JUUL VAN DEN HEUVEL: The Legacy / De nalatenschap Exhibition 23.2 - 30.3 2019 OPENING: Saturday 23 February 4 - 7 p.m.

What to do when your studio is overrun with mountains of boxes of your parents seemingly worthless memorabilia?

THE LEGACY / De nalatanschap, an exhibition of recent work from JUUL VAN DEN HEUVEL, is her newest project, dealing with inheritance and loss by creating new art pieces using objects bound up with her parents’ history and her memories of them. From her mother: stacks of paintings, drawings, sketches she had made at the Rijksakademie, boxes with dresses she’d sewn, pots and pans and shoes. After her father’s death she reconstructed the dolls house he had made after she and her sisters had left home. As she worked, more and more boxes arrived, talismans of the past that provided material for the LEGACY.

Like a detective looking for clues she combed through letters and news clippings, photos and recipes. Each item evokes a reaction as she collects and cuts out her mother’s aquarelles, unraveling and restoring textiles, or adding paint to her collages from the past. She collects reviews of her father’s theatre performances and mounts, on a miniature stage, her handmade paper figures of him in all of his Shakespearean roles, letting him “play on”.

In describing her method and meaning Juul states: “I draw and tear and cut up; photograph, restore and pull apart. I write and, in between, I mourn. As I take a saw to my grandmother’s portrait I shiver, but I may, from my sisters and my parents. We are united in creating these new works. The exhibition and the book are an ode to my parents and a gift to my sisters.”

The Suzanne Biederberg Gallery is delighted to present Juul van den Heuvel’s 4th solo exhibition with us. Time and family are recurring themes in her work. Charcoal drawings of hair in all shapes evolved into large format hair landscapes and finally into black holes on canvas and paper. Later, research on shape/void, black and white led her to rediscover color as the LEGACY project offered new inspiration for her recent paintings, sculptures, drawings and installations. The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated, limited edition art book, The Legacy / De nalatenschap, available at the opening.

For more information, images or press enquiries, please contact the gallery.


*

Curriculum vitae

Juul van den Heuvel

Education
1979 – 1985 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Solo Exhibitions
1988 Galerie D’Eendt, Amsterdam (with Peter Keizer)
1989 Amro Bank, Amsterdam
1990 Galerie Daane, Amsterdam
1990 Seasons Galleries, Den Haag
1991 Galeria Ferran Cano, Palma de Mallorca
1991 Galerie Brinkman, Amsterdam
1994 De Verdieping, Amsterdam
1994 Voorstraat 69, Noordwijk-Binnen
1996 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam
1996 Bank Labouchere, Amsterdam
1999 “Herinnering”, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam (with Hans van der Pas)
2001 Pulchri Studio, (with Andre van den Heuvel) Den Haag
2002 “Een kijkje in de keuken”, De Branderij, Antwerpen (with Jurriaan van Hall)
2004 Pulchri Studio, Den Haag
2006 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, “Let your hair hang down, Amsterdam
2011 A Gallery – Amsterdam
2011 Het Oude Raadhuis – Aalsmeer

Group Exhibitions
1986 Stipendium exhibition, Den Haag
1987 Twaalf jonge kunstenaars, S.B.K., Amsterdam
1987 Jong talent, Galerie D’Eendt, Amsterdam
1988 Art 19, Basel (Galerie D’Eendt)
1989 Galerie Daane, Amsterdam
1990 Kunst RAI, Amsterdam (Galerie Daane)
1991 Art 22’91 Basel (Galerie Daane)
1991 De Boer, Warmerhuizen
1991 De Boer, Amsterdam
1993 Statengalerie, Den Haag
1996 Expozee, N.H. Kapel, Noordwijk aan Zee
1998 Kunst RAI, Amsterdam (Suzanne Biederberg Gallery}
1999 De keuze van de kunstkritiek, Nieuwspoort, Den Haag
1999 Foyers feminins France, Parijs (curator Suzanne Biederberg)
1999 Barbie 1950-1999, De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam
2000 Safra, Arte Contemporanea da Holanda, Evora, Portugal (curator Suzanne Biederberg)
2000 Arte Holandesa Contemporanea, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal (curator Suzanne Biederberg)
2001 Kunst RAI, Amsterdam (Suzanne Biederberg Gallery)
2003 Paradise Regained, de Oranjekerk, Amsterdam
2005 Groen Licht, bouwput Noord/zuidlijn, Amsterdam
2006 Melbourne Artfair, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery
2006 De Compagnie, Dordrecht (with Jurriaan van Hall)
2007 Klank en Kleurfestival, Amsterdam
2008 Pulchri Studio, with Francoise Stoop, Den Haag
2009 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, “Draw together”, with Liesbeth Pallesen
2009 Landgoed Klein Offem, Noordwijk (with Maja en Jurriaan van Hall)
2009 Het Oude Raadhuis, Aalsmeer, Group exhibition (van Hall/ van den Heuvel)
2009 Buro Weesperzijde, Amsterdam (with Jurriaan van Hall)
2011 Pulchri Studio, Den Haag
2012 Reuten Gallerie, Amsterdam
2013 WG kunst, Amsterdam
2014 Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
2014 WG kunst, Amsterdam
2014 Het Kruithuis, Den Bosch
2015 AMC, Brummelkamp Gallerie
2015 Pulchri Studio, Den Haag

Teaching positions
Gerrit Rietveld Academie (vanaf 1989)
Artemis (vanaf 2002)
Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry – Tokyo 2011
Feed Europe Project 2014 Vicenza – Venice Biennale
Ateliers 89 Aruba, 2014

Commissions
Various illustrations and book covers
Drawing and animation
Murals

Bibliographie
1990 Kunstbeeld. Saskia Monshouer: “Meespelen with Juul van den Heuvel”
1990 Haagse Courant. Cees van der Geer: “Van den Heuvel volgt haar hart”
1990 Het Binnenhof. Hans Oerlemans: “Het levensspel opgetekend door Juul van den Heuvel”
1991 NRC Handelsblad. Rene Steenbergen: “Van den Heuvel bij Brinkman”
1991 El Peri—dico de Palma. Arte: “Los juegos de Juul van den Heuvel”
1994 Alert. Hennie van der Louw: “Juul in “t diepe”
1999 Kunstbeeld. Saskia Monshouwer: “Atelier signalen”
1999 De Telegraaf. Paola van Velde : “Schilderes uitverkoren door kunstkritiek”
1999 De keus van de kunstkritiek. Uitgave Internationaal Pers Centrum.
Ed Wingen: “Schilderen with een toverstaf ”
2000 Arte Contemporanea da Holanda, Safra Harvest, Evora Portugal. Curator Suzanne Biederberg
2001 ”Juul” (monografie). Uitgave Stichting HallArt Foundation, Noordwijk (ISBN 90 80 6282 1 2)