Wendelien van Oldenborgh

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Wendelien van Oldenborgh (born 28 December 1962) is a Dutch artist. She works as installation artist, painter and video artist. [1]

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Biography

Born in Rotterdam, van Oldenborgh studied at Goldsmiths, University of London from 1982 to 1986.

After her graduation she started as independent artist in London. Subsequently, she was visiting student at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1989–1990. In 1990 she settled in Antwerp, where she worked until 2000. From 2001 to 2003 she worked in Stuttgart, Germany on a stipendium by the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart. In 2007 she was visiting scholar at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2010 she lives and works in Rotterdam. [1] She is described as an "artist engaged in social practice". [2]

Van Oldenborgh was awarded the Hendrik Chabot Prize in 2011, and then in 2014 the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art. [1]

In 2017, she represented the Netherlands at the 57th Venice Biennial. [3]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Wendelien van Oldenborgh; female / Netherlandish; installation artist, wall painter, painter, video artist at rkd.nl, 2015.
  2. Rehberg, Vivian Sky (15 December 2014). "Wendelien van Oldenborgh: Wilfriend Lentz, Rotterdam, the Netherlands". Frieze . Retrieved 26 March 2024.
  3. "Dutch Pavilion at 57th Venice Biennale". Mondriaan Fund. 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2020-03-31.