CV Jan Eric Visser (1962, Leeuwarden, NL)
Lives and works in Rotterdam
Education
1982-1987 Art Academy, Kampen (NL)
2000-2001 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2021 VierVaart Projectspace, Groede. Solo show following residency endorsed by
Mondriaan Fund. Opening: Catrien Schreuder, Head of Exhibitions and Collection
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
2020 The garbage bag as muse. Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
Curator: Colin Huizing Opening: Edo Dijksterhuis.Link & link
2018 TrashArt. GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (UK) Link
Supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands London.
2013 Form Follows Garbage. Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam. Link
2009 Aquadyne Sculpture et al. RAM Gallery, Rotterdam. Opening: Anne Berk (art critic)
2008 Transformatie II, Art Society Bergen.
2008 Beyond Language. Exhibition on the occasion of 80th birthday Jan Verhoeven,
collector of abstract modern art, Woudrichem.
2007 WasteNewsWax; Overview 1987-2007. Opening: Wim van der Beek (art critic),
Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem. Link
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 Beelden 2024. Landgoed Anningahof.
2023 Techniek: zegen of zorg? Art Gallery LUMC. Curator: Sandrine van Noort.
2023 Petromelancholia. Brutus Rotterdam. Curator: Alexander Klose.
2023 Through Bone and Marrow. Brutus, Rotterdam. Curator: Maarten Spruyt.
2023 Sustaining Small Acts. TENT Rotterdam.
2023 The Art of Waste, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn. (GB)
2023 Sculpture Park. Art R’dam. In collaboration with: Bradwolff & Partners.
2022 Big Art @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2022 Beelden 2022. Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle.
2022 A waking dream. HS Projects London in cooperation with L’étrangère Gallery.
With Tatiana Wolska (PL/B) Endorsed by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
London
2022 L’étrangère @ Art Rotterdam. Duo with Tatiana Wolska (PL/B).
2021 Recht op Verzet/Right of Opposition. Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem. Group show
with: Marc Bijl, Jeroen Jongeleen, Robin Kolleman a.o.
2020 Big Art. RAM gallery @ Hembrug Zaanstad. Curator: Anne van de Zwaag
2020 Art Brussels Online Platform with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK).
2020 Art R’dam with L’étrangère Gallery, London.(UK). Duo with Yelena Popova.
2019 Residue. VierVaart Project Space, Groede.
2019 CODA Paper Art. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn.
2019 What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? L’étrangère Gallery, London (UK) Link
2018 Big Art. Art Affairs Gallery @ De Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam
2017 Lost in Garbage. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2017 Big Art. RAM gallery @ De Zonnewyser, Amsterdam
2017 Beelden 2017, Aaltje Snijdershal, Anningahof, Zwolle
2017 Ruins of Desire @ Sculpture garden PAK, Gistel (B)
2017 Art per Gram @ Verbeke Foundation Gallery, Kemzeke (B).
2017 Up Memory Lane, 30 years RAM, booth 51 Art Rotterdam. Curator: Berry Koedam
With: Karin Arink, Luc Deleu, Jurgen Bey, Marinus Boezem, Robin Kolleman, Pieter
Laurens Mol, Zaida Oenema, Vanessa Jane Phaff et al.
2017 Editions & Multiples, We Like Art @ Art Rotterdam.
2016 What Remains, CODA Apeldoorn. Curator: Wim van der Beek
2016 Up Memory Lane (part 2), RAM Gallery, Rotterdam.
2016 Beelden 2016, Landgoed Anningahof, Zwolle
2016 Untitled 2015, IP 2 @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium.
2016 Pushing Boundaries, Expanding Frontiers, ramfoundation @ Belasting &
Douane Museum Rotterdam
2016 What is Waste?, Art Affairs Amsterdam, curator: Jan Eric Visser link
2015 Ruins of Desire @ Verbeke Foundation. Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (B)
2015 And the livin’ is easy. Summershow @ ramfoundation Rotterdam.
2015 Worlds of Nature. ramfoundation Rotterdam, curator: Berry Koedam.
2015 Earth Matters; when natural and creative forces meet. Museum Artipelag,
Stockholm (SE) . Curators: Li Edelkoort & Philip Fimmano.link
2015 We Like Art @ Art Rotterdam 2015 Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam.
2014 What a Waste, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem.
2013 Eye of the Beholder, Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam.
2013 Surprise, Reprise. Ramfoundation Rotterdam.
2013 My Waste is your Waste. Museum of the Image (MOTI), Breda.
Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 My Waste is your Waste. Museo de Casa Brasileira, Sao Paulo, Brasil,
Curator: Joanna van der Zanden
2012 Schone Kunst. Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven.
2012 Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Forty-Five (12345). Exhibition on the occasion
of the 5th anniversary Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium.
