Christiaan Bastiaans

Study:
1971-1976 : -Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, painting and liberal graphics department
1972 : -Pratt Graphic Center, New York, photo etching
1976-1978 : -Kyoto Municipal University of Art, Kyoto. Started to work with video and also develops a specific interest in Noh theatre and contemporary Japanese theatre. Lived in Osaka
and Kyoto. Meets the Japanese artist Shoichi Ida.

Selected travels and artist in residency:
1976-1978 : -lives in Japan (Osaka, Kyoto)
Between
1978-1986 : -trips to India and Japan
1986-1987 : -New York, P.S. 1
1986-1990 : -lives in New York
1992/94/95 : -trips to Indonesia: Java, Sumatra and Irian Jaya
Since 1998 : -trips to India and conflict zones in Africa
(Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Chad, DRCongo)
1999 : -Florence, Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia DellíArte,
2000 : -de Willem Arntsz Hoeve, Den Dolder (the Netherlands), artist-in-residence program The Fifth Season
1999-2002 : -trips to India
2010-2011 : -lives in Cairo

Grants and nominations:
1976-1977 : -Monbusho Scholarship, Japanese Government, for study in Japan
1984 : -Project grant for Nara Tape project, Ministerie van WVC, The Netherlands
1986-1987 : -Artist-in-residence grant at P.S. 1 New York, Ministerie van WVC, The Netherlands
1992 : -Travel grant to Indonesia for research for Straggling project, Prins Bernhard Foundation, The Netherlands
1994 : -Project grant for Straggling project, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts,
Design and Architecture
1998 : -Project grant for Hurt Models project, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts,

Design and Architecture
2004 : -Project grant for Lear Zone project, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts,
Design and Architecture
2006 : -Nominated for the Fritschy-award 2006
2008 : Project grant for Club Mama Gemütlich project, The Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture; The Netherlands Film Fund
2010 -Nominated for the Fritschy-award 2010
2010/2011 -Artist in residence at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo
2012 -Artist in residence at the Theo van Doesburghuis in Meudon/Paris

Projects realized since the mid 80’s:
1985 : NARA TAPE
1987 : SECRET MIRACLES (THE NAVIGATOR’S ENCYCLOPEDIA)
1989 : YEAR ZERO (I)
1994/95 : DAY 7
1995/96 : STRAGGLING (MOTHER’S KIDNEY DIALYSES MACHINE UNHOOKED)
since 1998 : HURT MODELS
2000/2001 : REAL LEAR
2003 : REAL LEAR IN ECHIGO TSUMARI
2007 : YEAR ZERO (II)
2009 : CLUB MAMA GEMÜTLICH (an installation and a short film/part I of trilogy)
2011 : AL ALAMAYN (a short film/part II of trilogy) in development GODS NARRATORS
(2012/2013) : (a film installation and a short film/part III of trilogy)

Solo exhibitions:
In development, opens late fall 2012 -GODS NARRATORS, a film installation
2009/2010 -Club Mama Gemütlich, Kröller-Müller Museum
2007 -Year Zero, De Pont Museum of contemporary art, Tilburg
2003 : -Hurt Models : Madonnas of Humility, (in the year of the plague), sculptures, photoworks, drawings, Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
2002 : -Hurt Models (II), sculptures, photoworks, drawings and video, The Netherlands Media Art Institute Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam
2001 : -Hurt Models (I), sculptures, photoworks and video, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
-Real Lear, a performance performed by psychiatric patients at de Willem Arntszhoeve in Den Dolder as part of the artist-inresidence program The Fifth Seasoní
1996 : -Bogus Fugitives, Galeria Berini, Barcelona
1992 : -Nara Tape, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Groningen
1991 : -Bogus Fugitive Machine, Stroom, The Hague
1989 : -Year Zero, Galeria Berini, Barcelona
1988 : -Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
1987 : -The Navigator’s Encyclopedia, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1985 : -Nara Tape Project, De Appel, Amsterdam, a symposium, publications, the video The Nara Tape Factor and the sculpture Shrine for Managers presented at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam
1981 : -Video installation, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
-Video installation, The Bank, Amsterdam
1980 : -Video installation, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
-Video installation, Kitano Circus Gallery, Kobe

