Cornelia Anthonia Van Vugt

Lia van Vugt was born in 1945 on Goeree Overflakkee. After the gymnasium in Roosendaal she followed the Monumental Design course at the 'Artibus' academy in Utrecht. The lessons in the studio of the sculptor Jan van Luyn were especially important here. From 1976 to 1978, Van Vugt studied sculpture at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, at the time the only postgraduate institute in the Netherlands. In 1977 Van Vugt received a stipend from the Italian Cultural Institute for further studies at the Brera Academy in Milan.

Lia van Vugt's sculptures are not primarily conceived from nature, they are independent objects that follow their own rules. The most important rule is that the image can be viewed from all sides, from below, from above, from the side. It is about how the image intervenes in the space around it. Van Vugt strives for a certain 'abstraction'. This is a result of her striving to create an autonomous image, an image that is independent of a prescribed context and that has itself as a reference.

A good image slowly emerges. It takes an infinite amount of time and monomaniac attention. Taking something away here, adding something there, it is a matter of millimeters. The manual process is a form of meditation, of...

• Academie Artibus onder leiding van Jan van Luyn
• Postacademische studie Jan van Eyck academie
Maastricht onder leiding van
Arthur Spronken
• Brera academie Milaan (1 jaar)
• Institutio di Culturadi Roma, Italië, stipendium

. 2020/21/22 Huyskamer Amsterdam
• 2014 Standbeeld Haarlemmerplein Amsterdam.
• 2014 De Tienhof Tienhoven
• 2014 Beelden Kasteel Gronsveld
• 2013Art traverse de Bilt
• 2011 Expositie Tienhof in Tienhoven
• 2010 Bommel van Dam Roermond
• 2008 2009 Art Bejing
• 2007 Galerie Ravensteyn
• 2005 Wassenaar, de pauw
• 2004 Nike Tilburg
• 2003 linart gent
• Beeldentuin seizoen in beeld te callandsoog, www.seizoeninbeeld.nl
• Tongerloohuys, Roosendaal, solo
• Biennale di Sculptura, Milaan, Italië (mede-exposanten o.a. Minquez, Henry
Moore)
• ABN Bank, Amsterdam
• Stichting Nieuw Perspectief, Amsterdam
• De Olievaer, Uithoorn
• De Hooge Heesch, Eersel
• De Beerenburgh, Eck en Wiel
• Galerie Nanky de Vreeze, Amsterdam
• De Derde Dimensie, Amsterdam
• Galerie Imago, Amsterdam
• Galerie d'Eendt, Amsterdam
• Galerie De Verbeelding, Baarle-Hertog
• Galerie Traject, Utrecht
• Galerie De Tweelingh, Nijmegen
• Provinciaals Museum, Zwolle
• Gdansk Portret Triënnale, Polen
• De Nederlandse Tors, Dordrechts Museum
• Kunstforum, Gent, België
• Galerie De Greef, Wassenaar
• Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen
• Kunsthandel Fijnhaut, Amsterdam
• Galerie van Geyt, Hulst (met Co Westerik)
• VSB Bank
• Portrettenkabinet A...