Charlotte Schleiffert Portfolio
Reindeer, 2015, Mixed techn. on paper, 238x151 cm
Longing for rituals, 2014, mixed techn. on paper, 254x138 cm
What's coming..., 2013, mixed techn. on paper, 306x152cm
Untitled(body and african print) mixed techn. on paper, 41x31cm, 2013 Collection: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
Woman with child mixed techn. on paper 260x150 cm 2012
Een ode aan het Stedelijk museum Amsterdam Mister Neville is going to the Stedelijk Museum, 2012, mixed techn. on paper, 296x151 cm
Homesick, mixed techn. on paper, 177x142 cm, 2012
Mister Harisson, 2012 mixed techn. on paper, 200x150 cm,
Women with ship 2012 mixed techn. on paper, 317x152cm,
Virginia, 2011, acryl, pastelkrijt op papier, 300 x 151 cm
Installation View Rozen en Pistolen Museum Het Domein, Sittard Netherlands, 2011
Mr Johnson, 2011 Acrylic, pastel on paper 350 x 150 cm
IJsvogel, 2012 34,5x42,5cm mixed techn. on paper
Woman with green mask 2011 Mixed techniques on paper 234 x 148 cm
Black Dutch 2011 Mixed techniques on paper 288 x 150 cm
Going East or West 2009 Mixed techniques on paper 300 x 150 cm
Black Beauty mixed techn. on paper 230x158 cm 2009
Groupshow Charlotte Schleiffert & Douglas Kolk Amsterdam 2009
Thinker 2008 Mixed techniques on paper 255 x 140 cm
Tibetan Girl with Swards 2008 Mixed techniques on paper 308 x 150 cm
Untitled (vrouw met doodshoofd), 2007, Mixed techn. on paper, 280 x 147 cm
Untitled 2007 Mixed techniques on paper 339 x 147 cm
Save the world 2007 Mixed techniques 307 x 309 cm
Door of no return 2007 Installation14 drawings Mixed techniques on paper 265 x 560 cm Collection Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands
Overview at, 2007
Zonder titel (6) pastel, krijt, acryl op papier 320x150 cm 2007
Overview at, 2007
Woman with yellow dress 2005 pastel,acrylic on paper 320x150 cm
Museum Het Domein proudly presents a substantial collection of recent work by Charlotte Schleiffert (Tilburg, 1967). This artist gained international recognition with her very expressive drawings and paintings featuring bright colours, impressive formats, and unconventional use of material such as fake fur and adhesive plastic. Issues related to gender play an important role in her engaged work, as do themes such as intolerance, power, violence, oppression, poverty, and alienation. The exhibition at Het Domein is primarily dedicated to the work Schleiffert has done in the past three years and other pieces that have rarely or never been displayed before. As part of the exhibition, the artist will create a new mural. Rozen en pistolen is the first solo museum exhibition of Schleiffert's work since her exhibition Feel No Shame in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, in 2004. A constant feature in her drawings and paintings since this time are the hybridized beings that appear in them. They unite various cultures, times, and sexes. 'I want to create a mix of times and locations. My figures are not always happy with their lives and dream of an alternative. They embody the desire for another world,' Schleiffert explains. Travel has always been an important source of inspiration for her choice of subject and material. In 2007 2008 she was in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and over the last few years she has been regularly living working and living in Xiamen, China, for longer periods. In Berlin Schleiffert discovered old-fashioned coloured wrapping paper as a background for her s mall-scale political drawings. In China she started creating collages made of pieces of satin and calligraphic paintings on rice paper. What is striking about her new work is that Schleiffert has increasingly adopted the role of sculptor. While her earlier paintings often included three-dimensional components, in her more recent work amorphous plaster objects and assemblages play a more independent role. Also new are the small-scale almost entirely abstract paintings that exude the artist's joy in painting. With her recent flower and plant motifs, Schleiffert returns to a preoccupation from the period in which she studied at De Ateliers. Even in the fairy-tale-like world that emerges from these works, disaster lurks. Several figures appear to be trapped in the vegetation; a male figure is entangled up to his crotch in a giant liana. Several recent series of drawings are imbued with visual material that Schleiffert has encountered in newspapers and magazines. In these drawings, she attempts to extract pressing issues from the transience of current media. From a stance of personal engagement, Schleiffert makes a searing commentary on world problems in her work. 'My anger at the misuse of power, at injustice and hypocrisy, fuels my work. I am strongly against something or feel enormous aggression. Then a painting must be made,' she once stated in an interview. Just as Schleiffert borrows many of her titles and texts in her work from snippets of sentences from the print media, the title of this exhibition comes from the headline of an article in de Volkskrant newspaper about the commemoration of the Six-Day War in Israel. Roel Arkestijn Museum Het Domein, Sittard (NL), September 2011 The exhibition title Rozen en pistolen (Roses and guns) reflects its content. The personal and the political are always closely connected in Schleiffert's work. In her recent drawings and paintings, seemingly sweet depictions with flower motifs alternate with strongly engaged pieces.