2011 POST FOSSIL- excavating 21st century creation. Design Museum Holon,
Israel. Curator: Li Edelkoort.
2010 Artists Revisited, Ramfoundation Rotterdam
2010 POST FOSSIL - excavating 21st century creation. Museum 21_21 DESIGN
SIGHT,Tokyo, Japan. Curator: Li Edelkoort .
2009 Small Works XIII, Ramfoundation Rotterdam.
2009 Presentation Aquadyne Sculpture , Dutch Design Week Eindhoven.
2006 Live and Survive, St. Werk in Uitvoering. Curator: Wim van der Beek, Kampen.
2006 Small Works XII, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam.
2005 Untitled, Symposion 2005, Gorinchem.
2004 Spirit of Paper, Holland Paper Biennal 2004, Museum of Rijswijk together with CODA
Apeldoorn.
2004 Small Works X, Ramfoundation Rotterdam.
2004 Galerie Luca Zaltbommel. Duo exhibition with Gabriëlle vd Laak.
1999 Museum Bochum, Bochum (Germany)
1999 One Painting and Many Dedications, Ode to Ryszard Winiarski, Warsaw (P)
travelling exhibition
1998 Mutatis Mutandis; Profile of a new generation, Curator: Wim van der Beek, Zwolle.
1996 Gallery In Situ, C.H.K. Watertoren, Vlissingen.
1995 Gallery In Situ, Knokke-Heist (Belgium)
1993 Gallery In Situ, Aalst (Belgium) Duo exhibition with Haraldur Jonsson.
1993 Art fair Amsterdam with Gallery In Situ , RAI Amsterdam.
1992 Paper; Base & Sculpture, Paper Biennal, Museum of Aalst (Belgium)
Outdoor commissions
2014 Untitled 2013-2014, Outdoor sculpture commissioned by Rabobank.
2011 Untitled 2011 (Roteb Eco Monument), outdoor sculpture commissioned by the City
of Rotterdam. Unveiling with Anne Berk (art critic) and Geert Verbeke
(Verbeke Foundation Belgium).
1986 Outdoor Sculpture Library Elblag, Poland
Books
2017 Jan Eric Visser; Veritas. Verbeke Foundation (B)
2007 Piet Augustijn. VuilNieuwsWas. Monograph. Gorcums Museum.
1995 Wim van der Beek, Monograph, Catalogue, Wegener NV.
Interviews (selection)
2020 Trouw, interview by Noor Hellmann, 4 January
2018 BBC Look East, TV newsitem, by Ian Barmer 9 March
2018 Form Follows Garbage, documentary by James Murray-White, funded by
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands London
2012 VPRO De Avonden. My Waste is Your Waste. Radio interview, 13 November.
2011 BBC Look North , Carla Fowler, Form Follows Garbage, , TV newsitem, Link
2009 AVRO' s Kunstportal. Duurzaam Design van Jan Eric Visser. Interview 15 Dec.
2009 VARA Vroege Vogels. Plantaardige kunst. Radio interview, 14 June
1997 AVRO’s Kunstblik, Tv program.
Reviews/publications
2023 Verduurzaming: waarom 10 duizend sokkels? Column Edo Dijksterhuis.
Museumtijdschrift 7, p. 57
2023 The Art and Heritage of Waste, Dr. Veronica Sekules.
ClimateCultures: October. p 20/22
2023 Groen is het nieuwe zwart, Lucette ter Borg. NRC, 2 February pp C6 - C10
2021 De vinger op de zere plek, Nico Out. PZC 24 July 2021
2021 Mix & Stir; New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives,
Kitty Zijlmans & Helen Westgeest (eds). Valiz: Amsterdam pp 299 – 301
2021 Jan Eric Visser, Plastikos. Column in BK info #3, pp 12-13.
2021 Manuela Klerkx en Oscar van Gelderen, Ik ontdekte dat kunst niet onbetaalbaar is.
Het Parool, 26 April , p 14.
