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Karin Arink
(Delft, 1967)
lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands

solos
2008 'Karin Arink - States of Self' retrospective Stedelijk Museum Schiedam > my facebook album of the show
2007 'Voelers, geen Voeten, textile installation for Het Torentje Almelo
2006 'Manifold Mumbag & fragments of the white visions', solo project room De Pont Tilburg
2006 'IN/DIFFERENCE' Galerie Tanya Rumpff Haarlem
2005 ‘Bazar des Facades' at the Art Brussels fair on invitation of Tanya Rumpff Haarlem
2003 ‘Inlet Woman and Tranformer Woman' Project Room, RAM foundation, Rotterdam
2002 ‘MUMBAG! leven in de zoogdieromhelzing’, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
2002 'I(expose), II (you&me), III (mumbag!)', solo project for Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2002 ‘H-dressed to wooo you’, Project Room, RAM foundation, Rotterdam
2000 ‘SOLDES/SOLILOQUY/SOLO #2’, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem NL
1999 ‘1+1=H’, Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg NL
1997 ‘SOLDES/SOLILOQUY/SOLO’, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem NL
1995 ‘un cache-cache vain’, Galerie Riekje Swart, Amsterdam NL
1995 ‘verstrengelingen’, Helmonds Gemeentemuseum NL > 'verstrengelden' 1994
1994 ‘Six Projects’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL (cat.)
1993 with Corinne Bonsma at Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem NL
1993 ‘lascive’, Oranjerie, Rotterdam NL

