Ben Akkerman

5 - 20 Dec 2024 On Saturday 7 December, the gallery will close at 4 PM Akkerman's oeuvre developed cautiously and resolutely in equal measure. Even in his teens, he drew and painted farms, watermills and landscapes. In the early 1960s, his figuration was characterized by clear lines, inspired once more by his love of... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2024

Stand 36 23 Nov - 1 Dec 2024 Akkerman's oeuvre developed cautiously and resolutely in equal measure. Even in his teens, he drew and painted farms, watermills and landscapes. In the early 1960s, his figuration was characterized by clear lines, inspired once more by his love of the Twente landscape and architectonic structures. In the second half of... Read more

The Nature of Nature

30 Oct - 22 Nov 2024 Paintings by Paul Butti (1924 - 2004), Charles Popelier (*1955), Jaap Wagemaker (1906-1972) Photography by Jan Commandeur (1954-2024) In Paris, after 1945, a free art emerges-a lyrical abstraction that explicitly breaks with pre-war realism. In the 1950s, from this free and often colorful abstraction, a sub-movement known as 'informal art'... Read more

Ronald Zuurmond. Echo

12 Sep - 13 Oct 2024 In his new series of paintings, Ronald Zuurmond takes his research into the meaning of, among other things, form, colour and texture to a new level. For the first time, he leaves out all traces of figuration, but at no time does it leave us in any doubt that we... Read more

NAP+

Stand 4 12 - 15 Sep 2024 BorzoGallery participates in the inaugural edition of NAP+, where we will bring new works by Wieteke Heldens, Koen Vermeule, and Ronald Zuurmond, along with previously unseen sculptures by the artist duo Heringa/Van Kalsbeek. Based in Amsterdam, the fair responds to the growing demand for a vibrant art experience that goes... Read more

Charlotte Caspers. ultramarine | citramarine

30 May - 29 Jun 2024 BorzoGallery presents new work by Charlotte Caspers in an exhibition curated by Colin Huizing, concentrating on the blue pigments ultramarine (lapis lazuli) and citramarine (azurite). For centuries both pigments were highly valued within the European painting tradition because of their rich colour and value. Ultramarine literally means 'from across the... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2024

Stand 430 9 - 14 Mar 2024 Ben Akkerman | Armando Constant | Ad Dekkers Daan van Golden | Jean Gorin Ewerdt Hilgemann | Hans van Hoek Tadaaki Kuwayama | Bart van der Leck Piero Manzoni | Rakuko Naito Tomas Rajlich | Jan Schoonhoven Geer van Velde | Carel Visser André Volten | herman de vries Opening... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2024 | Wieteke Heldens

Stand 16 31 Jan - 3 Feb 2024 BorzoGallery is proud to participate in the contemporary art fair Art Rotterdam 2024 with new work by Dutch artist Wieteke Heldens, January 31-February 3 2024. Read more

Recent acquisitions

20 Jan - 16 Feb 2024 Borzo starts the new year with a group exhibition of recent acquisitions. In the front room a group of artists who have a relationship with each other both artistically and personally, with a painting from 2018 by Jan Beutener flanked by work by his former students Koen Vermeule and Ronald... Read more

When the Lights Go Out

16 Dec 2023 - 6 Jan 2024 On 16 December at 18:00 fourteen Amsterdam galleries will turn off the lights in the gallery and turn on projections/light installations. BorzoGallery will show two neon sculptures by Jan Henderikse (*1937). Jan Henderikse is one of four members from the original Nul-group. In his work he uses industrial products and... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2023

Stand 36 18 - 26 Nov 2023 At PAN Amsterdam 2023, BorzoGallery and The Mayor Gallery proudly present a curated stand featuring three artists: TADAAKI KUWAYAMA | RAKUKO NAITO | TOMAS RAJLICH Tadaaki Kuwayama (b. 1932 Nagoya, Japan - d. 2023 New York, USA) and wife Rakuko Naito (b. 1935 Tokyo, Japan) both studied at the Nihonga... Read more

Tomas Rajlich. Fundamental Painting

16 Nov - 22 Dec 2023 BorzoGallery is proud to present an overview of paintings from the 1960s to the present by Tomas Rajlich (b. 1940 Jankov, Czech Republic). A small but very beautiful exhibition 'Tomas Rajlich - Paint Structures' in 2016 in the Kunstmuseum, The Hague was the reason for a closer acquaintance with this... Read more

Frieze Masters 2023

Stand D12 11 - 15 Oct 2023 Our presentation at the 2023 edition of Frieze Masters is a celebration of the centennial of Shinkichi Tajiri (b. 1923 Los Angeles, USA - d. 2009 Baarlo, The Netherlands) with a wide selection of his sculptural works spanning seven decades, alongside four paintings by his contemporary, the Dutch Informel artist... Read more

