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Wim T. Schippers

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Biography

Born July 1, 1942, Groningen (NL). 

Lives and works in Amsterdam (NL)

Wim T. Schippers (Groningen, 1942) is an artist, broadcaster, filmmaker, playwright and songwriter and is considered one of the most influential conceptual artists of the Netherlands. He began making art in Amsterdam in the 1960s, where he formed artist groups with Ger van Elk, Willem de Ridder and Bob Wesdorp. In the spirit of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp and in response to the dynamics of painting in the ’50s, they strove to achieve a certain dullness and shapelessness in their so called ‘a-dynamic’ artworks. Further inspired by movements such as fluxus and pop-art, Schippers also used television and radio as media to express his ideas. His radio programme, Ronflonflon avec Jacques Plafond (1984–91), was one of the most popular in the Netherlands. Schippers is also the author of over 40 plays. His mix of absurdist humour with commercial broadcasts and traditional artistic media is now considered pioneering. 

In 2016 the Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (DE) held a retrospective survey of the work of Wim T. Schippers.

One of his most famous artworks, the Peanut-butter Platform, was aqcuired in 2010 by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. His works are also in the collections of Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg and in many private collections in the Netherlands and abroad. 

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Education

1958

Instituut voor Kunstnijverheidsonderwijs, Amsterdam

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2019

7-Year-Old Me, Nest, The Hague (with Daniël van Straalen)  

2016

Wim T. Schippers: A Retrospective, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

1997

The best of Wim T. Schippers, Centraal Museum, Utrecht

1994

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1978

Van Hoepla tot Waldolala, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1970

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (with Jeroen Henneman)

1962

A-dynamische werken, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (with Ger van Elk) 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022

Personal Reflection, Works and Stories from the Agnes & Frits Becht Collection, Parts Project, The Hague

Making Fun, de Warande, Turnhout, Belgium

2019

Manzoni in Holland, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 

2017

Humour, 101 years of laughing at art, Frans Halm Museum, Haarlem 

2014

Sense Nonsense, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 

1990

‘Schräg / Tegendraads. Parodie, humor en spot in hedendaagse Nederlandse kunst’, The Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn

1984

Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1967

Superlund, Lund Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

Premio Marzotto, La città attuale, immagini e oggetti, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / Tate Gallery, London / Musée Galliéra, Paris 

1966

Premio Marzotto, La città attuale, immagini e oggetti, Valdagno (Italy) / Staatlische Kunsthalle, Baden Baden / Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen

1965

Pop-Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Etc…, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussel 

1964

Gemeente Aankopen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Neue Realisten und Pop-Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 

Pop etc., Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wenen

Nieuwe Realisten, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

1961

Jongere Nederlandse Schilders, Beeldhouwers, Architecten, Liga Nieuwe Beelden, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (group) 

1960

Gemeente Aankopen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (group) 

Collections

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, VPRO, Hilversum, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg and private collections in The Netherlands and abroad

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