Reineke Hollander is a Dutch-American artist, who grew up in the Netherlands but has lived in New York City since 1986. Since 2015 she works for six months a year in Marseille, France. A brief career as a theatrical costume designer provided the genesis of her love for fabrics and sewing. Hollander’s work is found in numerous public and private collections in the Netherlands, the USA, France and Israel. She has widely exhibited in the USA and Europe.
“Like an archeologist I excavate fragments of gestures made by people in the past, in the form of vintage fabrics, paper and photographs, and try to discern a narrative from them. Shards become “wholes,” not as something that once was whole in the past, like an antique vase, but as new forms in the present whose meaning can be symbolic, allegorical and/or a comment on current situations that concern me. ‘Places I have been’ are another source of inspiration. It refers to cities where I had a residency or established a longtime studio, including Warsaw, Dar Es Salaam, Jerusalem, Santa Fe, and Marseille. Every one of my works is formed by a hybrid of all those places: their political, historical, cultural and emotional vibes that flow into my studio and join with material I find locally.”
’From Marseille to Brooklyn’, a short movie by Boisakre Productions (Caroline de Otero and Catou Guillaud) about me working in my studios in Marseille and Brooklyn, NY
View it on YouTube, search Reineke Hollander
Selected One Person Exhibitions
Upcoming: 2025 June 4 - June 27 ‘ Other Places ‘, MundArt, Marseille
2024 Les Yeux sur la Terre, Genie de la Bastille, Paris, France
2023 Places I have been, Artspace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hotel de Cabre, Marseille, organized by Bureau Chateau de Servieres
2021 Hôtel de Cabre, Marseille
2021 Marianne Cat, Marseille, France
2019 Les Histoires des Autres, Marie d’Honneur, Toulon, France
2001 Topographies, Arts On Seven, Hoboken, NJ
1999 Three Dutch Artists, Hofstra University Museum, New York
1987 Escalators, Forum Gallery, Amsterdam
1986 The Road To Jerusalem, Arti Gallery, Amsterdam
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Tenuous Threads, Atlantic Gallery, NYC
2022 43rd Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition, Museum for Contemporary Art, Mesa, AZ
Contemporary Color, Site: Brooklyn - online
Beyond Words, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MS
2021 Emprise, Marseille, France
2020 Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2019 The Uncommon Apron,Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ
2018 Museum for Contemporary Art, Mesa, Arizona
2017 Being Sentient, Sentient Being, Will’s Creek, Cumberland, MD
Truth, Bric, Brooklyn, NY
WWI Lasting Impact, Azarian McCullough Art Gallery, Sparkill, NY
2016 Summer Exhibition at Moskowitz Bayse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Material Matters, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
Collage, (Scene), Metro Space, East Lansing, MI
Faith & Form, Anne Frank Center USA, New York, NY
2013 Touched by the Holocaust, Synagogue for the Arts, NYC
2012 The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ
The Evil Eye, Queens College Art Center
Fixins, organized by The 22 Magazine, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn
Inside and Outside the Box, Crane Building, Philadelphia
2010 Seduced by the Sacred, JCC of West Hartford
2009 Heed the Machine, Illustrious, St Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Crossing Lines, Delaware Center for the Contemporary arts
2005 Galeria Milano, Warsaw, Poland
Grants and Residencies
1979-1986 Visual Arts Grant from the Municipality of Amsterdam
2017 three months residency The Alice Kagawa Parrot Family Trust, Santa Fe, NM
1984 one month residency Mishkenot Ha’arim, Jerusalem , Israel
Bibliographie
2023 Encyclopaedia of Mental States in Inlandia Literary Magazine, Vol 14 summer 2023
Cover for John Hadfield’s recent album: ‘Drum of Stories’
2022 Catalog Beyond Words
Featured in review of Beyond Words in Artscope Magazine
2021 Featured by Textiel Plus, the Netherlands
2019 Interview by France tv Canal 3
Review in Var-Matin (Toulon): Les recits textiles de Reineke Hollander
2019 Catalog The Uncommon Apron
2016 Picture in Inscape Magazine Issue 2016
2015 Blurb and Photograph in American Craft Magazine issue December/January
2012 Interview online TextileArtists.org
Article about Reineke Hollander and ‘Chairs’ in ‘Textiel Plus’, the Netherlands,
Times Ledger, article about ‘Evil Eye’ Exhibition in Queens, with my Dead Fetishes prominently featured
1999 Catalog of Three Dutch 1999 Artists’(exhibition at the Emily Lowe Gallery of Hofstra University)
1986 De Tweede Ronde, Literary Magazine: Reineke Hollander: De Weg Naar Jeruzalem' (The Road To Jerusalem), by Nico Slothouwer