Armando. The patiently waiting paper

Drawings, 1954-2018 9 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 Vernissage Saturday 9 September, 4pm with an introduction by Antoon Melissen, art historian Few artists are as multifaceted as Armando was: writer, poet, journalist, musician, boxer, sculptor, painter and draughtsman. However well-known Armando is in many of these disciplines, he is barely known as the fierce and impassioned draughtsman he... Read more

Koen Vermeule. Light Grid

3 Jun - 1 Jul 2023 Vernissage Saturday 3 June during Amsterdam Art Weekend The artist will be present Artist talk 3 June at 4 pm: Koen Vermeule in conversation with Boris Paval Conen LIGHT GRID Last year, Koen Vermeule was asked by film director Boris Paval Conen to advise him in the production of the... Read more

Heringa/Van Kalsbeek. Study for The Grey Tree (after Mondrian)

1 - 29 Apr 2023 Opening Saturday 1 April, 13.00 - 18.00 hrs. At 16.00 hrs Benno Tempel, director of the Kunstmuseum The Hague, will have a discussion with the artist. STUDY FOR THE GREY TREE (AFTER MONDRIAN) For more than twenty years now, a somewhat yellowed picture postcard has hung in the studio of... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2023

Stand 430 9 - 19 Mar 2023 Carl Andre | Constant Ger van Elk | Lucio Fontana Jacoba van Heemskerck | Hans van Hoek Heringa/Van Kalsbeek Bart van der Leck | Guiseppe Penone Jan Schoonhoven | Carel Visser Geer van Velde | André Volten Opening hours 9 March | 11.00 - 19.00 hrs (invitation only) 10... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2023 | Charlotte Caspers

Stand 8 8 - 12 Feb 2023 BorzoGallery proudly presents Grey Earth, the new solo project by Charlotte Caspers in which each work zooms in and out in its own way on the surrounding natural world and the landscape that a painting carries in itself. Charlotte Caspers, art historian, restorer and above all painter, unites these three... Read more

Jurriaan Molenaar. Absence

10 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 In Jurriaan Molenaar's architectural landscapes, emptiness predominates, captured in mathematical structures that like to mislead the viewer. The longer you look at a painting by Molenaar, the further reality seems to disappear from view. If the multitude of vanishing points does not cause enough confusion, he also uses the third... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2022

Stand 36 19 - 27 Nov 2022 THE CHELSEA HOTEL At PAN Amsterdam 2022, BorzoGallery, together with the London Mayor Gallery, presents three artists who stayed in the New York Chelsea Hotel in the 1960s: Billy Apple | Mark Brusse | Jan Henderikse Visit us on stand 36. Location RAI Amsterdam Hall 8 Europaplein 1078 GZ Amsterdam... Read more

Constant. Radical Changes

29 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 'CONSTANT. RADICAL CHANGES' Now on display in the gallery, a presentation of paintings, gouaches and collages from various periods from Constant's impressive oeuvre. This gallery exhibition is the continuation of the presentation we showed at Frieze Masters in London in collaboration with our London colleague The Mayor Gallery. The exhibition... Read more

Frieze Masters 2022

Stand D11 12 - 16 Oct 2022 We are pleased to participate in Frieze Masters 2022, with a solo presentation by the Dutch artist Constant (1920, Amsterdam - 2005 Utrecht, Nederland). Constant is one of Holland's most important and innovative artists from post-war times. He was co-founder of the international CoBrA movement, he was initiator and inventor... Read more

Opening gallery season 22/23

2 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 After the Corona years of cultural poverty, of temporary closures of museums, theaters and galleries, of cancellations and visitor restrictions, of do's and don'ts, it is a beneficial experience to be able to make artistic plans again in the hope and expectation that they can be carried out. In this... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2022

Stand 449 25 - 30 Jun 2022 After a long break, TEFAF Maastricht - and with it BorzoGallery - can meet the public in person again. We look forward to welcoming you to our stand, where we will show a selection of highlights from the collection. Works by Jean Gorin and François Morellet will be displayed at... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2022

Stand 11 19 - 22 May 2022 JAN COMMANDEUR | MICHAËL DE KOK | KOEN VERMEULE | RONALD ZUURMOND STAND 11 On our stand at Art Rotterdam 2022 the main focus is on new work by four contemporary artists; Jan Commandeur, Michaël de Kok, Koen Vermeule and Ronald Zuurmond. They are flanked by a recent sculpture by... Read more

Jan Commandeur

12 May - 11 Jun 2022 Jan Commandeur Recent paintings and photographs Vernissage Thursday 12 May, 5 pm during the Amsterdam Art Weekend in the presence of the artist. Opening hours during AAW: Thursday 12 May, 1-9pm Friday 13 May, 12-6pm Satuday 14 May, 12-6pm Sunday 15 May, 12-5pm The exhibition can be visited from 12... Read more

