Adriaan Rees (1957, Amsterdam) lives and works in China and Amsterdam. Rees is famous for his large-scale projects and assignments for public space. He makes sculptures and installations in many materials such as ceramics, bronze, glass, textiles, plaster and stone. He also works with photography and video.
When he works with clay, traces of his hands and the use of extreme power can easily be seen at the surface. He is approaching his sculptures almost as a landscape or a human body, sometimes in a sensual, sometimes in a brutal way. He is an artist who is not predict- able, someone who always surprises with new ideas and approaches, a cosmopolitan artist.
Tradition and innovation, humor and seriousness, monumentality and intimacy, vulnerable and tough, religion and war, fantasy and reality. All this you can find in his sculptures: it is a dialogue between cultural traditions like Europe and Asia.
His work can be found in collections around the world, in museums, private collections and in public space. Rees teaches in The Netherlands, Germany, Finland, USA, Japan and China and frequently gives lectures about his own work, art and art in public space.
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Solo Exhibition "Interstices", ArtCN gallery
Group Exhibition "E il giardino creò l'uomo", Alberto Peola Artecontemporanea
Group Exhibition "Moving Worlds", Podbielsky Contemporary
Group Exhibition "Utopia in the Air", Shanghai Tower
Group Exhibition "MIA Photo Fair", Podbielsky Contemporary
Group Exhibition "Bye Bye Berlin", Podbielsky Contemporary
Group Exhibition "Summer Group Show", Bank Gallery
Group Exhibition - Chinese and Italian cultural exchange feast, Meilian Museum & Centro Italia Cina
Photofairs Shanghai, w/ ArtCN gallery
Group Exhibition "All night long, Casa Cicca – a project by Traslocchi Emotivi, curated by Punto"
Group Exhibition "Utopia", Podbielsky Contemporary
Solo Exhibition "Once upon a time", ArtCN gallery
Solo Exhibition "Exile", OCAT Shanghai
Art in the city w/ ArtCN gallery
Croatian contemporary artists and CYAP Chinese Young Artists project, Honyo Art Centre at 798 Art District
Group Exhibition "Breaking News", Podbielski Contemporary
Solo Exhibition "Monte Verità", Podbielski Contemporary
Solo Exhibition "Exil", Alberto Peola Artecontemporanea
Solo Exhibition "Exil", Podbielski Contemporary
MIA Milan Image Art Fair w/ Podbielski Contemporary
Shanghai, China
Turin, Italy
Milan, Italy
Shanghai, China
Milan, Italy
Berlin, Germany
Shanghai, China
Shenzhen & Hangzhou China
Shanghai, China
Milan, Italy
Berlin, Germany
Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China
Beijing, China
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Turin, Italy
Berlin, Germany
Milan, Italy