Jan Kuhlemeier uses translucent layers of colour in which he searches for specific hues and colour nuances. He uses the aspect of painting as a tool to question the border between painting and other media. In these works Kuhlemeier uses gestures determined in advance, to create these works. Seeing painting as a tool to act and react to his surroundings, Kuhlemeier combines the energies, motions and colours of his own personal experiences of blending into a landscape and translate them into image or object. Some of these energies repeat itself over and over again, constantly shaping and changing the environment. This influences the way Kuhlemeier uses his colours and materials. He currently uses gel mediums as a base combining different pigments, sometimes transparant and sometimes opaque pigments, like kobalt blue. Using pigment as a raw material reveals the different qualities of the pigment; some are chunky and will break apart, others are smooth and totally dissolve in the base material.
CV:
-Education
2011 – 2015 ArtEZ Institute of the Arts – BA Fine Arts – Arnhem, the Netherlands
-Exhibitions
2024
Upcoming:
-Solo, Diego Escobar Gallery, Marseille, France -Mixed Starter Vol.6, 443409 Gallery, Group, Dortmund, Germany
2024
-Lille Art Up, Martine Ehmer Gallery, Lille, France -Art Rotterdam, Root Gallery, Group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. -Group show, Martine Ehmer Gallery, Group, Brussels, Belgium
2023
-Jan Kuhlemeier in een zee van kleur, Singer Laren museum -solo, Laren, the Netherlands
-KunstRAI, Amterdam RAI, Root Gallery – solo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
-New Group Show, Root Gallery – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-THERESI_ART 06, ART[S] Gallery Simone Jansen – group, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
-Thicker Than Water, ArtCan – solo, Marseille, France
-Group Show, Root Gallery – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2022
-HIGH/LOW, Root Gallery – Solo, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
-Pattern & surface matter(s) , Kunstloc Brabant – duo, Tilburg, the Netherlands
-THERESI_ART 02, ART[S] Gallery Simone Jansen – group, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
2021
The Others Art Fair, Root Gallery – group, Turin, Italy
KunstRAI, Amterdam RAI, Root Gallery – group, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Art The Hague, Root Gallery – group, The Hague, the Netherlands Interference, Root Gallery – duo, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2020
-The New Current, Rotterdam art week – group – Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Feb 2020)
2019
-Shifting Tides, Assembled by root – solo – Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-Art The Hague, Assembled by Root – group – The Hague, the Netherlands
-Face Value, stichting Root – group – Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-What matters, matters , 37PK – group – Haarlem, the Netherlands
-The Golden egg – group , Amsterdam, the Netherlands
-A Good Work Will Work, Nieuwe Vide – Haarlem, The Netherlands
-KunstRAI, Amterdam RAI, Assembled by Root – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
-Captured In Form, Assembled by Root – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2018
-Art The Hague, Assembled by Root – group, The Hague, the Netherlands
-The Assemblage, Assembled by Root – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-Summer Show, Club Gem – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-Spring propositions, SBK kunstuitleen & galerie – group, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
-Form Unformed, Assembled by Root – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2017
-Nieuwe Vide studio’s #2 – Periphery, Nieuwe Vide Haarlem – group, Haarlem, the Netherlands Vakwerk op maar II, Spatie Arnhem – group, Arnhem, the Netherlands
-The New Current – group, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
-NachtExpo – duo, Deventer, the Netherlands
2015
-Graduation exhibition, Artez – group, Arnhem, the Netherlands
2014
-University Nijmegen – group, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
2013
-University library at University of Utrecht – group, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Publication on the web
2017
https://trendbeheer.com/tag/jan-kuhlemeier/ https://nieuwevide.nl/programma/jan-kuhlemeier 2015
http://www.mistermotley.nl/art-everyday-life/jan-kuhlemeier-artez-0 http://www.bloozgallery.nl/eindexamens-kunstacademies/fotoblog-artez-finals-2015- arnhem/#lightbox[group-11771]/6/