Art Affair. The Spring edition

Stand 8 7 - 10 Apr 2022 Art Affair The Spring edition Amsterdam Hilton Hotel 7 - 10 April | 11am - 7pm TTwelve Dutch TEFAF participants enter into an art affair for the third time. This small-scale art fair will take place in the ballrooms of the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. The fair can be visited from... Read more

Mark Brusse - l'Art et la Vie

2 - 30 Apr 2022 l'Art et la Vie Mark Brusse Opening Saturday 2 April, 4 PM The artist will be present The exhibition can be visited from 2 - 30 April 2022 during regular opening hours In art, the notion of versatility can sometimes give way to a certain blandness, suggestive of an inability... Read more

A March Salon | BorzoGallery invites The Mayor Gallery

12 - 26 Mar 2022 For over 25 years now our galleries have been neighbours at TEFAF Maastricht and over this time we have established a collegial and friendly collaboration based on mutual interest in collecting, dealing and art history, as well as on mutual friendship and trust. Over the years we have shared stands... Read more

Michaël de Kok | From Dusk till Dawn

29 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 My first confrontation with the paintings of Michaël de Kok was a few years ago in Museum De Pont in Tilburg, where he was offered a wonderful exhibition. A second museum meeting followed a few weeks ago in the Noordbrabants Museum. In our new showrooms at Keizersgracht 321 we would... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2021

Stand 38 14 - 21 Nov 2021 BorzoGallery is pleased to participate in PAN Amsterdam 2021 with a presentation that gives special attention to Dutch sculptor Carel Visser, with works from every period of his oeuvre on show. Visit us at stand 38. Location RAI Amsterdam Hall 8 Europaplein 1078 GZ Amsterdam Opening hours Opening 13 November... Read more

herman de vries. 90

30 Oct - 18 Dec 2021 On October 30 and 31, from 1-6 pm, BorzoGallery will festively open the doors of its new gallery space with a solo exhibition herman de vries. This summer herman de vries celebrated his 90th birthday, an occasion for the L.A.C. museum (Lieu d'Art Contemporain), located in the south of France,... Read more

Frieze Masters 2021

Stand D12 13 - 17 Oct 2021 BORZOGALLERY AND THE MAYOR GALLERY PRESENT 'JAN HENDERIKSE - FACING NEW REALITY' Jan Henderikse, a Dutch-American citizen, was born in the Dutch city of Delft in 1937. He left his hometown in 1959 for Düsseldorf, Germany and from there he moved to Curaçao in 1962. In 1968 he moved to... Read more

Reality Pictured 2.0

29 Sep - 23 Oct 2021 Before we 'officially' open the doors of our new exhibition spaces on October 30, you are welcome to visit the exhibition Reality Pictured 2.0 from September 29 - October 23. An extension (with some changes) of the exhibition that ended prematurely before the summer due to our move. Reality Pictured... Read more

TEFAF Online 2021

ONLINE ONLY 9 - 13 Sep 2021 CONSTANT TEFAF Online will take place from 9 to 13 September 2021. Top international galleries will each show a small selection of their finest works. We take the opportunity to show a 'teaser' for the upcoming TEFAF fair in 2022, where Constant (1920-2005) will be given special attention on the... Read more

herman de vries. 90 | L.A.C. Sigean

24 Jul - 26 Sep 2021 The L.A.C. Narbonne, in collaboration with BorzoGallery, presents an exhibition dedicated to herman de vries, who is celebrating his 90th birthday this year. To honor the beautiful region in which the L.A.C. is located, herman de vries makes use of the natural resources of the Narbonnaise and its surroundings. The... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2021

Stand 74 30 Jun - 4 Jul 2021 HERINGA/VAN KALSBEEK | HANS VAN HOEK || JAN HENDERIKSE | HENK PEETERS STAND 74 In 2020, the Kunstmuseum Den Haag bought Hunting Clouds, 2018. This sculpture is now on permanent display in the museum. It is the first sculpture in which Heringa/Van Kalsbeek create a setting, like a theatre, a... Read more

Art Affair. The Summer edition

Stand 8 17 - 20 Jun 2021 TWELVE DUTCH ART DEALERS ENTER INTO AN ART AFFAIR FOR THE SECOND TIME The small-scale art fair Art Affair will take place for the second time in the ballrooms of the Amsterdam Hilton hotel from 17 to 20 June 2021. The twelve participating dealers have all been part of the... Read more

Reality Pictured

3 - 20 Jun 2021 It began with Paul Cézanne who, at the start of the 20th century, employed geometric lines to represent the reality of 'his' mountain, Montagne Sainte Victoire. A few years later, in Munich, Wassily Kandinsky would abandon even that natural reality, producing the first painting without any recognizable features. Malevich in... Read more

Masha Trebukova | Limited Activities, Summer 2020

ONLINE ONLY 14 May - 12 Jun 2021 The arrival of Covid-19 in spring 2020 coincided with the publication of Masha Trebukova's book Anywhere Anytime (available at the gallery), a selection of figurative drawings on the subject of human suffering elsewhere in the world, on pages of 'glossy' magazines. Masha has elaborated the oppressive experiences that everyone has... Read more

