Henk Visch

Sculpture in Rotterdam

Sculpture: Present Continuous (2011), in Munich

Henk Visch (*  1950 in Eindhoven ) is a Dutch sculptor and university professor .

Live and act

Visch studied from 1968 to 1972 at the "Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en Vormgeving" in 's-Hertogenbosch . A stay in New York in 1982/83 was followed in 1984 by a stay in the "Ateliers Internationales de Fontevraud". From 1984 to 1987 he was a lecturer at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam . In 1988 he played in the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennale . In 1992 he took part in Documenta IX in Kassel. From 1995 to 2001 he was a professor at the Stuttgart Art Academy . In 2005 he was appointed professor of sculpture at the Münster Art Academy .

Exhibitions (selection)

• Sight axes 8 and 9, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
• "Henk Visch", Altshausen Palace Square (2009)
• "Henk Visch", Kunsthalle Göppingen (cat.) (2009)
• "Zonder plan wel systeem, Henk Visch en Piert Dirkx", Ferdinand van Dieten Gallery, Amsterdam (2009)
• "Jeugdzonde", LLS387, Antwerp (2009)
• "Art Link Gallery", Seoul (2009)
• "ARCO '09 Madrid", Tim Van Laere Gallery (2009)
• "Bilder Plastik Tralala" class of Henk Visch Art Academy Münster, Art Association Gelsenkirchen (2009)
• "Venice Biennale", (1988)
• "Documenta IX", Kassel, (1992)

Works in public space (selection)

• Present Continuous , Gabelsbergerstrasse Munich 2011

Awards

• 1991 Art Prize of the City of Darmstadt
• 2001 Notifying Art Prize of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Noord-Brabant

Web links

• Literature by and about Henk Visch in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.henkvisch.nl/
• http://www.taz.de/Henk-Visch-irritiert-in-Bremerhaven/!5265334/

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