Vera Gulikers, Meerssen (NL), 1991

Working and living in Maastricht, the Netherlands


Education

2018           Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
2016           MA Fine Arts, Sint Lucas University College of Fine Arts and Design Antwerp (BE)
2014           BA Fine Arts, Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design (NL)


Exhibitions

Forthcoming / Current
2024/25 Solo show at Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (NL)
2023/24 KISS MY SOUL, Dordrechts Museum, curated by Wilma Suto, Dordrecht (NL)
2024 The Model (Twirl and Swirl), KRC Collection, Citizen M, Boston (USA)
2024 I Hit You With a Flower, curated by Nanda Janssen, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (NL)

Past
2023 Beelden in Leiden, Sculpture in public space, Leiden (NL)
2023 Residency at Make Eindhoven, through Mondrian Fund (3 months)
2023 No Matter the Weather, solo show at roof-A Gallery for the roof-A Award, Rotterdam (NL)
2022 Parkstad Limburg Prijs, SCHUNCK* Museum, Heerlen (NL)
2022 Beating Around the Bush #7: FALSE FLAT, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
2022 Commissioned works for Zuyderland Collection, Plastic Surgery department (NL)
2022 Jaarprent Zuyderland Collection (NL)
2022 Solo presentation at Unfair 2022, Westergas Amsterdam (NL)
2022 DTRH, by NEST, Biddinghuizen (NL)
2022 Commissioned sculpture ‘The Stretcher (Fudge and Smudge)’ for ING House Maastricht, ING Collection (NL)
2021 ALL EYES | WE ARE THE COLLECTION, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Smoke and Mirrors, collection presentation, SCHUNCK* museum, Heerlen (NL)
2021 Exhibition Young Collectors Festival, Young Collectors Circle, Hazenstraat 18, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Reflections beyond the surface, Akzo Nobel Art Space, Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
2021 Commissioned work for ING Collection (painting), ING House Maastricht (NL)
2021 Versatile Volumes, KF Gallery Seoul (ROK)
2021 Prospects, curated my Johan Gustavsson, Mondrian Fund, Art Rotterdam (NL)
2021 Best Dutch Book Design 2019, abC Bookfair Beijing (CN)
2021 From the Centre of the Periphery, Klub Solitaer, Chemnitz (DE)
2021  Vom Eigensinn des Uberflussigen, curated by Lotte Dinse, Arp Museum Remagen (DE)
2020 Best Dutch Book Design 2019, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL)
2020 If then is now, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)
2020 Limburg Biënnale, Jury member + co-curator, Marres, Maastricht (NL)
2020 Buning Brongers Prize, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2020 THE PAINTING SHOW, Tegenboschvanvreden Galerie Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Made in Balmoral, Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (DE)
2019 Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst 2019 / Royal Award for Painting 2019, Paleis op de Dam, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 Der Rausch, curated by Frank Koolen, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (NL)
2019 Come Closer, curated by Annemie van Laethem and Erik Croux, Château d'Aspremont-Lynden, Rekem (BE)
2019 Saudade, curated by Jan Moeyaert, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou (BE)
2019 MELLY, Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
2019   Van Eyck Open Studio's, Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
2018   The van Eyck Presents: Vera Gulikers, Rosanne van Wijk, Dasha Tsapenko & Ebby Port, Van Eyck Maastricht (NL)
2018   AMC Brummelkamp Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2018   Poets- en Testdoeken, Alex51, Maastricht (NL)
2018   Point – Loops – Blooming, curated by Bernke Klein Zandvoort and Roderigo Sandoval, Van Eyck, Maastricht (NL)
2018   Van Eyck Open Studio's, Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL)
2017   Koninklijke prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst 2017 / Royal Award for Painting 2017, Paleis op de dam, Amsterdam (NL) 
2017   The New Current, by Assembled by Root en FLTR projectspace, Rotterdam (NL)
2017   Super-zine, publication with Rowan van As, WORM Rotterdam (NL) 
2017   Fashion vs. art, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)
2017   Platform Projects, AAF Brussels (BE)
2016   Drawing Vertical Lines, Michael Marcy,  Antwerp (BE)
2016   Alert, summer residency, supported by Stad Tongeren, Tongeren (BE)
2016   I like the way you walk, A-tower Antwerp (BE)
2016   Capital M, Park Spoor Noord, Antwerp (BE)
2016   Please come to the show, Duinstraat 76, Antwerp (BE)
2016   Winterschool, Dublin, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin (IR)
2015   BA SHOW, Sint Lucas, Antwerp (BE)
2015   The Clash-Project, Fashionclash, project by Mathylda Krykowski, Maastricht (NL)
2015   Weinachtausstellung, Sint Lucas Antwerp (BE)
2015   A good thing, Provinciestraat 243, Antwerp (BE)  
2014   OFFISH, Sint Lucas, Antwerp (BE)
2014   Jan Naaijkensprijs Kunstpodium T, Tilburg (NL)
2014   In the end nothing really matters but until then some things do, graduation show Fine Arts department, Maastricht (NL)
2014   De hemel bevolken Apprentice/Master-project, with Arno Mertens, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg (NL) 
2013   Decorfabriek, project with Antoine Berghs, Decorfabriek Maastricht (NL)
2013   Co-Labs, project with Olivier Foulon, Marcel Hiller and Suchan Kinoshita, Hedah, Maastricht  (NL)
2013   HEAR (II), Intro | Insitu, Maastricht (NL)
2013   Uit de werkplaats, a project with Paul Devens, Intro | Insitu, Maastricht (NL)
2013   Plaatsen van herinnering III: Lieu et La “Folly” / Regouts “richesse”, project with Karin Peulen by Marres Projects, Sphinxpark Maastricht  (NL)

