Martijn Schuppers

Almelo, 1967
Lives and works in Groningen (NL)

Education

1987-‘89/1991-’95 RHG Academy Minerva Groningen (NL)
1994 Hunter College, New York (USA)
1998-2000 MFA, Frank Mohr Institute, Hanze University Groningen (NL)

Solo exhibitions

2019
“Cassini”, Wolfgang Jahn Galerie, Landshut (D)

2018
‘Time-Based’, (with Aart Rudolphy), Melklokaal, Heerenveen (NL)
‘Cassini’, (with Georg Kuettinger), Roger Katwijk Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2016
‘Martijn Schuppers, Paintings 2006-2016’, Galerie Jahn, Landshut (DE)
‘Chromatic Fantasies’, Roger Katwijk Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Off the Wall (Flatness of Depth or Tipping the Canvas)’, @Wallhouse #2, Groningen (NL)*
‘Pentimenti’, Museum gegenstandsfreie Kunst, Ottendorf/Cuxhaven (DE)*

2015
Duo with Frank Lenferink, Galerie Jacoba Wijk, Wehe den Hoorn (NL)
‘Painting(s)’, Galerie van den Berge, Goes (NL)

2014
‘Spaced In’, duoshow with Jan Scharrelman, Gagarin, Düsseldorf (D)
bG001/Martijn Schuppers, Buro Groningen, (NL)

2013
Whiteout, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (nL)
Solo Projects, duoshow with Koen Taselaar, Basel (CH)

2012
‘Duotone’, with Jasper van der Graaf, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem (NL)
Merijn Hos/Martijn Schuppers, Hof 88 Kunsthal Almelo (NL)

2010
‘Düsseldorfer (Dis)solutions’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam(NL)
‘Concrete Illusions’, Hot Prospects, Leusden (NL)
‘Recente Schilderijen’ (duo-show with Pieter Vanden Broecke), In Situ Gallery, Aalst (B)

2009
‘Düsseldorfer (Dis)solutions I & II’, Ateliers Höherweg, Düsseldorf (D)
‘Razzle & Camouflage’, duoshow with Eric Angenot, In Situ Gallery, Aalst (B)

2008
The Solo Project, duoshow with Anne Jaap de Rapper, represented by VOUS ETES ICI, Basel (CH)
‘Air Brush Structure Paintings 2007-2008’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)

2006
Unisono 14: ‘The Nature of Painting’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL)*
‘Image-Afterimage’, duoshow with Roland Schimmel, In Situ Gallery, Aalst (B)

2005
‘The Nature of Painting’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)

2004
‘Schone schijn’, Galerie IN SITU, Aalst (B)
‘Echo 3’, duoshow with Gerco de Ruyter Archipel, Apeldoorn (NL)
ZOOMINSIDEOUT, Sign, Groningen (NL)

2003
‘FRESH’, duoshow with Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Gallery IN SITU, Aalst (B)
Gasunie, Groningen (NL)
VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)

2002
Gallery Yves Hoffmann, Paris (F)
Bookpresentation ‘Early Monograph/Paintings 1994-2002.’ VOUS ETES ICI at M.A.F. Amsterdam (NL)

2001
Duoshow with Ab van Hanegem, Gallery In Situ, Aalst (B)
VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)

Groupshows (selection)

2020
VOUCH, Loods 6, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Winter Mixed’, Roger Katwijk Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

2019
'On canvas', Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart (DE)
‘Up-Date’, 30 jaar Sign, Sign, Groningen (NL)
‘ART Gerecht’, Arbeiten aus der Sammlung, Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf (D)
‘Aplomb’, Kunstlijn, Haarlem (NL)
‘Lust(rum)’, Melklokaal, Heerenveen (NL)
Volta Basel, represented by Roger Katwijk Gallery Amsterdam (CH)
‘Check mate/Abstract Art vs Figurative Art’, BCMA, Berlin (D)
‘It’s a small world after all’, curated by Jan Maarten Voskuil, Sebastiaan Fath Contemporary, Mannheim (D)

2018
‘Hin und Weg II’, MPV Gallery, Den Bosch (NL)
BIG ART 2018, Bijlmer Bajes, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Hin und Weg’, MPV Gallery, Knokke (B)
‘Uit Zicht’, CBK Emmen, (NL)
‘No Time’, Willem II, Den Bosch, (NL)
‘WestFarbe/ Paint VS Colour, prozessualität und Ersscheinung’, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, (DE)*
‘Abstract Wall Paintings/ Retrospect’, ACEC, Apeldoorn (NL)**
‘139 x Nothing But Good’, PARK, Tilburg (NL)*

