chris rijk curriculum vitae
Christiaan (Chris) Ruben Rijk
Born in 1995 in Woerden, the Netherlands Raised in Alphen aan den Rijn,
Works in Zaandam and lives in Amsterdam
Barndegat 6-8
1505 HN in Zaandam
Wagenaarstraat 458
1093 EA in Amsterdam
http://www.chrisrijk.nl
[email protected]
@Chrisrijk
+31 6 1954 29 43
Chris Rijk graduated with honors from the University of the Arts Utrecht (hku) in 2017 and two years later, in 2019 he joined logman Gallery until he passed away another two years later. In 2022 he started working with Rademakers Gallery in Amsterdam.
Selected exhibitions
2023: Untitled exhibition at Rademakers Gallery
2023: North Sea Jazz Music festival with exhibitions
2023: Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
2023: The Big Ceramics Show at Art Rotterdam; With Unlimited Art Castle, the gallery formerly known as Outstiderland
2023: Ass Dick Dog; Group exhibition at Gallery blast in Liège, Belgium
2023: Enter Art Fair; An art fair in Kopenhagen, Denmark, with Rademakers Gallery
2023: Men and feelings; Solo exhibition in amc (Amsterdam medical center)
2022: This Art Fair; Solo booth at the Kromhouthal in Amsterdam
2022: The Ministery of Ceramic Affairs; Group show at Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
2022: Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam; With Rademakers Gallery
2022: Untitled exhibition; At Galerie 158 in Rotterdam
2022: KunstRai Amsterdam; Again with Galerie 158
2022: See No Evil; Group exhibition at Academiegalerie Utrecht
2021: Jantien Jongsma, Julia Kiryanova, Chris Rijk; Group show at gallery sbk knsm-laan in Amsterdam
2021: The Big Ceramics Show; Group exhibition at Outsiderland in Amsterdam
2021: HENK; Tribute exhibition in Gallery logman
2021: This Art Fair; Duo presentation with Marjo Postma, Kromhouthal in Amsterdam
2021: EXtuin; Covid-safe presentations in the Gardens of Utrecht
2021: The Solo Project; Art fair in Brussels, with Sundaymomrning@ekwc
2020: By Invitation Only; Group exhibit at Gallery logman
2020: Woven Identities; Group exhibition as part of Glue, Amsterdam connected by design a festival dedicated to the applied arts
2020: Art Utrecht; Art fair with Gallery logman
2020: Testcase XX and XXI; Group exhibition at Sundaymorning@ekwc
2020: WLKMNWNDRLND; Duo presentation with Danielle Hogendoorn at Gallery logman
2019: It’s Better To Rot Than To Fade Away; Duo presentation with Bernardus Baldus; Project space Lokaal in Utrecht
2019: De lichtekooi en andere suksessen; The Strumpet and other Hits; Solo show at Project space Lokaal
2019: Dead Darlings Design; Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
2018: Bad Arts Jubilee; Group exhibition in Pearls and Bones Studio in London
2018: #1; Group show by De Roze Sokkel, an artist collective
2018: Koud en Eenzaam; Cold and Lonely; Solo presentation at Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin
2018: nvk Keramiek Triënnale; Group show at coda Museum in Apeldoorn
2017: Touch Me Baby; Group show at Pearls and Bones Studio in London
2017: wallpaper; Group show in Showroom mama in Rotterdam
2017: Best of Apprentice/Master 2018; Group exhibition at Kunstpodium T in Tilburg
2017: This Art Fair; Solo booth at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam
2016: Apprentice/Master #18; Group exhibition at Kunstpodium T in Tilburg
2016: (a)rt; Solo presentation at 99kuub te Utrecht
2016: Home is where the HeArt is; Group exhibition in Utrecht; Powered by K.F. Hein Fonds
Residences
2020: Opium Atelier in Hilversum, as part of a national radio show
2020: Sundaymorning@ekwc in Oisterwijk; Made possible by the generosity of Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Fonds Kwadraat.
2019: Het Tuinatelier K.F. Hein Fonds in Utrecht
2018: Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin; Royally supported by Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
Prijzen en stipendia
2018: nvk stipend (nominated)
2017: Jan Zumbrink prize (nominated)
2017: Stokroos stipend (nominated)
2017: Jan Naaikens prize (nominated)
2013: Iron Mountain US. Scholarship (awarded for four years)
2006: Coloring contest Bruna Alphen aan den Rijn (won)
Publications and other activities
2023: Veertien vazen van Chris Rijk, voor arbeiders verklaard; Fourteen vases by Chris Rijk, for labourers explained, Catalogue with fourteen vases, 20 cm x 30 cm, 30 pages, paper back
2022: Vuistdiep in Oud Holland (Fist Deep in Ye Olde Republic); Catalogue of Delftware works, 15 cm x 20 cm, 125 pages, paperback
2020: Co-founder and curator of Project Space lokaal
2017: Kunstenaarsliederen (Songs of an Artist); Poems, 17 cm x 10 cm, 31 pages, paperback
2017: Brieven aan mijn Broertjes (Letters to my brothers); Loveletters, 25 cm x 20.5 cm, 69 pages, paperback
2017: Gaarne bewaren ten behoeve van de biograaf van Chris Rijk (Please keep safe for Chris Rijk’s biographer); A collection of manifests, poems, artist statemens, diary exerpts, prose and more), 23 cm x 15.5 cm, 212 pages, hardcover with dust jacket
Chris Rijk’s work is part of the public collections of hku and the Dutch Ministery of Foreign affairs and private collections around the world
Born in 1995 in Woerden, the Netherlands Raised in Alphen aan den Rijn,
Works in Zaandam and lives in Amsterdam
Barndegat 6-8
1505 HN in Zaandam
Wagenaarstraat 458
1093 EA in Amsterdam
http://www.chrisrijk.nl
[email protected]
@Chrisrijk
+31 6 1954 29 43
Chris Rijk graduated with honors from the University of the Arts Utrecht (hku) in 2017 and two years later, in 2019 he joined logman Gallery until he passed away another two years later. In 2022 he started working with Rademakers Gallery in Amsterdam.
