Biography/cv

Koos Veerkamp   6 juli 1955   Poeldijk  The Netherlands

Education &  Scholarships

1976 – 1980
H.T.S. Institute of Technology, Architecture,The Hague

1980 – 1982
Royal Academy of fine Arts, The Hague

1983
College of fine Arts, Exeter

1982 – 1987
Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam

1989
startstipendium, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam

1991 – 1994
compensation professionel expenses, Fonds voor B.K., Amsterdam

1991
project grant C.B.K. Rotterdam

1994
project in commission C.B.K. Rotterdam


Solo exhibitions

1988
Dionysus gallery Rotterdam

’Spatial images and sculptures’

1990
Dionysus gallery Rotterdam

’Intimate limitations’

1992
De Verschijning Tilburg

installation ’Physical landscapes’ i.c.w. H.Wilschut

1994
Pictura gallery Dordrecht

’10 Questions’

1994 – 1995
Geb  energy office Rotterdam

1995
MK exhibition room Rotterdam

’10 Questions’

2000
Cieremans & cie galery Rotterdam
’beeldbouwwerk’

2019
Oostelijk zwembad Rotterdam
Kunstroute Kralingen Crooswijk 2019

2020
Galery De Maaskamer Rotterdam
'Lyrisch Abstract' i.c.w. Jan Wagner

2021
Kunstenaarscollectief Karmijn Expo Entrepotgebouw/Art Rotterdam
Open Tuindagen tuinarchitect 'Het Struweel' Rijsoord 10/11-09

Wijnstraat Gallery Dordrecht
'Clouds's White Curtains and Solid Lines' 16.10-28.11
Jan Wagner, pasteldrawings and Koos veerkamp, sculptures

 

 

Group exhibitions

1987
Centraal Beheer Apeldoorn

’Start 1987’

1988
Kunstlersiedlung Halfmannshof Gelsenkirchen

’Junge Bildhauer der Niederlande’ Eine Auswahl von Ewerdt Hilgemann

De Tuin gallery Beuningen
’An installation I would have made when I was as old as Geurt van Dijk’

De Gang gallery Beuningen
Sculptures from: Jeroen Melkert,Joop Witteveen and Koos Veerkamp

1989
Dionysus gallery Rotterdam

’Young art in Rotterdam’

metro station Queen Astrid Antwerpen
’Metro 1989 Total Event’

Apollohuis Eindhoven
Rino Perdon, Rob Veenendaal, Joop Witteveen, Theo Wesselo, Koos Veerkamp
Gastcurator Ewerdt Hilgemann

1990
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Nederlandse Kring van Beeldhouwers  ’Burengerucht’

Dionysus gallery Rotterdam
’ Young art in Rotterdam’

Duende artists collective Rotterdam

Dionysus gallery Rotterdam
Peepshow project ’Hotel Fantasia Times’

1991
C.R.I. The Hague

NautaDutilh International Law Firm
Since 1991 several works part of fixed collection in Rotterdam and Brussels

De Wilde Weten studios Rotterdam
installation ’The secret of life itself’

1992 – 1994
Sculpture Route Alphen a/d Rijn

1993
De Wilde Weten Studios Rotterdam

Summer exhibition

1994
Sculpture garden Psychiatric Centre Joris Delft

’Hallo ben ik in beeld?’ 

GEB energy office Rotterdam

1995
Septembersalon De Illusie Rotterdam

1996
’De Kade’ in artists’ society De Illusie Rotterdam

’Organic Breeze’ installation i.c.w. H.Wilschut

1997
Emmen, 11th City Sculptures, ’Constructions’

’Sculptures inside’ CBK Emmen, Bruggebouw

library NautaDutilh International Law Firm Rotterdam
Architectural construction 5

2001 -2002
Participant in ’Going Dutch’ for NautaDutilh in the program of

Rotterdam Cultural Capital of Europe 2001

2019
Hofje van Gerrit de Koker Rotterdam
Kunstroute Kralingen Crooswijk 2019

Fenixloods Katendrecht Rotterdam 29.08-08.09
Rotterdams kunstenaarscollectief Karmijn

2020
GRAW Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend 26/27 sept.

2021
Kunstkijkroute 2020 Goeree Overflakkee 04.08 - 08.08

Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend (GRAW) 25.09 - 26.09

Kunstroute Kralingen Crooswijk 01.10 -03.10

RAR Gallery Spijkenisse 30.10 - 11.12
'Meeting Outside in the Distance'
Jan Sinke, Koert Dekker, Elly Ramirez, Rein van der Gaag, Koos Veerkamp

2022
Beeldentuin Ravesteyn in Heenvliet 20.05-12.06

GRAW Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend

 

  

Publications

1987
catalogue 1987 Willem de Kooning academy Rotterdam

1988
catalogue exhibition gallery De Tuin 1988 with ’building card’

catalogue Sculptures in the gallery’s of Rotterdam

1989
catalogue  Individual Grants: IS ’88 – 89

Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst Amsterdam
Colourcopy-graphicmap exhibition Dionysus gallery
Leaflet Apollohuis november ’89, H.van Haaren, A.van der Werff
Eindhovens Dagblad 21.11.’89, Rene van Peer

1990
N.R.C. 19.01.’90, Rob Smolders

Laser colourcopymap, exhibition Dionysus gallery
Catalogue Hotel Fantasia Times, Dionysus gallery

1992
Tilburgs Nieuwsblad 12.02.’92, Desiree Meulenbroek

Catalogue Sculpture Route Alpen a/d Rijn  ’92 – ’93
Publication Public Affairs

1993
Quartet game with summer exhibition ’Het Wilde Weten’ studios

1994
catalogue Sculpture garden Psychiatric Centre Joris Delft

1997
catalogue and flyer 11th City Sculptures Emmen
2001
’Going Dutch’ book by foundation Rotterdam 2001 Cultural Capital

author Jan Donia

2022
AD 16.05.22 Theo Teitsma ; foto Peter de Jong
Beeldentuin Ravesteyn in Heenvliet