work

anneke klein kranenbarg unites apparent contrasts in her work.

the connection between two and three dimensionality, simplicity and complexity evokes a special visual excitement.

it is in particular the connection between contrasts that fascinates her and that she expresses  in her (serial) work.

in her constructions she investigates basic shapes, often a cubic or rectangle.

she extracts the parts from a compilation and arranges with those parts a new construction, a new shape.

the material she uses to achieve this are two transparant plexiglass plates mounted in a blank wooden profile and black threads.

she tightens the threads as well up the plate at the frontside, as up the plate at the backside and in the space in between.

when the spectator moves along her work, the work seems to change.

lines and surfaces slide one over the other.

the work sometimes appears to be two dimensional, sometimes three dimensional. In the drawings with black thread through semi-transparant plexiglass the three dimensional element is reduced to a few millimetres.

hereby in forming the final picture the light and schadow definite the spatial aspect.

    

anneke klein kranenbarg

born in 1961 in krommenie (zaanstad) (nl).

died in 2024 in zaandam (zaanstad) (nl)

lived and worked in zaandam, zaanstad (nl), rotterdam (nl), amersfoort (nl) and amsterdam (nl).

since 1987 working as an independant visual artist.

education

autodidiact.

exhibitions

solo and group exhibitions in the netherlands among others in:

alkmaar, amsterdam, bergen-nh, drachten, egmond aan zee, enschede, fijnaart, groningen, 's-hertogenbosch, lochem, zaandam.

abroad among others in:

austria, belgium, germany, france, hungary, italy, poland and russia

gallery 9 presents the art works of anneke klein kranenbarg since 2006 in the gallery and at several art fairs such as kunstrai in 2005, 2012, 2013 and art amsterdam in 2009 in the rai in amsterdam (nl), the affordable art fair 2010 in amsterdam (nl), artantique in 2010 and 2011 in the jaarbeurs in utrecht (nl), art breda (nl) in 2014 and raw art fair in 2013 in warehouse santos in rotterdam (nl).

special activities

in september 2013 monique groot presented in gallery 9 the transparant quintet game designed by anneke klein kranenbarg.

collections

her work is represented in collections of museums, private collections, public collections and collections of companies.