JUS JUCHTMANS
°1952, Antwerp (BE)
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium
The Minimalist artists rejected the dominance of visual perception and presented the IDea of artworks as objects to be experienced, to be made aware of. The monochrome became something more than a painting, it was also a sculpture, or more specifically, an object. In the work of Robert Ryman and Frank Stella, painting changed its nature. No longer were their paintings to be seen for their visual impact. They were experienced as three-dimensional and every aspect of their materiality was now part of their perception as artworks. This included the canvas stretchers, upon which the paint was applied, the thickness of the paint, as well as the conditions in which the work was “framed”, i.e. the conditions of the gallery space. One of the things the Minimalist artists had tried to achieve was an aesthetic that took into account, and heightened the viewers’ awareness of the artworks’ immediate surroundings.
It is in this context that the painting of Jus Juchtmans can best be seen. You can ask yourself whether his paintings can be consIDered monochromes. This depends on how strict your definition of a monochrome is. There is however no doubt that the monochrome, or an engagement with it, is evIDent in his work. It is an engagement with the visual aesthetic of the monochrome. The aspect time plays an important part in this but not in the earlier ‘romantic’ sense, with its evocation of transcendence and timelessness. Instead, Juchtmans’s engagement with time within the monochrome introduces the IDea of temporality in our aesthetic experience of art.
Fragment © Eugene Tan
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Collections (selection)
SMAK, Gent (BE)
PMMK, Oostende (BE)
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (DE)
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego – La Jolla (US)
ABN/AMRO Kunststichting, Amsterdam
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles (FR)
F. van Lanschot Bankiers, Den Bosch
AHOLD/ Delaize kunstcollectie, Zaandam
Axa Collection, Madrid (ES)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2022
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2020
'Trough your eyes only', c.art Galerie , Dornbirn
2019
‘What a coincidence?’, Galerie van den Berge
'You can’t put your finger on it…', Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
2018
'High Frequencies', (met Regine Schumann) Galerie Renate Bender München
'You are here', Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
2017
'Point of View', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Controcanti - Jus Juchtmans - Looking Forward', Galeria Torbandena, Triëste
2016
'Consequence', Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
'Undertow', Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
2015
'shffl', Alex51gallery, Maastricht
'Shuffle 1981- 2014', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2014
'Konsequenz', c.art, Dornbirn
'Friction', Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
'Color Virus', Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2013
Galerie Albrecht, Berlijn
2012
Galerie van den Berge, Goes (met Tina Haase)
“vis-à-vis” (met Bill Thompson), Galerie Renate Bender, München
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2011
'Bipolar', Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
2010
'Look Again', Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
2009
'Each conscious choice is either subjective or strategic',Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle
Galerie am Lindenplatz, Lichtenstein
Galerie Albrecht, Berlijn
2008
Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Galerie Lausberg, Düsseldorf
2007
Galerie Philippe Casini, Parijs
Galerie Hollenbach,Stuttgart (met Yuji Takeoka)
Galerie Albrecht, München
2006
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
MUKA gallery, Auckland Nieuw Zeeland
Grusenmeyer Art Gallery, Deurle
2005
MUKA gallery, Auckland New-Zealand
Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid
Galerie Albrecht, München
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
2004
Galerie Renate Schröder, Keulen
Galerie Galerie van den Berge, Goes (met Marc Nagtzaam)
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (met Herbert Hamak)
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
2003
Galerie Albrecht, München
Kunstverein Oberhausen, Oberhausen (met Marc Angeli)
2002
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (met Robert Schaberl)
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
2001
AMLETT / Hamlet, Jan Decorte; for more information: http://www.toneelhuis.be
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Galerie Albrecht, München
Galerie Schröder, Köln (ind.)
Galerie van den Berge, Goes (met Marcy Freedman)
2000
Galerie Renate Schröder, Cologne
Kunstverein Schwerte, Schwerte
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (met Robert Schaberl)
'Gemalte Zeit', Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
1999
Galerie Albrecht, München
ROCKET Gallery, Londen
'Surface Speed', (met Augusta Alves da Silva), Cirrus Gallery, L.A.