AFTER NUL - the late works

23 Apr - 22 May 2021 Zero in Germany, Azimuth in Italy, Nouveau Réalisme in France, and Nul in the Netherlands are related genres that have had a major influence on the history of art. Held in high regard for the last few decades, what these movements have in common is their rejection of painting and,... Read more

The DAAF 2021

ONLINE ONLY 9 - 11 Apr 2021 From 9 to 11 April 2021, members of the Royal VHOK organize the online fair The DAAF | The Dutch Art & Antiques Fair. The first online art fair in the Netherlands, organized to offer art lovers and art buyers a high-quality event now that the major art fairs worldwide... Read more

The Drawing

1 Feb - 30 Apr 2021 More than all other visual art forms, the drawing shows the most direct and most intimate insight into the soul of the artist. Drawing as a direct transfer from the brain to the hand, usually consciously controlled by ratio, sometimes also as an unconscious and impulsive act. The black line... Read more

TEFAF Online 2020

ONLINE ONLY 1 - 4 Nov 2020 The first edition of TEFAF Online will take place from 1 to 4 November, where 300 international participants will each show one top work. You can register via www.tefaf.com . For this first edition, BorzoGallery has selected a work by the Dutch matter artist Jaap Wagemaker (1906-1972), following the successful... Read more

Freedom of Form | Carel Visser, the later years

31 Oct - 29 Nov 2020 The Collectie Nederland boasts two iconic paintings by two of the world's most renowned modern artists: Henri Matisse's colossal 1952 masterpiece The Parakeet and the Mermaid, which occupies an entire wall in the Stedelijk Museum, and Piet Mondrian's 1944 Victory Boogie-Woogie, in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag. Both are jewels in... Read more

Earth & Light | Jaap Wagemaker & Jan Schoonhoven

3 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 In 1959 Hans Sonnenberg organized the ZERO exhibition in the Rotterdamse Kunstkring, with work by Manzoni, Van Bohemen, Tajiri, Wagemaker and Schoonhoven among others. A year before this, Hans Sonnenberg, who went on to become a legendary gallery owner and art promoter, had brought Piero Manzoni to the Netherlands and... Read more

Masha Trebukova | Celebrating Color

27 May - 3 Jul 2020 After several years of restrained, highly engaged and austere figurative paintings, collages and monotypes, the Dutch-Russian artist Masha Trebukova (Moscow, 1962) returns to the 'freedom of imagination' that recalls her first sensational and successful exhibition at Kunsthandel M.L. de Boer in 1990. Thirty years later, the exhibition CELEBRATING COLOR at... Read more

Frieze New York 2020

ONLINE ONLY 8 - 15 May 2020 Facing New Reality by Jan Henderikse In these unprecedented times, we are all having to face a new reality. Frieze New York 2020 edition has become Frieze Online Viewing Room and instead of being faced with the material presence of works of art in the show, BorzoGallery and The Mayor... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2020

Stand 448 5 - 15 Mar 2020 BorzoGallery is pleased to participate in TEFAF Maastricht in 2020. Just as in previous years, a striking stand is designed by the Amsterdam firm HOH Architecten . The larger of the two spaces in the design offers the opportunity to show a wide selection of work by two artists. This... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2020

Stand 68 5 - 9 Feb 2020 RONALD DE BLOEME | JURRIAAN MOLENAAR || MARINUS BOEZEM | CAREL VISSER STAND 68 This year at Art Rotterdam Ronald de Bloeme (*1971), living in Berlin and alumnus of the Willem de Kooning Academy, and Jurriaan Molenaar (*1968), alumnus of the Rijksakademie, will show work that is at the heart... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2019

Stand 37 24 Nov - 1 Dec 2019 I have always been a zero artist, herman de vries tells us during our conversation on a return visit to his house and studio in Frankenland, Germany. In the early nineteen-sixties herman de vries is one of those at the foundation of this movement, which arises from the need felt... Read more

Koen Vermeule | Fensterbilder

22 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 The title for the new Koen Vermeule exhibition at Borzo needs some explanation and interpretation. To do this we have to nip back into the history of art and in this case to an artist Koen Vermeule greatly admired. Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) is chiefly known for his significant contribution as... Read more

Michaël de Kok | Inaugural exhibition

22 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 Michaël de Kok paints memories of landscapes that he traverses with his dog during walks. The figurative elements that can be found in his earlier works, however, have made way for energetic areas of color; his recent paintings approach abstraction. Only the horizon still plays a role, albeit as a... Read more

Frieze Masters 2019

Stand E12 2 - 6 Oct 2019 Jan Schoonhoven (1914-1994) was one of the most modest artists imaginable: he remained a civil servant at the Dutch Post Office right up to his retirement. Alongside his life as an artist he had a need for this regularity, for the daily rhythm of a structured existence. He was no... Read more

