JO HEIJNEN
Helden (The Netherlands) 1954 – Madrid (Spain), 2003
Jo Heijnen was born on 14th June, 1954, in Helden, a little township in the Limburg region of Holland, close to the German border. He was born into a farming family and, true to the local pattern; his schooling had to be fitted around helping his parents on the farm. He was a pupil at the secondary school in Helden, going on to complete first year studies in the Hight Technical School in Venlo. However, it did not take long for him to recognise the inevitability of his artistic vocation and, in 1975, he became a student at the St. Joost Academy of Fine Arts in Breda and moved out of the parental home for good. He stayed on in Breda, in the company of designer Lidwien Steenbrink, for some time after completing his studies. Both he and Steenbrink then moved to Berlin. In this city, he worked in collaboration with the artist Jan van den Langenberg and with Katharina Düttmann, among others. He returned to Amsterdam in 1983 and this time settled there, meeting and making friends with artists such as Hans Mosman, Mirjam de Zeeuw, Jan van Grunsven and Marc Volger, with whom he collaborated on various projects. Nineteen-ninety saw the start of his relationship with gallery-owner Maria Chailloux. Shortly after, and through her auspices, he started working with Galería Arteara in Madrid, where he exhibited his “A Painter’s Memory” project. From then on, he conducted his life between the two cities, marrying Karina Marotta in Madrid in 1994. During those years, he became part of the artistic life of Madrid and involved himself in initiatives aimed at refreshing the city’s cultural scenario. One such was Espacio “P”, whose founder, Pedro Garhel, became a close friend. Meanwhile, he was forging links with other galleries, such as Galeria Dels Angels, in Barcelona (and particularly with its founder, Sebastià Petit, who is still involved with his work in Spain). He also set up a network of like-minded European artists, all connected in some way with concrete abstraction, and some of them – Sotirakis Charalambou, Willi Otremba, José Manuel Prada – close adherents of Galerie María Chailloux and the ‘Color-Matter-Energy’ Project. One by-product was the “Clear and Saturated” exhibition curated by him for the gallery of Amsterdam’s Arti et Amicitiae, and for which he asked his friend José Luis Brea to provide the introductory text. In 2000, encouraged by his colleague and friend, José Manuel Prada, he was taken on as an associate professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Salamanca University. In June 2002, he fall ill and months later he was diagnosed as suffering from cancer. He died in Madrid on 7th January, 2003.
1975-79 Academy of Fine Arts ¨St.Joost¨, Breda, NL.
1981-83 Stay in (West) Berlín
1992- 2003 Lived and worked in Madrid and Amsterdam
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Galerie Metis-nl, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Galería Maria Chailloux, Art Rotterdam 2003.
2000 Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL.
1999 La Caixa Foundation, Lerida, Spain, “INFINIT”.
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, NL, “De omgang met water”, instalation, in colaboration with Marc Volger
1998 Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL, with Maria Lalìc.
1995 Museum Lüdenscheid, Germany, “Operation Paperclip”. (Catalogue).
Galerie Jordan, Wilnsdorf, Germany, “Las Chicas”.
Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL, “Las Chicas”.
Watertoren Vlissingen, NL, “Absalom, Absalom”.
1994 Espacio “P”, Madrid, Spain,”Las Chicas”. (Catalogue).
Verein für Aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Germany.
1993 Arteara Galería, Madrid, Spain, “A painter’s memory”. (Catalogue).
Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL. (Catalogue).
Städtische Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany, “Operation Paperclip”.
1991 Het Gerecht, Amsterdam, NL, “Loodglans”, with Marc Volger.
Artists’ Center, Bergen, NL.
1990 Impresariaat voor Beeldende Kunsten Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL, “Operation Paperclip”. (Catalogue).
Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL, “Operation Paperclip”.
Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL.
1988 Artists’ Center, Bergen, NL, with Olaf Balthus.
Galería Holleeder, Amsterdam, NL.
1987 Galerie Holleeder, Amsterdam, NL.
Galerie Stalker, Breda, NL.
Bureau Mr. Ronald W. Limburg, Amsterdam, NL.
1986 Perrun Gallery, Maastricht, NL, with Don Wyns.
1984 Galerie Geer Pouls, Breda, NL.
Galerie Tegenbosch, Amsterdam, NL.
1983 Garage Berlín Produzentengalerie, Berlin,Germany, with Jürgen Frisch. (Catalogue).
1982 Kunsttage Berlin, Germany, “Foreigners in Berlin”, in cooperation with Jan van den Langenberg.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Galerie Metis-nl, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Minimentaal II’
2009 Galerie Metis-nl, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Minimentaal I’
2006 Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, ‘Convoy exceptionnel’.
2002 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, ‘Sleutelwerken’.
Museum Lüdenscheid, Germany, ‘Kein Strich zuviel’.
2001 Museum Lüdenscheid, Germany, ‘Noch MEHR Knöpfe für Lüdenscheid’.
City exhibition rooms, Torremolinos, Spain, ‘Fusion Hispano Holandesa’ (Catalogue)
Artfair, Artissima, Turin Italy, Stand Gallerie Maria Chailloux.