group exhibitions (selection)
2010 'Lucht is tastbaarder dan mijn gedachte' castle d'Aspremont-Lynden, Oud-Rekem, Belgium; curator Annemie van Laethem (until sept 26)
2010 'Corrosia! op de huid' in Corrosia Almere, (until aug 29)
2010 'Summer of Love' Wallgallery Rotterdam (until 21 sept)
2010 group show Galerie Tanya Rumpff Haarlem
2009 Küf / Mold, exhibitions in shops in Charlois, Rotterdam, my work in Raveena's Goud&Zilver
2009 Kappalai - Camera Japan, boat Geertruida
2009 duo with Arie de Groot in the church of De Wijk, Grensloos Kunst Verkennen, Ijhorst from 10 sept 2009
2009 ‘IN CASE IT RAINS IT MIGHT INVOLVE WATER’ email expo curated by Marijke Appelman
2009 WAT IS TUSSEN ONS, project with Ties Ten Bosch for Het Plafond, Rotterdam, see http://www.hetplafond.org/
2009 '200 jaar Prix de Rome', one of my 1992 prize-winning works in group show at Kunsthal Rotterdam
2009 JEUK, KunstpodiumT? Tilburg
2008 DPC2 in former Foto Instituut Witte de Withstraat Rotterdam
2008 salon10 Rotterdam
2007 'Tussen het gebeuren' De Vishal Haarlem
2007 salon@Diddendorp Rotterdam: curated by Maartje Berendsen & Tamar de Kemp
2007 'Versneden en verbeeld', Bibliotheek Amsterdam
2006 'Opening Rembrandt: Death Dissection & Doctors', Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam
2006 presentation of 'Bed satin tangle (for Peyron)' in Prato and MOCA Shanghai: 'The Age of Metamorphosis: European Art Highlights from the Centro Pecci Collection'
2006 'FAMILIE' on invitation of Robin Kolleman, TENT. Rotterdam
2006 presentation of the multiple for Duchenne, Kunst RAI Amsterdam
2005 'Uitzicht met Zandkorrel' in LUMC gallery Leiden, curated by Kees Maas en Ella van Zanten
2005 'Van de mensen en de dingen' Z33 Hasselt B
2005 'De Paleistuin' Den Haag Sculptuur The Hague NL > 'Daphne after the hunt' 1996 (bronze)
2005 'Territoria, arte olandese in Val di Bisenzio' Prato I > 'bed satin tangle' 2005 (installation)
2005 'The Blind Leading The BLind', project initiated by Peter Buggenhout, Lokaal01 Antwerp, B (jan-feb)
2005 'Supermerk' project in NP3 Groningen NL (jan-feb)
2005 'Magazijn van de Verbeelding' CODA Apeldoorn with Tom Claassen, Joost Swarte, Gerben Hermanus and Berend Strik
2004 'tintelingen' EMC and Erasmus University Rotterdam, co-curated with C. Ampt and R. Kolleman, opening 1/10, to 1/11
2004 'Wunderkammer - De Verzameling', small work in exhibition Lisa Couwenbergh Amsterdam NL
2004 at Fleur Groenendijk's in Rhoon NL, invited by Paul Cox, with H. Yilmaz, R. Engelen and H. Lamers
2004 'Bodytalk', curated by Anne Berk, Museum Beelden aan Zee Scheveningen NL (until sept)
2004 in De Anningahof Zwolle NL (until sept)
2003 'The Seven year Itch' collection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam NL
2003 'Home Sweet Home' Stadsgalerij Heerlen NL
2001 'SQUAT', Smart Project Space, Amsterdam NL
2001 'Visions, use of textile in contemporary art...', Tournai, B
2001 'White Light', installations in window cases around the Grote Markt Haarlem NL > 'felt shelter torn'
2000 ‘Exorcism, Esthetic Terrorism’, curated by Wilma S¸t–, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen Rotterdam NL
2000 ‘Meer kleding, minder textiel’, curated by Sarah Slootweg, in Comenius Museum Naarden NL
2000 ‘Whereabouts’, De Veemvloer Amsterdam NL
2000 ‘Flexible III, close to the body’, travelling exhibition:
2000 -Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg NL (cat.)
1999 -Bureau of Artistic Exhibitions, Wroclaw PL
1999 -Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichiscem Landesmuseum, Linz, A
1999 ‘Parijs, Berlijn, New York, Kitakyushu’, Fonds voor BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
1998 ‘NL’, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven NL (cat.)
1998 ‘Mutatis Mutandis’, curated by Wim van der Beek, in Broerskerk, Zwolle NL (cat.)
1998 ‘Stof tot nadenken’, Modemuseum, Hasselt B
1997 ‘TAKE OFF’, Galerie Krinzinger in Benger Areal, Bregenz A
1997 ‘Het eigen gezicht’, Rijksacademie in Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen NL
1997 ‘Sous le manteau’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris F (cat.)
1996 ‘De Muze als Motor’, Stichting De Pont Tilburg NL (cat.)
1996 ‘De Negen van Touche’, Centraal Museum Utrecht NL (cat.)
1996 ‘The one-line drawing’, Parade, Amsterdam NL & New York USA
1996 ‘State of Mind’, curated by Jeanne van Heeswijk, Villa Alkmaer Rotterdam NL
1995 ‘Review/Preview’, Oranjerie Rotterdam NL
1995 ‘De betekenis van het tekenen’, Rijksakademie Amsterdam NL
1995 ‘4x4 keuzes’ (choices), Niggendijker, Groningen NL, on invitation of Din Pieters
1995 ‘uit de klere(n)’, Galerie van Laethem, St. Truiden B
1995 ‘Infections’, curated by fundament, in Park Wolfslaar, Breda NL
1994 ’école d’éole, Institut Néerlandais, Paris F
1994 solo in 'Six Projects', Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven NL (cat.), curated by Jaap Guldemond
1994 ‘7 young artists’, Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag NL
1994 ‘Ik + De Ander, reflections on humanity’, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam NL
1994 ‘Zoekgeraakte meesters’, De Vaalserberg, Rotterdam NL
1993 ‘Invitaties’, De Waag, Leiden, NL
1993 ‘Nove giovani scultori d’Amsterdam’, San Giovanni Valdarno I (cat.) curated by Thom Puckey
1992 ‘Prix de Rome 1992’, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam NL (cat.)

selected reviews (* = also in english) :
- Jurriaan Benschop, ëHet hart ontbrekend. Over het werk van Karin Arinkí, Ons Erfdeel nr 2 2004
- Anne Berk,’BODYTALK’, Kunstbeeld nr 10, 2002
- Sandra Smallenburg, ‘Arinks textiele beelden...’, NRC Handelsblad, 1999
-*Wilma Sütö, in cat. ‘NL’, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1998
- Janneke Wesseling, ‘Doordrenkt van vergankelijkheid’, NRC Handelsblad, 1997
- Din Pieters, in cat. ‘De Muze als Motor II’, Stichting De Pont, Tilburg, 1996
-*Janet Koplos, ‘Art in the lowlands”, Art in America, 1995
- Liorah Hoek, ‘Gedachteloos voortbestaan’, Tanya Rumpff /Jan Mets, Amsterdam, 1994
- Din Pieters, ‘Karin Arink’, Metropolis M, nr. 3, 1994
-*Elly Stegeman, in cat. ‘Six Projects’, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1994
-*Leontien Coelewij, ‘Eight artists’, in: cat. ‘Prix de Rome 1992; Sculpture/ Art in the open’, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, 1992

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