Biography

Rini Hurkmans is born in Deurne in 1954, the Netherlands.
She studies art history, philosophy, psychology, art materials and craftsmanship at the Academy for Visual Art Education in Amersfoort from 1974 to 1977 and from 1977 to 1981 at the Academy for Art and Design, St. Joost in Breda.
Her first museum solo exhibition is Rini Hurkmans: Current Events at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1991, after which she lives in New York from 1992 to 1993 and participates in the international studio program of MoMA, P.S.1.
Hurkmans is regularly visiting lecturer and artist in residence in the Netherlands and the USA, including New York, Boston and Minneapolis. In 2019 she works for three months as Artist in Residence at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR), which culminates in the exhibition Pietà, A Reconsideration of the Gesture at Lumen Travo Gallery in 2020.
Since 1990 Hurkmans is a teacher and mentor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and she initiates several exhibitions and round table discussions with students and alumni. From 2010 to 2017 she participates in the research group of LAPS, Research Institute for Art and Public Space, Amsterdam.
Her work is included in many outstanding public and private collections. In addition, she realizes important public commissions in the Netherlands and abroad, including a sculpture for the ‘Parque de la Memoria’ in Buenos Aires (presently under construction).
She travels extensively in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia.
Currently she lives in the Netherlands and France.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

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Pietà, A Reconsideration of the Gesture. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Gestures. A visual presentation of the research period at the KNIR, Rome
Dreamland. 'Artificial by Nature, Vensters IV.' Romneyloods, Amsterdam (together with Hans Scholten by the name of HENR).
…and the wind of history sings in me… Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Shared and Divided. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam(together with Hans Scholten).
Rini Hurkmans, New Works. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Homeland. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
[Videostills Dear Son]. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Dear Son. Huis Marseille–Museum for Photography, Amsterdam.
Without Title. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Endurance. Het Torentje–Foundation for Contemporary Art, Almelo.
Pieta 1999. Huis Marseille–Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (cat.).
Asylum. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Simulacrum II. Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.
Simulacrum I. Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (publ.).
Preservation XII. Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch (publ.).
How long does it take to erase memory? 'Open Space.' Curator Lance Fung, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.
Preservation Situation II. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
How long does it take to erase memory? Preservation Situation I. Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf .
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Art Fair, Cologne (with Bogomir Ecker).
Les Amants mal assortis. in: 'Pas de deux.' HCAK - Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, The Hague (with
Hans Scholten) (publ.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, KunstRai, Amsterdam.
Waiting for the value of the words - Les Amants mal assortis. Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf (with
Hans Scholten).
Lopende gebeurtenissen/Current Events. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.).
Sometimes to Reality (there is no way behind). 'Passages.' HCAK – Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst,
The Hague (publ.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt.
Homeless Thoughts. Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf.
Ohne Ruhe, Ohne Gedanken. In the series ‘The Plumbers Coctail Lounge,' Artists space De Zaak, Groningen.
Rite d'entree. Museum De Beyerd, Breda (with Hans Scholten & Jan Nederveen)(cat.).
An der Zeit kann man sehen wie lange es noch dauert. Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf.
Controlled Passion. Artists space De Zaak, Groningen.
Still dripping from the hot bath he stood spying uncertainly through the lace curtains of his hotel window. / Nog druipend van het warme bad stond hij onhandig door de vitrage van zijn hotelkamer te gluren. Galerie Margreet Huisman,Dordrecht.
The Man Who Told Me About Travelling. Galleria Diferenca, Lisbon.
Vehicles / Dragers. Artists space De Zaak, Groningen.
Space and the Space / Ruimte en de Ruimte. A municipal warehouse, Teteringen.
Space / Ruimte. Stichting voor kunst ENNU, Tilburg (cat.).
Untitled. Artists space Lokaal 01, Breda.
Outside-Inside / Buiten-Binnen. Galerie Margreet Huisman, Dordrecht.
Untitled. Artists space Ruilstraat 63B, Rotterdam.
Sea of plastic and clay / Zee van plastiek en klei. Galerie Micro, Oosterhout.
You can't glaze me. Artists space De Sterrenwacht, Middelburg (cat.).
Broken pieces-clay, culture-nature, the connection. / Scherven Klei, Kultuur Natuur, de verbinding. (simultaneous with a presentation of Ria Roerdink & Marco Klaassen), Artists space De Fabriek, Eindhoven (cat.).