2020 Tracy Metz, Vier fabriekshallen vol met kunst die allemaal XL is.
NRC. 2 October, p. C21.
2020 Ellen Leijser, Aaibaar afval. FD Persoonlijk Magazine. 18 January. pp 44 - 47.
2019 Tom Jeffreys, What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Catalogue
essay. Link
2018 Edo Dijksterhuis, De Bajes als Ideale Galerie. Het Parool. 11 October
2018 Jan Verhoeven, How Abstract Art Changed Society and Helped Innovate
Innovation. Pp. 182-185
2018 Sandra Smets, Jan Eric Visser; Zero Waste. In “Onderzoek & Ontwikkeling;
bijzondere projecten, residencies, publicaties en onderzoek door Rotterdamse
beeldend kunstenaars”. CBK Rotterdam, p. 27 and p.31
2018 Dr. Veronica Sekules, TrashArt Jan Eric Visser. Catalogue designed by
Pearce Marchbank, pp 1-4
2018 Emily Martin, Nothing is Wasted, Resurgence & Ecologist # 307. March/April
2018 Frederic De Meyer, Form Follows Garbage, theartcouch.be, 14 January
2018 NN, Vorm Volgt Vuil, De KunstKrant Jan/Febr, p 24
2017 Judith van Beukering, Jan Eric Visser, Beelden Magazine 4#2017, p 37
2017 Berry Koedam, Up Memory Lane; 30 years RAM, RAM editions, p.162-163
2016 Piet Augustijn, Jan Eric Visser; luchtzuiverend beton met (glas)afval, Fjoezz 3, pp.44-45
2016 Beatrijs Schweitzer, Wat overblijft in Apeldoorn, Beelden Magazine # 75 ,pp 16-17
2016 Harald Schole, Vuil vol van Leven, kM 98, p.21
2016 N.N, Translucent, luchtzuiverend beton, Innovatieve Materialen, No.3, pp 16-18
2016 Jan Bom, Jan Eric Visser exposeert luchtzuiverend beton, P+ voorjaar 2016, p. 6/7
2016 Anne Berk, Afvalligen, fd persoonlijk, 9 January, pag.14 link
2015 Etienne Boileau, Cross-overs in de Kunst, Beelden Magazine 3#2015, p. 10
2015 Annica Kvini, Art d’Echo. Tidninger Vi, nr 3, p.85
2014 Piet Augustijn. Form Follows Garbage. Beelden Magazine 4 # 2014, p. 41
2014 Jan Bom. Kunstenaar brengt afval naar Rabobank. P+, E-zine, 29 May Link
2013 Blouin Artinfo Form Follows Garbage. Link
2013 Piet Augustijn, Kunst van de Dag, galeries.nl. 23 December.
2013 Rebecca van de Kar, Vuilniszak is mijn Muze, Dagblad Trouw, 15 May.
2011 Anne Berk, Steen der Wijzen, Beelden 4#2011, December 2011
2011 Jetty Keuning, Oliver Heidrich, Erik Eikelboom, Schone Kunst, KM58 ,
December 2011
2011 Robert Sutcliffe, Ultimate Recycling, Yorkshire Post, 14 April. Link
2011 Shira Shovel, Form Follows Garbage, DMH Magazine, 10 February.
2011 Karen Chernick, Jan Eric Visser Experiments with Post Fossil Fuel Design, Green
Prophet. Link
2010 Suzanne Labarre, How retro can high design get? Fast Company June 14. Link
2010 Li Edelkoort, POST FOSSIL, excavating 21st century creation. Catalogue pp 10-11
2009 Anne Berk. Het Motto: Form Follows Garbage. Het Financieele Dagblad, 20 June
2008 Jan Bom. De Kosmos van een Vuilniszak. PeoplePlanetProfit, year 6.*6-July/August
2008 Menna Kruiswijk (ed.).Tussen Ratio en Intuïtie., Catalogue. pp.205-206
2007 Wim van der Beek, Reviews; Jan Eric Visser. Kunstbeeld, February
2004 Paola van de Velde, Beelden herbergen huisvuil. De Telegraaf, 28 June
2004 Gerda van Ham, Ode aan het Huisvuil. KM 50, June
2004 Arne Westerhof (ed), Geest van Papier, catalogue pp 98-99
1999 N.N, Jan Eric Visser verheft hergebruik tot kunst, Leeuwarder Courant, 30 January
1999 S.van Ek, Verlakkend effect van vet, Friesch Dagblad, February
1998 Wim van der Beek, Mutatis Mutandis, catalogue, pp 13-14
1998 Sandra Smallenburg, Een Krater in de Waspoederberg, NRC Handelsblad, 15 June
1998 Wim van der Beek, Opmerkelijke veranderingen in actuele Beeldhouwkunst,
Kunstbeeld, June
1996 Poet Kees Rood, A Way ofLife. Link
1995 Johan Pas Nature Morte? Kunst, Natuur & Biotoop. St Leefmilieu,
Ludion Uitgeverij Antwerpen
1993 Lieven Defour, De Standaard, June
1993 Bert Bauwelinck, Gazet van Antwerpen, June
1991 Ryszard Tomczyk, Formy Przestrzenne Elblaga, Tygiel kwartalnik Elblaski,
zeszyt 2, Suplement.
