• Auke de Vries
  • *1937 Bergum, Netherlands – lives in The Hague

Biography

The sculptures in the public space of Auke de Vries have become landmarks in cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hanover, Magdeburg, Ludwigsburg, and Wakefield in Yorkshire. This includes for instance the “Maasbeeld”, which inclines over the river Maas in the city of Rotterdam. His autonomous sculptures have been shown in manifold solo exhibitions in museums over the past 40 years, mainly in the Netherlands and Germany.

De Vries began to paint as a self-taught artist and to work as a graphic designer in the mid-1950s. Already from 1957 he is significantly participating in exhibitions and individual shows in Europe, receiving in 1959 the Royal Prize for Painting. From the 1960s onwards he made paintings, drawings, and etchings. In 1969, he creates his first sculptures, quickly followed by the first public commission for sculptural designs. He becomes a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague (1972-1986) and the Royal Academy of Visual Arts Amsterdam (1986-1996).

The sculptures made of steel often consist of simple elemental forms, ranging from smaller objects on a stand on the floor, or on the wall to meter-high installations. There are partly sensitive and unprecise, like tender, linear drawings in space, here absurd and humorous like Dada, there narrative and associative. The materials are not very noble, rather simple: mostly steel, often wire, individual pieces of cardboard, sheet metal or wood. In part, the steel is corroded by treatment with acid, the partial colourful painting is coarse, negligent, and some surfaces are painted in monochrome colours. One might think that the objects made of curved metal parts are made of cardboard or paper. However, their fragility and agility are mostly solely an appearance, especially in the monumental sculptures constructed of solid steel.

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  • Auke
  • de Vries

1972 – 1986 Professor at the Royal Academy of the Visual Arts, The Hague

1986 – 1996 Professor at the National Arts Academy, Amsterdam

1996 – 2000 Guest professor at various schools in the Netherlands and Germany

Awards

1996

Ouborg Award

2005

the Cultural Award of the City of The Hague

Solo exhibitions (Selection)

2023

Auke de Vries, kunstraum friesenstrasse, Hanover

2022

dream cities – shape lightness floating, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg

2019

What a beautiful day, Museum Goch, Goch

2018

Auke de Vries, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin

Auke de Vries, BorzoGallery, Amsterdam

2017

Tussenlanding, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag

2016

Auke de Vries, Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre, Bury

2014

Auke de Vries. Schwebende Skulpturen, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl

2013

Eine friedliche Invasion, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen

Auke de Vries. Met Koninklijke Instemming, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen

2012

Auke de Vries, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

Auke de Vries, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen

Auke de Vries, Museum Belvédère, Heerenveen

2010

Auke de Vries. Nester, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

2009

Auke de Vries, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

Intervention (Nester), Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

2008

Auke de Vries, Galerie Seippel, Cologne

Auke de Vries, Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden

Auke de Vries, Galerie Seippel, Johannesburg

2007

Auke de Vries, Borzo Contemporary and Modern Art, Amsterdam

Auke de Vries. Skulpturen, Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden

2006

Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Seippel, Cologne

After the Rain/Slow Speed Paradise, Stroom, Den Haag

Auke de Vries. Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie Haasner, Wiesbaden

2005

Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

2004

After the Rain, a commentary on the city of Istanbul, Sculpture, Aedes, Berlin

Skulpturen, Zeichnungen, Grafik, Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden

Living in trees, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg

2003

Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Novelles Images, Den Haag

Sculptures and Drawings, Galerie Tegenbosch, Heusden

2002

Living in Trees, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire

Sculptures and large-scale projects, Institut Neelandais, Paris

Sculptures and Drawings, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort

2000

Uniforms for a Frisian Army, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

Het verdwenen landschap, Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam

Auke de Vries. Living in trees, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

1999

Beelden en tekeningen, Stedelijk Museum/Broerenkerk, Zwolle/Museum s’Coopmanshüs, Franeker

1998

Skulpturen, Museum Het Paleis, Den Haag

Skulpturen, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Plastik/Objekt, Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden

Modelle und Skizzen 1982-1998, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

1997

KunstRAI, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Amsterdam

1995

Models and Drawings. Towards a Recent Sculpture for a Public Space, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Auke de Vries, Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, Den Haag

Auke de Vries, Alte Börse, Leipzig

Skulpturen, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Magdeburg

1994

Auke de Vries, Galerie Tegenbosch, Heusden aan de Maas

Auke de Vries, Skulpturen. Die 90er Jahre, Villa Merkel, Esslingen

1993

Auke de Vries, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

1992

Auke de Vries, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg

Auke de Vries. Ruimte in het beeld, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch

