PORTFOLIO Gijs van Lith

2019

Index Text Exhibitions New works Curriculum vitae

I wear my sweater inside out Gijs van Lith, 2019 The creative process, the choice of (painting) materials, and the method or strategy (often very labor intense) play an important role and are at the start of each new work. Van Lith considers the canvas on which a painting is made to be just as important as the material he uses to paint it with. For example, the structure of a grid he paints on can also determine the final result. The underlying material of the work interacts with the different aspects of the artistic process: paints, composition, colors and, just as important, the manner of working. Van Lith paints layer after layer, but also regularly scratches and rubs away ‘to the bone’, so that the skin structure of the fabric can start to show craters and caves, accumulations and holes. The work becomes a cage where fragments of time, energy, thoughts and gestures fuse. The work is all about physicality, challenging the material’s limits and exploring the body-language of the painting and its process. Van Lith’s latest series of work delve more and into the balance of creation and destruction. His recent work explores the limitations of the self-made rules by challenging them by allowing intuition to room free in to work. True the last three years his attitude has developed into a more sculptural approach towards his painting, this allows him to create, develop and deal with his work in a dynamic and free way. The relation between process and finished work becomes interactive dialog where there is no front or back. This attitude towards his work shows a glimpse of his studio atmosphere and the freedom Van Lith permits himself in not distinguishing and holding back judgment for what is created as a result of his painting-haze – or as he calls it ‘beast mode’. In this haze Van Lith sees himself more as an animal let by his instincts and intuition. Van Lith doesn’t discriminate between conscious actions and chance, between luck and deliberate gestures. He values and evaluates all and lets them interact and collide. These works are an open dialog that explores the conscious and subconscious. This is his way of exploring meaning and by breaking self-made rules with a great energetic and dynamic series of work as a result.

Gijs van Lith, born in 1984, received his education at the art academy AKV St Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL). After earning his bachelor’s degree, he obtained his master’s degree at the same academy a few years later in 2013. The work of Gijs van Lith quickly caught the attention of the artistic world; the artist has been nominated for several prestigious prizes for young artists and in 2009 he won the Thieme Art Young Talent Award. Meanwhile, his work is also gaining international prominence and is being included in national and international private and corporate collections. He has previously exhibited in New York, London, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Van Lith was also invite for a recidency in Koln at Lesien Art Foundation an d at the CCA Andratx in Mallorca. He exhibited a monumental installation during his solo-exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2018. And Van Lith has a solo exhibition coming up in Jnue 2019 in Het Noord Brabants Museum in the Netherlands.

BODY I WORK (No.1) 112 X 96 cm, 2017 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint and paper on linen

SUPER BEAST MPV Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Solo Exhibition, 2018

THINNER SPIRITS Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL Solo Exhibition, 2018

TRACES SM-‘s Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL, 2013 / 2014 Group show: Gijs van Lith, Katja Mater, Navid Nuur, Bruce Nauman

AU NATURELLE No. 1 200 x 160 cm, 2018 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

STAMINA, (No.1) 200 x 155 cm, 2018 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint and paper on linen

UNTITLED, (I WEAR MY SWEATER INSIDE OUT) No. 4 180 x 145 cm, 2018 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

UNTITLED, (I WEAR MY SWEATER INSIDE OUT) No. 7 70 x 51 cm, 2019 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

UNTITLED (Personal Kingdom) No. 1 180 x 145 cm, 2017 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

UNTITLED, (Catcher) No. 4 70 x 60 cm, 2018 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

UNTITLED, (Catcher) No. 2 90 x 70 cm, 2018 Oil-, Acrylic-, Spray-paint, dirt and paper on linen

Curriculum Vitae Gijs van Lith Date of birth: 24-01-1984 Education: 2011 / 2013 MFA Master of fine art, St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2004 / 2008 AKV St. Joost, Autonome Beeldende kunst, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL

Prizes / Awards / Grants/ Residence 2018 CCA Andratx Artist in Residence Program, Mallorca, ES 2018 Lepsien Silkscreen Grand, Dusseldorf, DE 2014 Buning Brongers Prijs (Nominee) 2014 Gaverprijs 2014 (4th place) 2011 Royal Awards for painting (Nominee) 2011 Gasunie art prize (Nominee) 2011 Brabant Talent Lab Award 2011 (nominee) 2010Royal Awards for painting (Nominee) 2009 Thieme Art Young Talent, Art Amsterdam 2009 (Winner) 2008 Buning Brongers Prijs (Nominee) 2008 Royal Awards for painting (Nominee) 2008 ArtOlive Jong Talent (Nominee) 2008 Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Trophy (Nominee) Solo exhibitions