Selected exhibitions
2023: Untitled exhibition at Rademakers Gallery
2023: North Sea Jazz Music festival with exhibitions
2023: Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam
2023: The Big Ceramics Show at Art Rotterdam; With Unlimited Art Castle, the gallery formerly known as Outstiderland
2023: Ass Dick Dog; Group exhibition at Gallery blast in Liège, Belgium
2023: Enter Art Fair; An art fair in Kopenhagen, Denmark, with Rademakers Gallery
2023: Men and feelings; Solo exhibition in amc (Amsterdam medical center)
2022: This Art Fair; Solo booth at the Kromhouthal in Amsterdam
2022: The Ministery of Ceramic Affairs; Group show at Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
2022: Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam; With Rademakers Gallery
2022: Untitled exhibition; At Galerie 158 in Rotterdam
2022: KunstRai Amsterdam; Again with Galerie 158
2022: See No Evil; Group exhibition at Academiegalerie Utrecht
2021: Jantien Jongsma, Julia Kiryanova, Chris Rijk; Group show at gallery sbk knsm-laan in Amsterdam
2021: The Big Ceramics Show; Group exhibition at Outsiderland in Amsterdam
2021: HENK; Tribute exhibition in Gallery logman
2021: This Art Fair; Duo presentation with Marjo Postma, Kromhouthal in Amsterdam
2021: EXtuin; Covid-safe presentations in the Gardens of Utrecht
2021: The Solo Project; Art fair in Brussels, with Sundaymomrning@ekwc
2020: By Invitation Only; Group exhibit at Gallery logman
2020: Woven Identities; Group exhibition as part of Glue, Amsterdam connected by design a festival dedicated to the applied arts
2020: Art Utrecht; Art fair with Gallery logman
2020: Testcase XX and XXI; Group exhibition at Sundaymorning@ekwc
2020: WLKMNWNDRLND; Duo presentation with Danielle Hogendoorn at Gallery logman
2019: It’s Better To Rot Than To Fade Away; Duo presentation with Bernardus Baldus; Project space Lokaal in Utrecht
2019: De lichtekooi en andere suksessen; The Strumpet and other Hits; Solo show at Project space Lokaal
2019: Dead Darlings Design; Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam
2018: Bad Arts Jubilee; Group exhibition in Pearls and Bones Studio in London
2018: #1; Group show by De Roze Sokkel, an artist collective
2018: Koud en Eenzaam; Cold and Lonely; Solo presentation at Hauptstadtstudio in Berlin
2018: nvk Keramiek Triënnale; Group show at coda Museum in Apeldoorn
2017: Touch Me Baby; Group show at Pearls and Bones Studio in London
2017: wallpaper; Group show in Showroom mama in Rotterdam
2017: Best of Apprentice/Master 2018; Group exhibition at Kunstpodium T in Tilburg
2017: This Art Fair; Solo booth at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam
2016: Apprentice/Master #18; Group exhibition at Kunstpodium T in Tilburg
2016: (a)rt; Solo presentation at 99kuub te Utrecht
2016: Home is where the HeArt is; Group exhibition in Utrecht; Powered by K.F. Hein Fonds
Residences
2020: Opium Atelier in Hilversum, as part of a national radio show
2020: Sundaymorning@ekwc in Oisterwijk; Made possible by the generosity of Stichting Niemeijer Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Fonds Kwadraat.
2019: Het Tuinatelier K.F. Hein Fonds in Utrecht
2018: Institut für Alles Mögliche in Berlin; Royally supported by Stichting Niemeijer Fonds
Prijzen en stipendia
2018: nvk stipend (nominated)
2017: Jan Zumbrink prize (nominated)
2017: Stokroos stipend (nominated)
2017: Jan Naaikens prize (nominated)
2013: Iron Mountain US. Scholarship (awarded for four years)
2006: Coloring contest Bruna Alphen aan den Rijn (won)
Publications and other activities
2023: Veertien vazen van Chris Rijk, voor arbeiders verklaard; Fourteen vases by Chris Rijk, for labourers explained, Catalogue with fourteen vases, 20 cm x 30 cm, 30 pages, paper back
2022: Vuistdiep in Oud Holland (Fist Deep in Ye Olde Republic); Catalogue of Delftware works, 15 cm x 20 cm, 125 pages, paperback
2020: Co-founder and curator of Project Space lokaal
2017: Kunstenaarsliederen (Songs of an Artist); Poems, 17 cm x 10 cm, 31 pages, paperback
2017: Brieven aan mijn Broertjes (Letters to my brothers); Loveletters, 25 cm x 20.5 cm, 69 pages, paperback
2017: Gaarne bewaren ten behoeve van de biograaf van Chris Rijk (Please keep safe for Chris Rijk’s biographer); A collection of manifests, poems, artist statemens, diary exerpts, prose and more), 23 cm x 15.5 cm, 212 pages, hardcover with dust jacket
Chris Rijk’s work is part of the public collections of hku and the Dutch Ministery of Foreign affairs and private collections around the world
