About me

Bio

As a child I often played with all kinds of materials to build temporary constructions. But when I “discovered” painting I thought I found my real interest. I wanted to learn how to paint as well as I could, so I studied techniques to master it myself. When I was nineteen I had my first exhibitions and I felt that my future was to be a painter.

In my late twenties the (side-) jobs in combination with painting took more time and for years making was on the back burner. So early in my forties I decided again to be a painter. I became a member of an artist collective, initiated and organized art events and started to explore other art disciplines. This really took off when I entered the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and started to work with all different kinds of materials.

During the years at the academy I realized that making sculptural installations is what challenge me most. And which subjects fascinate me to start making things. Now I know that I am not a painter or sculptor but a constructor of things, just like I started as a child.  

CV
Education, residencies, grants and prizes:
2024 Working period at KH Messen, Norway
2022 Stichting Stokroos co-supported the creation of "Sorry, better Safe than Sorrow"
2021 Professional Jury Award (Work Stipend) for CeraCons at Ceramics Triennial
2020 Working period at NAIRS, Scuol, Switzerland
2019 Artist in residence, Sculpture Space, Utica, New York
         Post-graduate study of ceramics, EKWC, Oisterwijk
         Stichting Stokroos co-supported the project “Ceramic Constructables” at EKWC
2018 Support from Mondriaanfonds to participate at the Moengo Festival, Suriname
         Grant from Mondriaanfonds for a residency at Tembe Art Studio, Suriname
2017 Grant from Mondriaanfonds for a residency at Instituto Buena Bista, Curaçao
2016 Scholarship for project “Let's Celebrate Being Second” at Studio Tartuensis, Estonia
2015 Fellowship for working period at Da Wang, Shenzhen, China
2014 Artist in residence, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Korea
2012 3rd prize with Dugout at Moved Winds, Germany
         Incentive prize from inner-city project group, Amsterdam
2011 Miloslav Chlupáč Foundation Grant for Stone Sculpture Symposium, Salzburg
2008-2013 BA Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 

Exhibitions, Projects & Collaborations (a selection):

2022 Centre Culturel d'Andenne, Belgium

         Depend on Me, Punt WG, Amsterdam

2021 Keramiek Triënnale, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn 

         Dead Darlings #13, W139, Amsterdam

2020 Tops (Mimicking which nature), Nairs, Switzerland

         AYCA, Kunsthal, Rotterdam

2019 Griffis Sculpture Park, New York (unveiling public art work)
         Big Art, De Hem, Zaandam
         Nakanojo Biennale, Sawada former Elementary School, Japan - link
         Test Case XVIII & XIX, EKWC, Oisterwijk
2018 Moengo Visual Arts Festival, Suriname (with Vera Visser) - link
         Move, Don't be a chicken, Move!, Moengo, Suriname (unveiling public art work)
2017 The Temporality is the value, IBB, Curaçao
         Big Art, De Zonnewijser, Amsterdam
         Dufus Tidious, Paleis van Mieris, Amsterdam
         A Temporary Farewell Show, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam

2016 Ritme & Regelmaat, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam

         Let's Celebrate Being Second, Tartu, Estonia - link
         Paradise Shift, Punt WG, Amsterdam

         Norway's First Small Talk Festival, Storhaug, Ålvik, Norway - link

2015 Chinese Everywherism, Da Wang Culture Highland, China - link

           Sliced standing, standing sliced, Inkijk, Amsterdam

2014 Korean Success, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Korea - link

         Turns in Fine Art, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam 

         What happened between the walls, Fontrodona's Artspace, Amsterdam (with Vera Visser) - link

         Schok, Klimduin, Schoorl

         Ecce Homo, Aterlierhaus, Aachen, Germany

2013 Connected in Difference, Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam

         Down the Rabbit Hole, Lichtfabriek, Haarlem

         Fort Abcoude, Abcoude

2012 Si.Si.Spex(2), Amsterdam

         Moved Winds, Wolfhagen, Germany

         Global Village, Sully, France

2011 Uncut - The Living Object, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam

         2055: Nieuw Vennep - New Babylon, Post NV, Nieuw Vennep - link

         Kiefersteinbruch, Fürstenbrunn, Austria

2010 Art Pie (with RC de Ruimte), Amsterdam

         RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden

         Glow, Designhuis, Eindhoven - link

         The Pyramid of IJmuiden, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden

         Accidental Harmony, Utrecht

         The Sound of Shadow, Basisbureau & Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam - link

2009 #2 Designed Nature in Frankendael park, Amsterdam

         Funen Art Gallery, Amsterdam 

         Cat litter bunkers, Amsterdam

2008 ASUAX-Amsterdam-Shangai Unknown Artists eXchange, Amsterdam - link

         The Wonder of Woerdes,Defensie eiland, Woerden - link

         Art Pie (with Het Kattenbak Collectief), Amsterdam

            Galerie De Valk, Harlingen

         Galerie Post, Hulst

2007 Galerie Vonkel, Den Haag

         Woerdstock, Woerden

Works in public space/public collections:
2019 Reusable Commemorative Statue, Griffis Sculpture Park, New York
2019 CeraCons (David & Pieta), EKWC, Oisterwijk
2018 Move, Don't be a chicken, Move!, Moengo, Suriname
2017 The temporality is the value, Esmeralda, Curaçao

Publications (a selection): 
2021 Klei Magazine 3/2021: Front page and article
        Taiwanese Artist Magazine 551, April: About my ceramic and other works
2019 Parool (Newspaper 11-09-2019): interview because of Big Art - link
         MetropolisM (Magazine 02-2019): review work at EKWC - link
2018 De Ware Tijd (Newspaper 16-04-2018): review on inauguration of public work in Moengo, Suriname
2017 Amigoe (Newspaper 17-12-2017): review work at IBB, Curaçao
         Antilliaans Dagblad (Newspaper 01-11-2017): review project with students of IBB, Curaçao
         Parool (Newspaper 21-01-2017): review work at exhibition A Temporary Farewell
2015 BK-informatie (Magazine 03-2015): Article on residency at GCC, Korea - link
2014 Witteveen visual art Centre (Magazine 03/3014): Review of works
2013 Witteveen visual art Centre (Magazine 02/3013): Review of works
2012 HNA (Newspaper 16-08-2012): Interview
2010 IJmuider courant (Newspaper 04-09-2010): Interview

Other activities:
2021-2022 Depend on Me, A collaborative project to investigate the difference(s) between amateur and
                 professional artists, with or without a psychiatric background, Amsterdam
2020/2020 Mentoring students of the All You Can Art Summer Academy, Rotterdam
2017/2017 Educational projects with students from IBB, Curaçao
2012/2019 Outdoor wood sculpture projects with and for children
2016/2016 Guest artist for land art projects at UWC Nordic, Norway
2009/2011 Art education projects with juvenile convicts
2008/2009 Member of artist collective Het Kattenbak Collectief

Contact:
pjbruyniks(at)gmail.com
+31-(0)6-27215509