Contact :
http://www.carolineobreen.com/
Caroline O'Breen
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1970 in Reggio Emilia, Italy
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Education
1988 - 92 Brera Academy, Milan, Italy
1997 - 99 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam The Netherlands
Teaching
2005 now Royal Academy, The Hague, The Netherlands.
2015 - 16 Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Residencies
2008 European Ceramic Work Center, s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
2010 - 11 American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy.
2013 Museum Zauli, Faenza, Italy.
2014 ISCP, New York City, USA
2017 Le Maupas A.I.R. France
2020 - 22 IBB, Curacao, The Netherlands Antille
Selected Solo exhibitions
2024 Escher in Het Paleis (Kunstmuseum), The Hague, The Netherlands
2022 Nature * Patterns, Gallery Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022 Breath, The Smallest Gallery, in passage de Hallen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Spinning the stars, museum BAZ, The Hague, The Netherlands
2019 Zero & Five, Galerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Form Informed, sculptures & prints, in the de Quistvitrine at the Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The Netherlands
2016 Form Informed, book launch & exhibition of prints at Printed Matter, N.Y.C. U.S.
2014 Hypotrochoid of Albrecht Dürer & Apion of Giordano Riccati, Envoy Enterprises gallery N.Y. (hosted by Torch gallery), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 
2011 Scintillascopy, Maura Biava & Dike Blair, Cascina Cuccagna, Milan, Italy
2011 Trinity, informing abstraction, Galleria Alessandro De March, Milan, Italy
2007 Marta, Iride, Gwen, Doride, Poly & all the others that you don’t know yet, Maison Grégoire, Brussels
2007 De Ruimte, Kunstfort centrum voor actuele kunst, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
2007 Doride/Ultramarine, Maura Biava & Elspeth Diederix, Photo Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Doride, Gwen and Poly, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003 Doride, tangeble speech, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Levanto, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, cat.
1999 Proteus, Window Gallery, Walter van Beirendonck, Antwerp, Belgium, leaflet
1999 Ermete, Aphrodite & Papillon, Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
1999 Horaes, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996 Medusa & Delfina, Galleri Nicolaï Wallner, Copenhagen, Danimark
Selected Group exhibitions
2024 Luminous Reveries, Gallery Dotwalk, Travancore Palace, New Delhi, India
2024 Experimentumcrucis III, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, Italy
2023 Experimentumcrucis II, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, Italy
2022 Experimentumcrucis, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, Italy
2021 All'ombra del... Contemporary Art project Villa Iblea, Sicila, Italy
2020 The Natural, Galerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Point in time, 50 years EKWC, Priveekollektie gallery, Heusden, The Netherlands
2018 The Artist Mind: 8 Artists Photograph Themselves, Galerie Caroline O'Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Ecovention Europe, Museum Contemporary Art De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands
2017 A preview to desolation, Italian Institute, New Delhi, India
2016 Form Informed, book launch & exhibition of prints at PrintRoom, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Form Informed, book launch & exhibition of prints at The Jan van Eyck academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2016 Dalla cellula all’universo-dall’atomo al bit, Triennale Expo Gate, Milano, Italy
2016 New Realism - Gaze of Science, Science Park 904, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2015 Surfacing, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2015 Data Clay, Museum of Design, San Francisco, California, USA
2015 New York stories, ISCP, Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.
2015 Bloody Mary, Maagdenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Raving Disco Dolly on A Rock 'n Roll Trolley, Envoy gallery, New York, N.Y. USA
2014 In forma di ceramic MCZ, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy, cat.
2013 Mare Nostrum, Château Musée of Dieppe, Diep festival, France, cat.
2013 Le ragioni dello spazio, Palazzo Tagliaferro, Andora, Italy
2012 Parelen, De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands, cat.
2010 KAAP, Fort Ruigenhoek, Groenekan, The Netherlands
2010 Global contemporary artists for artists, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 Een keuse, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Girls on clay, EKWC, Den Bosch, The Netherlsnds
2007 On the Edge of Vision, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi India, cat.
2007 Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. The Netherlands, cat.
2007 Whoman, Gemak, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2006 Gimme Shelter, Halle Fur Kunst, Luneburg, Germany, cat.
2006 Allarmi 2, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, Italy, cat.
2006 Frame, Gertrude Contemporay Art Space, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Cooling out, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, cat.