Art on Paper Amsterdam 2019

Stand 36 26 - 29 Sep 2019 Drawings that do not necessarily result in a painting, but do have a right to exist outside the studio, are called Kurzstrecken by Ronald de Bloeme. It is a reference to taxi rides in Berlin, the city where he has lived and worked since 2000. For a short ride, you... Read more

Hans van Hoek | Crossing Dark Waters

7 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 In South Africa Hans van Hoek lived in a small town on the edge of Kleine Karoo, an arid and desolate landscape. In order to get there, you pass through a gorge with a waterfall. This is the spot that for many years provided - and continues to provide -... Read more

Frieze New York 2019

Stand C11 2 - 5 May 2019 The ultimate quest for simplicity, clarity and the symbolic characterise Ad Dekkers' minimalist oeuvre. His fascination for the drawn line took him onto the exploration of its third dimension, which he achieved by applying saw-cuts in perfectly smooth panels or by assembling panels one on top of the other in... Read more

Lang niet gezien, nog niet gezien

6 Apr - 1 Jun 2019 A group exhibition with around fifty core artworks from the last more or less fifty years from the BorzoGallery collection; from Leon Adriaans to Bob Bonies, from Jan Schoonhoven to Rakuko Naito, from JCJ Vanderheyden to Ronald de Bloeme and more. The exhibition runs from Saturday 6 April to Saturday... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2019

16 - 24 Mar 2019 A participant from the very first beginning of TEFAF, BorzoGallery is pleased to announce its presence again in this famous Maastricht art fair. We are proud to present a coherent exhibition of important artists who shaped Dutch abstract art history from the sixties and seventies, such as: Jan Schoonhoven, Henk... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2019

Stand 68 6 - 10 Feb 2019 BorzoGallery is pleased to participate in Art Rotterdam 2019, showing paintings by Ronald Zuurmond (* 1964) and sculptures by Henk Visch (* 1950), two artists who share a somewhat surrealistic image of people. Coincidence and technique form the basis for both artists. Zuurmond does not paint what he remembers, he... Read more

herman de vries | ultimate free

23 Nov - 29 Dec 2018 I have always been a zero artist, herman de vries tells us during our conversation on a return visit to his house and studio in Frankenland, Germany. In the early nineteen-sixties herman de vries is one of those at the foundation of this movement, which arises from the need felt... Read more

PAN Amsterdam 2018

Stand 29 18 - 25 Nov 2018 Op verzoek van de kunstenaar is van een begeleidende tekst afgezien / It is the wish of the artist not to have a text published. In Edy de Wilde's legendary farewell exhibition La Grande Parade in the Stedelijk Museum in 1984, three paintings by Hans van Hoek are shown. All... Read more

Frieze Masters 2018

5 - 8 Oct 2018 BorzoGallery and The Mayor Gallery proudly present a solo exhibition of Carel Visser at Frieze Masters 2018. Carel Visser, Wall Pieces 1965-1968 | Text by Carel Blotkamp Exactly 50 years ago Carel Visser represented the Netherlands at the 1968 Biennale in Venice, where his presentation was awarded the prize of... Read more

EXPO Chicago 2018

Stand 332 27 - 30 Sep 2018 BorzoGallery and GRIMM Gallery proudly present a solo exhibition at EXPO CHICAGO 2018 of GER VAN ELK (1941-2014) When Attitudes Become Form, the legendary 1969 exhibition of Concept Art by Harald Szeemann in Bern, Switzerland marks the first comprehensive show of this internationale movement with roots in both Europe and... Read more

Art on Paper Amsterdam 2018

Stand 26 13 - 16 Sep 2018 From 13 to 16 September 2018, BorzoGallery will participate in the new Art on Paper Amsterdam fair, which is entirely devoted to works on paper. A solo of the work of Carlijn Mens is shown in the Zuiveringshal of the Westergasfabriek. Art on Paper Amsterdam Westergasfabriek purification hall Pazzanistraat 37,... Read more

Auke de Vries

8 - 29 Sep 2018 A sculpture that could belong on a theatre set. Ayn Rand's The Fountainheadcould be playing: architecture with painted panels, quasi scruffy and positioned by chance. It is a sculpture that 'stands like a Colossus', is how Auke de Vries refers to it. 'You have to put it on a well-buttressed... Read more

Carlijn Mens | Roadside

19 May - 9 Jun 2018 'what is the reality of a shadow? it is there and yet it is not. shadow has no substance. it needs substance and light, and then it is there. the shadow is the result of a process in which we play a part.' (from a piece by herman de... Read more

Rakuko Naito & Tadaaki Kuwayama

"Naito & Kuwayama" 6 - 28 Apr 2018 'New Shapes of Color' / 'Vormen van de Kleur', (1966, Stedelijk Museum) first introduced the radical work of the American artist Tadaaki Kuwayama to the Dutch public. The exhibition was put together by two legendary curators: Edy de Wilde and Wim Beeren, who - in 1966! - thereby even further... Read more