W#AK (with Henric Borsten), Vlissingen
Galerie Schröder, Köln
1998
Hering Raum, Bonn
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
Galerie In Situ, Aalst
1997
'Diptychon IV', Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent / SMAK
Galerie Albrecht, Munich
Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Confrontatie/Dialoog', Galerie In Situ, Aalst (met Angela De La Cruz)
Group exhibitions (selection)
STAGE Bregenz im Festspielhaus, Probebühne, Stand C11, c.art, Prantl & Boch
'Curated by…Heiner Thiel, embodying colour', Galerie Renate Bender, München
PICNIC, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
'Reasons to be cheerful # 3', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Material Color', Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
PAN Amsterdam, Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'4+4', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
KunstRAI / Art Amsterdam
'Gallerywarming', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Fifty shades of red', Galerie Renate Bender, München
'Out of the black and into the blue', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating #2?, Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
'Zurück in die Zukunft', Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
'Argentum I', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
're:set', Clemens Sels Museum, Neus
'Mostly Monochrome', Galerie Renate Bender, München
'Faszination FARBE', Kunsthaus Fürstenfeldbruck
're:set', Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
'La verite en peinture', Kusseneers Gallery, Brussel
'Le vie dell' astrazione sonoinfinite', Torbandena Projects, Trieste
'Malerei', c.art Prantl & Boch Dornbirn
'Faszination der Farbe', DavisKlemmGallery, Wiesbaden
're:set', Kunstmuseum Celle
'NEW YEAR 2013', Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
'Reset', Arti et amicitiae, Amsterdam
Galerie Albrecht, Berlin (met Eric Cruishank en Franziska Fennert)
'Hommage aan de monochromie', ccha, Hasselt
'Artists of the Gallery', Grusenmeyer Gallery, Deurne
'View Indicator', galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Transparant', De Halle, Geel
'Our dear Friends', Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
'Bajola Luz del sol negro', Galeria Adora Calvo, Salamanca (curator: Oscar Alonso Molina)
“Il Velo”, Il Filatoio, Caraglio (Cueno), Italië
Galerie van den Berge, Goes (with Mirjan Hagoort and Karoly Keserü)
'Less is More', Renate Schröder Galerie, Mönchengladbach
'Monochrome Bilder, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart (met Herbert Hamak en Robert Schaberl)
Viennafair, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
'Personal Structures', Museum Ludwig Koblenz
'Gleam & Glory', Galerie Renate Schröder, Monchengladbach
'FW Painting', Montanus 5, Diksmuide
Galerie van den Berge, Goes (met Marc Nagtzaam)
'Die Farbe hat mich II (nicht nur rot)', Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen
Gallerie Hollenbach, Zürich (H. Hamak, J. Harris, R. Kirwan, U. Noeger, R. Schaberl en D. Sturgis)
'Seeing red, Part II: Contemporary Nonobjective Painting', Hunter College / Times Square Gallery, New York
'Messagers de nos solitudes', Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris (with Marthe Wéry, Rémy Hysbergue)
'Color - a life of its own', Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
'Emulsuin', Galerie van den Berge, Goes (met Ton Van Kints en Klaus Kröger)
Hooghuis, Arnhem (met P. Gatzen, G.Goiris, R. Meelkop, M. Nagtzaam, S. van den Bosch en R. Willems)
'Trans luzid', Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz
'10 jaar Galerie van den Berge, een kabinet', Galerie van den Berge, Goes
'Positionen 33 Painting', Hering Raum Stahlwerk Willich
'Peinture sur peinture', Salle de Bal, Vienna
'Galerie van den Berge te gast', Wetering Galerie, Amsterdam
'Clear and Saturated', Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
'Monomania' , ROCKET Gallery, Londen
'wie man’s sieht', reality-bytes, Cologne
'Youth Prints' , MUKA, Auckland Nieuw Zeeland
'Trapped Reality', Barcelona
'Confrontatie/Dialoog', Galerie In Situ, Aalst
Publicaties (selectie)
H. Martens - 'Jus Juchtmans, Diptychon IV', Gent: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 1997. D/ 1997/ 0341/ 6
C. Sluysmans - 'Clear and Saturated, the liars I', Amsterdam: Arti et Amicitiae, 1998. ISBN: 90-72612-25-6
J. Juchtmans - Jus Juchtmans 2000, Antwerpen, 2000. ISBN: 90-805924-1-2
M. Fehr - 'Die Farbe hat mich, Positionen zur nicht-gegenständlichen Malerei', Essen: Klartext, 2000. ISBN: 3-88474-927-7
C. Veugen - 'Een verraderlijk luchtige lichtheid', Rijswijk: Kunstbeeld, 2001. ISSN 0165-1129
H. Korte - 'Emulsion, - Drei Maler. Trialog der Differenzen',Vlissingen: Buro Beeldende Kunst, 2002
P. Lodermeyer - 'Personal structures, werke und dialoge', New York: GlobalArtAffairs, 2003. DE: ISBN 0-9745148-1-0 EN: ISBN 0-9745148-2-9 NL: ISBN 0-9745148-0-2
M. Fehr, S. Wurmfeld - 'Seeing Red, On Nonobjective Painting and Color Theory',Cologne, 2004. ISBN 3-89770-194-4
Catalogus 're:set - abstract painting in a digital world', Verlag Kettler, Bönen, 2014. (DE) ISBN 978-3-86206-331-4
