"Clay gives me the opportunity
to be theatrical in peace and quiet."

 

Brandt (1946 Gorssel, The Netherlands) works in the area between serious art and kitsch and sometimes balances perilously on the edge.

He makes use of widely-known images in our society, plays with clichés, picks out the aspects he feels are important at that moment, and constructs a new image.

In search of the meaning of beauty, he has unusual powers of association.


 
Biography:
 
1968-1973
 
Academy of Visual Arts 'Sint Joost'
(Breda)
1973-1974
 
Grant Keramisch Werkcentrum
(Heusden)
1982
 
Working period Sphinx
(Maastricht)
1983
 
Grant Keramisch Werkcentrum
(Heusden)
1988-1992
 
Working period Structuur '68
(Den Haag)
1990
 
Project
'Contemporary Delft Blue'
1995
 
 
vesselproject
Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles
(Delft)
1985-1998member of the Cheops-group

 
Major Exhibitions:
 
1976, 1985
 
Brabant Biënale
(Den Bosch)
1983, 1984
 
Keramisch Werkcentrum
(Heusden)
1985
 
Dutch Ceramics, Het Kapelhuis
(Amersfoort)
1985-98
 
 
 
several Cheops exhibitions
members of the Cheopsgroup:
Tjitske Dijkstra, Marja Hooft, Michel Kuipers,
Jan van Leeuwen( 1992), Rob Brandt
1986
 
 
 
Faënza
(Italië)
Keramiek '86
(Schiedam)
1987
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Museum Het Kruithuis
(Den Bosch)
Frans Hals Museum
(Haarlem)
Everson Museum
(SyracuseU.S.A.)
Museum PMMK
(Oostende, België)
Bradford Museum
(Bradford, Great Britain)
1988
 
 
 
'Vice Versa', Contemporary Dutch Ceramics,
(Roanne, France)
Dutch office of fine art: 'Made in Holland'
(Den Bosch)
1989
 
 
 
 
 
Contemporary Dutch Ceramic
(Haarlem)
'L¹Europe des Ceramistes'
(Auxerre, France)
PMW Gallery, Stamford
(Connecticut, U.S.A.)
1990
 
 
 
 
 
Keramiek '90', Stedelijk Museum
(Delft)
'Contemporary Delft Blue', Frans Hals Museum
(Haarlem)
Sted. Museum Het Prinsenhof
(Delft)
1991
 
'Contemporary Delft Blue'
(Roermond)
1992
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Helen Drutt Gallery
(New York, U.S.A.)
'Holanda-ceràmica habitat'
(Barcelona, Spain)
'Contempo', Spain meets Holland
(Oss)
Art Fair, Galerie Lutz
(Amsterdam)
1993
 
 
 
Baltimore Museum of Ceramic Arts
(U.S.A.)
Art Fair (Galerie Lutz)
Amsterdam
1993-1995
 
 
'Facett of the same nature',traveling exhibition
Contemporary Dutch Ceramics
(U.S.A. and Canada)
1995
 
 
 
 
 
 
Schloss Schonbrunn
(Vienna, Austria)
Museum for Turkish and Islamitic art
(Istanboel)
'Vesselproject',
Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles
(Delft)
1996
 
Museum Commanderie van Sint Jan
Nijmegen
1997
 
Biennale de Châteauroux
(France)
1998
 
 
 
 
'document 27', theatre production
with Yvonne Né and Adriaan
(Tilburg)
Cheops in permanent collection, Stedelijk Museum
(Zwolle)

 
Commissions:
 
1986/'91/'94
 
City of Terheijden
free-standing objects
1988
 
Museum Het Kruithuis
breakfast set
1988
 
Industrial Medical Service Breda
free-standing object
1992
 
City of Delft
Statue for Cobra II
1998
 
nursing home 'De Rijthof', Eindhoven
Birthday-chair
1999
 
City of Tilburg
Trophy

work in collection of:
 
The Dutch Office for Fine Arts
Museum het Kruithuis
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
Frans Hals Museum
City of Terheijden
City of Delft
City of Tilburg
Several private collections