J. C. J. van der Heyden

donated by the artist

Some recent solo exhibitions
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 2009
Culturgest, Lissabon 2009, 'The Analogy of the eye'
Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg 2003
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem 2002

Some recent group exhibitions
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 2009, 'Voorbij de horizon: Landschappen in de moderne kunst'
Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch 2008, 'A never ending start'
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague 2007, 'Over het licht in de schilderkunst'
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen 2001, 'From the Low Countries – Reality and Art 1960-2001'
Documenta 7, Kassel 1982

Selected publications
Nickel van Duijvenboden,  JCJ Vanderheyden : the analogy of the eye, Amsterdam: Roma Publications 2009
J.C.J. van der Heyden, JCJ Vanderheyden, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2001
Ludo Bekkers, Elly Stegeman, Hedendaagse schilders in Nederland en Vlaanderen, Stichting Ons Erfdeel, Rekkem 1995
J.C.J. van der Heyden, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1977

Selected public and corporate collections
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL • Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, NL • Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL • Dordrechts Museum, NL • Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL • Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, NL • Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL

Since the mid 1960s, Jacobus Cornelis Johannes van der Heyden, also known as JCJ Vanderheyden or Jacques Van der Heyden, has developed an important and influential oeuvre spanning painting, photography, video, graphics, installation, etc. His work is typified by an abstract visual language with a highly evolved sensibility. He subtly questions ways in which phenomena such as light, space and time can be represented, creating enigmatic, high tension images with minimal means – (horizontal) divisions, illusionist picture planes, gradual transitions, delicate layers of paint and high contrast colour fields.

Jacques Van der Heyden is a former advisor of the Rijksakademie and studied there in 1953-1954.