 

Residencies

2023 Make Eindhoven, 3 months, funded through Mondrian Fund, Eindhoen (NL)
2019 - 2020 Schloss Balmoral, 9 months, Bad Ems (DE)
2017 - 2018 Jan van Eyck Academie, 1½ year, Maastricht (NL)

Publications
 
2022 Girly kunst die er niet om liegt - op atelierbezoek bij Vera Gulikers, door Alex de Vries, Mister Motley
2022 Interview Collect Magazine, door Koos de Wilt
2021 Flat Battery - spread in WOBBY #28, WOBBY
2020 De kunstwerken die 2020 definieerden, Mister Motley Magazine
2020 De geschiedenis als dagboek, interview by Joep Vossebeld, photgraphs by Marleen Daniels Zuiderlucht Magazine
2020 Twee Nederlandse Winaars, interview by Tia Lucker, photographs by Miriam van Praag, Arti et Amiticiae Amsterdam
2020 Van Eyck Collections, Future Material Bank, Lab for Nature Research, Van Eyck Maastricht
2020 De meest onbevangen schilderstreek, Persis Bekkering, Mister Motley
2020 Buning Brongers Catalogue, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2020 Limburg Biennale, Marres, Maastricht
2020 Vom Eigensinn des Uberflussigen, catalogue Schloss Balmoral fellows 2019/2020, essay by Lotte Dinse
2019 Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst 2019 catalogus / Royal Award for Modern Painting 2019 catalogue, Palace on the Dam, Amsterdam
2019 Catalogue Collection AMC, AMC Amsterdam
2019 W19 | Kunstenfestival Watou, catalogue Kunstenfestival Watou, Belgium
2019 Threadingbook: A ton of OOOs, artistbook printed at Charles Nyples Lab/ Anne Petronille Nyplels Lab
2018   Poets- en Testdoeken, publication by Alex51, designed by Ivi Bruls
2018   Testbook March '17 - March '18, artistbook printed at Charles Nyples Lab / Anne Petronille Nyplels Lab, Cover Design by An Onghena, Photography by Romy Finke and Jos Nelissen
2017   Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst 2017  / Royal Award for Modern Painting 2017, publication by Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam, designed by Julia de Blaauw and Jules Quivooy
2016   Super-zine, publicaton with Rowan van As, WORM Rotterdam
2016   I like the way you walk, publication with Nico Dockx and Johan Pas, designed by Anaïs Cuillier,  A-tower Antwerp
2015   Vera Gulikers 2014-2015, self-published
2014   Vera Gulikers 2013-2014, self-published
2014   In the end nothing really matters but until then some things do, graduation publication of the Fine Arts department Maastricht

 
Prizes

2023 Roof-A Award (winner)
2022 Parkstad Limburg Prijs (nomination)
2020 Buning Brongers Prize (winner)
2020 Best Dutch Book Designs of 2019 / Best Verzorgde Boeken 2019 (winner)
2019 Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst / Royal Award for Modern Painting (nomination)
2018 Buning Brongers Prize (nomination)
2017     Koninklijke Prijs voor de Vrije Schilderkunst / Royal Award for Modern Painting (winner)
2016     Swa Bertenprijs (nomination)
2014     Jan Naaijkensprijs, Kunstpodium T (nomination)


Grants

2021 Mondrian Fund Grant (6 month stipend)
2019 - 2020 Emerging Artist Grant Mondrian Fund
2019 - 2020 Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur

 

In collection of

Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
KRC Collection
Rijksoverheid
Bonnefantenmuseum
SCHUNCK* museum collection
ING Collection
Erasmus MC Colection
DSM Collection
AMC Collection
Heden Collection
UMC+ Collection
Provincie Limburg
Various private Collections
 

Other

2023 - 2024 Yearmaster Apprentice Master, Kunstpodium T, Tilburg (NL) (Together with Jochem Rotteveel)
2018-2023 Guest teacher at Maastricht Academy of Fine Art and Design (Fine Arts)
2020 Jury member and co-curator, Limburg Biennale, Marres Maastricht (NL)
2019 Design springbox of Arval BNP Parisbas Fortis, commissioned by Lex ter Braak