Roel Jeroen Van Der Linden

Roel van der Linden: Un Real / Ne Skutečné

Let us recall those scenes from underwater nature documentaries, where in the bluish depths we see whales, blue whales, sperm whales, and other cetaceans caught and entangled in huge torn fishing nets that bind them, nets they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. This incongruous, foreign element—like shackles in an unwanted, almost surreal symbiosis—stands as a chilling testimony to a collision with civilization.

Foreign, slightly surreal objects floating in the landscape are also a symptomatic feature of the paintings of the Dutch artist living in Prague, Roel van der Linden. Landscape was a popular motif of the Surrealist movement in the 1920s. Surrealist landscapes were permeated and reshaped by motifs and imagery drawn from the subconscious, free associations, and dream analysis, creating disparate, incongruous connections between different elements. The principle of automatism—creation without the intervention of rational thought—was formulated by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifesto. For the Surrealists, landscape often occupies a central position; it does not merely represent the physical world but becomes a stage projecting the deepest emotions, dreams, and fant...

Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, UMPRUM CZ

2018 - ‘On The Road Again’, Art The Hague (NL)
2018 - ‘Show’, Luxfer Open Sapce (CZ)
2018 - ‘Small world’, Ruimte Caesuur (NL)
2018 - ‘Closer To The Bone’, Kersentuin, Art Amsterdam (NL)
2018 - ‘Floating in my Czechoslovakian Heaven’, GAVU (CZ)
2018 - ‘Goodbye Ai WeiWei’, INI Galerie (CZ)
2017 - ‘Roel & Martin New York Denim 85’, De Vishal (NL)
2017 - KersGallery, Art The Hague (NL)
2017 - ‘Heatwave in Sydney’, Luxfer Galerie (CZ)
2017 - ‘Jeff Koons Recommends: After Shit Falls’, KersGallery (NL)
2017 - KersGallery, For Real Art Fair (NL)
2016 - ‘Painter & Painter’, Galerie Kritiků (CZ)
2016 - ‘Blizké Setkaní / Close Encounter’, Galerie NTK (CZ)
2015 - ‘From a Painter’s perspective’, Arti et Amicitiae (NL)
2015 - ‘HateFree’, DOX gallery for contemporary art (CZ)
2015 - ‘Roel v Praze’, Behal Fejer Institute (CZ)
2015 - ‘This’, Beurs van Berlage (NL)
2014 - ‘Art in Redlight’, Beurs van Berlage (NL)
2014 - ‘Blijdrecht-Praag’, KersGallery (NL)
2013 - ‘Weltauge’, Torch Gallery (NL)
2013 - ‘Royal Award for Dutch Painting’, Paleis op de Dam (NL)
2012 - ‘Etap Roel’, KersGallery (NL)
2010 - ‘Royal Award for Dutch Painting’, Paleis op de Dam (NL)
2009 - ‘A lot of possibilities’, Softbox Queens (U.S.A.)
2008 - ‘Art in Free Fall’, BWAC...