Thom van Rijckevorsel creates images under construction: processes on their way to becoming an image. His work consists of video, sculpture, drawing and installations. With constant sketching, erasing, sawing and videotaping he scrutinises the way the image relates to material reality.
His video works show recognisable actions, such as kneading clay, bending a piece of rubber, smearing paint over two hands. Demonstrations of how something is manipulated. Easy to understand, without knowing exactly what you are understanding. He is interested in the space that arises when the physical and the easily manipulated digital are intertwined. This makes his work both tangible and elusive.
His video works show recognisable actions, such as kneading clay, bending a piece of rubber, smearing paint over two hands. Demonstrations of how something is manipulated. Easy to understand, without knowing exactly what you are understanding. He is interested in the space that arises when the physical and the easily manipulated digital are intertwined. This makes his work both tangible and elusive.
Photography by František Renza
Thom van Rijckevorsel (Leiden, 1977),
lives and works in Amstelveen.
Art Education
2014 - 2019 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam NL
BA Fine Arts
Solo exhibitions
2020 Rock Paper Screen, Museum JAN, Amstelveen NL
Group exhibitions
2024 I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore, Unit 28 (former Footlocker), Stadshart Amstelveen NL
2024 Uncertain Walls, 11th Litomysl Sympozium, Gallerie Mirsolava Kubíka, Litomysl CZ
2024 9e Amstelveen Triennale, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2024 Art Rotterdam, Best of Graduates Legacy, Ron Mandos Gallery NL
2023 UNFAIR23, Changing Perspectives, Amsterdam NL
2023 Unbound (Unseen), Suspended Matter, Amsterdam NL
2023 #38, PADA Gallery, Barreiro (Lisbon) PT
2023 Exodus, Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen NL
2022 Verzameld voor Amstelveen – de gemeentelijke kunstcollectie, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2022 Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam NL
2021 It is part XXI of an ensemble, and this ensemble is no longer necessarily ceremonial, Backer & Rueb hal, Breda NL
2021 Sprouts, Arti et Amitcitiae, Amsterdam NL
2020 The Self Design Academy, MU Hybrid Art House, Eindhoven NL
2020 Corona Archives, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam NL
2020 8e Amstelveen Triennale, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen NL
2020 Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar NL
2019 The Object is Absent, MU Artspace, Eindhoven NL
2019 SBK Sprouts Young Talents 2019, Amsterdam NL
2019 Best of Graduates 2019, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam NL
2018 Rietveld Uncut, Hold me now, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
2017 Rietveld Uncut, What Is Happening To Our Brain? Art & Life in Times of Cognitive Automation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam NL
Grants
2024 Development Funding Mondriaan Fonds
2023 Project Funding Mondriaan Fonds
2020 Werkbijdrage Jong Talent (Stipendium Emerging Artist) Mondriaan Fonds
Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation
Collectie Voorlinden
Gemeente collectie Amstelveen
Lakeside Collection
NN Group Art Collection
De Nederlandse Bank
Various private collections
Residencies
2024 Artist in residence, 11th Litomysl Sympozium, Gallerie Mirsolava Kubíka, Aug - Sept, Litomysl Czechia
2023 PADA Residency, May - July, Lisbon, Portugal
Press
2024 Amstelveens Nieuwsblad, Dertien kunstenaars houden tijdelijke expositie in winkelpand in Stadshart Amstelveen, Eddie de Blieck
2023 Het Parool, Kunstbeurs Unfair op Westergas: lege gebouwen, handenvideo’s en een nieuwe kijk op dyslexie, 15 november 2023, Kees Keijer
2023 Volkskrant, Van migratie en ontheemding tot de innerlijke reis: expo ‘Exodus’ toont de eigentijdse tocht naar het Beloofde Land, 30 maart 2023, Sarah van Binsbergen
2020 Filosofie Magazine, Het zelf staat niet op zichzelf, 9 oktober 2020, Hannah Achterbosch en Tim Miechels
2020 Trouw, 2 februari 2020, Henny de Lange
2019 Art Update, 3 januari 2019, Ko van Dun
Activities/other
2024 Advies Commissie Beeldende Kunst Gemeente Amstelveen
2024 Guest lecture Frank Mohr Institute, Groningen
2022 Guest lectures DOGtime Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Jan - Feb
2022 - 2023 Assessment Committee Municipal Studios Amstelveen
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Instagram: @thomvrrr
LinkedIn: thomvanrijckevorsel