Thomas Elshuis

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CV Thomas Elshuis (1961 Hilversum, lives/works in Amsterdam)

Represented by Gist Galerie Amsterdam/Brummen

1980-1988 Architecture and Urban Development at the University of Technology in Delft - graduation project based on "A Rebours" by 19th century French author J.K. Huysmans
1989-1994 Independent architect
1994 First art commission by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.
1998 Inherits an archive of 20.000 transparencies from a family friend, all of his further works of art are based on this archive
2000/2004/2008 Basic stipend of Fonds BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)


Public Commissions

1994 Delft : "View of Delft"

Amsterdam Osdorp – Waterspiegel
2001 Arnhem – headoffice Akzo Nobel: "Salto Mortale"

Dronten : "Fata Morgana"
2005 Amsterdam Sloterdijk : "De Maalstroom #1"
2006 Amsterdam Zeeburg : "De Maalstroom #2"

Breda – jeugdgevangenis : "De horizon recht boven je"
2006 Amsterdam Sloterdijk – continuation on De Maalstroom 1

Velp – Alysis Zorggroep : "The Passage #1 + #2"
2009 Den Haag – Minsterie van Financien : "Kunstcaemer" and "Observatorium"
2010
2011/12
 Den Haag – Deloitte – 10 photoworks: "Wide Horizons"
Enschede - Headoffice TUI Nederland: "Around the world"


Exhibitions

2012 - 18-02
2010 – 21/24-10		 Gist Galerie, Amsterdam: "Fragmenst of Architecture"
Gist Galerie at Show Off Paris – new works
2010 – 05-09 Gist Galerie, Amsterdam – new works (duo Erik Sep)
2010 – 23/30-05 Gist Galerie at Art Amsterdam (group)
2009 – 29-01/17-03 AMC, Brummelkamp galerie, I am a bird (group)
2009 – 13/17-05 Gist Galerie at Art Amsterdam (group)
2009 – 9-01/14-02 Gist Galerie, Amsterdam – Slow City (group)
2008 – 08/12-05 Gist Galerie at Art Amsterdam (group)
2008 – 08-03/12-04 Wetering galerie, Amsterdam – Travelogue #2 (group)
2007 – 09-06/14-07 Gist Galerie, Amsterdam – In search of the Omega man (duo Alex Jacobs)
2007 – 09/13-05 Wetering galerie at Art Amsterdam (group)
2007 – 14-07/18-08 Jongland, Anna Paulowna – kunstroute
2007 – 10-02/07-03 Kunstvereniging Diepenheim – Dreamland (group)
2007 – 08/12-02 Gist Brummen ar Art Rotterdam (group)
2007 – 01-02/11-03 CBK Amsterdam, new acquisitions (group)
2007 – 07-01/04-02 Gist Brummen – Dreamland (group)
2006 – 29-10/03-12 Gist Brummen – Travelogue (solo)
2006 – 07-10/05-11 Deurne, Museum de Wieger – Fotofestival: het kleine verschil (group)
2006 – 18-05/18-07 AMC, Brummelkamp galerie – new acquisitions
2006 – 03/07-05 Gist Brummen at Art Amsterdam (group)
2006 – 18-02/25-03 Wetering galerie, Amsterdam – new photoworks
2005 – 02-12/24-12 Gist Brummen – 5 years Gist (group)
2005 – 04-09/16-10 Gist Brummen – photoworks (solo)
2005 – 26-02/10-04 KW 14, Den Bosch – Constructed Moment
2005 – 24/28-02 Gist Brummen at Art Rotterdam (group)
2005 – 16-12/31-01 Gist Brummen – Basics 2005 – new space (group)
2004 – 05/09-05 Wetering galerie at Art Amsterdam – Het Archief (solo)
2003 – 14-02/30-03 Nijmegen, Museum Het Valkhof – solo
2003 – 11-01/12-02 Wetering galerie, Amsterdam – new works (duo Ad Gerritsen)
2003 – 04-04/22-06 LUMC Galerie, Leiden
2002 – 31-05/30-06 LUMC Galerie, Leiden – Off the road (solo)
2001 - 09 Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Arnhem (solo)
2001 - 05 AMC, Brummelkamp galerie, Amsterdam (solo)
2001 – 24-03/15-04 Artis, Den Bosch – Mind the gap!


Publications

27-11-2011
09-06-2010		 Carousel: Into the Mountains: http://www.99uitgevers.nl/
NRC Handelsblad "De geneeskracht van fraai uitzicht", Tracy Metz
Nr 5 / 2010 Kunstbeeld, Thomas Elshuis, Roos van der Lint, p.10
23-01-2009 NRC Handelsblad "Niets ligt vast in de almaar veranderende metropool", Tracy Metz
31-05-2008 Cicero – LUMC magazine "Uit de Kunst"
2007 "PRESENT" kunst bij rijksgebouwen

"De Horizon recht boven je", Dirk van Weelden.
29-09 2006 NRC Handelsblad "Ik wil de verwondering terug", Rosan Hollak
01-03 2006 De Volkskrant "Als een digitale Marco Polo op reis", Xandra de Jongh
09-11- 2006 NRC Handelsblad Galerieselectie, galerie Gist te Brummen
16-02- 2006 NRC Handelsblad Galerieselectie, Weteringgalerie te Amsterdam
2005 Straatsofa, Essays en verhalen door Dirk van Weelden

"Off the Road" pag. 91-96
Nr 5 / 2004 Kunstbeeld "De opening: Thomas Elshuis in Wetering Galerie in Amsterdam", Xandra de Jongh
2002 De Gids nr. 8 "Een archief en een nieuwe wereld"

Dirk van Weelden in gesprek met Thomas Elshuis