Gerrit Velthuis

All my life I've been moving between fine art and design/architecture. In both disciplines, the behavior of light has my special interest.
Like in the words of the architect Louis Kahn: " The sun did not know how big it was, until it struck the side of building"
Or the Belgian poet Marc van Halsendaele: "Colour is the wonder of light"

1973-1979 Technical University Delft (Architecture)
1983-1987 Academy Minerva Groningen (Conceptual Art)
1985-1995 Public Art and Installations
1995-2010 Working as an architect
2011-2016 Klassieke Academie Groningen (Classical Techniques)
2016- Working as an artist

a selection from the 80's:

summer 1986 "Ladders on the Styx" installation on the river Vecht, Hardenberg
summer 1987 "Folly for Vermeer", installation Diepenheim
from 1989 "Funeral-bench" Markelo
summer 1989 "Zenobia (Divertimento for Italo Calvino", installation museum Zwolle
1988 "The Flood" installation courtyard Rijksmuseum Enschede
from 1990 "Folly for Noach" landscape-sculpture in Amsterdam-Noord

more recent (paintings):

2016 Pictura, Groningen
2016 CBK, Emmen
2017 K&C, Assen
2018 Pulchri Studio, Den Haag
2018 Galerie Paterswolde, Paterswolde
2019 "De Verbinding" Beelden in Gees, Gees
2019 "Rode Draad" Pictura, Groningen
2020 Veenkoloniaal Museum, Veendam
2021 Veenkoloniaal Museum, Veendam
2021 Mentzendorff House, Riga, Letland