Charlotte Schleiffert

Charlotte Schleiffert

Save Ukraine, 2022, mixed technique on paper, 300 x 150 cm & Miss Sagittarius, 2021, mixed technique on paper, 302 x 150 cm, photos by Peter Tijhuis

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Charlotte Schleiffert

Biography

Committed to the social and political movements of our global society in general, Charlotte Schleiffert (1967, Tilburg, the Netherlands) has no intention to compromise or subdue the stories and situations that her paintings refer to, sometimes literally summarized on the canvas with handwritten text. Crude themes are addressed with dynamic brush strokes, life size figures poised with a striking elegance. Abstraction and figuration seem impulsively composed, using a broad combination of media treatment (oil, acrylic, egg tempera, pastel, foil…). With bursting colour Schleiffert depicts the opposition between poverty and wealth, the friction between religions, the immeasurable impact of both male and female rape-strangely glamorous and heart wrenching at once. Throughout all paintings the underlying desperation for love, protection and luxury is both hopeful and unsettling.

Charlotte Schleiffert was trained at Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem (1990-1992), and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1999 (first prize). She completed various residencies in China (CEAC, 2003), Germany (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, 2007-8), France (Atelier Holsboer, 2012) and Indonesia (Cemeti Arthouse, 2013). In 2023, het travelling solo exhibition ‘Tolerance test’ was shows at Drents Museum (Assen), Rijksmuseum Twenthe (Enschede), Nieuw Dakota (Amsterdam) and Singer Laren (Laren), Kunstlinie Almere. She had numerous solo exhibitions at AKINCI, several shows at Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, and exhibited a.o. at Garage Rotterdam (2020) Atelier Holsboer, Cite des Arts, Paris (2018) Haus Der Kunst, Munich (2017) Erasmushuis Jakarta, Indonesia (2014) Heden, The Hague (2013); Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich (2013); Museum Het Domein, Sittard (2011); Pictura, Dordrecht (2011); Kunstverein Glückstadt, Germany (2006), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2004), Muka, Auckland (2003); Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen (2003) and Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (2003). She participated in group exhibitions at Rijksmuseum (2023); Dodrechts Museum (2023); Schunk, Heerlen (2019); Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (2013); Cité Internationale des Arts (2012); De Paviljoens, Almere (2012); Centraal Museum Utrecht (2010); ‘Rebelle’, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (2009); Cultural Center Montehermoso (2008) and several times at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her works are in many private and public collections, a.o. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, Foundation Endowment De Buitenplaats, Eelde (NL) etc. Schleiffert is one of the selected artists filmed for the ongoing series ‘Dutch Masters of the 21st Century’. She lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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We are proud to announce that Museum Dordrecht has acquired a work on paper from the series ‘What kind of leader do we need?’ (2014) by Charlotte Schleiffert. 

 

Furthermore, we are excited to announce that on the occasion of the travelling exhibition ‘Tolerance Test’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, as well as the Drents Museum have acquired several monumental works on paper by Charlotte Schleiffert. 

Tolerance Test

23 January – 21 April, 2024

Museum Arnhem, Netherlands

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