Paul Louis Van Den Bergh

My paintings and drawings suggest the nature of intimacy, community, transition, circumstance, process and progression. They depict life/forms, disparate and transient, that form societies constantly shifting and changing, combining to create fleeting moments of recognisable subjects and meaning. That which animates (spacial relationships, rhythm) is as important as that which is animated (subject)

The materials I use have often been gathered in the same vein. I come across some old dried-up tubes of gouache, museumboard cut-offs out of a skip from the picture framer down the street, pencils in varied states of use, etc., and rejuvenate them to create these works.

1993-1995 BFA, Otago School of Fine Arts, Dunedin, New Zealand.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1996 "We Fragments", Moray Gallery, Dunedin, NZ.
1997 Artworks Gallery, Wanaka, NZ.
2008 De Etalage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2016 "la Ligne - de Lijn - a Linha - the Line" Line Art 4
ArToll kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1995 BFA Graduates Exhibition, The Forrester Gallery, Oamaru, NZ.
2000 Group Exhibition, "New Works", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2001 Finalist, CoCA Awards, CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2001 Group Exhibition, "Less Is More, More Or Less", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2002 Group Exhibition,"I Will Need Words", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2002 Finalist: CoCA Awards,CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2002 "Less is More, More or Less", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2003 "ACCORD", with Margriet Windhausen and Paul van den Bergh, SOCA Gallery, Auckland.
2005 "ACTIVATE:45 Contemporary Artists", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch.
2005 "GENERATIONS-The Windhausens and the van den Berghs", CoCA Gallery, Christchurch.
2006 "GENERATIONS-The Windhausens and the van den Berghs", Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru.
2007 "South Canterbury Artists 1854-present", Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru, NZ. 2007 Auction of works, Watsons Fine Art Auctions, Christchurch, NZ.
2011 "Drawing Conne...