Arno Kramer
Arno Kramer works as a visual artist and curator in the Netherlands and in Ireland. In 2015 he was awarded the Netherlands Artists of the Year, in the older artists category. In 2005 he curated Into Drawing Contemporary Dutch Drawing, this show travelled to 5 European countries. In January 2009, he curated Into Irish Drawing, which began a travelling exhibition in The Netherlands, it then travelled to France and Northern Ireland. For 20 years, he was a teacher at the AKI Akademie voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving (Academy of the Visual Arts and Design) in Enschede, the Netherlands, and has been a guest lecturer at art colleges in Ireland, England, Scotland, and the USA. He publishes on the visual arts and also writes poetry. He is currently the first curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands. Recently, he co-curated, with Diana Wind director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, All About Drawing.100 Dutch Artists, an overview of 50 years of Dutch drawings, presented in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
His own work has been displayed in the Netherlands, Ireland, England, the USA, Sweden, and Germany and is in private and public collections in these countries. Collections include; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Teylers Museum Haarlem, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enschede, Van Reekum Museum Apeldoorn, Fries Museum Leeuwarden, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and in Ireland in the Model Arts and Niland Gallery in Sligo and the Limerick City Gallery of Art Limerick.
EXHIBITIONS
2000 Waterverf?, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, Waterverf?, Van Harenmuseum, Heerenveen, Tekeningen van Nederlandse Kunstenaars, Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, Tussenlicht, Pronkkamer Uden, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Uden (solo), Nieuwe Oogst 15 jaar aanwinsten eigentijdse tekenkunst, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Galerie Jacoba Wijk, Groningen (solo), Tekeningen 1995-2000, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag (solo), Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem (solo), Art Hengelo, Centrale Tentoonstelling, Hengelo, Art Hengelo, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem, Art Hengelo, Galerie Lambert Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Maas, Inkeer/Repentance, Loppersum en St Maartensbrug, Bezeichnenderweise/Drawing to attention, Schloss Bentlage Rheine, Duitsland/Germany, Christmasshow, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, (w)interface, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem
2001 Ireland Drawings 1995-2000, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick Ierland/Ireland(solo), RAM Foundation, Drawing Room, Rotterdam, The Center for Drawing, Wimbledon School of Art, London, England, De Collectie Becht, De Krabbedans, Eindhoven, NOG-Collectie, Het Klooster, Vught, Mix 8, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem, Embodiment, Metis NL, Amsterdam, KunstRai, Amsterdam, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem, KunstRai, Amsterdam, Steendrukkerij Forrer, Bussum, Oponthoud op doortocht, Grote Kerk, Lochem, New Works on Paper, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Noord Ierland/Northern Ireland, Galerie Bismarck, Bremen, Duitsland/Germany (solo), Trace the poetical, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Art Twente, Hengelo, Galerie Rob de Vries, Mix op locatie, Museum Beeckestijn, Velzen (curator Rob de Vries)
2002 Works on paper 2002, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (solo), Ireland Drawings 1995-2001, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo Ierland/Ireland (solo), Aftermath, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland (solo), Ev+a 2002, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick, Ierland/Ireland, Hofvijver, Den Haag, Een parade van potlood en papier, Jan van Hoof Galerie, ‘s Hertogenbosch, Franciscus, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The 10th International Print Triennal,“Ketjut-Links”,Jyvaeskylae Art Museum Finland , Sense of Drawing II, Galerie Gist, Brummen (tevens/also curator), Inside Drawing, Nouvelles Images, Den Haag , Kunstenaar ontdekt, Den Haag, Aftermath 2002, tekeningen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (solo), Recente tekeningen, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem (solo), Per Saldo, ABN AMRO collectie, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Art Cologne, Green On Red Gallery Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Aankopen/Aquesitions Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2003 Reveal, project met 4e jaars beeldhouwers AKI Akademie voor Beeldende, Kunst Enschede (tevens/also curator) Kunstcentrum Hengelo, Van Brueghel tot Picasso, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Een keuze uit de kunstenaarsboeken van Frits Becht, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Galerie Gist, Brummen, Zomertentoonstelling, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem, Nieuwe aanwinsten/New aquesitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Survey, Roscommon Art Centre, Roscommon, Ierland/Ireland (solo), Small Works IX, RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Selection from the Sligo Municipal Art Collection, Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland
