1963, Erwin Driessens
1964, Maria Verstappen
Live and work in Amsterdam


EDUCATION

1988 - 1991

Rijksakademie, Amsterdam

1982 - 1987

Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht


SOLO SHOWS

2005

MORPHOGENESIS, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam

2002

FOLLICLE, Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2001

DRIESSENS & VERSTAPPEN, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam
2000

DRIESSENS & VERSTAPPEN, Consortium, Amsterdam, curator Pieter Hensen
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND, Exedra, Hilversum, guest curator Claudine Hellweg

1999

UN, DEUX, TROIS, SOLEIL, Chapelle du Genêteil, Château Gontier
BREED, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg

1997

DRIESSENS & VERSTAPPEN, Chapelle du Genêteil, Chateau-Gontier

1996

ERWIN DRIESSENS & MARIA VERSTAPPEN, Galerie Le Sous Sol, Paris

1995

ERWIN DRIESSENS & MARIA VERSTAPPEN, Optica, Montréal

THE FACTORY, Gallery Oh!, Brussels, initiator Philippe Braem

1994

(UN)CONTROLLING, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, double presentation with Georgina Starr, curator Leontine Coelewij

1990

EXHIBITION, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, curator Fred Wagemans

 

GROUP SHOWS


2009

NATURE AS ARTIFICE, New Dutch landscape in photography and video art, Rochester & New York

SUPERSTORIES, 2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art, Fashion and Design, Hasselt

EXTREME FRONTIERS, URBAN FRONTIERS, Institut Valencia d'Art Moderne, Valencia

KIOSK, ARTIFACTS OF A POST-DIGITAL AGE, STRP Festival, Eindhoven

2008

DEEP SCREEN. ART IN DIGITAL CULTURE, VOORSTEL TOT GEMEENTELIJKE KUNSTAANKOPEN 2008, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

UNFINISHED BUSINESS. DUTCH ABSTRACTS Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz

NATURE AS ARTIFICE Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo; Neue Pinakothek, München; George Eastman House, Rochester (NY)

BORDERS, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

NOORD HOLLAND VERDWIJNT, Museum Waterland, Purmerend

SUPER STORIES, Art Center Z33, Hasselt

PLAYTIME, Bétonsalon, Parijs

EVOLUTION HAUTE COUTURE: ART AND SCIENCE IN THE POST-BIOLOGICAL AGE, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad

 

2007

FINITUDE, Chapelle du Genêteil, Centre d'Art

Contemporain, Château-Gontier

BIOS 4, The Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art, Sevilla, curator Antonio Cervera Pinto

GENESIS, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, curator Emilie Berg Gomart

CONTOUR / CONTINUÏTEIT, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft, 

2006

NATURAL HABITAT, Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam

SLOW MOTION, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

L’ESPRIT DES LIEUX, Domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande

UPDATE, THE ORIGIN, Cirk Zebrastraat, Gand, production Liedts Meesen Foundation

DUCHENNE ART EDITION, ArtAmsterdam, Amsteram, collaboration VOUS ETES ICI / Duchenne Parent Project / Rijksakademie, curator Hendrik Driessen

2005

MEMBRAAN, Pleinmuseum, mobile exhibition pavilion, Dutch & Belgian city squares, concept/design Rene van Engelenburg, curator Meta Knol, Centraal Museum Utrecht

2004

ABOUT LAND, SEA AND FACES, Museum de Valkhof, Nijmegen, production Netherlands Media Art Institute, curator Bart Rutten

OPEN BORDERS, Tri Postal, Lille, curator Renny Ramakers

LOOPING, Chapelle du Geneteil, Château-Gontier

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, Siggraph 2004, Los Angeles Convention Center, California

2003

ROBOT, Eyebeam, New York

ABOUT LAND, SEA AND FACES, Erasmushuis, Djakarta

LIFE, winners/nominees, Telefonica Foundation, ARCO, Madrid

THE SHINING, Aschenbach/Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam
SUITE VOICES #5, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam

2002

SELECTIVE WHOLE, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California

RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH, Glass House, Amstelpark, Amsterdam,

2001

DÉPLACEMENT A MARIBOR, Umetnostna Galarija Maribor, Slovenia

MULTIPLE MEERVOUD, Parel, Amsterdam,

2000

SUITE VOICES #2: SCULPTURE, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam

HARD/ SOFT/ WET: ARTIFICIAL LIVES, Artspace, Sydney, curator Mitchell Whitelaw
COLLECTION ÉTÉ, FRAC Lorraine, Metz

C (SEA), Lokaal 01, Breda, initiator Ab van Hanegem

SAMENSCHOLING, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, curator Paula van de Bosch

1999

OFFICINA EUROPA, Villa del Rose, Bologna, Galeria d'Arte Moderna, curator Renato Barilli

