Good no. 1 - 35, jacquard woven, 35 panels of 60 x 61 cm
About
Barbara Broekman (Amsterdam, 1955) creates monumental artworks based on textile patterns and techniques. In her work she examines the relation between art, textiles and universal human themes such as love, loss, repression and conflict. Her work places the personal experience in a larger context. Dazzling compositions zoom in and out on life, from micro level to the entire universe. Her work is always related to the world around her, in subject as well as working methods, and transcends the boundaries between autonomous and applied art. Time consuming processes as well as a close collaboration with clients and specialised craftsmen are an essential part of her work. Broekman was trained in textile art at the Rietveld Academy and the California College of Arts, Berkeley, USA. Her work has been collected by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Museum, the Textiel Museum in Tilburg and the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York.
Artworks
Curriculum Vitae
Barbara Broekman (1955) / artist website
Education
1973 - 1976
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Mode
1978 - 1982
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Textile Arts, Textiles Department
1980 - 1981 California College of Arts, Berkeley, Ca. USA. MFA, Textiles Department
Exhibitions
2023
Proud to be Soft - solo, MOYA, Oosterhout
2021-2022
Summerexpo, CBK Zuid-Oost, Amsterdam
2019
Tegendraards - solo, Art on Paper, Amsterdam
Meesterlijke vrouwen, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
2018
My Second Skin - solo, KunstRai
voor de draad ermee, Museum Gorkum
DE MOOISTE STAD, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam door de ogen van Eberhard van der Laan
Op Drift, WGKunst-De Hallen - solo, Amsterdam
The beauty of the Battle, CODA, Apeldoorn
2017
A smart girl is prepared (for her future), Galerie Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
Sits, katoen in bloei, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2016
Nauw verweven, Kranenburg, Bergen
Reformed church of Ballum - solo, Kunstmaand Ameland
Dreef exposities: averechts, Provinciehuis Haarlem
Vernieuwd Verleden, CODA, Apeldoorn
Macht - 2016, Gallery vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam
2015
Museum Rijswijk - solo, Rijswijk
City Hall - solo, Amsterdam
2014
My Town: a celebration of diversity - solo, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
Zomerexpo, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Delta Lloyd - solo
Object Rotterdam - solo
Hotel Arena - solo
38CC Repeat 2.0
Realisme
Galerie De Oranjerie - solo
2013
Menno Kroon
Arti et Amicitiae Arti Salon
Hotel Arena - solo
Textielmuseum Eyes on nature: wall hangings
2012 - 2013
Amsterdam Museum - solo, Amsterdam: My Town: a celebration of diversity
2012
Museum de Fundatie - solo, Zwolle: FundatieFusions: Open Mouths
Paleis Oranienbaum, Oranienbaum Germany: Dutch Design and the house of Orange
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag Zomerexpo, winner 1st prize
Object Rotterdam, Rotterdam - solo
Realisme, Amsterdam
Shell, Amsterdam, The Hague - solo
Zand, Eindhoven - solo
2011
Audax Textielmuseum Tilburg: The making off
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam: Tast-Zin Artists and their use of materials
Concept, organisation, realisation, finances by Barbara Broekman
Art - Object Rotterdam - solo, Rotterdam
Inside Design - solo, Amsterdam
Frozen Fountain - solo, Amsterdam
Espace Enny - solo, Laagkeppel
De Centrale - solo, Groesbeek
2010
Galerie Zand - solo, Eindhoven
Espace Enny, Laag Keppel
ArtAntique - solo, Utrecht
Delta Lloyd - solo, Amsterdam
OHRA - solo, Arrnhem
Galerie Rademakers ‘Mixed Motifs’ - solo
2009
Galerie Majke Hüsstege - solo, Den Bosch ‘Faith’
Friesland Bank - solo, Leeuwarden
2008
De Rijp ‘Kunst op Kamers’
Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg ‘From Labyrinth till big Mama’
PAN – Amsterdam, Art Rotterdam, Art Amsterdam
2007
Flatland Gallery (solo) & ‘Exotica’
Art Rotterdam, Art Paris, Art Brussels, Art Amsterdam, Paris Show Off
Galerie Majke Hüsstege
2006
PAN Amsterdam
2005
Galerie Binnen - solo
2003 – 2004
Embroiderers’ Guild, ‘Art of the Stitch’ - travelling group exhibition
Williamson Art Gallery Birkenhead, UK, Textile Museum Tilburg, NL, Hall
Place, Bexley, UK
2002
FAXX, Stage for Contemporary Art, Tilburg - solo
2001
4th Triennial of Tapestry and Industrial Textile Design, Tournai, BE
‘Le Textile Néerlandais’ exhibition on Dutch Contemporary Textiles
2000
Gallery Thema, Bordeaux - solo
1998
FAXX, stage for contemporary art, Tilburg
10 works of art created for the City of Tilburg
International Textile Triennial, Lódz, Poland
Kunsthal Rotterdam / the Fund for the Visual Arts, Design and
Architecture
‘Viewpoints’, 10 years of Dutch Design
1997
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
‘Portrait of Barbara Broekman 1982–1997’ - solo
Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
‘Lamination in Color’ - solo
16 wall tapestries from the series ‘Mother and Child’
1996 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Two series’ - duo
Exhibition featuring eight wall tapestries
1993
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
‘Description’ - solo
1991
Musée National des Monuments Français, Paris, France
7th International Festival du Lin
1990
German Textile Museum, Krefeld, Germany
‘Dutch Textile from 1923 till present’
1989
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘14 Designs for ‘De Ploeg’
Museum of Modern Arts, Gent, Belgium
‘14 Designs for ‘De Ploeg’
1988
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
‘From Sketch to Product’
Singer Museum, Laren
Large scale commissions (selected)
Hotel Arena, University of Amsterdam, Law faculty, Arti et Amicitiae, Palace of Justice Amsterdam
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital Amsterdam