2004 Survey, Kunstcentrum Hengelo (solo), Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland, Collection, Model Arts and Niland Galleries, Sligo, Ierland/Ireland, Wissellicht, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst (solo), Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
2005 Basics 2005, Galerie Gist, Brummen, Archipel, Apeldoorn, From Landscape, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ierland/Ireland, KunstRai, Amsterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, From Landscape, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ierland/Ireland, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle (De Collectie van De Fundatie), Malpractice, De Praktijk, Amsterdam, CAT, Hengelo, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, Whisper, Galerie Gist, Brummen, Galerie Ramakers, Den Haag, Spiegel/Reflex, KCO, Zwolle, Schimmen, De Lawei, Drachten, 5 Jaar Gist, Galerie Gist, Brummen, From Landscape, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ierland/Ireland
2006 Aankopen, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, From Landscape, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ierland/Ireland, Beeldstof, Kunstcentrum Hengelo, Hengel, Over the shadow, The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray/Dublin, Ierland/Ireland (solo), Art Amsterdam, Galerie Hein Elferink, Litho’s, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst, Nieuwe aanwinsten, AMC, Amsterdam, L’Esprit du Nord, Le Besset, Frankrijk/France, Wellenlänge, Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, Duitsland/Germany, 25 Limited, Amsterdam (solo)
2007 Dreamland, Galerie Gist, Brummen, Eigentijdse tekeningen, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Dreamland, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim, 25 Faces/25 Gezichten, Galerie 25 Limited, Amsterdam (tevens/also curator), Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Ierland/Ireland, De Fundatie, Paleis aan de Blijmarkt, Zwolle , Armando verzamelt en tekent, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, FULL SUMMER, Galerie 25 Limited, Amsterdam, QUANTUM III, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden, TOUCHES, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland (solo), Into landscape, Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Ierland/Ireland, Into landscape, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda. Ierland/Ireland, L’Homme Sucré, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Into landscape, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick, Ierland/Ireland, Into landscape, Sligo Art Gallery, Ierland/Ireland, Brieven uit Arcadia, Een keuze uit de NOG collectie, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Everywhere is here, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ierland/Ireland (solo)
2008 In het Teken van Poëzie, Galerie De Meerse, Hoofddorp (curator: Terry Thompson), Into landscape, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ierland/Ireland, IJlwegen, Nanky de Vreeze, Tekeningen en Projecten, Middelburg, (solo), Into landscape, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ierland/Ireland, Galerie Agnes Raben, Vorden, Kaleidoscope II, RAM, Rotterdam, Licht aan zee, Kunstuitleen Den Helder, Just Drawing, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden (tevens/also curator), DUBBELSTROOM/DOUBLESTREAM, Kunstenlab, Deventer (solo), DUBBELSTROOM/DOUBLESTREAM, De Fundatie, Heino/Wijhe (solo), Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Project Ottenhuis Tekeningeninstallatie, Diepenheim, Just Drawing, Havenkwartier, Deventer (tevens/also curator), Brandgrens, UT-collectie Vrijhof Universiteit Twente, Enschede
2009 Artist’s Proof, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Op de huid, Historisch Museum Deventer, THE CAVANACOR COLLECTION, Cavanacor Gallery, Lifford, Ierland/Ireland, The 179th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Art Amsterdam, Galerie Smarius Sonnega, YEASTY, Galerie Gist, Amsterdam, Towing the Line, Drawing Space, White Box, New York, USA, Artist’s Proof, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ierland/Ireland/ Centre Space, Bristol, UK, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ierland/Ireland, Small Works, Galerie RAM, Rotterdam, BREATHRHYME, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ierland/Ireland (solo)