Untitled. Artists space De Fabriek, Eindhoven.

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[Mater Mea]. EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. M HKA, Antwerp (publ.).
[Endeavor (Reductive Gestures)]. Lumen Travo Gallery, Art Rotterdam.
Stichting Egress Foundation Salon. A relocated version of the living room of Marja Bloem and Seth Siegelaub at Tilde, Amsterdam.
Flowers, Candles, Crucifixes. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
[How long does it take to erase memory?]. Art-History-Collection, A selection from the collection of Reyn van der Lugt, Parts Projects, The Hague.
Dialogues. In-House Exhibition at Manifesta Foundation office, Amsterdam.
[The Twirler]. Making Waves, initiated by Rini Hurkmans, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
Pakhuisje ‘Hal 88’, Haarlemse Lente, Haarlem. Curated by Rini Hurkmans and Marianne van Tilborg.
[Father and Son]. Lumen Travo Gallery, Art Rotterdam together with Otobong Nkanga, Meschac Gaba and
Georges Adeagbo.
In Beeld, De keuze van de conservator. Noordbrabants Museum 's Hertogenbosch.
Hesitation. A group exhibition discussing the notion of Resistance, initiated by Rini Hurkmans, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
[Blossom; Sequence; Nevertheless] during the event Jokes with Seth Siegelaub in the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Manifestation Kunstlicht, organised by Stichting Kunstuitingen, Nieuw en Meer Amsterdam.
De Gedeelde Stad together with Hans Scholten, KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan (cat.).
[Mater Mea], videoscreen caszuidas, moving images in public space, Amsterdam.
Body Language. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Louvre in Heino, fotografie uit de collectie van Reyn van der Lugt. Museum de Fundatie, Kasteel het Nijenhuis, Heino.
Niet Normaal, Difference on Display. Curator Ine Gevers, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam (cat.).
Outdoor Projects in the Tuileries gardens. Musee du Louvre - FIAC, Paris.
Fiac 2009 Lumen Travo Gallery, Paris.
[Mater Mea],Contemporary Art Museum St Louis, City Garden Video installation, Kate Gilmore, Laurent Grasso, Alex Hubbard, Rini Hurkmans, Euan Macdonald, Kathy Slade, Ron Tran, Wood and Harrison, St Louis, Missouri, USA.
Met eigen Ogen. Zelfportretten in de Nederlandse kunst. Noordbrabants Museum 's Hertogenbosch.
Family Affairs. Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (publ.).
[The Flavor of Salt]. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.
Breeze. Nan Hoover - Rini Hurkmans - Fiona Tan, performance by Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, curator Marja Bloem
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris.
Fiac 2008, Lumen Travo Gallery, Paris.
Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur, Arnhem (cat.).
Cold Turkey. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.
[The Flavor of Salt]. LC Culinair Lint. kunstenaarscomplex, Nieuw en Meer, Amsterdam.
Zarina Bhimji, Guillaume Bijl, Rini Hurkmans, Remy Jungerman, Monali Meher. Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Paulo Post Futurum, 25 jaar Lokaal 01. Breda’s Museum, Breda.
Sur Place. Fortis tentoonstelling, Amsterdam (cat.).
[Dear Son]. Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht.
Lumen Travo Gallery, Artissima, Turin Art Fair, Italy.
Meeting with the Middle East. International Photography Gathering. Le Pont Organisation, Aleppo, Syria.
[Pieta 2005]. De Italiaanse Verlokking. Museum het Valkenhof, Nijmegen.
De kunstenaar aan het woord. Noordbrabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Lumen Travo Gallery, Artissima, Turin Art Fair, Italy.
Over de mensen en de dingen/On people and things. Center for the Arts, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.
Lumen Travo Gallery, KunstRai, Amsterdam.
[Pieta 2003]. Femme(s). Exhibition organized by the association Art for The World, Geneva, on various locations of Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland.
Amnesty international Photography Sale. Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam and Sotheby’s Amsterdam.
Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch.
Marmelade. Breda's Museum, Breda.
De Tussenstand. Museum De Paviljoens, Almere.
Parque de la Memoria. Central Society of Architects, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Parque de la Memoria. Museum of Latin American Art, La Plata, Argentina.
Artists space Lokaal 01, Breda.
Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Sculpture Prize, Parque de la Memoria. Central Hall of the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires (cat.).
Thin Ice, a selection of recent acquisitions. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (publ.).
