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until 01.03. | #4551ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from 17. January 2025 the Double-feature “Blurred Lines“ and „If I don’t have red I use blue“ by the artists Jan Van Der Ploeg und Nicole Hassler.
Taubert Contemporary presents BLURRED LINES, the fifth exhibition by the renowned Dutch painter Jan van der Ploeg (*1959). The exhibition features a selection of works from the artist’s recent series of paintings (2022-2024) as well as a large-scale wall painting created especially for Taubert Contemporary. The Amsterdam-based artist is considered one of the leading representatives of contemporary geometric abstraction in the Netherlands.
Jan van der Ploeg is best known for his large-format murals in museums, public institutions and private spaces. The minimalist graphic forms follow the architectural function of a space. For BLURRED LINES, van der Ploeg will create a mural that merges image, wall, space and architecture in the medium of color and form – systematically indebted to the Dutch De Stijl movement of the 1920s.
In contrast, there are the artist’s works on canvas. In these acrylic paintings, Jan van der Ploeg plays through the grids, structures, forms etc. that are used at the same time in public and museum spaces in large format. However, the canvas formats do not function as designs, but as autonomous positions within his oeuvre. The artist succeeds in constantly renewing the repertoire of geometric abstraction: through circles, zigzag and vector graphics, illusionistic line and surface movements or optical illusions with grid and diamond shapes. The recurring motifs consciously allude to earlier art movements such as Minimalism, De Stijl or Op Art.
About Jan van der Ploeg
Jan van der Ploeg was educated in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and graduated from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1985. Since 1983 he has had solo and group exhibitions in Europe, New Zealand, the USA and Australia. His work is represented in major public, private and corporate collections, including: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the National Gallery of Victoria, Daimler Contemporary Berlin; Christchurch Art Gallery; Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and The Chartwell Collection, Auckland. Van der Ploeg is co-founder of PS Projectspace, an exhibition space in his Amsterdam studio building dedicated to bringing together different artistic positions.
Jan van der Ploeg *1959 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan Van der Ploeg | PAINTING No. 24–16, 2024 | acrylic on canvas | 140 x 90 cm | 55 x 35 inches
Nicole Hassler is a visual artist part of a minimal conceptual movement, influenced by Color Remarks (L. Wittgenstein, philosopher) and by Beginning Again (Marcia Hafif, artist). Her major medium is painting, but other techniques such as photography, video and 3D works can be found in her career. Nicole Hassler is interested in artifice, in the world of illusion. She creates works that question the unstable boundaries between what is considered art and what is not.
Her works bear witness to the history and discourse of contemporary art, neo-feminism, consumerism and industry. By appropriating the colors that we put on the skin, Hassler claims the right to consumption. She sets the trend codes of cosmetic fashion whose evocative titles of her paintings reveal the identity. They relate to the Industry of Beauty, the image of Woman and the globalized fashion of Luxury. They produce surprisingly autonomous paintings and invent a kind of Classicism derived from ephemeral codes.
From 2022 to 2023, the artist collected lipsticks from 200 women, which they did not wear while wearing the mask. Nicole Hassler created a gigantic work of art featuring 200 lipsticks paintings with their first names. The work is entitled “Art lovers’ lipsticks”, 2022-2023 and a book has been edited. Nicole Hassler’s interest in (or preoccupation with?) the recycling of beauty products is central to her creative process. Art Lovers’ Lipsticks is a fundamental affirmation of this. »
About Nicole Hassler
Nicole Hassler lives and works in Saint-Louis, France (Basel Switzerland boarder) since she moved her studio from Geneva (2019). She graduated in interior architecture from the ESAA (HEAD, Geneva Switzerland) in 1977 and in visual arts from the ESBA (HEAD) in Geneva in 1980. Exhibitions include Frauenmuseum, Berlin (2001) and Bonn (2006), Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2003). Fondation Fernet-Branca in Saint-Louis in 2007, Fondation Louis Moret in Martigny in 2008 and 2013, Villa du Parc Annemasse, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva in 2010, Simon Studer Art Geneva 2015, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre in Paris, since 2011. From 1981-1982, she lived in Boston and New York, from 2000-2001 in Berlin with the Landis&Gyr grant, in 2014 in Paris. Her works are in the following public collections: Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain, Fonds Cantonal d’Art Contemporain, Banque Cantonale Genevoise, Banque Mirabaud & Cie, Fondation Rolex à Genève, Musée des Beaux Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, City and Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Musée des Beaux Arts, Grenoble, MOCA Tucson Arizona, O.P.I factory, Los Angeles USA.
Nicole Hassler *1953 Basel, Switzerland. She lives and works in Saint-Louis, France
Nicole Hassler | INEKE, 2024 | lipsticks and binder on gesso board | 18 x 24 cm | 7.1 x 9.4 inches
Opening: Friday, 17. January 2025, 6 – 9 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 17. January– Saturday, 01. March 2025
To the gallery
Title image caption: Jan van der Ploeg | PAINTING No. 22-65, Untitled, 2022 | 29 x 29 cm | 11.4 x 11.4 inches
Exhibition Jan van der Ploeg– Taubert Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