Artfair Twente, NL, Gallerie Maria Chailloux.
Museum Lüdenscheid, D, ‘Noch MEHR Knöpfe für Lúdenscheid’
2000 Verein fúr Aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Germany, ‘Die Farbe hat mich’. (Catalogue).
Künstlerhof Buch, Berlin, Germany.
KunstRAI. Stand Gallerie Maria Chailloux.
Em(P)aquetado del Arte, San Juan de la Rambla, Tenerife, ‘Grafica 2000’.
1999 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL, ‘ the mind on scale’,
Work in cooperation with Eduardo Gomez.
1998 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL, Clear and Saturated. (Catalogue).
De Nederlandsche Bank,and Hogeschool van Amsterdam, ‘Color-Matter-Energie’.
1997 Galería Dels Angels,Barcelona, Spain,Espais Mínims
Kortenhoef Kerk, NL, “ik heb geen zoon om mijn gedachtenis levend te houden”. (Catalogue).
Verein für Aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Germany,(Catalogue).
1996 Villa Bentvelt, Amsterdam, “Truth in Clouds” (Opera and installations), (Catalogue).
Kortenhoef Kerk, NL, “De Overkant”. (Catalogue).
1995 Galerie Metis, Amsterdam, NL, “De schoonheid en het lijden te gelijkertijd dienen. (A.Camus)”.
Verein für Aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen, Germany, “Color-Matter-Energy”.
1994 Stadsgalerij Heerlen, NL, “(im) possible waltz”.
Galerie Jordan, Wilnsdorf, Germany.
1993 ARCO 93. Stand Arteara Galería, Madrid, Spain.
KunstRAI. Stand Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL.
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL, “Morgen gemaakt”.
1992 Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL, “Color-Matter-Energy”.
1991 ARTis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL, “About Painting”.
Museum Het Kruithuis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, “Double Distance”. (Catalogue).
The Fifth International Drawing Triennale, Wroclav, Poland. (Catalogue).
KunstRAI. Stand Galerie Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL.
Arteara Galería, Madrid, Spain,”Endgame”.
1990 The Metropole Artscenter, Folkstone, U.K.
1989 Städtische Galerie, Lüdenscheid, Germany, “Bildgrund”. (Catalogue).
Museum in der Alten Post, Mulheim a.d. Rühr, Germany, “Bildgrund”.
1988 The Fourth International Drawing Triennale, Wroclav, Poland. (Catalogue).
Galería Holleeder, Amsterdam, NL.
Stadthalle, Mettmann, Alemania. (Catalogue).
Galerie Stalker, Breda, NL, “Paper”.
1986 Stokker-Stikker Gallery, New York, USA.
Galerie Resy Muysers, Tilburg, NL. (Catalogue).
“Royal Subsidee for the Arts Exhibition”. Royal Palace, Amsterdam, NL.
L’ Ambiente Gallery, New York, USA.
Galerie Geer Pouls, Breda, NL, “Finale”.
1985 Graphics Portfolio, “Tweelicht”.
Galerie Resy Muysers, Tilburg, NL, “Tweelicht”.
Museum Het Kruithuis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL, “Tweelicht”.
1981 The Second International Drawing Triennale, Wroclav, Poland. (Catalogue).
1979 Contemporary Art Center “De Beyerd”, Breda, NL.
CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS
1988 Galerie Stalker, Breda, NL, Paper.
1998 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL, ‘Clear and Saturated’.
Hogeschool van Amsterdam and De Nederlandsche Bank, NL, ‘Colour-Matter-Energie’. in colaboration with Maria Chailloux.
2002 Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, “AlieNation” , in voorbereiding.
TEACHING
2001-2003 Painting in relation to other media, (Profesor Asociado), Faculty of Visual Arts, University of Salamanca.
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
* Museum Het Kruithuis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL.
* Museum Lüdenscheid, Germany.
* Historisch-Technisches Museum Peenemünde, Germany (Permanent Deposit)
* State Museum, Majdanek, Poland.
* KPMG, Amsterdam, NL.
* Zantman Collection, Bergen, NL.
* Heldens Collection, Venlo, NL.
* Steenbrink Collection, Maastricht, NL.
* Klaus and Kahn Architekten, Collection, Amsterdam NL.
* Collection Han Michel, Amsterdam, NL.
* Collection Maria Chailloux, Amsterdam, NL.
* Collection Just en Marcelle van den Ende, Almere, NL.
* Lewischaroff Collection, Berlin, Germany.
* Düttmann Collection, Berlin, Germany.
* Ströher Collecion, Alemania
* Unibaso-“La Casera” Collection, Madrid, Spain.
* Taula de Disseny, Barcelona, Spain.
* Collection Petit, Lleida, Spain.
* Collection Gil-Arbolí, Madrid, Spain.
* Collection Rosa Fernández, Madrid, Spain.