De Indruk. Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (publ).
Contemporary Art Twente I. Expo Center, Hengelo.
Laboratoire d'Impression, Geneva.
55 Photographs at 55 Mercer. 55 Mercer Gallery, New York.
Het Huis. Window cases ABN-AMRO Bank, Amsterdam.
Een Keuze, werk van kunstenaressen uit museumcollecties / A Selection, works by female artists selected
from museum collections. Grote Kerk, Den Haag (publ).
Archipel '98. Nieuwe Meer, Amsterdam (cat.).
In the ditch... Out of the ditch, Municipal Art Acquisitions 1997. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.).
Zomergasten, Contemporary Art Acquisition. Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch.
Aanwezig Afwezig. The Collection Almere. Museum De paviljoens, Almere (cat.).
Kulturamt der Stadt Jena, Jena.
Kleine Welten. Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf.
[Preservation Situation III], Making A Space. Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (cat.).
Irina Balen, Andrea Blum, Marianne Eigenheer, Rini Hurkmans, Ann Veronica Janssen, Shirin Neshat. Lumen
Travo Gallery, Amsterdam.
Lumen Travo Gallery, KunstRai, Amsterdam.
Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Art Fair, Cologne...
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.
Municipal Art Acquisition 1993. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Art Fair, Cologne.
De Receptie. Artists space Stichting Archipel, Apeldoorn (cat.).
In Their Own Image. Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.I Museum, New York (cat.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf.
International Drawing Triennial. Museum of Architecture, Wroctaw.
Gulliver's Travels. Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne (cat.).
[A Land Denuded of Meaning]. Moment, between language and image.Stichting AIR, Art International Research, Amsterdam (cat.).
Uitnodiging tot de reis. Hedendaagse Nederlandse kunstenaars / L'Invitation au Voyage. Art contemporain des Pays-Bas. Vergadercentrum Albert Borschette, Brussels (cat.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt.
Municipal Art Acquisition 1989. Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (cat.).
Kabinettententoonstelling. Gallery Fortlaan 17, Gent.
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Art Fair, Cologne.
Appropriate Choice. Artists space De Zaak, KunstRai, Amsterdam (cat.).
Stipendia '86-'87. Stadhouderskade 6, Amsterdam (cat.).
Mechanical Stage. Arts Consultancy, Antwerp.
Vertolking van een collectie. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Central exhibition. Art Fair Noordkunst, Zuidlaren .
[Alleen energie die de gebeurtenissen volgt.]. Brabant Biënnale 1987. De Beyerd, Breda (cat.).
Galerie M. und R. Fricke, Düsseldorf.
Cum Suis. Artists space De Zaak, Art Fair Noordkunst, Zuidlaren (cat.).
[The structure is there to make evident the presence of the immaterial]. A priori Sculpture. Makkom in
the Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam (publ.).
Evenbeeld voor morgen. Stichting MES, Groningen.
[Stripped of title, stripped of time]. Foto Fictie. Cultural Center ‘de Oosterpoort,’ Groningen (cat.).
[Fragments of Breathing]. A great Activity. New generations In Dutch Art. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.).
90 Porträts. Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf.
Rijksaankopen 1985, Werk van hedendaagse beeldende kunstenaars. (Contemporary art acquired by the Dutch
Government), Logement van de Heren van Amsterdam, The Hague (cat.).
[7 reizen 7 gedachten]. Artists space Atelier 00, Dordrecht.
[Ich liebe dich mein Bruder]. Artists space Lokaal 01, Breda.
[A Story]. Kunstmanifestatie, Terneuzen.

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Initiator and advisor of the Making Waves Series.
Initiator of the artwork Flag of Compassion and advisor of the Unda Foundation.
Teacher and mentor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Academy of Art and Design, Amsterdam.
Juror of the exhibition Homerun#2: De Mens. Willem Twee, ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Artist in Residence, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).
KNIR Debate, Pietà: A Reconsideration of the Gesture by Rini Hurkmans, Artist in Residence, respondent: PhD Anita Casarotto, KNIR.
Making Waves 3, Sexyland, Amsterdam.
Making Waves 4, visiting artist during the Winterlab, ArtEZ, Zwolle.
Guest speaker and moderator of the roundtable talk during the international Conference – Flags, Memory and Identity, University of Lille, France.
Making Waves 2, visiting artist during the Winterlab, ArtEz, Zwolle.