TEFAF Maastricht 2018

Stand 448 10 - 18 Mar 2018 The BorzoGallery stand at TEFAF 2018 was designed by HOH Architecten from Amsterdam. This young architect team has created an exciting design in which the many sculptures that BorzoGallery shows this year come into its own. Besides sculptures, there is also a lot of attention for Zero/Nul, Minimalism and Geometric... Read more

Ewerdt Hilgemann

"EH - 80" 21 Feb - 1 Mar 2018 A child of about six in the war, Ewerdt Hilgemann searches through the rubble of the bombed ruins of his hometown Dortmund for shrapnel. He finds them interesting, exciting too, these sharp-edged metal splinters. Forty years later, and now an artist, Hilgemann works in the marble quarries of Carrara (1975-1985).... Read more

Art Rotterdam 2018

Stand 67 7 - 11 Feb 2018 BorzoGallery participates at Art Rotterdam with a solo presentation by Koen Vermeule: 17 gouaches and a number of paintings give a beautiful overview of his most recent work. Main section - stand #67 Van Nellefabriek Rotterdam Click here for the route information OPENING HOURS Wednesday February 7, 2018 | 18.00... Read more

Jeroen Henneman

19 Jan - 3 Feb 2018 Jeroen Henneman, by Rudi Fuchs Jeroen Henneman surveys his surroundings. He is probably taking note of an anecdote: a decorative and vivid figure hovering before his eyes that sometimes becomes a persistent chimera staying in his mind for days on end. But for a long time now such a carefree... Read more

Ronald de Bloeme | Alternative Facts

24 Nov - 23 Dec 2017 'Alternative Facts' by Jannet de Goede Curator Kröller-Müller Museum Since January 22nd 2017 a fact is no longer an event or circumstance the truth of which can be taken as certain. This is when Kellyanne Conway uses the term 'alternative facts' during a press conference when defending her colleague Sean... Read more

Fall Exhibition

"Just for a few weeks" 21 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 With works by: Jan Commandeur, Constant, Ger van Elk, Jan Henderikse, Jeroen Henneman, Carlijn Mens, Vincent Mentzel, Piet Moget, Gordon Newton, Jan Schoonhoven, Peter Struycken, JCJ Vanderheyden, Carel Visser, Koen Vermeule, Auke de Vries & herman de vries. openinghours: 21 October till 11 November wed - sat | 1 PM... Read more

Frieze Masters 2017

5 - 8 Oct 2017 The Mayor Gallery and BorzoGallery are proud to present the upcoming show: De Stijl reSTRUCTUREd At Frieze Masters, Regent's Park, London Opening (by invitation only) - Wednesday 4 October 5-8 October, 2017 Stand D12 In 2017 the artworld celebrates the centennial of the founding of De Stijl. De... Read more

Ronald Zuurmond | Reality Imagined

8 - 29 Sep 2017 Whenever I couldn't sleep at night, I would go for a walk along the river opposite my house. In the dark landscape the water was black and little lights twinkled in it. I took photos of the water surface with my phone. Using the flash created fascinating images. As an... Read more

Art Basel 2017

15 - 18 Jun 2017 Monochrome Dutch artists from the sixties and beyond. BorzoGallery is presenting an unique collection of monochrome works from Dutch artists during Art Basel 2017: Armando, Bram Bogart, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Ewerdt Hilgemann, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven, Esther Tielemans & herman de vries. Read more

Jaap Wagemaker & Tribal Art

"Amsterdam Trail" 5 - 7 May 2017 The Amsterdam Trail a route along galleries with ethnography and modern and contemporary art Amsterdam May 5 - 7 open all days from noon till 6 PM For the 6th consecutive year, The Amsterdam Trail will take place from the 5th - 7th of May. The Trail, a truly unique... Read more

Art Cologne 2017

Stand A1 26 - 29 Apr 2017 During Art Cologne 2017 we will show a number of beautiful reliefs and drawings by Jan Schoonhoven. In addition, we will show a large work by Herman de vries: 'unter der birke' (1989), a characteristic work from his oeuvre: with the theme of randomness and chance. Fallen birch leaves were... Read more

Wieteke Heldens | With Colored Content²

31 Mar - 15 Apr 2017 I make paintings, painthings and paintthings. I am consistently inconsistent. In my work I turn personal anecdotes into abstract concepts. For me, Hanne Darboven and On Kawara are great examples. In my work I always use personal experiences and thoughts. I turn these into abstract concepts. I actually make all... Read more

Gijs Bakker | Black to White

18 - 25 Feb 2017 1967 - 2017 | 516 - 518 Rejuvenation is in the air, the lethargic, bourgeois and slightly stuffy years since Liberation in 1945 are giving way to youthful élan. The Sixties. The yoke of the past is being shaken off; socially, politically, artistically and educationally. The universe is being explored,... Read more

