Erwin van der Werve (1974) Lives and workes in Iceland 00354 8587374 http://www.erwinvanderwerve.nl info@erwinvanderwerve.nl studio: Grasrot, Akureyri

Education:
Willem de Kooning Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam (BA), graduated June 2002
Iceland Academy of the Arts (September 2001 – December 2001)
Exchange program with the art-school in Reykjavík
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Management of Change (MSc), graduated (Masters degree) June 1999
University of Utrecht, Spanish language and culture, 2001-2002

Artist in residence:
February 2012 Skaftafell-Holl residence, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
January 2012 Gil Residence, Akureyri, Iceland
January 2007 ArToll Kunstlabor, Bedburg Hau, Germany
February 2004 – August 2004: Klink og Bank Studio’s, Reykjavik, Iceland
October 2003 Listamannahúsid, Hveragerdi, Iceland

Exhibitions:
(*=solo exhibition)
june '15 Ketilhus, Akureyri, Iceland
november-december '14* Framed Spaces, Flora, Akureyri, Iceland
january '12 Galery Populus Tremula with Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir, Akureyri, Iceland
oktober ’10 Bergen Open, Norway
april ’10 Hardanger Open, Ytre Aalvik, Norway
november ’09 Parousia Hardanger, Group show, Hardanger Kunst Senter, Norheimsund, Norway
oktober ’09 Installation at Hardanger Kunst Senter, Norheimsund, Norway
august ’09 Performance at Kabuso kunsthuset as a part of Body Landscape, Øystese, Norway
may ’09* Drawings at Hardanger Kunst Senter, Norheimsund, Norway
november ’08* Installation at Kabuso kunsthuset, Øystese, Norway
oktober ’08 World One Minutes exhibition, deBuren, Brussels, Belgium
june ’08 Kunstlarm, groupshow, Storeteigen country museum, Øystese, Norway
june ’08 World One Minutes exhibition, groupshow, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
april ’08 Bluss, videoprojection and installations, Fykse, Norway
march’08* Drawings, artists-initiative Petersburg, Amsterdam, Holland
august ’07 Installation (wallpainting) at Uitmarkt, Theatrefactory, Amsterdam, Holland
Boekie Woekie postcard show, Amsterdam, Holland
july ’07 International group show with a.o. Elke Zauner, Ruovesi, Finland
april ’07 Beauty unrealised, show and book presentation, PSWAR, Amsterdam, Holland
april ’07 Open studio’s ‘Petersburg’, groupshow with a.o. Su Tomesen, Amsterdam, Holland
march ’07 ‘Coming up, going down, turning around’, on invitation by Jan van der Ploeg, Chiellerie,
Amsterdam, Holland
jan ’07 Installation in ArToll, Bedburg Hau, Germany
nov ’06 2 video screenings during the One minute festival, Viewpoints on the World, Ketelhuis,
Amsterdam, Holland
mai-aug ’06 Video during Dieter Roth/Martin Kippenbergen exhibition in Boekie Woekie, gallery
Hauser and Wirth, Coppermill, London, England
july ’06 Zomerstop festival, DeSmet-studio’s, multi-media performance with
Thora Solveig Bergsteinsdottir, Amsterdam, Holland
june-aug ‘06 Verk, Groupshow, Installations, Forsbacka, Sweden
april 2006 Exhibition Dieter Roth Academy, groupshow with a.o. Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Erika Streit, Andrea TIppel, Gulangyu Institute, Xiamen, China
sept 2005* ‘Dwaallicht’ – Performance vijverpark, Papendrecht, Holland
sept 2005* Installation in Artrental of Papendrecht, Holland
aug 2005 ‘Augnablik aus Island’, groupshow with a.o. Franz West, Brick 5, Vienna, Austria
mei-juni ‘05 ‘Freakshow’ – video, National museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
febr 2005* ‘Snow in March’ – Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, Holland
dec 2004 ‘Freakshow’ – Video evening, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam, Holland
sept 2004 ‘Schnitte aus Reykjavik’ – groupshow, Salon Beige, Berlin, Duitsland
july 2004* ‘Installation for my father’ – Klink og Bank gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
june 2004 Installation at the exhibition of the Dieter Roth academy,
conference DRA– St. Petri Church, Lubeck, Germany
october 2003* Open studio during artist in residence program in Hveragerdi, Iceland
july 2003 * Installation and paintings in the church of Veere for stichting
Nieuwe Muziek, Holland
june 2003 Currating and participation international groupshow 'Spyr sa sem ekki
veit', with a.o. Guido van der Werve, Elke Zauner, Utrecht, Holland
sept 2002 Showing of the video ‘We are no hippies’ at the Hirsch festival,
Buchlohe, Germany
june 2002 Installation for the graduation show of the Willem de Kooning Academy,
Las Palmas, Rotterdam, Holland
april 2002 Exhibition in the space of the art school, Willem de Kooning Academy,
Rotterdam, Holland
febr 2002 * ‘Listaheilun’, projection of texts on KPN-building, Rotterdam, Holland
jan 2002 Showing of the video ‘I can’t get no sheep’,
1e International Rotterdam VHS-festival, Holland
dec 2001 Showing of the video ‘We are no hippies’, Iceland Academy of the Arts,
Reykjavík, Iceland
dec 2001 Organisation and participation at the group show of foreign exchange
students; ‘Bloody foreigners’, Iceland Academy of the Arts,
Reykjavík, Iceland
nov 2001* ‘Where have all the sheep gone?’ or ‘Dead flower memories’, Installation
in galery Nema Hvad, Reykjavík, Iceland
oct 2001* ‘Listaheilun’, art project and exhibition, Iceland Academy of the Arts,
Reykjavík, Iceland Awards/Grants/Stipend:
2009 Support from Kvam Herad, Eidfjord Kommune, Hardangerradet, Hordaland Fylkeskommune and Norsk Kulturrad for various art projects in Hardanger
august 2008 Scholingsfonds, Holland
march 2008 Kunstnerstipend, city of Kvam, Norway
march 2003 Startstipendium, Dutch fund for Visual arts, Amsterdam, Holland Lectures:
june 2001* Lunch lecture at Research-International, Rotterdam, Holland Publications/media:
2009 Various articles in Hordland Folkeblad og Hardanger Avisen
2008 Television: Nrk Hordaland, Vestlandsrevyen 17 april, Bergens Tidende, Hordaland Folkablad various articles in april
2007 Articles in local newspapers in Finland
Various articles in newspapers in Holland
2006 Various articles in a.o. AD-De Dordtenaar, Papendrechts Nieuwsblad (Holland),
Gefle Dagblad, Arbetarbladet, Sweden
2006 Verk, catalogue, Forsbacka, Sweden
2005 Various articles in a.o. AD-De Dordtenaar, Papendrechts Nieuwsblad,
Het Kontakt, Dordt Centraal, homepage Culturele Raad Papendrecht
aug. Interview Radio Orange, Vienna, Austria
march Interview on de Hoeksteen television, Amsterdam, Holland
2004 Contribution to artist book ‘Klippur fra Reykjavik’, Hybriden Verlag,
Berlin
Uitgelicht’, catalogue of the dutch Fund of Visual art, Amsterdam, Holland
Photo in timarit Morgunbladid, Iceland, 18 july