Initiator Roundtable Talk Art and Ethics at Manifesta Foundation office, Amsterdam.
Initiator book presentation Compassion. A Paradox in Art and Society, Valiz, editors Jeroen Boomgaard, Rini Hurkmans, Judith Westerveld. During Making Waves 1 at Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam.
Lecture including screening of different film works, The Merchant House, Amsterdam.
Lecture, Flag of Compassion, Pakhuisje ‘Hal 88’, Haarlem.
Initiator of The Working Group Flag of Compassion, with students, artists, political scientists, management consultants, cultural analysts, philosophers, musicians and radio makers.
Participant in the research group of LAPS, Research Institute for Art and Public Space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
Jokes with Seth Siegelaub, talk about the work of Rini Hurkmans in (relation to) the collection of Siegelaub, with Marja Bloem and Rini Hurkmans. Public program during the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Lecture and screening of films, The Merchant House, Amsterdam.
Development Budget received by AFK, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, for the project Compassion. A Paradox in Art and Society.
Initiator of the SSG (Small Science Group), students and alumni of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the University of Amsterdam.
In the context of 10 years 'Day of Respect' 35 primary schools in Vlaardingen received miniatures of The Bouquet, the Monument of Reflection.
Conference Art and Human Rights, Rini Hurkmans. Lecture about the sculpture Piedad de Argentina which will be installed in the Parque de la Memoria in the near future. Sala PAyS, Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires,
December 9.
Lecture at the unveiling of the installation The Inner Garden, an art work for the room of silence at the Regional Centre Palliative Laurens Cadenza, Rotterdam (developed by SKOR).
Round-table talk Contact Zone : Nomad identity in contemporary culture with Philippe-Alain Michaud, conservator at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Marja Bloem, freelance curator, Marie José Burki, artist. Moderated by Jean-Pierre Criqui, chief editor of Les cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris, October 25th at the Dutch Institute in Paris).
Participating in the researchgroup of the lectorate Art and Public Space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy,
Amsterdam.
Speech presented at the unveiling of sculpture De Krans/The Garland, cemetery Ede, December 10.
Lecture Post-St. Joost, department for postgraduate photography, Breda.
Lecture about Parque de la Memoria, Lost and Found, Amsterdam.
Speech presented at the unveiling of The Bouquet, the Monument of Reflection in Vlaardingen, by the chairman of the National Platform Against Violence in Public Dominion, W.J. Deetman , March 2, 2001.
Lecture Post-St. Joost, department for postgraduate photography, Breda .
Performance RIVA, collaboration with Frances-Marie Uitti, City Library, Almelo.
Performance RIVA, collaboration with Frances-Marie Uitti, het Grachtenfestival, Huis Marseille–Museum for
Photography, Amsterdam.
Performance RIVA, collaboration with Frances-Marie Uitti, Lokaal 01, Breda.
Winner Sculpture Prize Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Discussion between Lily van Ginneken, Director of Stroom - Center for Visual Arts and Architecture, The Hague, and the artist at the presentation of the book Mute, Art Book, Amsterdam.
Tutorial at the School for Visual Arts SVA, New York.
Lecture and tutorial, Royal Academy for Visual Art, The Hague.
Shortlisted for the competition for the design of the Lobeda gate and green area at the City ring of Lobeda, Jena,
Germany.
Tutorial at the School for Visual Arts SVA, New York.
Visiting artist at the Curatorial training program of De Appel - Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam.
Tutorial at the Royal Academy for Visual Art, The Hague.
Tutorial at the School for Visual Arts SVA, New York.
Guest lecturer and tutorial at the School for Visual Arts SVA, New York.
Lecture and tutorial at ABK Minerva, Academy of Visual Arts, Groningen.
Panel discussion: Quality and Professionally, Foundation for Visual Arts, Architecture and Design, Amsterdam.
Lecture and seminar, Brown University, Department of Visual Art, Providence, RI.
Participation in the International Studio Program at the Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, New York.
Lecture at Hunter College Art Department, New York.
[A Parting It Must Be, Time and (Time) Again]. Multiple, commissioned by WVC, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Netherlands
Visiting lecturer and tutor at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, AKI, Enschede.
Special Mention Award for the Visual Arts by The Amsterdam Foundation for the Arts.
Visiting lecturer, ABK Minerva - Academy of Visual Arts, Groningen.
Visiting artist and visiting tutor, The College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minn.
Visiting lecturer, The College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minn.