2010 Ladenkastproject Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, curator Simon Benson, Transities, Kunsthal 52, Den Helder, Artist’s Proof, Draiocht Arts Centre, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland/ Belfast Venus TBC, Noord-Ierland/ Northern Ireland/ Markethouse Gallery, Monoghan, Ierland/Ireland, Ademrijm, Galerie Smarius, Gorredijk (solo), Something tells me it’s all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Renewing, Green On Red Gallery Dublin Ierland/Ireland
2011 Dazzle the Evil Eye: Hommage aan Merina Beekman Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort, 100 Tekeningen, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede (solo), Meer dan tekenen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, All About Drawing 100 Nederlandse Kunstenaar 200 Tekeningen, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (tevens/also curator), Teken van aanwezigheid, Galerie Jacoba Wijk, Wehe den Hoorn, Personal Papers, Galerie Clement Amsterdam (curatoren Terry Thompson/Gijs van Noort), Nieuw in Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, From the Heart, Bergkerk Deventer (tevens/also curator), Bloemlezing uit de Van Reekum Collectie, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Walk the Line, Millennium Court Arts Centre Portadown, Northern Ireland, Cross Current, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Eigen collectie, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Walk the Line, Roe Valley Arts and Culteral Centre, Limavady, Northern-Ireland, COLLECTION, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland, Elsewhere, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, Walk the Line, Ormston House Gallery, Limerick Ireland, KunstRai, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, Otherwhere, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Ierland (solo),12 Plaatsbepalingen, Grote Kerk Veere (curator Nanky de Vreeze), Human Chain, Galerie Helder Den Haag, SEPTEMBER ISSUE, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlijn, Germany, Actuele Grafiek, Het Oude Raadhuis, Hoofddorp, Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France
2013 Art at the Warehouse, Rotterdam, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Ēchappée, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France (solo), Living Looking Longing Galerie Lutz, Delft (met Caren van Herwaarden), Collectie na 1945, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Tekeningen Festival-Dimensies van Tekenen, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, Paden naar het Paradijs, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Amsterdam Drawing, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, The National Contemporary Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, FOCUS, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ierland/Ireland, Don’t Feed the Animals, Galerie WithTjalling, Groningen, Nieuwe aanwinsten, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, TAB@CLEMENT. Galerie Clement, Amsterdam
2014 Zwagerman kiest, Teylers Museum Haarlem, LONGING, De Pont, Tilburg (solo), Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam (solo), Nothing But Good, PARK, Tilburg, A Drawback, Quartair, Den Haag, Tekeningen, Galerie Wit, Wageningen, Amsterdam Drawing, Witteveen Visual Art Centre Amsterdam, XL, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam, I am not doing anything until I feel the need, Nederlandsche Bank Amsterdam
2015 Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam (solo), Drafted Landscape, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, DRAWINGS from National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City, Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, Anything but homeless, NOG/SNS Collectie, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Carina Ellemers en Arno Kramer I presume, DAK, Utrecht, VELDWERK Jubileumtentoonstelling 25 jaar Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, Postscript: visual artists respond to Seamus Heaney’s poem, Russell Gallery, and The Burren College of Art, Ireland, Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland Purmerend, Templeboy and morningrustle, (met Nicole Schulze)De Drukkery, Middelburg, Tweede Tekeningenfestival, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, Into the shadows, (met Anne Semler en Bert Frijns) Galerie Helga Hofman, Alphen aan De Rijn, Amsterdam Drawing, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, New works, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Anima, Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven, Beyond