1989 Cees van der Jagt, Afval en Kunst laten beiden een spoor achter,
Maandblad Milieudefensie, April
1989 Wim van der Beek, Jan Eric Visser put kunst uit het vuilnisvat,
Kamper Courant, 26 July
1987 Anita Hopmans, Studenten maken beelden in Poolse staalfabriek.
Drift: tijdschrift voor het kunstvakonderwijs, February # 1, pp 5-6
1987 Anita Hopmans, Beeldhouwen in een staalfabriek.
Oost Europa Verkenningen # 89, pp 47 – 49, February
Grants/Nominations
2021 Stipendium for Established Artists Mondriaan Fund
2021 AIR VierVaart, Groede endorsed by Mondriaan Fund.
2018 Travel Grant CBK (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2017 Grant Stichting Jaap Hartenfonds, monograph Jan Eric Visser: Veritas
2017 Grant Stichting Gerbrandy Cultuurfonds, Veritas Project Venice.(IT)
2015 Nomination Van Lanschot Kunstprijs 2015
2014 R&D Grant. CBK Rotterdam (Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam)
2012 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2012
2010 Project grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
2009 Nomination Doen Materiaal Award 2009
1994 Environment award for artwork commissioned by city of Sliedrecht
1994 Grant from Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam
Other
2023 Active membership Gallery Climate Coalition
2022 Active membership Gallery Climate Coalition
2021 Capital C. Concept: Maarten Spruyt
2019 Lecture ‘Form Follows Garbage’, L’étrangère Gallery, London (GB)
2018 Lecture at VierVaart, Groede
2018 Souvenir project @ Viervaart Gallery, Groede.
2018 Lecture ‘Form Follows Garbage’ GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (UK)
2018 Artist talk ‘Waste Transformed’ on the occasion of British Science Week
2018 River Great Ouse project, King’s Lynn (GB)
2017 Member Selection Committee Holland Paper Biennal 2018
2017 Research project ‘Veritas’, Venice (It)
2016 Lecture ‘Form Follows Garbage’, CODA Museum Apeldoorn
2016 Curator What is Waste, Art Affairs Amsterdam.
2016 Lecture ‘Concrete Solutions’, Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam
2015 Member Selection Committee Holland Paper Biennal 2016
2014 Lecture ‘What a Waste’, Gorcums Museum
2013 Member selection committee Holland Paper Biennal 2014
2012 Coverphoto P+ magazine with Herman Wijffels
2012 Advisory Committee, Foundation Art Eko
2011 Lecture ‘Form Follows Garbage’, Materials Library, Design Museum Holon, Israel
2009 Member selection committee Holland Paper Biennal 2010
2009 Debate “Role of art in generating a sustainable society”, Ramfoundation, Rotterdam
2008 Aquadyne Project, workperiod, England
2007 Coverphoto P+ Magazinewith Antoinette Hertzenberg
2007 Guest lecture 'New Awareness' for students Art Academy Utrecht
2005 Consultancy Artoteek Gorinchem
1989 Foundation ‘Schone Kunst’ together with Friends of the Earth, Netherlands.
1989 Lecture/workshop Art & Environment, Van Hall Instituut, Groningen
Collections
Aegon Art Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Hogeschool Rotterdam, City of Aalst (B), City of Gorinchem, City of Rotterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, St. Yellow Fellow, Verbeke Foundation (B), distinguished private collections (B/NL/UK)