User:Luc Van Peteghem/Harald Vlugt

Bio

Harald Vlugt is a Dutch sculptor, collagist and graphist working in his studio in the old Bols-distillery in Amsterdam. His artworks are about manipulating the skin, misleading the viewer and authenticity’s inauthenticity. He describes his work as 17th-century Popart and Minimal Baroque in the eighties. His work made him travel, live, and exhibit in galleries and museums on all six continents. In Amsterdam his artworks can be found in the Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum (*8), Amsterdam Museum and thirteen other Dutch museums and in numerous museum- and private collections abroad.

Gallery, Museum and Biennale

Vlugt’s work was shown in the La Giovane Scultura Olandese exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 1989. In the early eighties Vlugt worked with the avant-garde gallery The Living Room in Amsterdam. In 1986 he stepped over to Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt in Paris. Since 2017 Vlugt’s artwork has been represented internationally by Galery Saro León in Las Palmas, Canary Islands. In 2022 his work was, among others, on show in the exhibition Art is the Antidote in Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, Holland. (Co-artists Jean Tinguely, Piero Manzoni, Yayoi Kusama, Marcel Broodthaers, Ai Weiwei, etc. (*12)). From 2014 his artwork Hotel Europe (Travel journey without a traveler) will be shown permanently as one of the most significant art pieces in the new 20.000 m2 Museum of Immigration Fenix in the former departure halls of the Holland America Line in Rotterdam (*11).

Art in the Public Space

In the nineties Vlugt designed and produced all the sculptures and ornaments for the Oranje Zael in Huis ten Bosch Palace in Nagasaki, Japan. Next to his free work Vlugt did big art projects for the three major cruise ship companies: Carnaval Cruises, Royal Caribbean and Holland Amerika Line. For the MS New Amsterdam he made the most prominent art piece, a 200 x 700 cm handmade collage, for the Explorers Lounge (*4). In 2002 Vlugt collaborated with Scottish sculptor David Mach and made 18 ceramic art pieces in a residential area on the former playground of the Amsterdam soccer club Ajax (*10). In 2018 Vlugt made a 25 m long bronze monument to memorize the celebration of 50 years of NATO in Brunssum, in the south of the Netherlands. All NATO generals and the Dutch King Willem-Alexander were present at the launch of the art piece (*6 and*10). In August 2022 Vlugt will be the first international artist with a solo exhibition on the Ritz Carlton’s superyacht, starting its maiden trip in Athens (*15).

Transatlantic sculptor group 4D

Since 2017 Vlugt has been a member of the Transatlantic sculptors group 4D, a collaboration and exhibition between four international sculptors living on the four edges of the Atlantic Ocean: Marc Gibian in New York; Marcos Lora Read in Santa Domingo; Manolo Gonzalez in Las Palmas; Harald Vlugt in Amsterdam. Collaborative 4D exhibitions took place in the Dominican Republic, Gran Canarias and Holland. For 2023 a finishing 4-D show is planned in New York.

Art Lecturer

Lecturing and sharing information and front experience always had Vlugt’s attention. During his international exhibitions and art residencies he always focused on giving art talks, college master classes and lecture. In 2002 he was a guest professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. At the Regenta Art Centre in Las Palmas and at numerous art academies abroad Vlugt gave artist talks and masterclasses collage. With his partner Summer he runs the one-teacher Collage Art Academy De Beeldproeverij, which started in 2012.

References

* 1. A recent review in the online Art magazine Art & Museum: https://www.artandmuseum.com/en/portraits/beeldhouwer-harald-vlugt

* 2. Info Muka Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. https://docplayer.net/224487101-Curriculum-vitae-harald-vlugt.html

* 3. Info Apunto Gallery, NL; https://apuntogallery.com/en/art-category/artists/harald-vlugt-en/

* 4. YouTube film about the Collage Nieuw-Amsterdam, a clip by Ger Poppelaars; (In English,4:31 min.) https://vimeo.com/480357537

* 5. YouTube stop-motion film; Explosition (The creation of the collage) 2008. clip by Ruben Koerhuis. (1.57 minute ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59qCw9Ti25U

* 6. YouTube film about the 25 m. bronze monument for 50 years NATO (Subtitles in English) (7.03 min.) Title; Upstream, NATO monument Brunssum in the Netherlands, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or9bvhEQ-Go

* 7. ‘Kompas Bergen’, a film by Sylvia Westerman Holstijn. An art installation of more than 1000 historical postcards, from a compass point of view in Het Hof, Bergen (NH), NL, 2006. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU2ZTcIFD3c

* 8. Link to the art pieces in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam:

https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectie/maker/779-harald-vlugt

* 9. Yale University Radio, New York, WYBCX, Journalist; Brain Carey, 4 April 2016, (30 minutes) http://wp.me/p47FRq-XL

* 10. Project manager Robbert Jan Blekemolen; https://blekemolen.wordpress.com/ Three projects; 'Upstream' Monument '50 years of NATO in Brunssum (NL)-2017-; Bonk Foundation. The super book 'The Nomade' – 2012-; Ajax monument. 'Park De Meer'. Ceramic project, Amsterdam.- 2010.

https://blekemolen.wordpress.com/

* 11. Museum of Immigration, Fenix in Rotterdam, to be opened in 2024 in Rotterdam;

https://www.designboom.com/architecture/mad-architects-fenix-museum-migration-rotterdam-breaks-ground-11-13-2020/

* 12. Link to the exhibition 'Art is the antidote' in the Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, NL. https://www.voorlinden.nl/exhibition/art-is-the antidote/?lang=en

* 13. Sculpture ‘New regional Planning’ in collection Museum Kröller Muller Museum, NL. https://krollermuller.nl/en/harald-vlugt-new-regional-planning

* 14. Sculpture ‘Landshape’ in collection Museum Kröller Muller Museum, NL. https://krollermuller.nl/en/harald-vlugt-landshape

* 15. Information on the superyacht ‘Evrima’ of the Ritz Carlton,   https://www.cruisecritic.com/reviews/review.cfm?ShipID=1324#:~:text=Ritz%2DCarlton%20Evrima's%20Maiden%20Voyage,%2C%20Amorgos%20and%20Spetsai%2C%20Greece

* 16. Information about the Collage Art Academy;

https://www.facebook.com/collageworkshopbyharaldvlugt/