Henk Stallinga is a Dutch multidisciplinary

contemporary artist Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, generally referring to art produced from the 1970s onwards. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art i ...

Bernd Polster (2006) ''The AZ of modern design''. p. 463 based in Amsterdam.

Biography

Henk Stallinga, born 1962, graduated from the

Rietveld Academy The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History The Instituut voor Kuns ...

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

in 1993,rkd.nl
last updated 2017-03-30. and established Studio Stallinga the same year. Since 1998, the studio is co-owned by managing partner Annemarie Galani. Stallinga’s visual language is rooted in

De Stijl De Stijl (, ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, Jacobus Oud, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren, North Holland, Laren (Piet Mo ...

Japanese architecture has been typified by wooden structures, elevated slightly off the ground, with tiled or thatched roofs. Sliding doors ('' fusuma'') and other traditional partitions were used in place of walls, allowing the internal configuration of a space ...

minimal art Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence, essentials or identity of a subject through eliminating all non-essential forms, features or conc ...

and conceptual art. Earlier works of Stallinga challenge the perception of the industrial product, its functionality and meaning. The ideology behind Stallinga’s works is often based on the awareness of the world around us. This involves concepts like sense of time, sound, and visual perception. Stallinga frequently incorporates parts of mass produced ordinary items, and

industrial processes Industrial processes are procedures involving chemical, physical, electrical, or mechanical steps to aid in the manufacturing of an item or items, usually carried out on a very large scale. Industrial processes are the key components of heavy ...

to build his conceptual

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as Text (literary theory), writing, Sound, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single presentation. T ...

installations and sculptures. Presenting every day phenomena are in a different context. Stallinga's recent works combine visual elements with motion and sound.

Public collections (selection)

* MoMA New York *

Fonds National d'Art Contemporain The Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC; National Foundation for Contemporary Art) is a public collection of contemporary art in France. It does not hold exhibitions but acquires and stores works of art that it loans to museums, cultural instit ...

, Paris *

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

.Adrichem, J., de Roode, I.(2004) ''The Furniture Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam''. p. 354 *

van Abbe Museum The Van Abbemuseum () in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe. The museum’s collection includes key works and archives by Joseph Beuys, Marc Chagall, René Daniëls, Marlene Dumas, Shee ...

* Achmea Art Collection *

Amsterdam Museum The Amsterdam Museum, known until 2010 as the Amsterdam Historical Museum, is an Amsterdam-based museum dedicated to the city's past and present. Due to the renovation of its main location, the museum is temporarily located in the Amstelhof on the ...

Gallery

File:Dark-hearted-detail.jpg, 'Dark Hearted' light sculpture by Henk Stallinga, 2016 File:Chain Reaction by Henk Stallinga at studio.jpg, Light sculpture 'Chain Reaction' by Henk Stallinga at studio, 2015 File:Detail of 'Chain Reaction' in Montpellier Danse by Ballet National de Marseille, 2015.JPG, Detail of 'Chain Reaction' at Montpellier Danse, Ballet National de Marseille, 2015 File:Chain Reaction at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2016.jpg, Chain Reaction at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 2016 File:Lounge Chairs by Henk Stallinga at museum Sculptures at Sea, The Hague.jpg, 'Lounge Chairs' by Henk Stallinga at Museum Sculptures at Sea, The Hague, 2014 File:Lounge Chair at Museum Sculptures at Sea, 2014.jpg, Lounge Chair at Museum Sculptures at Sea, 2014 File:Fanscreen by Henk Stallinga, 2017.jpg, Fanscreen by Henk Stallinga, 2018 File:Fanscreen by Henk Stallinga, 2017 topview.jpg, Fanscreen by Henk Stallinga, 2018 topview File:Waiting_in_the_Hallway.jpg, Installation 'Waiting in the Hallway' by Henk Stallinga presented at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Amsterdam, 2013 File:Waiting in the hallway at der AA church, Netherlands.jpg, 'waiting in the hallway' at der AA church, Netherlands, 2015 File:Lumens.jpg, Lumens, light installation by Henk Stallinga, 2017 File:Lumens, topview light installation, 2016.jpg, Lumens, topview light installation, 2017

References

External links

Stallinga.nlGallery Gerhard Hofland AmsterdamGallery Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, GermanyGallery Baeckerstrasse4, Vienna, Austria
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