Karin Bos

Order now: brand new catalogue! Karin Bos (1966, NL) graduated at the Amsterdam School of Fine Arts in 1989. She works as a visual artist in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her main media are painting, drawing and printing.
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People and nature are the focus point of her work. Main characters are usually girls or women. Especially mutual relative power and relations have her interest. Frictions and inequality in these relationships is a recurrent theme. For instance between man and woman, or adult and child, or children amongst each other, group behavior versus the loner. When the pursuit of harmony fails, it becomes interesting for her work. Several examples of 'girlpower' series Karin Bos has accomplished are 'Showgirls', 'Gamegirls', 'Fairyqueens' and 'Feel Good'.

In her recent work there is a shift towards the landscape. Karin Bos asked herself if she could tell something about people without having them literally in sight. It resulted in fairytale-like landscapes with an ominous undertone, where always something odd is present. These 'Slightly Creepy Camping Sites' are paintings of barns, sheds and abandoned caravans in harsh landscapes which get their suspense no longer by the act or look of the main character, ...

Education 1985 1989 AHK Amsterdam Academy of Fine Arts, the Netherlands

Solo show Museum De Wieger Deurne, NL, 2026
Group show Musee des Beaux Arts, Caen, FR, 2025
Solo show at Museo CAB Burgos, ES, 2020.
Solo show at CODA Museum Apeldoorn, NL, 2017/2018.
Solo show at Stedelijk Museum Kampen, NL, 2014.
Solo show at Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, NL, 2012.

Out now: Catalogue 'Los ojos del extranjero. Expedicion naturaleza', 144 pages, EN/NL/ES. 20 euro ex shipping. Order info at karinbos@freedom.nl
ISBN: 978-84-949075-6-2
released June 2020.

Catalogue 'A trip to the countryside' 40 pages full-color, paintings and work on paper by Karin bos. With essay by Rob Perree (English and Dutch). Release date: 2009. Order information: karinbos@freedom.nl 15 euro ex. shipping. ISBN/EAN: 978-90-9023798-5 www.karinbos.info