1990

Auke de Vries, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden

Auke de Vries (Skulpturen), Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

1989

Auke de Vries (Radierungen und Objekte), Weteringgalerie, Amsterdam

Auke de Vries. Linien im Raum. Plastiken und Zeichnungen von 1980-1989, Moderne Galerie des Saarland-Museums in der Stiftung Saarländischer Kunstbesitz, Saarbrücken

1988

Auke de Vries. Skulpturen 1980-1987, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Auke de Vries. Stduien für Skulpturen im öffentlichen Raum, De Beyerd, Breda

Auke de Vries, Van Rooy Galerie, Amsterdam

1987

Auke de Vries (Zeichnungen), Galerie Terzijde, Bussum

1985

Auke de Vries, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

Auke de Vries, Bellamy, Vissingen

Auke de Vries, Exposorium Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

1984

Auke de Vries, Galerie S 65, Aalst

1983

Auke de Vries. Een kunstwerk, Rijsdienst Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam

1982

Auke de Vries. Maasbeeld, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Auke de Vries (Installation), Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

1981

Auke de Vries (Radierungen und Objekte), Galerie S 65, Aalst

Auke de Vries, Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam

1980

Auke de Vries, De Moriaan, s‘-Hertogenbosch

Auke de Vries. Skulpturen, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

1979

Auke de Vries (Radierungen und Objekte), Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam

1978

Auke de Vries (Radierungen und Objekte), Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

1976

Auke de Vries (Graphik), Institut Néerlandais, Paris

Group exhibitions (Selection)

2012

Galerie Novelles Images, Den Haag

2009

Im kleinen Format, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg

Drawing Sculpture. Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Video aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

Art Minded V: Ron Klein Breteler collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam

Lucassen 70th Birdthday: Armando, Willem Hussem, Lucebert, Ronald Noorman, David Vandekop, Auke de Vries, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag/Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam

2008

Is it tomorrow yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapur

Künstler der Galerie. Im kleinen Format, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg

Neue Kunst in alten Gärten, Neue Kunst in alten Gärten e.V., Gehrden-Lenthe Kabinett. Aus der Sammlung, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

2007

Auke de Vries and Marijke de Wit, Galerie Jacoba Wijk, Wehe-den Hoorn

Collectables 2, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

Im kleinen Format 2007/08, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg

Showcase, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

2006

Innenwelten – The Inner World, kunst:raum sylt wuelle, Rantum/Sylt

Conversation with Art, on Art. Bauhaus to contemporary Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo

Kunst per Post, Escher in Het Paleis, Den Haag

Tijd van Oogsten, Buitenplaats Akerendam, Beverwijk

2005

Sculpture for the 25th jubilee of Queen Beatrix’ government, Den Haag

Cleveringa donation, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

The Palace Garden, Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag

Wintergasten, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort

2004

Re-design of the entrance area of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Den Haag

Sadtlicht – Lichtkunst/Illuminated Cities – Illuminated Art, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

The DymlerChrysler Collection, South African National Art Gallery, Kapstadt/Museum Africa, Johannesburg/Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria

Wiesbadener Kunstsommer, Skulpturenpark Wiesbaden

2003

On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit/ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe

KunstRAI, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Amsterdam

2002

Sculpture for Potsdamer Platz, Berlin

Sculpture at Tyrebager, Aberdeen

Stedelijk Museum in de Nieuwe Kerk, Nr. 1, Sculpture 1947-2002, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Sculpture for the Floriade

2001

Project for the Milleniumpoint, Birminhgam

Connecting Worlds/Contemporary Sculpture from the European Union, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Ashington DC

2001

Sculpture for the Palace of Justice, Leliestad

2000 – 2001

Tower project, Holzhausen

1997

Aufriß. Künstlerische Positionen zur Industrielandschaft in der Mitte Europas, Ausstellungshallen im Grassimuseum, Leipzig

1996

G.96 Mostra internazionale du scultura all’aperto, Gambarogno, Lago Maggiore, Tessin

1992

Platzverführung. Internationales Skulpturenprojekt, Kultur Region Stuttgart, Ludwisgburg

1991

Beeldhouwerstekeningen, Galerie Schouten en De Vries, Haarlem

1990

Pleins feux sur La Haye. La Haags Gemeentemuseum à L’Institut Néerlandais, Paris

1989

Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

1988

Nouvelles Images, Den Haag

Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag

1984

Internationaal Culutreel Centrum, Antwerp

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