ANKE VRIJS. Untitled, collage mix technique, monogram signed AV and dated 2002.

Image dimensions 34 x 23 cm.

When I came to France to study, I slipped little by little into this life of an artist, of a “Lebenskünstler” at times... and still love discovering ways of doing, thinking and feeling between cultures and languages.

PLASTIC ARTIST

vrijs.anke@gmail.com 03 88 77 91 99

Teacher Researcher anke.vrijs@insa-strasbourg.fr 03 88 22 61 97

Born 1962 in Groningen to a German mother and Dutch father.

University education

2011 Doctoral thesis in Fine Arts, University of Strasbourg under the direction of Jean-François Robic, “Permanent metamorphoses: the image of the reproduced body, between filiation and enenderment”

2005 DEA in Fine Arts, Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg, “Permanent metamorphoses: a practice on the margins”

1989 Master's Degree in Art History, University of Human Sciences of Strasbourg under the supervision of Jean Wirth

1986 Master of Fine Arts, University of Human Sciences of Strasbourg under the direction of Germain Roesz

1983 — 1986 School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg (painting class by Camille Claus and Franck Wohlfart)

Other artistic education

1999 Internship with Rémy Bucciali, intaglio i Colmar
1996 and 1991 Engraving Course at Accademia Raffaello, Urbino, Italy (xylloengraving and techniques on metal)

ARTISTIC COURSE

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2022 Waanzin, USVA Groningen, Netherlands

2016 Land of links, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg (with Voula

Gounela, Athens and Karin Stegmaier, Strasbourg)

2015 Liberté-Eleftteria, Galerie de l'Escalier, Brumath

2014 Voil (é) es, Council of Europe Strasbourg

2011 French Institute, Vientiane, Laos

2007 Rémy Bucciali Gallery, Colmar

2006 Popular Image Museum, Pfaffenhoffen (with Michèle Schneider)

2005 Apollonia, Strasbourg and Haguenau Media Library (Cross Residence)

2004 Rethymno Art Center, Crete

2002 Espace Lézard, Colmar

2000 Galerie Dominique Lang, Dudelange (Luxembourg), Galerie de l'Arsenal,

Kaysersberg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2023 La Ligne, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg

2023 White! , Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg

2022 St'Art, Rémy Bucciali Gallery; Open workshops

2021 Gestalten des Mythos, Kunstpreis Bernd and Gisela Rosenheim-

foundation, Alte Turnhalle, Lohr

2020 Rémy Bucciali at l'Estampe, 30 years of collaboration, Galerie L'Estampe, Strasbourg; Open workshops at Jean-Louis Kuntzel, Rixheim; Mail Art “Correspondences”, Lieu d'Europe, Strasbourg; “Breathless”, Hôtel de Région, Strasbourg

2018 “Jahre Frauenwahlrecht”, GEDOK, Hamburg

2017 Open workshops; Regional Hotel, Strasbourg and Metz

2014 Regional Hall, Strasbourg

2013 St'art Strasbourg, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg

2012 “Collage”, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg; St'art Strasbourg,

Chantal Bamberger Gallery, Strasbourg

2011 “Exquisite Corpse”, Apollonia and Salle Conrath, Town Hall,

Strasbourg

2009 “Identity (s)”, University Palace, Strasbourg, Knowledge (s) in Common; “Eros-Thanatos”, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg; “The Talking Monsters”, Zoological Museum, Strasbourg; 10 Jahre KUK, Sankt Josephskrankenhaus, Regensburg

2008 “Cabinet of curiosities”, Salle de la Monnaie Molsheim (with Maxime

Loiseau)

2007 “Bestiares”, Galerie Chantal Bamberger, Strasbourg; Contemporary,

“artists”, Thann Municipal Museum (with Maxime Loiseau)

2006 Art Karlsruhe, Rémy Bucciali Gallery

1998 Nicole Buck Gallery, Strasbourg

AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS AND PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

2011 Artist break in Laos (October-December), CEAAC, French Institute, Vientiane. Research and teaching stay

2007 Artist Residency at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki (Greece).

Engraving Research Residency

2002-2004 Cross-residency with Art Centre of Rethymno (Crete), with Michèle Schneider, (funding Apollonia, CEAAC, DRAC Alsace, Region), publishing a catalogue

