Artist bio:
Antoine Adamowicz (1970) is a Dutch painter, who graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam after he had received a master’s degree in Business Economics. In 2000 he was awarded with the The Buning Brongers Award for young artists and in 2003 the prestigious Royal Award for Modern Painting. His colorful paintings with patterns and structures are on the one hand static an contemplative; everything seems to be in it’s right place. Yet under the surface they are full of dynamics and movement. His work was shown in several group and solo exhibitions, mostly in the Netherlands, where he lives and works in Amsterdam.
Artist statement:
Art helps us understand our relationship to ourselves, each other and the world around us. Before graduating from art school I studied Business Economics where I was trained in management thinking. A way of thinking where life is abstracted to the grid of spreadsheets. This grid is still visible in my paintings where it is translated to structures and patterns. Unlike the data in spreadsheets, the paint does not like to be restricted to the boundaries of its cell. It sometimes pushes against and sometimes adapts to its environment. In doing so it brings color and emotion into the abstraction of life.
Exhibitions:
December 2024: 57W57 Arts, New York (group) – go to pictures
December 2024: De Salon 2024, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (group)
December 2024: Kerst Sale, WG Kunst, Amsterdam (group)
August 2012: Gall & Gallerie, Amsterdam (solo)
March 2010: The Soup Kitchen Retort Art Space, Amsterdam (group)
Februari 2010: Uitverkoren Kunstroute DMO door CBK Zuidoost, Amsterdam (group)
December 2009: De Salon 2009, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (group)
March 2007: Research & Development Center Forbo Flooring, Krommenie (solo)
November 2006: Backbeat, SBK Amstelveen, Amstelveen (duo)
March 2006: Galerie ArtSite, Haarlem, (solo)
Januari 2006: Nieuwe Leden, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (group)
September 2005: De Salon 2005, Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam (group)
March 2005: SBK Amsterdam, Amsterdam (solo)
October 2004: ’30 x 30’, Kunstcentrum Zaanstad, Zaandam (group)
March 2004: A non-cynical day, Galerie Eric Mathijsen, Amstelveen (solo)
October 2003: Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Amsterdam (group)
May 2003: Thrills, Stichting Beeldende Kunst, Amstelveen (group)
Februari 2003: Happy Painting, Retort Project, Amsterdam (group)
December 2000: Buning Brongersprijzen 2000, De Zaaijer, Amsterdam (group)
April 2000: AYAC’S galerie, Amsterdam (duo)
November 1999: ‘Baby – in between the chemistry of violence’, Potsdam (D) (group)
November 1999: Cremolata Flotage, Staten Island Ferry, New York (group)
October 1999: Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Amsterdam (group)