Selected group exhibitions:
2011/2012 -The Dutch Identity? The Power of Now, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere
2009 : -Difference On Display, The Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
-Borders and Beyond, Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsingfors Konsthall, Kunsthalle Helsinki
2007 : -The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2006 : -Een keuze uit de aanwinsten (Selected recent acquisitions), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
-Geborduurd (Embroidered), Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg
-Pixels Of Reality: What Do You Know, What Do You See?, Public Space With A Roof (PSWAR), Amsterdam
2003-2005 : -Flexible 4, Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (UK)
Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg (the Netherlands)
Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense (Denmark)
Landesgalerie am Oberosterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz (Austria)
Rheinisches Industriemuseum, Euskirchen (Germany)
2003 : -Tekeningen (Drawings), Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
-De Inrichting, an installation based on Antonin Artaud To have done with the judgement of God with works on paper and drawings on photographs in cooperation with artist Natasja Straat.
Psychiatric clinic GGZ Noord-Holland-Noord Heiloo, the Netherlands
-Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Japan, Real Lear in Echigo-Tsumari, opening performance of the Triennial performed by local elderly people at Matsudai city, organized by the Art Front Gallery, Tokyo.
-Exhibition of sculptures in an old silkfactory, Takibun, in Tokamachi city
2002 : -Project Straal 02, Real Lear Memory Ambush, a video based on Shakespeare’s King Lear with four homeless men, videoprojection on the Balie building in Amsterdam
-6 Channels: 3 Dutch artists and 3 Thai artists Art Gallery of Silpakorn University, Bangkok
1997 : -Case Study House Omega, Utrecht
-Acquisitions, (Straggling installation), Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
1995 : -Mother’s Kidney Dialysis Machine, Unhooked / Nature vs Nature at the Glass Ceiling
exhibition with artist Michael Joo, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
-Heart of Darkness, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
1994 : -Welcome Stranger/the Follow Up, Stadhouderskade 112, Amsterdam
-Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam
1993 : -Welcome Stranger, Stadhouderskade 112, Amsterdam
1992 : -Through the Viewfinder, De Appel, Amsterdam
-Imitation & Inspiration (Japanese influence on Dutch art), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
-Brain/Internal Affairs, Gorinchem, the Netherlands
1991 : -Imitation & Inspiration (Japanese influence on Dutch art), Suntori Museum of Art, Tokyo
1990 : -Art meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy with Japanese artist Shoichi Ida, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
-Palace Garden - Sculpture Garden Peace Palace, the Hague
1989 : -A good read, the book as metaphor Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
1988 : -Aspekte Der Biennale Venedig 1988 A 11 Art Forum Thomas, Munich
-Aperto La Biennale Di Venezia, Venice
-(C)Overt, the logic of display, P.S. 1, Contemporary Art Center, New York
-Nightfire, De Appel, Amsterdam
1986 : -The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1985 : -As Far As Amsterdam Goes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1984 : -Im Totem Winkel, Kunstverein Hamburg
-Narrative video, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
-8 Artists from the Netherlands (recent videoworks), Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva / Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunsthaus Zurich
1983 : -Neue Kunst aus den Niederlande, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
1982 : -Plan B, Tokyo
-11th Festival Int. du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal
-Video Roma, Rome
-12e Biennale de Paris, Manifestation internationale des jeunes artistes, Musee D’Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris
-Dutch Directions, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1981 : -Lunami Gallery, Tokyo

Curated exhibitions:
1991 : NEIGHBOURHOOD
2002/2003 : THE CRYSTAL WORLD
2007 : A NEW PLACE
2008 : 1141 MAGNETIC FIELD

Publications:
2009 : -Catalogue ‘Club Mama Gemütlich’, published in conjunction with the exhibition
‘Christiaan Bastiaans. Club Mama Gemütlich’. October 30th 2009 to February 21st 2010, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands.
Printed and published by Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany.

2004 : -Book ‘To Nirvana and Back, Photo Album: Real Lear in Echigo-Tsumari
Conceived and Staged by Christiaan Bastiaans’. Photographed by Daido Moriyama
Creative Direction by Daisuke Nakatsuka
Publisher The Artfront Gallery in Tokyo.

2003 : -Book ‘Hurt Models’.
Publisher Christiaan Bastiaans.

1989 : -Catalogue ‘Christiaan Bastiaans. Year Zero’
published in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Year Zero’ March-

April 1989.
Publisher Galeria Berini in Barcelona.

Teachings, lectures, exhibition curator, advisor:
2011 : -Lecture at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo.
2005-2011 : -Tutor at the Fine Arts Department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and guest tutor at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
2008 : -Guestcurator of the exhibition 1141 Magnetic Field in Galerie Gist, Brummen
2007 : -Guest tutor at Nola Hatterman Institute in Paramaribo, Surinam.
2005-2006 : -Lecture at Dutch Art Institute, DAI, Masters Programme, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, University of Twente.
: -Brainstorm with teachers and students of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, about future scenarios for the Fine Art’s Department
: -That was then, this is now (about the Nara Tape project), De Appel, Amsterdam (1.4.2006)
-External examiner (Rijksgecommitteerde) final examination at Fine Arts Department of the Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
: -Guest tutor at the Sandberg Institute, Masters Programme, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
: -Jury member for the Fine Arts Departmentís Rietveld-award for graduate students at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
-Lecture in the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam on the Hurt Models project for an audience of Dutch art teachers organized by Mr. Motley magazine
2002 : -Curator of the exhibition The Crystal World at art-space Outline in Amsterdam
2000 : -Tutor at the sculpture department for graduate students, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
-Workshop in fashion department, University for the Arts, Utrecht
1992-1995 : -Advisor for art in public space in Amsterdam, The Amsterdam Council for the Arts.
1994 : -Workshop in jewelry department, subject: the movie Blow Up by Michelangelo Antonioni, -Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam
1992 : -Workshop in department Audio-visual, subject: Blade Runner by Ridley Scott (film and architecture). Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
1990 : -Guest curator of the exhibition Neighbourhood at artspace AIR (Artists International Research), Amsterdam. 12 artists from New York and the Netherlands, with among others
Kiki Smith, Joan Jonas, J.C.J. van der Heyden, Hetty Huisman, David Robbins,
1982 : -Lecture Plan B, Tokyo

Public and private collections:
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Donnell Library Center, New York
Museum de Paviljoens, Almere (the Netherlands)
State Collection (the Netherlands)
Center for Visual Arts, Groningen (the Netherlands)
Willem Arntszhoeve, Den Dolder (the Netherlands)
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (BRD)
AMC, Amsterdam
Works in various private collections in New York, the Netherlands, Spain and Japan.

Teksten: Christiaan Bastiaans / Grote Kunst voor Kleine Mensen