1997 Individual Assistance for Creation, DRAC Alsace

1996 Artist residency at the French Institute in Dresden

1993 Albert-Haueisen Kunstförderpries, Landkreis Germersheim (FRG)

EXPENSES

1999, 2002, 2007, 2020 Rémy Bucciali print, deep print in Colmar

PURCHASE OF WORKS

2010 Art Library, City of Strasbourg
2006 City of Pfaffenhoffen, Museum of Imagery
2004 Art Centre of Rethymno
1996 and 2000 City of Dudelange (Luxembourg)
Since 1985 Private collections France, Netherlands, Germany, Laos, Luxembourg

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Since 2014 MCF, National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, architecture department, teaching plastics education and art history

2008-2014 PRAGUE position, National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, architecture department, teaching plastics education and art history

Since 2008 Coordinator of International Exchanges within the Architecture Department of INSA Strasbourg

2006-2008 ATER position, National Institute of Applied Sciences in Strasbourg, architecture department, teaching plastics education and art history

PUBLICATIONS

2021 “Survey of public space: questioning urban renovation at Polygone (Strasbourg): a participatory collaboration”, with Morovich Barbara, Amalfitano Marie and Nowakowski François, in: Esplaces, Space and places in sharing (dir. Deschamps Catherine and Morovich Barbara), Paris, L'Harmattan, 2021.

2018 — “Genius Loci.“Place as a way to develop inter- and transdisciplinary skills for architecture students”, with Karine Dupré, Athens Journal of architecture.

— “Land Art in the Brumath forest 2008 — 2018”, INSA School of Architecture.

2015 — “Displacement (s) of art in public space”, In: e.cité europe, led by Dimitri Konstantinidis, Apollonia art exchanges edition, e-cité conference papers, Council of Europe November 2013.

— “Good kisses from Gold Coast”, with Karine Dupré (June 2015 n° 397 Revue Urbanisme), 13 p.

2013 — “I like to start painting with a connotation of vision” compilation of texts about works by Chinese painter He Canbo, Sinoccygen gallery, Strasbourg.

-Glossary of architectural vocabulary accompanying the exhibition “Interferences Architecture Germany — France 1800 -2000", Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Strasbourg, CUS Musées collaboration, 60 pp.

2010 — “100 years of Stockfeld”, produced with architecture students from INSA Strasbourg and the Urban Community of Strasbourg, 150 pp.

2009 — “The Monsters Who Speak”, Chronicles of Cahier, UFR Arts UDS n°20, Artistic Encounters at the Zoological Museum, pp.56 — 59.

2008 — “Trouble (s) at stake” in: Research Paper, Undoing System, System and artistic poiesis, UFR Arts, University of Strasbourg, 2008, pp. 101 — 115.

— “Maxims of a day”, secret edition of postcards for the 10th anniversary of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg.

2007 “Metamorphoses and Vanities”, in: Correspondences, no 11, Revue de l'UFR Arts, Presse UMB, 2007, p. 72 — 78.

— Catalogue Contemporary Expressions, Thann, pp. 20-21.

2004/2005 Catalogue “Cross residence”, Michèle Schneider, Anke Vrijs, Chrisi Karadaki, Voula Gounela, 60 pp. (Edition CEAAC and RCA Réthymnon).

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
(in selection partnership)

Since 2013 INSA workshop in collaboration with ENSAS, Artez Arnhem, University of Konstanz on the theme of Rhine, films, urban projects, floating pavilions, redevelopment of bunkers...

2013 Workshop Intensive Erasmus Programme with ENSAS, Artez Arnhem, University of Konstanz on the Rhine theme “No man's land, no man's water”. European contribution, DVD and poster report.

“Walk-Create”, art in the city in collaboration with the Artothèque de Strasbourg (autumn exhibition 2013).

Since 2008 Land Art Seminars in collaboration with the City of Brumath

Since 2006 Organisation and implementation of study trips (Berlin, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Verona, Toulouse, Stuttgart, Basel)

LANGUAGE SKILLS

German: mother tongue
Dutch: fadermål
French: “mother tongue of adoption”
English: excellent practice, long stay in the UK
Italian: good practices, language and engraving courses in Italy
Greek: planned

OTHERS

President of the Theo van Doesburg Association, working for a Dutch cultural presence in Strasbourg; publication of a monograph on Aubette in 1928 in collaboration with Strasbourg museums, (Aubette or color in architecture, Editions des Musées de Strabourg, 2006)

Musician since the age of four, I play viola in chamber music and orchestra training.

Bike and walking tours

Great interest in myths as a basic element of artistic creation

Seeing the pumpkins grow in the workshop garden, discovered by permaculture since my stay in Laos, 2011.

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