biography

Jan

 

van der Ploeg

Amsterdam

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1959

Lives and works in Amsterdam

... Walls, facades, stairwells, and lobbies are the supports for Van der Ploeg’s paintings, Recently his works appear to have taken on an almost cartoonesque or caricature-like quality, as if the painter has shed his relative modesty. He has painted all the walls of a classical interior in the Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall in Copenhagen with an oversize brick pattern, producing a work that in a certain sense has a figurative effect and makes a direct comment on the surrounding space Van der Ploeg’s wall paintings have the ability to give structure and to create a completely novel spatial awareness. By stacking five colored stripes one above the other in a long, narrow corridor in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, he managed to evoke a thoroughly new sense of space among the museum’s visitors. This wall painting also had something of the cartoonesque; indeed the stacking of the specific colors quickly earned the work the nickname “Licorice Allsorts”. And the work for the Hammer Museum also has, as mentioned earlier, a figurative, almost humane quality.  

Jan van der Ploeg’s projects always contain an unmistakable element of spatial transformation. They are bound to their context and are directed at the visitor’s point of view. Increasingly they seem to have taken on a more figurative formal language. It seems to me that this provides sufficient reason for saying that the old Dutch schism has been sublimated in Van der Ploeg’s work-not “form or fellow”, but increasingly “form and fellow”.  

From Jan van der Ploeg, Rein Wolfs, Hammer Museum (2016)

works

untitled (no. 24-04)
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2024
acrylic on canvas
80 x 49 cm
untitled (no. 24-02)
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2024
acrylic on canvas
76,5 x 50,5 cm
untitled (no. 21-21)
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2024
acrylic on canvas
72 x 43 cm
untitled (no. 24-11)
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2024
acrylic on canvas
50 x 50 cm
untitled
,
2021
screenprint on paper
43.5 x 34.5 cm
untitled (painting no. 22-05)
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2022
acrylic on canvas
140 x 90 cm
untitled (painting no. 21-30)
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2021
acrylic on canvas
55 x 45 cm
untitled (work on paper no. 23-02)
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2023
acrylic on paper
55 x 45 cm
untitled (painting no. 23-25)
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2023
acrylic on canvas
61 x 49 cm

CV Highlights

WALL PAINTING No. 321
Collection Conny and Frank Delissen
Nijmegen
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2011
WALL PAINTING No. 293
Dutch Ministry of Finance
The Hague
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2010
WALL PAINTING No. 447
Haus für Kunst Uri
Altdorf, CH
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2017

gallery exhibitions & fairs

PAN 2024
fair
November 23, 2024
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December 1, 2024
CURVES
solo exhibition
December 2, 2023
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February 17, 2024
Negenenveertig en een half
group exhibition
December 22, 2022
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January 13, 2023