Rob Birza (1962)
Rob BIRZA
Painter, draftsman, video artist, installation artist, performance artist
Born in Geldrop in 1962
Education: Rob Birza studied at the Academy of Fine Arts St Joost (Breda) in the early 1980s, after which he did the art training Ateliers '63 in Haarlem. After this Birza studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Lives and works in Amsterdam.
Rob Birza is a successful and well-known Dutch contemporary artist. An artist who masters many techniques. Initially Rob Birza mainly painted with egg tempera, nowadays he also makes installations, sculptures and performances. His subjects and representations are also varied, the work is both abstract and figurative, imaginative and realistic. Birza's art has a direct physical impact on the viewer, because of its wild and imposing. Rob Birza prefers to make interesting art than beautiful art, because according to the artist you can only talk about beauty quickly.
For ten years Birza worked on the Al Qaeda series, paintings and with which he reflected on the one-sided way in which photojournalists portray the Middle East after 9/11. After this Birza mainly devoted himself to abstract art.
Exhibitions and prizes:
Rob Birza has had many exhibitions at home and abroad, below is a small selection.
Solo exhibition Birza, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1991
Solo exhibition The Aquarium, The Hague Municipal Museum, The Hague, 1992
Sandberg Prize (Oeuvre Award), Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, 1998
Group exhibition Long live Painting! Back to the figure, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 2007
By:Arthur Brouwers
| Technique | Other |
| Dimensions | 22 x 2 x 22 cm (h x w x d) |
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