2017
‘Nord-West Zeitgenössisch/Meisterwerke aus öftenliche Sammlungen zwischen Jade, Weser und Elbe’, Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven (DE)
‘Arpeggio’, Biotoop, Haren
‘WestFarbe - paint vs colour, Prozessualität und Erscheinung’, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen (DE)*
‘Out of the Blue’, Cwart, Knokke (B)
Art Rotterdam, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Regenerate #2, a way of screenprinting’, De Vishal, Haarlem (NL)

2016
ART.FAIR, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Köln (DE)
PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Westfarbe’, Paint VS Colour, prozessualität und Ersscheinung, Raum 2810, Bonn (DE)
‘Die van Aalst’, hedendaagse kunst uit priveverzamelingen’, diverse locaties in Vlaanderen, (B)
‘Het ABC van de collectie’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL)
‘Lust for life’, We Like Art/Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (NL)

2015
Wintersalon, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL)
PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL)
Young Collectors @ IS-Projects, Leiden (NL)
‘Schau doch mal rein!’, Micheal Sturm Gallery, Stuttgart (DE)
‘Pink’, WEP Groningen (NL)

Young Collectors/Raum 2810, Bonn (DE)*
‘The Fantastic Expedition of Painting’, LaKaserna/K09, Bad Nieuwenschans (NL)

‘Re:set / Abstract Painting in a Digital World’, Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss (DE)*
‘Abstract Wall Paintings’, ACEC, Apeldoorn (NL)
‘Freshtest’, Kunstverein Neuköln, Köln (DE)
‘Abstract Reflections’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam (NL)

2014
Start Buying Art, We like Art, Amsterdam (NL)
To the point, IS-projects, Leiden (NL)
‘Turmoil’, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Nothing but good live’, Park/Platform for Visual Art, Tilburg (NL)
Reset:Abstract Painting in a digital World’ Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, (D)
Art Rotterdam, VOUS ETES ICI and We Like Art (NL)
Reset:Abstract Painting in a digital World’ Kunsthalle Recklinghaussen (D)
bG0004, NP3/buro Groningen, (NL)

2013
‘Reset:Abstract Painting in a digital World’ Kunstmuseum Celle (D)
Multiple Show #3, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)
Start Buying Art, We like Art, Amsterdam (NL)
‘D(e)utch Treat’, DADA POST, Berlin (D)
‘Once more, unto the breach, dear friends, once more’, Lokaal 01, Breda (NL)
‘ The eye of the beholder’, Art Affairs, Amsterdam (NL)
Miami Pulse, Michael Sturm Gallery, Miami (USA)
‘Project Space: Painting’, Curated by D. Ryan, Cambridge (UK)

2012
The Multiple Show  #2’, VOUSETESICI, Amsterdam
‘There was a world once…’, Curated by Rowena Dring, Märkisches Museum Witten (D)
‘Splitt, van der Ploeg, Schuppers’, Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf (D)
‚Looking at  Seeing’, Hanze University Minerva, Groningen
‚Reset’ , Arti et Amaecitea, Amsterdam
Art Karlsruhe, Gallery Michael Sturm (D)
Art Bodensee, Gallery Michael Sturm (A)
Concreet Groningen, Pretty Vacant ism. K09, Groningen
Shaken not stirred’, K09, Groningen
Shaken not stirred, WEP, Groningen

2011
‘The Multiple Show  #1’, VOUSETESICI, Amsterdam
‘Sie sind Hier II’, with Lieven Hendriks and Mary Waters, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart (D)
‘Sie sind Hier’, with Driessens/Verstappen and Lieven Hendriks, @ Sammlung Mondstudio, Bad Homburg (D)
‘De Saedeleer revisited/ Het landschap in de hedendaagse kunst’, with a.o. Marcel Berlanger, Gerco de Ruyter, Eric Jan van de Geer, Eelco Brand, Luc Tymans, Stedelijk Museum Aalst (B) cat.
Art Amsterdam, VOUS ETES ICI, (NL)