1998

ORGANIC, Palais des Arts, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, curator Pascal Pique

1997

MU, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, curator Paul Groot

THE PEOPLES CHOICE, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, production Trademark TM

GENUINE FICTION (THE REAL THING), W139, Amsterdam, curator Jean Bernard Koeman

1996

AUSTERLITZ@UTREMENT, train station Austerlitz, Paris, galerie Le Sous Sol

1994

LE BÉNÉFICE DU DOUTE, Galerie Le Sous Sol, Paris

1993

LE BÉNÉFICE DU DOUTE, Optica, Montreal

EN SCENE, W139, Amsterdam, curator Dominique Pelletey

1991

DOUBLE DISTANCE, Museum Het Kruithuis, 's Hertogenbosch, concept Ine Werther

 

MISCELLANEOUS

2007

BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED, Darwin summer symposium on AI, Music Hall, Shrewsbury

SENTIENT CREATURES 2.0, lecture series Art & Robotics, Waag Society, Amsterdam

PLEINMUSEUM, 52th Venice Biennale, symposium Pan European Encountes, Venice

HAUT LES PAYS-BAS!, Le Cargo, Caen, production Transat Video

 

2006

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, Conference Society for Science, Literature & Arts, University of Amsterdam

2005

NEXT NATURE, second Visual Power Show, Paradiso, Amsterdam

LIFE 5.0, 1st prize Competition Art & Artificial Life, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid

2004

UNSORTED, Sonic Acts X, Electronic Art and Music Conference, Paradiso Amsterdam

BIG BLIP 04, Festival of Creative Arts, Science & Technology, University of Brighton

2003

RGB, closing event of the 20th edition World Wide Video Festival, De Melkweg, Amsterdam

2002

SONAR, Festival of Advanced Music and Media Art, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona

2001

SECOND ITERATION, Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Monash University, Melbourne

2000

WIRE 2000, robotics workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

OBLIQUE LU NIGHTS, Electronic Music Festival, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes

1999

LIFE 2.0, 1st prize Competition Art & Artificial Life, Telefonica Foundation, Madrid

CORPS A CORPS, Art & Technology Ferstival, Université de Technologie, Compiègne

 

COMMISSIONS

2006

E-VOLVER, Research Labs LUMC Leiden, in assignment of LUMC and SKOR Amsterdam

2004

PRINCESS AMALIA, concept/design of the 10-euro coin celebrating the birth of the throne heir, production Royal Dutch Mint, in assignment of the Dutch Ministry of Finance, The Hague
 

2003

TIME WARP, WG Witteveenplein, Rotterdam, in collaboration with Arnoud Holleman, in assignment of CBK Rotterdam

1999

ART-Y-NET #1, internet terminals KPN, in assignment of the Amsterdam Art Foundation

PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS

2006

E-VOLVER, publication/CD-ROM, SKOR Amsterdam, author Klaas Kuitenbrouwer

MEDIAMATIC SCREEN, magazine/DVD, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, author Jorinde Seijdel

2005

MORPHOGENESIS, VOUS ETES ICI, Amsterdam, author Arie Altena, design Dorp & Dall

2004

METACREATION, Art and Artificial Life, MIT Press, Cambridge, author Mitchell Whitelaw

2003

HET BLINKENDE STOF, op zoek naar een nieuw visioen, Querideo, Amsterdam, author Anna Tilroe

2001

CREATIVE EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, author Mitchell Whitelaw

Breed 1.2
Breed 1.2
year: 2007
size:
Breed 1.2
Breed 1.2
year: 2007
size:
Breed 1.2
Breed 1.2
year: 2007
size:
Breed 1.2
Breed 1.2
year: 2007
size:
E-volved Cultures prints
E-volved Cultures prints
year: 2005
size: 108 x 90 cm
Morphotheque #14
Morphotheque #14
year: 2004
size: 7 objects, size depents on the arrangement
Morphotheque # 13
Morphotheque # 13
year: 2003
size: 10 objects, size depents on the arrangement
Morphotheque # 12, Icicles
Morphotheque # 12, Icicles
year: 2001
size: 64 - 68 cm, edition 2
Morphoteque #11
Morphoteque #11
year: 2001
size: 4.30 m ideal lenght
Frankendael
Frankendael
year: 2001
size: 9 digital photosequences, 9 minutes each
Fulgarites Endoscopy
Fulgarites Endoscopy
year: 2001
size: 87,5 x 63 x 52 cm
Breed 1.1
Breed 1.1
year: 2000
size: 9,7 x 9,7 x 9,7 cm
Tuboid, Solid Mode
Tuboid, Solid Mode
year: 2000
size: 103 x 32 cm
Tuboid, Virtual Mode
Tuboid, Virtual Mode
year: 2000
size: ideal projection size: 3x4 meter edition: 3