Koen Vermeule | Soul Shades

25 Nov - 24 Dec 2016 SOUL SHADES As an artist, being asked to work as 'artist in residence' for a few weeks in a studio house just round the corner from the house in Zundert, Vincent van Gogh was born, moves you - whether you want it or not - close to the amazing, eccentric,... Read more

Bram Bogart | The Monochromes

21 Oct - 19 Nov 2016 Bram Bogart, independent painter Bram Bogart is a painter who hardly needs any introduction. Many know him as the painter of impasto paintings, lavish use of materials, multicoloured, vivid. Work on his impressive oeuvre continued until six months before his death. His reputation was significant and substantial, especially in his... Read more

Amsterdam Drawing 2016

Stand 04 22 - 25 Sep 2016 W I E T E K E H E L D E N S & C A R L I J N M E N S Amsterdam Drawing Contemporary art on paper 22 - 25 September 2016 BorzoGallery is participating at Amsterdam Drawing, presenting: Wieteke Heldens made several new 'Legend'... Read more

EXPO Chicago 2016

21 - 25 Sep 2016 BorzoGallery & The Mayor Gallery are pleased to participate in EXPO Chicago 2016 with works by Anne Appleby, Bram Bogart, Ger van Elk, Jan Schoonhoven and herman de vries. Read more

Masha Trebukova | Cathedral

1 - 17 Sep 2016 Due to great interest, we have extended the exhibition until Saturday, September 17th, 2016 Cathedral | stories, musicians, kings and prophets An installation by Masha Trebukova It begins at a desolate spot in North Eastern Groningen, May 2013. Against the background of the advancing chemical industry there still stands... Read more

Anne Appleby | Montana Spring

6 May - 4 Jun 2016 Anne Appleby 1954 Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? 1977 San Francisco Art Institute 1981 Moved to Helena, Montana1988 First monochrome work, 'Echo' Lives and works in: Jefferson City, Montana | Santa Fe, New Mexico This is Anne Appleby's first exhibition in the Netherlands. She has previously participated in the exhibition 'The... Read more

Charles Popelier | Suelo. Nada Más.

11 Dec 2015 - 5 Feb 2016 Charles Popelier - 'Suelo. Nada Más.' will be on display alongside the exhibition of Jan Commandeur. Read more

Jan Commandeur | Paintings and works on paper

11 Dec 2015 - 5 Feb 2016 Jan Commandeur - paintings and works on paper is on display alongside the exhibition Charles Popelier - 'Suelo. Nada Más.' Read more

Ger van Elk | The Horizon and Beyond

30 Oct - 29 Nov 2015 The horizon, or rather: landscape with horizon, is one of the subjects that has most characterized Dutch painting since the 17th century. The lack of 'interference' from hills or mountains enabled the Dutch landscape painters to capture their images - from land or sea as far as the eye could... Read more

Jan Andriesse, Piet Moget and Jurriaan Molenaar

12 Sep - 10 Oct 2015 With Piet Moget on the Mediterranean On the Mediterranean by Port-la-Nouvelle Piet Moget has lived and worked for more than sixty years. For many years now we have visited him every summer. He no longer paints from the Port-la-Nouvelle quayside. The large canvases on the side of his camionette, which... Read more

Jan Henderikse | Jan Henderikse & ZERO

6 Jun - 11 Jul 2015 Strange. I don't remember much. Some stories mention a boat, but considering the strong current of the Rhine, that would have been impossible. One day in the autumn, artist and friend Hans Peter Avermann and I took a bucket of whitewash and a big brush and signed the bridge. He... Read more

Carel Visser | Counterbalance

2 - 30 May 2015 On Sunday morning, March 1st, Harm Visser calls with the sad news that his father has died in the night. Harm asks us to announce the news. The telephone never stops all that day. Journalists from every news media asking for information and background. It is a major news event.... Read more

Theo Kuijpers | Paintings and gouaches

4 - 25 Apr 2015 'I don't explain,' says Theo Kuijpers during my recent studio visit to Eindhoven. 'I let people associate themselves. They know where I come from and where I have been '. Theo Kuijpers comes from the Brabant country, son of a farming family from Mierlo. He fulfills his military service in... Read more

Carlijn Mens & Wieteke Heldens | Heldens & Mens

25 Oct - 15 Nov 2014 Wieteke Heldens In October 2013 His Majesty King Willem-Alexander presents Wieteke Heldens (*1982) with the prestigious Royal Award for Modern prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst). A small selection of her work is exhibited in the Palace on Dam Square. I buy one of her works and we appointment for a studio... Read more

Ronald Zuurmond | Paintings and works on paper

6 - 27 Sep 2014 'I don't know,' he says in a low voice, 'it's always searching, doubt.' His temporary, sober studio in Tilburg does not make it easier to find the answers either. Or is it ? You could call Ronald Zuurmond a classical painter. Which means; paint and nature. Nature, the naturalistic as... Read more

