Prof. Heleen Verhoeven

I am principally a painter, but I also work with sculpture, stained glass windows, printmaking and installation. The human experience is central to my work: both the turmoil of the individual and the hysteria of the group. I believe that in art-making a combination of control (through knowledge and skill) and loss of control (through failure and experimentation) yields the most freedom and possibilities for the new.

Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE 2022 | ABN-AMRO Art Prize, NL 2019  | Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, NL 2019 | Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, NL 2017 | Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, NL 2011 | Stroom PRO, Den Haag, NL 2010 | Wolvecamp Prize, Hengelo, NL 2010  | Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, NL 2010  | Netherlands Royal Painting Prize, NL 2008  | Mondriaan Fund Amsterdam, NL 2007  | Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds - Van Eck-Vollgraff Fonds, NL 2006 | Stichting Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, NL 2006 | NYAA John Alexander Fellowship, NY,  US 2001

Stadmuseum Berlin - Nikolaikirche, Berlin | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, Florida | The Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, Essl Museum, Vienna | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht | Utrecht Centraal Museum, Utrecht | Paleis Het Loo Museum, Apeldoorn | Schunck Museum, Heerlen | Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht | LUMC Collection, Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden | De Hoge Raad der Nederlanden, Den Haag Nederlansche Bank, Amsterdam | Rabobank, Utrecht | ABN-AMRO, Amsterdam | Royal DSM Art Collection, Heerlen | KPN Collection, Den Haag | Arcadis Collection, Amsterdam

• 104 Galerie, Tokyo 2024
• Kunstmuseum Bonn 2023
• Gregor Podnar, Vienna 2023
• Stigter van Doesburg, Puff Puff Goodbye, Amsterdam 2021
• Hermitage, Schamerkat, Amsterdam 2019
• Circl, Eleven Women, Amsterdam 2019
• Bonnefantenmuseum, Oh God, Maastricht 2018
• Art Basel, Statements, 2018
• Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Libby Libby Libby, Amsterdam 2016
• Galerie Parisa Kind, The Waiting, Frankfurt 2013
• Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, Mother, Amsterdam 2013
• Wallspace, Stage Disasters, New York 2012
• Schunck, Part Pretty, Heerlen 2012
• Klemm's, Art Show I, Berlin 2010
• Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, The Thingly Character, Amsterdam 2010  
• Mesler and Hug, Event Two, Los Angeles 2008
• Wallspace, Event One, New York 2008
• Galerie Fons Welters, The Beautiful Many, Amsterdam 2007
• Wallspace, Saints, New York 2006

• Nationaal Museum Paleis het Loo, Apeldoorn 2023
• Singer Laren Museum, Schilderkunst Nu, Laren 2023
• Schunck, Underdog, Heerlen, NL 2023
• 104 Galerie, Tokyo, 2023
• Singer Laren Museum, The New Woman, Laren 2022
• Bonnefantenmuseum, Vals Plat, Maastricht 2022
• Harkawik, Apple in the Dark, New York 2022
• 104 Galerie, 104 Introduces, Tokyo 2022
• Museum Kranenburgh, Roaring 20’s, Bergen aan Zee 2021
• Paleis Amsterdam, Grensverkenners, Amsterdam 2021
• Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Our Beginnings Never Know.., Miami 2021
• Museum Catharijneconvent, Maria Magdalena, Utrecht 2021
• Museum Nikolaikirche, Features, Berlin 2020
• Galerie Judin, Helene Appel, Alisa Margolis & Helen Verhoeven, Berlin 2018
• Singer Museum, Out of the Office, Laren 2018
• Dordrechts Museum, De Meest Eigentijdse Schilder Kunst, Dordrecht 2018
• Utrecht Centraal Museum, Beeldende Kunst 1850-heden, Utrecht 2017
• The FLAG Art Foundation, Disturbing Innocence, New York 2015
• Bonnefantenmuseum, Beating around the Bush, Maastricht 2014
• Manifesta Foundation, How Soon is Now?, Amsterdam 2014
• Saatchi Gallery, Body Language, London 2013
• Wallspace, Ten Years, New York 2013
• Bonnefantenmuseum, Far from the Madding Crowd, Maastricht 2013
• Institut Néerlandais, Through an Open Window, Paris 2012
• Kestnergesellschaft, Made in Germany Zwei, Hannover 2012
• AUTOCENTER, Objects of Dismissal, Berlin 2012
• Stedelijk Museum, Bellevue, Amsterdam 2011
• Dordrechts Museum, What’s Up - Jonge Nederlandse Schilderkunst, Dordrecht 2011
• Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, In.flec.tion, New York 2010
• Monica De Cardena, Play, Milan 2009
• Ritter/Zamer, Pruesspress, London 2009
• GEM Museum, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Den Haag 2008
• Lizabeth Oliveria, Tints of Majesty, Los Angeles 2008
• Rental Gallery, Pruesspress, New York 2008
• Sammlung Essl Museum, Recent Acquisitions - Young Painting, Vienna 2007