2005 Going Dutch: new photograpy from NL, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA
2005 Crysalis, Dutch Eyes, Biennale d’arte contemporanea, Castello Svevo di Bari, Italy cat.
2005 The story begin, Gallerie Van Gelder, Amstrerdam, The Netherlands
2004 Hedendaagse Landschappen STDSGLR, Herlen, The Netherlands cat.
2004 Vis Vitalis Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004 La nuova generazione artistica in Italia, Assab One, Milan, Italy cat.
2004 This not a home this is a house, Maison Grégoire, Brussels, Belgium
2003 Criccagang T293 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
2002 A’dam & Eve, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Flash, Baltic Center, Gateshead; Chinese European Center, Xiamen
2001 Breeze of AIR/Hortus Conclusus, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, cat.
2000 Flash, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
2000 Diary, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Firstsite, the Minories, Colchester, Great Britain, cat.
2000 Bloemen van de Nieuwe Tijd, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, The Netherlands, cat.
2000 O sole mio, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2000 Clara, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Rundgang 4 - change is good, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, cat.
1999 Real time@zoersel '99, Domein Kasteel van Halle, Zoersel, Belgium, cat.
1999 World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, cat.
1999 Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. cat.
1998 Photography as Concept, Foto-Triennale, Galerie der Stadt, Esslingen, Germany, cat.
1998 Traces of Science in Art, Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, cat
1998 Supernova, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, leaflet, The Netherlands
1997 Slight, Norwich School of Art & Design, Norwich, Great Britain
1997 G.S.1, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
1997 Slight, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Great Britain
1996 See Through Brains, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Great Britain
1995 Topi d’archivio, by F. Pasini, Via Farini, Milano, Italy
Public Space Projects
2002 Stars of Europe, monument in front of the Bonnefanten museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2001 www.Carla-Barbara-Claire.nl, Centre Céramique, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Books
2007 Doride/Ultramarine, Maura Biava and Elspeth Diederix. d'Jonge Hond publisher, The Netherlands
Artist Books
2022 Spira Mirabilis And Other Spiral Patterns, by Mark Allen, Maura Biava, and Emily Joyce, Published by PrintRoom, Rotterdam. https://printroom.org/printroom-book-shop/#jp-carousel-5004
2017 Form informed, design by Meeusontwerpt, foreword by Dike Blair, published by Konnotation N.Y. https://www.konnotationpress.com/shop/maura-biava-form-informed-deluxe-edition
2001 Astrid, Bahnwärterhaus, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
DVD Publications
1999 For Urano, Digital Video Disc, 8'20 min., with composer Roderick de Man, Bifrons Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Baltic Gateshed, Great Britain
Grants
2023 - 2027 Basic grant, Mondriaan Founds
2021 Project grant, Mondriaan Founds
2020 - 22 IBB Curaçao, Mondriaan Founds
2018 - 22 Established Artist grant, Mondriaan Founds
2008 - 12 Basic grant, Mondriaan Founds
2010 Project studio Rome, Mondriaan Founds
2009 Work grant, Mondriaan Founds
2004 - 08 Basic grant, Mondriaan Founds
2001 Project grant, Mondriaan Founds
2000 Work grant, Mondriaan Founds
1999 Work grant, Mondriaan Founds
1997 - 99 Study grant, Mondriaan Founds
Works by Maura Biava can be found in the following collections:
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
Kunstfort Centrum Voor actuele kunst, Vifhuizen, The Netherlands
Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem, The Netherlands
De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in a variety of private collections.
Text by Marco Tagliaferro:
Maura Biava searches the sensible vitality of form and dilates its skin in space.The form acts on feelings through direct sensory perception and thus influence our biological state. A living space fully confident in his emotional intelligence. So its exact geometry is, for her, a means of psychological and behavioral analysis. Applying the principles of formal logic and mathematical laws, particularly those relating to methodological procedures. But, despite her firmness in applying these principles, Maura Biava is not a fanatic nor a mystical intransigent. Her art remains humanistic. A beautiful spiral is for example one of the results of the translation of mathematical formulas hybridized in plastic identity that characterized her research. I would not speak of the psychology of form but of phenomenology of vision. Her work is always acting on the psychophysical perceptive apparatus of the viewer and not only on a psychological and cultural level. Each work implies symbolic meanings but at the same time works in its most immediate perception; so it can allow both an intellectual and an emotional perception, there is an interchange between the mathematical data (which is given as the model) and the pure emotion of these basic geometric shapes that correspond to regular forms of the organic world.