the lines, Galerie Wilms, Venlo, XL tekeningen, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, VII Ways to get out, KuuB Ruimte voor Kunst & Cultuur, Utrecht, Kunst aan het Spaarne, schenking Bart Sporenberg, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, KunstRai, Stichting Archaeopteryx, Amsterdam, ISLAND, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast, Northern-Ireland, curated by John Brown, Galerie Hoogenbosch, Gorredijk, (met Tjibbe Hooghiemstra), Galerie LaKaserna, Bad Nieuweschans, Tekeningen, Witteveen Visual Art Centre Amsterdam, GRAFIEK, Galerie Lutz, Delft, 30 YEARS Up Memory Lane, RAM Gallery, Rotterdam, Grafiek, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Van Plint tot Plafond, Galerie Lutz, Delft
2017 High winds move slowly, Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde, samen met Henk Visch, Tijdelijk afscheid, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam, Galerie Praetoria, Antwerpen, België, Kunst op locatie, Galerie KUUB, Utrecht, High winds move slowly The Model, Sligo, Ireland, with Henk Visch, Human Chain, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Ireland (tevens curator/also curator), De aard der dingen Negen hedendaagse tekenaars, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Oponthoudhoud op doortocht II, Melklokaal, Heerenveen (met Tjibbe Hooghiemstra, Alice Maher (Irl), PAN, Janknegt Gallery, Laren/Amsterdam, The Drawing Hub, Berlin, Duitsland/Germany, FUTURE, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst (met Anne Semler), Collection, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, 139 x Nothing But Good, Park, Tilburg, Tekenkabinet XL Tekeningen, KINK, Assen, Tekenen nu, Museum De Buitenplaats, Krijt, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (tevens curator), Kunst on Location, Nanky de Vreeze, Middelburg (met Anne-Marie van Sprang en Romy Muijrers, Art on Paper, Westergasfabriek, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Grenzeloos tekenen, Gallery Schless Art Bergen (N.H) (curatoren: Pieter Bijwaard/Arno Kramer), In Our Nature, Hortus, Leiden (curator: Hanneke Francken), Art The Hague, Museum De Buitenplaats. Den Haag.
2019 5 Jaar Kunstgemaal, Bronkhorst, It was a pleasure, DAK Utrecht, Buildings are like birds, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Northern-Ireland, Elsewhere, Galerie Wit, Wageningen, Over de chemie tussen taal en beeld, Schlessart Bergen (N-H) (curatoren: Jannie Regnerus, Hanneke Schless, Pieter Bijwaard, Arno Kramer), Tekeningen collectie Armando, Chabot Museum Rotterdam, Art on Paper, Amsterdam, Drawing Inventions Academy, In Time, Ruimte P60, Assen, ( met Allie van Altena)
2020 Sense of Drawing, BMB Projectruimte, Amsterdam, (tevens curator), Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland, Vienna Contemporary 2020 Art Fair, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Van heide en ver, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Brummelkamp Galerie, AMC, Amsterdam
2021 Working between Color and Tone, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Ireland, Cows are mostly silent. Selection from the Permanent Collection curated by Adam Stoneman, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland, Het landschap en de georganiseerde verbeelding, Gallery Schless Art, Bergen (curator), Slow Movements, Vishal, Haarlem, KunstRai, Galerie Wilms, Amsterdam, Pauze, Galerie SCHLESSART, Bergen
2022 In Time, Museum CODA Apeldoorn, solo, De Staat van, Kunstenlab, Bergkerk, Deventer, Collectie Wilploo, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, AQUAVIT, Cacaofabriek, Helmond, In Time, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland, solo, Papier Biënnale, Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, COLLAGE, Moving Gallery, Utrecht, ART Noord, Galerie Getekend, Museum Belvedère, Oranjewoud, Homo Symbioticus, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Abstraction: Landscapes and Otherscapes, Ballinglen Museum, Ballycastle, Ierland/Ireland, New horizons, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Galerie Getekend, Heerenveen, solo, Drawing It Out, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, Aanwinsten, Museum De Buitenplaats, Eelde
2024 Art on Paper, Galerie Getekend, Amsterdam/Heerenveen, Vereniging Bedrijfscollecties Nederland (VBCN), Art on Paper, Amsterdam, Jubileum Tentoonstelling 5 jaar Galerie Getekend, Heerenveen, Looking forward, looking back, The Model, Sligo Ireland, In dreams, Esker Arts Centre, Tullamore, Ireland
2025 TKNGN, Galerie Lutz, Delft, RESET werk uit de collectie, De Fundatie, Zwolle, In dreams, Kunstenlab, Deventer, Gen F, Drents Museum, Assen, Ik, de ander en de aarde, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
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