Erik-Jan Vaandering

Erik-Jan Vaandering
(°1976, Alkmaar, Netherlands) is an artist who mainly works with painting (oil). In a search for new methods to ‘read the city’, Vaandering investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination. His paintings are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmospheric scenery in which recognition plays a mystery role. By taking daily life as subject matter and everyday aesthetic, he focuses on the idea of ‘public space’ and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment. His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways.

Education:
Graphic design , social studies, painting

* in 2016 Vaandering was invited by the National academy of painting of the republic of China to work there for an upcoming exhibition of hi...

Graphic design , social studies, painting

small selection 2000-2018

​Gallery Peter Leen

Gallery Van Schayk

Gallery Oosthem

Gallery Dabekausen

Gallery In de oude school

Museum Joure

Museum Sterkenhuis/Kranenburg

Gallery windkracht 13

Tropenmuseum Amsterdam

Gallery Alkmaar

Gallery RudolfV

Gallery Des Beaux Arts

Gallery Artistik

Gallery Huis ter Heide

Gallery Artzaanstad

Gallery De Hollandsche maagd

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art collections :

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Friesland Bank

Manchester United

CBK

ANWB

Omniac & Partners

Kesselaar ans Son

Northwest Hospitals

National academie Beijing



private collectors worldwide

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Special commissions Dutch national tv :

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klokhuis tv

postcode lotery show

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publications :

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Palet artmagazine

BK krant

NHD national newspaper (many times)

National Artist Guide Netherland

Book : Artist from Alkmaar (Netherlands)

Olifant graphic magazine

several dutch newspapers

National newspapers in China