Claudy Jongstra | Seele

14 Jun - 5 Jul 2014 A series of free-lance, autonomous tapestries by artist Claudy Jongstra. A phone call in February. Claudy would like me to see some new work. Not commissions, but free-lance, autonomous tapestries. She and her entire team have been working tremendously hard in recent years. Studio Claudy Jongstra has completed countless exceptional... Read more

Luis Tomasello | Six decades of reflection

10 May - 7 Jun 2014 Tomasello belongs to the international distinguished group of minimalists, the artists working in geometric-abstraction. Tomasello's distinct, individual quality lies less in the form of his reliefs, their construction or geometric complexity, but rather in that which is intangible:the indirect atmospheric reflection of light and colour, the 'chromoplastic atmospheres'. The Spanish... Read more

Koen Vermeule | Mirror Me

2 Nov - 1 Dec 2013 In October 1960 one of the most remarkable photographs in the history of post-war art was made: 'Leap into the Void'. The artist Yves Klein is jumping off a roof edge and seems to be floating in space. Yves Klein (1928-1962) is considered one of the most important artists of... Read more

Corrie de Boer and Semna van Ooy | De Boer & Van Ooy

5 - 26 Oct 2013 The drawing is central to Corrie de Boer's oeuvre. She composes lines into circles, often in layered collages of transparent paper. While drawing, she discovers the special shape of the Lingam, which results in a beautiful series of monumental graphite drawings. In an earlier phase of life she is closer... Read more

Art Basel 2013

Stand G6 13 - 16 Jun 2013 Borzo gallery is showing at Art Basel 2013 a one-man show by Jan Schoonhoven. 9 reliefs and a number of beautiful drawings, covering his career 1950 - 1990. You can find us in the section Features, stand G 6. 2014 will mark the centenary of one of the Netherlands' truly... Read more

Masha Trebukova | Out of the void

28 Apr - 25 May 2013 This year there was no need to look for reasons to draw the attention of the Dutch and international art-loving public to the work of Masha Trebukova again: they already exist. I shall name a few. The first could be that this year celebrates the 300-year-long relationship between Masha's native... Read more

Marc Mulders | Persian Garden

20 Oct - 17 Nov 2012 Persian Garden Under this title Borzo presents recent work by Marc Mulders: paintings, glass installations, watercolours and cut paper masks. Marc the city of Tilburg to the tranquillity of the Baest estate has had a huge impact on his work. The first changes in relation to the paintings Tilburg studio... Read more

Ger van Elk | As was as is

8 Sep - 13 Oct 2012 It's going to be really very beautiful, romantic, lyrical and aesthetic. Aesthetics no longer frighten me. (Ger van Elk) At the time I write this introduction, Ger van Elk is putting the final touches to his latest work: As is as was - As was as is. He already had... Read more

Jan Henderikse | Bricolages

12 May - 9 Jun 2012 Of all 'hardcore' Zero artists, Jan Henderikse is still the most inspiring. In her review of the exhibition Nul = 0 in the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NRC, 18.10.11, Rebellen van Nul still up to date), Lucette ter Borg describes Jan Henderikse as master bricoleur. Master bricoleur, you could translate it... Read more

Waldemar Otto | FORM und FIGUR

10 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 In 2009, on his 80th birthday, Waldemar Otto was honored with a major exhibition at the Gerhard Marcks Haus in Bremen, das Bildhauermuseum im Norden. 'Keine Retrospektive!' is the title of the exhibition and the accompanying catalog, which has also become the first step towards Waldemar Otto's 'Werkverzeichnis'. Keine Retrospektive!... Read more

after zero

12 Nov - 3 Dec 2011 In the Dutch art history of the second half of the 20th century, some movements can actually be measured by international standards. They are characterized by innovation, cooperation and group formation and by foreign contacts with kindred spirits. The Cobra movement around 1950 is a clear example of this. The... Read more

JCJ Vanderheyden | See, Look, Observe

15 Oct - 5 Nov 2011 The eyes probably originated one and a half billion years ago as a small spot with photosensitive cells over which the skin has formed a lens. (quote JCJ Vanderheyden from: Hans Locher, JCJ Vanderheyden, Light, Time and Space, Wezep 2011) For most of us, these are concepts that lead to... Read more

Geer van Velde

17 Sep - 18 Oct 2011 A selection of sublime paintings and works on paper. Apart from some mayor museum exhibitions these works have rarely been shown. Read more

Masha Trebukova | Passage

21 May - 18 Jun 2011 Together with Masha and her husband Victor, Jory and I went to a memorable concert in the Concertgebouw in February. Valery Gergiev was conducting the Mariinski Orchestra from St. Petersburg performing Shostakovich's 15th symphony, his last. It was a very special and exceptionally impressive concert. The overwhelming beauty of the... Read more