have made over the past few years. I unravel them, while cutting them, in order to trace back all the individual steps in the process from design to execution and evaluate the results retroactively. Back to the bindings, the chosen materials, the colors, reflection, transparency, light and dark. The designs also return strongly fragmented. In this way completely new works are created, with their own, abstracted meaning.
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 eternity of Charon the ferryman, transporting the dead to the underworld.
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 craftsmanship but with the abstraction of modern imagination.
Studied: ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem NL
Exhibitions (selection)
2024
HOE=HETNU? ACEC Apeldoorn NL
Radboud University Huygensgebouw Nijmegen NL presentation: The Golden Ratio
Provincial House Arnhem Gelderland NL New Acquisitions
Hollandische Kunstlerhaus, Aachener Kunstroute, Aachen D Curated by Ron Jagers
Borrowed Spaces, initiative by Ronald de Ceuster, Deventer NL -with Patrick Mangnus + group
Museum CODA The Golden Ratio and The Making Of, Apeldoorn NL 15-12 2024 – 16-03-2025
Flausenrausch galerie plan.d. “Dusseldorf D
Arti et Amicitiae, SALON, Amsterdam NL
2023
Art,Award: Van Reekum Cultureprize.
Museum CODA NL, Apeldoorn
In Absence, PXL-MAD Gallery, Hasselt B With o.a.Karen Wuytens, Ruudt Peters, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Ellen
Vrijsen, Hans Op De Beeck. Curated by Nadia Sels & Karen Wuytens.
Wasserturm Geldern D ” Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst”.
“Hoe= het Nu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL
Das Kleine Wunder, Galerie Plan. D. Düsseldorf D
2022
Arti et Amicitiae, SALON, Amsterdam NL
Museum CODA, Apeldoorn Art. NL
“ Tijdspinsels”: a.o. Somja Hillen, Pauline Nijenhuis, Astrid Polman, Koppelkerk Bredevoort NL
FOR-EVER? WAR, Anke Land, Dirk Knickhoff,Peter Clouth, Pier Pennings, Niederrheinischer Kunstverein, WeselD
De Vensterbank Grand Ladies, Amersfoort NL wwwdevensterbank.nl
Telpost Riverdate, galerie SK Verein Solinger Künstler 3.-V. Solingen D
Wasserturm Geldern D, Memento Mori.
“Hoe= het Nu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst NL
2021
First International Festival of Manuports, Kunsthalle Kotha, Helsinki F
FOR_EVER? WAR with Dirk D Knickhoff, Peter Clouth, Pier Pennings ACEC Apeldoorn NL
OUTSIDE ARTOLL Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau D
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.NL
“Hoe=hetNu”, ACEC, Apeldoorn NL
Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst NL
Ode aan 40 jaar De Nieuwe Gang Beuningen NL
• Artist in Residence, Telpost, Millingen NL with Pier Pennings
2020
A KOCSMA, AiR Pecsbagota,HU, St Ruimtevaart, Den Haag NL curator Elizabeth de Vaal
055, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn NL
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.NL
The Big Draw, ACEC Apeldoorn.NL
• Corona-Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Hoe=hetNu”, ACECbuilding, Apeldoorn/Kunstgemaal Bronkhorst (NL)
• “A Doodle a Day”, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
• “Flatterausstellung”, Galerie plan.d., Düsseldorf (D)
“Dance with the Devil” curator Anan Striker, Kunstenlab Deventer NL
• Stadsmuseum Woerden NL,- in den vreemde-.
• Secrets of Nature, Frankfurt am Main D, Sandra Mann (curator), Barbara Klemm, Anke Land, Justine Otto.
• Artist in Residence, Telpost, Millingen NL with Pier Pennings
2019
Uncle Abe’s Spitfire and Scrap & Shatter, Grote Kerk Veere NL Anke Land and Pier Pennings.
Arti et Amcitiae, UPDATE, Amsterdam, NL
THE GERMAN WAY OF LIFE 11, artists: Shusuke Ao, Bea Emsbach, Snezana Golubovic, Ichiro Irie, Jodlklub, Tom Kauth, Michel Klöfkorn, Anke Land, Le brothers, Sandra Mann, Corinna Mayer, Justine Otto, Gabriel Schäfer. Curator Sandra Mann, Frankfurt am Main D
VOUCH, 25 artists a.o..Anook Cleonne, Rosemin Hendriks, Brieke Drost, Lenneke van der Goot, Loods 6, Amsterdam NL
B53 Uncle Abe’s Spitfire and Scrap & Shatter with Pier Pennings, Arnhem Nl
Und die Wände Schauen Zurück” Galerie plan.d.Düsseldorf D
Material Sidekick, artists: Janske Hombergen, Irene Companjen, Miranda Rikken, Gabi Rets a.o. Curator: Nico Schulte, POPOP Nijmegen NL
SKULLSHOW, artists: Arno Coenen, Paul van Dongen, Hans van der Ham, a.o. Curator: Patrick Mangnus. ACEC Apeldoorn NL
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 NL
”Blümerant”, Plan.D. Düsseldorf D
Salon, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam NL
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.
Forreal, galerie Hugo Boogaard, Amsterdam 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
+Nieuwe Veluwe: Schoonheid die vooraf gaat aan vernietiging. Ans van Berkum,2024 in musea, 0020.nl Anke Land wint met tapijt cultuurprijs 2023 De Gelderlander, Anke Land wint met tapijt cultuurprijs. 2023 Stedendriehoek, Fraaie bijdrage voor ontwikkeling kunstenaarschap. 2023 Am Rhein und Lippe, “Künstler im Kampf gegen den Krieg”.2022 NRZ Wir am Nierderrhein: “Da Keimpt doch etwas auf”.2022 De Vensterbank, Amersfoort, interview Jantine Kremer 2022 NRZ Ersten Wesel Höhse Schermbeck: “Von Krieg und Grauen”.202 Niederrhein Nachrichten: “Von der Keimkraft des Krieges”.202 FOR_EVER? WAR, lezing Denker des Vaderlands, Paul van Tongeren, ACEC Apeldoorn. Moderator Paul Baart.2021 Deze bijzondere expositie over Bonifatius’ reizen is vanaf vandaag te zien in Stadsmuseum Woerden, Danielle Verwey 2020 ApeldoornDirect, interview Hoe=HetNu Amrutha Mol 202 In de Vreemde, Stadsmuseum Woerden. Tien textielkunstenaars en de reizen van Bonifatius.2020 Interview: In de Vreemde, Teatske de Jong 2020 PZC ” Oom Bram is na 78 jaar toch nog geland” Jan van Damme. 2019 Frankfurter Neue Presse, “Unheimliche Gemütlichkeit”. 2019 Vouch, Lost Painters 2019 Niek Hendrix The German Way of Life 11, Zeitgnössische Kunst im ehemaligen Hauptzollamt Frankfurt am Main, D 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) Lost Painters Re:Rotterdam 2013 Trendbeheer Re:Rotterdam 2012• Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet (2012) Trendbeheer: Liefde in de kunst/p.ART of your life, uitgave Museum Le Secet, Zwolle (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
• Gemeente Apeldoorn
• Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen
• City of Berlijn DE
KunstArchif Peter Kerschgens D
Gemeente Groningen
Grant Provincie Gelderland
Grant Frank vd Wal fonds
Provincie Gelderland
Niederrheinischer Kunsyverein
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 with Anne van As, 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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