Karin Bos - Searching for Atlantis - Verkocht

Karin Bos (Rijswijk, 9 mei 1966) woont en werkt in Amsterdam

Karin Bos graduated at the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts in 1989. She works as a visual artist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her main media are painting, drawing and printing.

People are the focus point of her work. Main characters are usually girls or women. Especially mutual relative power and relations have her interest. Frictions and inequality in these relationships is a recurrent theme. For instance between man and woman, or adult and child, or children amongst each other, group behavior versus the loner. When the pursuit of harmony fails, it becomes interesting for her work.

Several examples of 'girlpower' series Karin Bos has accomplished are 'Showgirls', 'Gamegirls', 'Fairyqueens' and 'Feel Good'.

In her recent work there is a shift towards the landscape. Karin Bos asked herself if she could tell something about people without having them literally in sight. It resulted in fairytale-like landscapes with an ominous undertone, where always something odd is present. These 'Slightly Creepy Camping Sites' are paintings of barns, sheds and abandoned caravans in harsh landscapes which get their suspense no longer by the act or look of the main character, but by the use of color, light and the way it is painted. Important in her work is the suggestion. It evokes a cinematic world, a world of stories, where nothing is what it seems, and where a merry holiday scene could as well be the site of a terrible crime. This tension, this ambiguity is what interests Karin Bos as an artist.

In 2009 Karin Bos published the catalogue 'A Trip to the Countryside'.

Outdoor life and nature play a large part in her recent work. Because in the Netherlands infrastructure and urbanization are so widely present, it is difficult for her to find landscapes she can use as a source for her work. All Dutch 'nature' is planned, organized and designed. To develop her new body of work she needed more varied source material. Therefore she has done several artist-in-residencies abroad. She focuses on landscapes that provoke mixed feelings. What attracts her is space, 'ugliness' and roughness of the scenery, the intensity of colors and light, and the ruthlessness of nature. It is not there to please. It has a dark side, which fits her work very well.

Recently a retrospective was on view at the Contemporary Art Museum CODA in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, from November 5 2017 until March 4 2018. This solo exhibition contained work of the past 10 years with an emphasis on the landscape, and man in relationship to nature. The CODA Museum had the scoop to present her most recent series 'Fuente' and 'Back to Basecamp', which are the result of her travels to Spain and Iceland. The Mondriaan Fund has awarded Karin Bos a 'Work Contribution Proven Talent' to develop this new work.

In addition, CODA Museum appointed Karin Bos as guest curator, and asked her to compose an accompanying group show at the museum. The show titled 'Expedition Nature' (those who wander are not lost) contained works of approximately 20 artists who work in the fields of painting, sculpting, video and photography.

In 2020 Museo CAB in Burgos (Spain) presents a solo show with works inspired by the travels through Spain by Karin Bos. This exhibition is on view from Feb 7 until Sep 20 2020. https://vimeo.com/392942489 for museum video with interview. https://karinbos.blogspot.com/2020/02/karin-bos-at-museum-cab-burgos.html for impression of the show.

For inquiries and studio visits contact karinbos@xs4all.nl https://www.cabdeburgos.com/exposicion/606200104

 Opleiding

 1985 - 1989         Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten

 Solotentoonstellingen

 2020      Museo CAB, Los ojos del extranjero. Expedición naturaleza, Burgos, Spanje

                Kunstruimte Kuub, Utrecht

2019      Projectruimte BMB, Undercurrent, Amsterdam

2018      Gasunie, Expedition Nature #3, Groningen

2017      CODA Museum, Expedition Nature, Apeldoorn

2015      Kunstuitleen Amstelveen, Slightly Creepy Camping Sites, Amstelveen

2014      Stedelijk Museum Kampen, Shifting Views, Kampen

2013      La Vitrine au soleil & La Vitrine au oiseaux, Brussel

2012      SVB, Amstelveen

                Punt WG, Near miss, Amsterdam

                Zuiderzeemuseum, Kunstenaar op Zaal, Enkhuizen

2011      Retort Art Space, The other eye, Amsterdam

2010      AMC Brummelkamp galerie, Amsterdam

2009      Erasmus Universiteit, Gamegirls, Rotterdam

                Meneer de Wit, A trip to the countryside, Amsterdam

                Espace Enny, Zomerkamp, Laag Keppel

                Galerie New Untitled, A Trip to the Countryside, Venlo

2008      Galerie new Untitled, Venlo

                SER, Den Haag

2007      Galerie 21 De Meerminnen, Dordrecht

                Mondriaantoren, Amsterdam

                Ohra, Arnhem

2006      Galerie Smarius, Sonnega

                AON, Amsterdam en Rotterdam

2005      Stadsgalerie, Oh boy – it’s a girl, Alphen aan den Rijn

                Galerie Witteveen, Gamegirls & Fairyqueens, Amsterdam

2004      De Twee Wezen, Blindspots & Pigtails, Enkhuizen

2003      LUMC, Leiden

                Galerie Witteveen, Showgirls, Amsterdam

2002      Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam

2000      Galerie Lutz, Delft

                Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta

                Erasmus Huis, Jakarta

                SBK Westerpark, Amsterdam

1999      De Villa, Ninetysix ways of lying, ninetysix ways of telling the truth, Enschede

                Kunstcentrum Haagweg 4, Reconstructie van de Handige Mens, Leiden

                ZAO, Amsterdam

                SBK Noord-Kennemerland, Alkmaar

1998      De Twee Wezen, Beetje Slordig, Enkhuizen

                Akzo Nobel, Arnhem

1997      Galerie van Wijngaarden, Amsterdam

                Kasteel van Rhoon, Rhoon

1996      AMC, De Anatomische Les, Amsterdam

                Rabobank Nederland, Eindhoven

                Kunsthuis, Antwerpen

1995      Galerie van Wijngaarden, Amsterdam

1994      CLB, Amsterdam

1993      Galerie van Wijngaarden & Galerie A'pert, Amsterdam

1991      Galerie A'pert, Amsterdam

 

Voorts vele groepstentoonstellingen vanaf 1989, hierna enkele recente:

2020      Museum De Domijnen, Landschap 2.0, Sittard

2019      Newlyn Art Gallery, Europe after the Rain, Cornwall, UK

                Singer Museum, Anna Singer Artotheek, Laren

2018      Singer Museum, Anna Singer Artotheek, Laren

                AkzoNobel Art Space, Common Ground, Amsterdam

                Museum Schunck, Nomadic Mountains, Heerlen

                Kunstverein Springhornhof, Expedition Natur, Neuenkirchen (D)

                Salone degli incanti, Join the Dots - World Art Collection Benetton, Triëst

                CODA Museum, Verzamelingen van vrienden, Apeldoorn

Bronnen:

http://www.karinbos.info/

https://rkd.nl/explore/artists/10944

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karin_Bos