2019 (TBA) Duo show: I Wear My Sweater Inside Out, Het Noord Brabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch. NL 2018 Super Beast, MPV Gallery, Knokke, Be 2018 Thinner Spirits, Rotterdam Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL 2016 Welcome To The Thunderdome, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2015 Hardly Anything Sticks Anymore, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2014 Like My first love I can’t get you outta my head, RH Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA 2014 Engine room / Wiggle room, Punt WG, Art space, Amsterdam, NL 2011 Gijs van Lith, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2011 RETRO 1095, APG headquarters, Amsterdam, NL 2011 ‘PAINT!’, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL 2010 Thieme Art Talent Award, Art Amsterdam, RAI, Amsterdam, NL 2009 Gijs van Lith, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL Group exhibitions (Selection) 2019 THR33, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE 2019 An End With No Beginning, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE 2019 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2018 CODE Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Copenhagen, DK 2018 Interior Motive(s), MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2018 Art Amsterdam, Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2018 Brother From Another Mother, Majke Hüsstege Projects, MPV Gallery, Knokke, BE 2018 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Rotterdam, NL 2018 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2018 Mindframes, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2018 No/time, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2017 The Browsing Chamber, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2017 Bech Risvig Collection, House for Kunst & Design, Holstebro, DK 2017 New Amsterdam, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, NY, USA 2017 Attitudes in Painting, Hunted Projects, Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf, DE 2017 Abstracted, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, BE 2017 Orakel der Abstracten, Majke Husstege Projects, MPV, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2016 Art Miami, Torch Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA 2016 The End, Lets Start Again, Donau83, Art Space, Berlin, DE 2016 Contemporary Visions VI, BEERS London Gallery, London, UK 2016 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL 2016 Impossibile, Spacio Bianco, Art Space, Torino, IT 2016 Amsterdam Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2016 Got It For Cheap Vol.5, Los Angeles, CA, USA 2016 Got It For Cheap Vol.4, Agnes B Galerie Dejour, Paris, FR 2015 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, Majke Hüsstege, Rotterdam, NL 2015 Amusing ourselves to death, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, NL 2015 Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Den Haag, NL 2015 20 years of deferred value, Nieuwe Vide, Art space, Haarlem, NL 2015 Reboot, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2015 Heavy metal, Grafisch Atelier, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2015 HYPERHYPER, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2014 De Hommage: Daar komen de putters, na Fabritius, Museum Keukenhof, Lisse, NL 2014 Texas Contemporary, RH Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, USA 2014 The Gaverprijs 2014, De schakel, Waregem, BE 2014 Fast Food & Slow Art, VORTplatform, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2013 Traces, SM-'s Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, NL 2013 Still Life, Museum de Pont, Tilburg, NL

2013 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege, Amsterdam, NL 2013 The Static Is Also Electric, MFA Graduations show, Service Garage, Amsterdam, NL 2012 Point du Vue, 200 Avans, SM-'s Stedelijk museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2012 Young Guns, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, 's-Hertogenbosch, NL 2012 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege, Amsterdam, NL 2012 Kunstvlaai, MFA AKV St. Joost, Amsterdam, NL 2012 Re: converse, Casino van Beringen, BE 2012 Van Alaert tot Zessen, BKKC, Tilburg, NL 2012 1,0 fte, CBK, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2011 Klaas en Barend en Gijs en Rieneke en Carole, SM-’s Stedelijk museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2011 Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL 2011 Double Dutch, duo exhibition, Victory Gallery, Portland, Oregan, USA 2011 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege, Amsterdam, NL 2011 Gasunie kunstprijs 2011, Group exhibition, Groningen, NL 2010 Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL 2010 Art Amsterdam, Galerie Bart, RAI, Amsterdam, NL 2010 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege, Amsterdam, NL 2010 Preview Berlin, Art Fair, Galerie Bart, Berlin, DE 2010 Art Fair 21, Galerie Bart, Köln, DE 2009 Thieme Art Award, Art Amsterdam, Galerie Bart, RAI, Amsterdam, NL 2009 Your-space, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, NL 2009 ‘Vanaf morgen’, BKKC, Tilburg, NL Summer, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL 2008 Royal Awards for painting, GEM museum, Den Haag, NL 2008 Paraat # 4, Best graduates 2008, Veemvloer met Ronmandos, Amsterdam, NL 2008 Recent graduates, AAF, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL 2008 Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Trophy, Amsterdam, NL 2006 Porcelain Business, DBKS-ruimte, SM’s Stedelijk museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL Collections Royal Family of the Netherlands Isala Art Collection KPMG ASR art collection Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Achmea kunstcollectie APG (former ABP) PGGM-Fonds CBK zuid oost Amsterdam Dela Ymere Private collections in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, USA, Denmark, Mallorca & Switzerland Publications / Texts / Catalogue 2015 Catalogue: Art Rotterdam 2014 The Gaverprijs 2014, De schakel, Waregem, BE 2013 Traces: Elly Stegeman, Curator Stedelijk museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2012 Kunstbeeld: May edition, Schilderkunst 2.0 (A paintings womb, Diptych) 2011 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam 2011 Text: ‘Paint!’ by Maarten Bertheux 2010 Monographic: Gijs van Lith, Author: Elly Stegeman, Curator Stedelijk museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch 2010 Catalogue: Preview Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany 2010 Catalogue: Art Amsterdam 2010

2010 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam 2008 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam Curator 2019 ARTLABB artspace and residency program, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2018 Interior Motive(s), MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2018 Brother From Another Mother, Majke Hüsstege Projects, MPV Gallery, Knokke, BE 2017 The Browsing Chamber, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL 2015 HYPERHYPER, WIIFabriek ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2014 The Kick off, VORTplatform, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL 2012 Young Guns: Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Amsterdam, NL 2009 The Drive-in, DMT-loods, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL