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Babs Haenen - Artists + Designers - Hostler Burrows

Lop Nor series, 2017/18

Babs Haenen - Artists + Designers - Hostler Burrows

Haenen in her studio, Amsterdam

Babs Haenen (Dutch, b. 1948) is a ceramic artist living and working in Amsterdam. Haenen’s expressive sculptures in colored porcelain are informed by twentieth century abstract painting as well as elements from the natural world. Her richly pigmented painterly compositions on slabs of porcelain are alive with movement, granting equal importance to color, line, and form. Each composition is constructed from pieces of clay which are cut, folded, and stacked into three-dimensional forms. The resulting sculptures often resemble vessels or mountain peaks, rippling as though caught by eddies of water or carved by natural forces; they are always imbued with a turbulent, dynamic complexity.

Haenen first worked as a dancer before studying visual art at the Gerrit Rietvield Academy in Amsterdam. In 1987, Haenen was the recipient of an award from the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB). She also received the 1991 INAX Design Prize for Europeans. Her work is in the permanent collection of many museums, including the  Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Stedelijk Museum, Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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BABS HAENEN
b. 1948, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EDUCATION
1979    Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023    Porcelain Mountains, Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
2022    Taste Contemporary, The Solo Project Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium
2021    Pas de Deux, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2020    Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, Van Achterbergh Prize exhibition, The Princessehof 
            National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2018    Babs Haenen, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY (catalog)
            En Route, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
            The Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017    En Route, Two Cities Gallery, Shanghai, China
            The Silk Road, The Waterland Museum, Purmerend, The Netherlands
2015    Beijing Design Week with Ubi Gallery, Beijing, China
2014    Scholar’s Rock, Gallery VIVID, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012    En Route, Gallery Van Krimpen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008    Babs Haenen, Frans Hals Museum—De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
            Porselein, een huid van steen (Porcelain, a skin of stone), Haarlem, ABC Architecture
            Center, Harlem, The Netherlands
2002    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1999    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1998    The Turbulent Vessel: Ceramics 1991–1998, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The 
            Netherlands (catalog)
1995    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1992    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1991    Hetjens Museum/Deutsches Ceramics Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalog)
            A Decade of Work, The Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, The 
            Netherlands (catalog)
1989    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1987    Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
1984    Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024    Babs Haenen, Ien Lucas, Hieke Luik, Galerie Ramakers, The Hague, The Netherlands
            On the Way to Porcelain Blue and White, Royal Delft Museum, Delft, The Netherlands
2023    Transformative Boundaries, Fabienne Levy Gallery & Taste Contemporary, Geneva, 
            Switzerland
            Nature/Nurture, Anna House, East Hampton
            In Residence III, Ting-Ying Gallery and Oliver Sears Gallery, London, UK
            Netherlands-Korea Invitational Ceramic Exhibition, Seoul Cyber University, Seoul, 
            South Korea
            The Value in Things, Ting-Ying Gallery, London, UK
2022    Hostler Burrows, Salon Art + Design, New York, NY
            artgenève, Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
            Beneath the Surface: Origin Stories, Mills Station Art and Culture Center, Sacramento, CA
2021    Hostler Burrows, Salon Art + Design, New York, NY
            Eye of the Collector, Ting-Ying Gallery, London, UK
            This Is the Sound of C, CC Zwaneberg, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
            International Art Fair for Contemporary Craft and Design, Ting-Ying Gallery, London, UK
            Shapes from Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, The 
            Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
            Viewing Room, Ting-Ying Gallery at the London Art Fair, London, UK
            Crafting a Difference at Soshiro, Ting-Ying Gallery, London, UK
            The Spirit of Ceramics: Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, New Art Museum 
            of Jingdezhen Ceramic University, Jingdezhen, China

2020    Time Suspended, Gallery Catherine Prevoust & Ting-Ying Gallery, London, UK
            Collect 2020: International Art Fair for Contemporary Art and Design, Ting-Ying Gallery 
            at the Somerset House, London, UK
            artgenève 2020, Gallery Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
            Forest Primeval, Hostler Burrow Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
            Stillness and Movement, Taste Contemporary, Sotheby’s, Geneva, Switzerland
    
            Blanc de Chine: A Continuous Conversation, The Victoria & Albert Museum, 
            London, UK 
2019    Cool Clay: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Ceramics, The Crocker Art Museum, 
            Sacramento, CA
    
            Entre eau et ciel: Amsterdam, Helene Aziza, Paris, France
            TEFAF New York, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY
            FOG Design + Art Fair, Hostler Burrows, San Francisco, CA
            Ghosts of Sunday Morning, Design Museum Den Bosch, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2018    Design Miami, Hostler Burrows, Miami, FL
            The Salon Art and Design, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY
            Rich-Z Gallery, Shenzhen, China
            Made in Holland: 400 Year World Brand, Ceramic Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden,
            The Netherlands
            Show Yourself, Design Museum Den Bosch, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
2017    Hotel Panorama, PAN Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            Change the System, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
            International Ceramic Fair, Spherebol+, Flow collection, Jingdezhen, China
            A City in Dialogue with the World, Jingdezhen, China
            Classics Revived: International Contemporary Ceramics Design Invitational Exhibition
            Liling Ceramics Valley Museum, Liling, China
            China Character, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
            The Dramatic Vessel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural 
            Park, Shigaraki, Japan
            Gallery VIVID at Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 
            Vase: Function Reviewed, Farmleigh House and Estate, Dublin, Ireland
2016    Gallery VIVID at Design Miami, Miami, FL
            The Mode: International Ceramics Arts Invitational Exhibition, Liling Ceramics Valley 
            Museum, Liling, China
            Sexy Ceramics, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, Leeuwarden, The
            Netherlands
            Vase: Function Reviewed, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
            Artmonte-carlo Exhibition 2016, Taste Contemporary Craft, Monaco
            Masterly: The Dutch in Milano, Palazzo Francesca Turati, Milan, Italy
            Gallery VIVID for Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
            Artgenève 2016, Taste Contemporary Craft, Geneva, Switzerland
2015    Gallery VIVID for Pan Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            The Beautiful Object, AD Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
            Gallery VIVID for Design Miami, Miami, FL
            World Tour Art Exhibition, Chinese National Treasure Museum of Arts, Beijing, China   
            New China from China: Ceramic Culture and Art Exhibition, KIP International Pavilion, 
            Expo Milano, Milan, Italy (catalog)
            Gallery VIVID, Design Miami Basel, Basel, Switzerland
            Kunst uit Huis, Collectie Wilploo (Art from Home: Wilploo Collection), Stedelijk 
            Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands (catalog)
            Melancholia, Gallery VIVID, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam
            Hostler Burrows at FOG Design+Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

2014    Clay! A Century of Ceramics at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Gemeentemuseum, The
            Hague, The Netherlands
            Europe and Beyond: 12 Artists in Clay, Peppercanister Gallery at Coach House Gallery, 
            Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland    
            Gallery VIVID for Design Miami/ Basel, Basel, Switzerland
            Gallery VIVID for Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
            Six Women, Hostler Burrows, New York, NY
2013    Minimentaal ll, Galerie Metis and Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            Muzeum LeSecet Magyarorszag, Pecs, Hungary
            Amsterdam, Kunst Rai, Kunstconsult, Zuid Oost Beemster
            Amsterdam, Peter Rommers, IJ Catchers
            Babs Haenen, Alexander Lichtveld
            Salah-ad-Din: Mysterious Green, Ceramic Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The 
            Netherlands
            Teachers and Students, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012    Maskerade, Frans Halsmuseum De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands (catalog)
            Bloemen in het museum, Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
            Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 
            (catalog)
2011    Temporary Stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
            Modern Ceramics, Collection JWN van Achterbergh (catalog)
            In der sparte porzellan, Kunsthaus Frankenthal, Frankenthal, Germany
            Amsterdam, Rai Art Amsterdam, gallery van Krimpen
            Rotterdam, Art Rotterdam, artfair, gallery van Krimpen
            Made in China, Nederlandsche Bank, teachers and students, Ceramic Department Gerrit
            Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            Made in China, Ministry of Finance, The Hague, The Netherlands

2010    Kleikunst, Steengoed: Ceramics from the Collection of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
            Rotterdam Kunsthalm, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
            Contemporary Glass and Ceramics, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
            Gallery Van Krimpen for RAI Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
            De kom, Cypres Gallery, Leuven, Belgium
2009    Nieuwe liefdes, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
            Form and Sculpture, Ministry of Finance, The Hague, The Netherlands

2008    XXth Century, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
            Well-meaning Cultural Commodities, Barrett Marsden Gallery, London, UK
            Top! Stukken: Hedendaagse Keramiek in Nederland (Top Pieces: Contemporary Dutch 
            Ceramics), Gorcumsmuseum, Gorinchem, The Netherlands

2007    European Triennale for Ceramics and Glass, Les Anciens Abattoirs, Mons, Belgium 
            (catalog)
            25 years Binnen, Gallery Binnen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalog)
            Pretty Dutch, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (catalog)

2006    Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA

2005    Organic Abstraction, Part 2: Homage to Ruth Duckworth, Garth Clark Gallery, New York,
            NY

2004    Goudomrand: The Future Handmade, Nederlandsche Bank, teachers and students Ceramic 
            Department Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003    Ceramics: Babs Haenen/Geert Lap, Frans Hals Museum De Hallen, Haarlem, The     
            Netherlands
            Acquisitions, Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

2002    New Collection, Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan (catalog)
            Allan Chasanoff Ceramic Collection, Mint Museum of Craft+ Design, Charlotte, NC (catalog)
            Blue + White = Radical, Garth Clark Gallery, New York, NY
2001    Dutch Contemporary Ceramics, Gallery Janet Mansfield, Sydney, Australia
1999    Collects, The George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada    
1994    Gallery Marijke Raaijmakers for the European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1993    The Inax Design Prize for Europeans 1st to 5th, Museum Tokoname, Tokoname, Japan 
            (catalog)
1992    Beyond Tradition, Contemporary Ceramics in the collection of the Museum Boijmans van 
            Beuningen Rotterdam
, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France (catalog)
1991    Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
1988    Vice Versa, Musée Joseph Déchelette, Roanne, France (catalog)
1987    Holland in Form, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands (catalog)
1984    Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

AWARDS
2020    Van Achterbergh Prize
2012    Mondriaan Fund, Visual Arts and Cultural Heritage
2005    Nomination for the Dutch Ceramic Prize
2003    Fonds BKVB, the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design, and Architecture
1991    INAX Design Prize for Europeans, Japan
1990    Fonds BKVB, the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design, and Architecture

COLLECTIONS
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Ceramic Museum Princessehof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Consulate of the Netherlands, Chongqing, China
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Council-hall Municipal Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Beijing, China
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Eye Clinic Focus, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
George R. Gardener Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada
Hague Municipal Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Hetjens-Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany
House corporationYmere, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
INAX Corporation, Tokoname, Japan
Koninklijke PTTNederland. NV, The Hague, The Netherlands
Kunstgewerbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
Liling Ceramics Valley Museum, Liling, China
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, The Netherlands
Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum for Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Ceramics Art, Gifu, Japan
Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NV Airport Schiphol, Schiphol, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum's Hertogenbosch, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, The Netherlands
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

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