CARLA VAN BEERS

(1957)

Lived in : the Netherlands, Italy, France, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

Studied at : Academie Minerva Groningen, 1983-1989. The Netherlands, E.N.S.A.D. Paris, 1987, France.

Mission : to materialize pieces of the non-material world.

Language : Mixture of materials like collages, assemblage, bric-a-brac, including photography.

Story : each material has its own radiation, I like to play with all different significations and question everything in life, especially art.

Themes : Time and transience, genuineness and artificiality, spiritual light and earthly colours.

PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Pack-Art 1990-1994
Literaire Geschenken, 1990
Beautiful(l) Boxes, 1991
Fruitstukken, 1992
Bon-Ton-Dozen, 1992.
Een Mantel ten Geschencke, 1994.
Plastic for Ever, 1994-1996
Loftgallery, 1995, Windhoek, Namibia.
Badkamerplastieken, 1996, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen.

Invisible 1996-1999
Stofkleden 2000, Galerie Sign, Groningen

African Colours 2000
1-7-2000 : http://www.africancolours.com
Galerie de Pronkkamer 2000, Epe (i.s.m. Liesbeth Topper)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• Packaging (Unwrapped), Macropak, Utrecht, 1994 and 1998.
• Aa-Kunst, Aa-kerk Groningen, 1996
• De Salon, Kunsthal Rotterdam, 1999
• Fotomanifestatie Noorderlicht, Niggendijker, 1999, Groningen.