CHARLOTTE SCHLEIFFERT 1967 Tilburg Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands Solo exhibitions 2015 Indonesië: heden en verleden Erasmus Gallery, Erasmus University Rotterdam 2014 Rock Paper Sciccors, Charlotte Schleiffert& Gluklya, Akinci Gallery Amsterdam 2013 Overleven is hard werken, CBK Drenthe, Assen Charlotte Schleiffert, Heden, The Hague Hotwave#6, Charlotte Schleiffert/ M.R. Adytama P. Charda, Cemeti Arthouse,Yogyakarta,Indonesia Pongo pygmaeus,morus bassanus and comrades, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp, Belgium Spring, Gallery Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany 2012 Mr.Routledge and the Lions,Akinci Galerry Amsterdam New Drawings, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp, Belgium 2011 Rozen en pistolen, Museum Het Domein Sittard When the second voice does not occupy a stable position, Maddy Arkesteyn en Charlotte Schleiffert Pictura, Dordrecht 2010 Save The World, Gallery Akinci(Attachment) Amsterdam Home Rock Butterflies,Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) 2009 Drawings,Akinci Gallery Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam Douglas Kolk, Charlotte Schleiffert, Gallery Akinci Amsterdam 2008 Berlin Works,Galerie Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) Schlusselszene, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Germany) 2007 Never Let Me Down,Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam 2006 Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (installation) Gallery Barbara Gross, Munich (Germany) You Speak Too Much, Palais fur aktuelle Kunst/Gluckstadt(Germany) 2005 Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (installation) Charlotte Schleiffert, Zachary Wollard, Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich (Germany) 2004 Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (rear space) Sabine Wachters Gallery,Knokke (Belgium) Feel No Shame, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam Muka, International Youth Print Exhibition, Auckland (New Zealand)
2003 Strong People, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen (China) Strong People,Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (China) 2001 Centre Culturel Francais de Turin,(with Michael Kirkham) Turin (Italy) Galerie Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium) 2000 Breath With Me, Buro Leeuwarden,Leeuwarden 1999 Heizel,Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium) Stedelijk Bureau Amsterdam,(with Michael Tedja)Amsterdam Tent,(with Hulya Yilmaz) Rotterdam 1998 Attitudes 3, Stadsgalerij Heerlen,Heerlen Banket 8, Archipel(with Maddy Arkestein) Apeldoorn 1997 Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium) 1995 Gallery Sabine Wachters, Brussels(Belgium) 1994 Gallery Sabine Wachters, Knokke (Belgium) Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Going to the zoo, Kersgallery Amsterdam 2014 I am not doing anything until I feel the need curated by Joanneke Meester, Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam Wanderlust, guest curator Sasha Dees,Centrum beeldende Kunst Zuidoost AmsterdamAmsterdam Drawing, An Art Fair for Original Works on Paper,booth Akinci Gallery Amsterdam Hotwave 2010-2013, Groupshow with residents of Cemeti Arthouse, Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia The Amsterdam Trail,Frans Faber-Tribal Arts, Amsterdam I Wish I Had A River, Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels(Belgium) Art Rotterdam,Akinci Gallery All atitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam 2013 De Grote Kunstshow, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam Ik hou van Holland. Nederlandse kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. All is Giving, Public Artspace, Groningen The Partaker Partakes Of That Which Changes Him, Temporary Art Centre, Eindhoven Groupshow:Marie Cloquet, Dirk Zoete,Guy Rombouts,Filip Vervaet, Andrew Webb,Marc Rossignol, Charlotte Schleiffert, Luc Deleu, Annie Gentils Gallery Antwerp(Belgium) Amsterdam Drawing, Amsterdam, booth Annie Gentils Gallery De Stad, de kunstenaar en het museum, 25 jaar stadscollectie Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Gratis is het woord niet: kunstenaars maken een werk bij een gedicht van Arnon Grunberg,( reizen-
de tentoonstelling) Pulchristudio, the Hague, ECI Cultuurfabriek, Roermond,Galerie de 7e Hemel, Bussum, Atrium, City Hall, The Hague The Glorious Rise and Fall (and so on),voormalig Groot Zieken Gasthuis s-hertogenbosch Art Cologne, Akinci Gallery Art Rotterdam, Akinci Gallery 2012 Amsterdam Drawing, An Art Fair for Original Works on Paper, Amsterdam, Akinci Gallery Through An Open Window, Art contemporain de la Rabo Art Collection, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (France) I love this city! Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France) Figuurlijk, de menselijke figuur in de beeldende kunst, Museum Hilversum De Nederlandse identiteit?half suiker, half zand.de recente geschiedenis door de ogen van Mister Motley, De Paviljoens Almere Salvo,Gallery Annie Gentils,Antwerp (Belgium) Hong Kong International Art Fair,Annie Gentils Gallery (China) Art Rotterdam/Akinci Gallery 2011 Sweatboxing 2,Showroom Mama/Leto Gallery Warchau(Poland) Ik Jij Wij/Rabo Kunstzone,Utrecht I Should Have Done That, Nest,The Hague Ode aan Merina Beekman Dazzle the Evil Eye,Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort Hollandse Meesters,filmportretten van kunstenaars, Kunsthal Rotterdam All About Drawing;100 nederlandse kunstenaars, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam,Schiedam 2010 Op Papier Gezet, Centraal museum Utrecht Dialogue 2010, World Expo Shanghai, Dutch Cultural Center Shanghai (China) Cabinfever, Tupajumi, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (USA) Der Himmel Uber Antwerpen,Gallery Annie Gentils, Antwerp (Belgium) 2009 Trendbeheer Meets Proximity, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago (USA) Towing The Line, Drawing Space.White Box, New York City (USA) Dialogue, Ceac 10 years anniversary, Xiamen (China) De Ideale Vrouw, Noord Brabants Museum, s Hertogenbosch Trendbeheer, Rotterdam 200 Jaar PRix De Rome, Kunsthal, Rotterdam Rebelle, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem Stressed Spaces, Parkeergarage Paleiskwartier, s-hertogenbosch Tekens Van Leven En Dood,Gemak, The Hague 2008 Let Op Kijk Uit, Museum Jan Cunen,Oss Eyes Wide Open, aankopen Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam The Furious Gaze, Cultural Center Montehermoso, Vitoria (Spain) Wintertentoonstelling, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp (Belgium) 2007 Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam Leve De Schilderkunst! Terug Naar De Figuur, Kunsthal Rotterdam Nieuwe Gezichten, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2006 Take it(as it comes)universal Studios, Beijing (China) Virtual&Physical, Muka Gallery, Auckland (New Zealand) Under The Skin, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich (Germany) Breaking The Rules, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam 2005 Projekt Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Dutch Artist In China, Nederlands Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam Black/White,Museum voor Moderne Kunst,Arnhem (Getting Rid Of)Madonna,Kunsthaus Dresden(Germany) 2004 Premio Del Golfo 2004,Biennale Europea Arti Visive La Spezia,Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, La Spezia(Italy) Secrets of the 90s,Museum of Modern Art,Arnhem Verf/Paint, Stadsgalerij Heerlen Micrcosmos,Centraal Museum Utrecht Freundschaftsmachine, Gallery Annie Gentils, Antwerp(Belgium) 2003 Gallery Sabine Wachters, Knokke(Belgium) Body Double,Gallery Rob de Vries,Haarlem Monologue Exterieur, Loerakker Gallery, Amsterdam 2002 Buiten Zinnen, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Painting Passion Pays Bas, Insttut Neerlandais,Paris(France) Among Ourselves,Nederlandse Kunst Na 1940,Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Political Correct?Dutch!,Galerie Krinzinger,Salzburg (Austria) Political Correct?Dutch! Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna (Austria) 2001 De Voorstelling:Kunst Uit Nederland In Het Stedelijk Paleis, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Unbrealkable, Arti et Amicitiae 2000 Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Five Continents And A City,Third International Salon Of Painting,Mexico City(Mexico) Het Paard Van Troje, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden I Fiori Del Mio Giardino, Associazione Culturale Per L Arte Moderna, Lucca(Italy) 82,65% Verf, Een Keuze Uit De Aanwinsten 1991-2000, Stadsgalerij, Heerlen 1999 De Keus Van De Kunstkritiek, Nieuwspoort, The Hague Subreal/The Human Condition, Galerie INMO, Los Angeles(USA) Glad Ijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1998 De Vertelling, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam De Leugenaars;(N)on Line, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam Een Keuze, werk van kunstenaressen uit museumcollecties, Grote Kerk, The Hague 1997 Stadscollectie, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam Einde Eeuw Tableau Vivant, Pulchri Studio,The Hague
1996 Ver na Vermeer, Nederlandse En Vlaamse Schilders, De Beyerd, Breda 1995 Stroomopwaarts, H.A.L, Rotterdam 1994 Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Art Transit,Ateliers des artistes de la ville de Marseille, Marseille (France) 1993 Koninklijke Subsidie Voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam Awards 1999 Prix De Rome (first Price) Catalogs Charlotte Schleiffert, Feel No Shame, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, NAI Publishers Rotterdam 2004 Charlotte Schleiffert, You Speak Too Much, Palais Fur Aktuelle Kunst, Gluckstadt (Germany) 2006 Charlotte Schleiffert, Schlüsselszene, Künstlerhaus Bethanien,Berlin (Germany) 2008 Charlotte Schleiffert,Hotwave#6 Cemeti Art House/ Heden Yogyakarta, Indonesia/The Hague, The Netherlands Residencies 1997 Lived and worked in Barcelona (Spain) 2003 CEAC, Xiamen (China) 2003-2010 Lived and worked in Xiamen, China 2007/2008 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (Germany) 2012 Atelier Holsboer(Cite des Arts),Paris (France) 2013 Cemeti Arthouse, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)