2010
‘Abstract Trouvé’ (with Lizan Freijsen and Harmen Brethouwer) K09, Groningen (NL)
‘Ab Heute’ (with Ab van Hanegem and Han Schuil, curator: Ab van Hanegem) Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Düsseldorf (D)
‘Selected Extra Fine’ (with oa Thomas Raat, Sander van Deurzen, Michiel van der Zanden), Museum Les Secet, various locations.
‘Collectie Presentatie’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL)

2009
‘Multiple Show’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)
‘My Painting.nu’, with a.o. Fabian Marcaccio, Bernard Frize, Kees Goudzwaard, Thomas Raat, Olphaert den Otter, curated by Jean Marie Bytebier and Kris van Dessel, Lokaal 01, Breda (NL)
‘Zomersalon 2009: Nu in Groningen’, Galerie Ander Wereld, Groningen
‘Höher Weg Neder Land’, Kunstverein Oberhausen, Oberhausen(D)
Driessens en Verstappen, de Rapper, Schuppers, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)

2008
‘The Magical Power of the Painted Image’, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry (UK)
‘Unfinished Business’, with Geeske Bijker, Driessens/Verstappen, Jasper van der Graaf, Ab van Hanegem, Krijn de Koning, Jan van der Ploeg, Jochem van der Spek, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Thomas Wildner, Peter Luining, Remco Scha, Jan Robert Leegte. Curated by Jan Robert Leegte and Jan Maarten Voskuil, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz (A) (cat.)
‘Visual Moods’, with a.o. Jan Andriesse, Krijn de Koning, George Korsmit, Rinke Nijburg, Ben Akkerman. Curator: Regine Schumann, Stadsgallerij Heerlen.
‘The Magical Power of the Painted Image’, Kunstencentrum W3, Vlissingen (NL)
‘The Magical Power of the Painted Image’, Zebrastraat, Gent, (B)

2007
‘The Magical Power of the Painted Image’, with Marcel Berlanger, Thomas Huyghe, Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Karen Trusselle and Roland Schimmel, Curator: Jan de Nys, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, (B) (cat.)
‘A selection from www.vousetesici.nl’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Focus & Diversity’, Curator: Martijn Schuppers, Alumnishow 2007 Frank Mohr institute, Hanze University, Groningen (NL) (cat.)

2006
‘BSTRCT’, with Franck Bragigand, Ab van Hanegem, Twan Jansen, Klaas Kloosterboer, Saskia Koops, Regine Schumann and Han Schuil. Curator: Martijn Schuppers, Kunstruimte 09, Groningen (NL)
‘Concrete Zaken’, with a.o. Ian Davenport, Tilman. Curator: Jan Maarten Voskuil, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem (NL)*
‘Floting Forms / Abstract art now’, with a.o. M. Oehlen, Rentmeister, Tillmans en Zimmermann, Curator: U. Lehmann, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein (D)*
‘Make-up/Camouflage’, with Eric Angenot and David Kowalkowski, In Situ Gallery, Aalst (B)
‘Presentational Painting III’, Curator G. Evertz, Times Square Gallery/Hunter College New York (USA)*

2005
Presentation ZOOMINSIDEOUT- edition, Hein Elferink Gallery, Slingenberg (NL)
‘Kijkwijdte’, groupshow alumni Frank Mohr Instituut/Hanze University, CBK Groningen (NL)
‘Some Painting(s)’, with Franck Bragigand, Ab van Hanegem en Gijs Frieling. Curator: M. Schuppers Academie Minerva Galerie, Groningen (NL)

2004
‘De magie van beeld II’, with Marcel Berlanger, Gerco de Ruyter and Wolfgang Ellenrieder, Gallery In Situ, Aalst (B)
‘Study’s’, Living Room, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Gesture suggestion’, with David Reed, Klaus Merkel, Bernard Frize and Jos van Merendonk, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam (NL)
‘International Exchange Exhibition’, Hunter College/Time Square Gallery, New York (USA)*

2003
‘De inhuizing/collectie-overwegingen’, Stadsgalerij Heerlen (NL)
‘Suite Voices #5’, painting/video’, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam.

2002
VOUS ETES ICI, Le Buro, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Iets dat zo duur is, moet veel waard zijn’, De Beyerd, Breda (NL)
‘Holland – Schweiz 3:2’, with Corinne Bonsma, Ab van Hanegem, Urs und Stefan., Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal (CH)