Curriculum Vitae
Ellen Rodenberg
1955 Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Works and lives in The Hague,
The Netherlands
Education (selection)
1974 -1977 Pedagogical Academy Magister Vocat,
Amsterdam, NL
1992- 1994 Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague, NL
Exhibitions and Projects (selection)
2025 De Aanschouw – het Wilde Weten – Veiling,
Rotterdam NL
2024 - on MEKH beach - Reversal of the Tide - , EX-MÊKH at Platforms Project@Art
Athina, Tobacco Factory, Athens, GR
2024 ¿De Dónde?
EX-MÊKH project in a hotel
room, Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2023 Open
Studio, Arteventura, Artist in residence, Andalucia, ES
2023 Comment
No Comment, Equinox, same but different, Dordrecht, NL
2022
Wormhole, EX-MÊKH installation, Platforms Project, curator Artemis Potamianou, Athens, GR
2022 Characters
- Con Alma, EX-MÊKH project in a hotel room, Hybrid Art Fair, Madrid, ES
2021 Stage
Arousal, an exhibition on the façade of EP7 Paris, For the project ‘Idiolithes’ of the international artists collective KRAATZ,
Paris, FR
2021 The Reason Why, performing
workshop and video Stage Arousal, EX-MÊKH shows a video
in their online booth together with video’s from KRAATZ and ATrans, Platforms Project NET 2021, Athens, GR
2020 As if, solo exhibition, Gallery Lutz, Delft, NL
2020
FeMaler,
Ellen Rodenberg & EX-MÊKH is invited for the program Femmes City, Vitrine
U, curator Isolde Nagel, KleistPark U7 Bahnhof, Berlin, D
2019 Probe, EX-MÊKH, curator
Isolde Nagel, A Trans, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, D
2019 MÊKH-web,
EX-MÊKH, project in Quartair Contemporary Art Initiative, The Hague, NL
2018 Still, solo exhibition, SpaceProject-01, Ruimtevaart
Foundation, De Helena, The Hague, NL
2015 Tools, Augentausch, EX-MÊKH,
A Trans, Berlin, D
2014 Source
Flat, EX-MÊKH at Platforms Project@Art Athina, Athens, GR
2014 The
Second Explodes, Kunsthalle Eurocenter, Lana, South
Tirol, Italy
2013 Malieveld@Frejus, France. Malieveld@Venetie,
Italy, Malieveld@Trins, Austria, Malieveld@PRO,
The Hague, Malieveld@Arles,
France, Malieveld@Berlin,
Germany
2011 Blindspot,
A.I.R. organisatie Elizabeth de Vaal, Pécsbagota, Hungary
2010 SOMS,
THE WALL, video (Ellen Rodenberg) and sound performance by Jan Borgers (Crystal Archives) for the project THE STRUGGLES OF
A SUPERHERO, AN INTROVERT AND A RISING STAR, Filmhuis
Zaal 5, The Hague NL
2010 Landing
Soon #6-12 Erasmus Huis Jakarta, Indonesia
2009 OUR Territory (EX)-MÊKH, De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek,
Helmond, NL
2009 Move, Nest, DCR, The Hague, NL
2008 Landing
Soon#7, Under The Influence, group of 3 solo’s, Cemeti Art House Jogjakarta, Indonesia
2007 Mêkh Stream 2x4 Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg, Kees
Koomen, Hans Ensink op Kemna, Atelier Supermedium,
Rijswijk, NL
2007 Ile de Mêkh in W139/ Basement, Amsterdam, NL
2002 From
Memory to Painting, solo presentation, Gallery Unart, Villach, Austria
2001 Coloured Memories II, solo exhibition Pictura,
Dordrecht, NL
1999 The total and the individual, solo presentation
Galerie Lutz, KunstRai Amsterdam, NL
1996 Paintings, solo exhibition, LUMC,
Leiden, NL
1995 Uitgelicht
I, startstipendia beeldende kunst 93-94, KunstRai
Amsterdam, NL
1994 De Ruimte, group show, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, NL
Work has
been purchased by:
Ministerie van Buitenlandse
Zaken
Aegon
Ministerie van Verkeer en
Waterstaat
Heden Den Haag
CBK Rotterdam en Dordrecht
Rabo Bank
FMO Den Haag
LUMC Leids Universitair
Medisch Centrum
ABP Algemeen Burgerlijk
Pensioenfonds
Private Collectors
Honors and Awards, Grants and
stipends
2020 ATRANS,
Berlin, Germany
2010 Prins Bernhard
foundation
2005
/ 2008 Stroom, HCBK, The Hague, NL
2002 Working Grant FKVB Foundation
for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1997, 2000, 2003 Basic Grant, Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and
Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1995 Starting
Grant, Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
1994 Visual Art Price, Culture Council,
Zuid-Holland, NL
Residencies
2023 Arteventura, Spain
2011 Blindspot, Post 15, Pécsbagota,
Hungary
2008
Landing Soon #7, Cemeti
Studio Residency, Cemety Art House, Yogyakarta
Publications
2022 Ellen
Rodenberg Artist book, Art
at work 2003 - 2021
2019 Ellen
Rodenberg ARTIST BOOK, Paintings 1999 -
2019
2017 Collateral Zone EX-MÊKH, brochure Platforms
Project, Athene.
2017 Freedom of Space, 5 years, awards for free project spaces in Berlin, A
Trans is nominated and awarded, pag.128/129 Ellen Rodenberg Tools (out of
order).
2017 The good life, Kerzzt,
Ellen Rodenberg, Kathimerini, Greece
2016 Ellen Rodenberg, Artist book, selection of
works 2011-2016
2014 Ellen Rodenberg Artist book,
works outside 2012-2014
2014 Malieveld
project, Kunst als publieke zaak, Jegens&Tevens,
Den Haag, NL
2010 Art for Sure, AEGON Art Collection
2008 Ellen Rodenberg, landing Soon#7 Sudjud
Dartanto, Cemeti Art House,
Yogyakarta, Indonesië
2005 Ondergewone, Stroom, Den Haag
2002 Ellen Rodenberg,
Ausstellung in Villach, Austria Kleine Zeitung, 13.09.02
1995 De reis verklaard in dynamiek- Cees Straus,
Trouw 13/12/1995
Teaching Artist
Art lessons, program development, educational
projects, workshops for children and adults:
ART-S-COOL The Hague from 2012 – 2024
PlatformsProject Athens 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
WEST The Hague 2019 - 2022
SKVR Rotterdam from 2008 – 2017