From Scratch Project ‘From Scratch’, by composer Willem Boogman

'Seen by Hand', text by Cees de Boer‘Seen by Hand’, by Cees de Boer

Drawing Centre Diepenheim ‘Sensing Traces’, by Nanette Kraaikamp, curator solo exhibition Drawing Centre Diepenheim

Alexandra Roozen‘We Like Art!’, interview, www.welikeart.nl

What is a horizon?‘What is a horizon? Alexandra Roozen’s drawing series “Tweening”, by Peter Lodermeyer

(S) IK-Pavilion Atelierbezoek by Olphaert den Otter, solo exhibition IK-Eiland, Vlissingen

Disruption of the understanding of meaning‘The disruption of the understanding of meaning’, by Petran Kockelkoren

Between Eye and Understanding ‘Between Eye and Understanding’, by Cees de Boer

Chaos as Solution‘Chaos as Solution’, by Saskia van de Wiel

Alexandra Roozen lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, graduated from Art Academy St. Joost (cum laude).

Recent exhibitions: Gallery2/Seoul (solo, 2023, South Korea), NL=US Art (solo, 2023, NL), Gallery2/Jeju Joongsun Nongwon (solo, 2020, South Korea), Drawing Center Diepenheim (solo, 2019, NL), Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (New Acquisitions, 2019, NL), Gallery Roger Katwijk Amsterdam (solo, 2019), Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (solo, 2018, South Korea), Gallery2/SEOUL (solo, 2017, South Korea), Verbeke Foundation (2017, BE), Museum CODA and MMKA (2016, NL).

Recent art fairs: Art on Paper NY (solo 2024, solo 2019, USA), VOLTA Basel (2024, 2023, 2021, CH), Art on Paper Amsterdam (2024, duo 2023, solo 2018, solo 2019, NL), Art Rotterdam (2022, 2021, 2020, NL), VOLTA NY (solo 2018, USA), PULSE Miami (duo, 2017, USA), PAN Amsterdam (since 2014 – upcoming 2024, Galerie Wilms).

Art collections: Works are included in public collections, ao; Art Collection European Parliament Brussels (BE), Museum Schiedam, ABN-AMRO Art Collection, NOG Art Collection, Collection Prints and Drawings Leiden University, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (KOR), Erasmus Medical Centre, Erasmus University, Rice Group Art Foundation (Hong Kong, CH), Ymere Art Collection, NN Group, State Art Museum Novosibirsk (RU), DOK Delft, Municipality of Rotterdam, Barendrecht and Eindhoven.

Related/lecturer visual arts: Since 2011, Alexandra Roozen has been a teacher of visual arts at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, where she was a core teacher from 2020-24. She gives guest lectures at the Frank Mohr Institute in the Work & Practice Program (2023, ’22, ’21, ’20), master classes at the Diepenheim Drawing Center (2020, ’19) and she is a mentor at the Center for Visual Arts in Rotterdam (2025, ’24, ’22).

Grants: Works and projects are made possible with the support of the Mondriaan Fund, Rotterdam Center for Visual Arts, Stokroos Foundation.

Solo exhibitions

2024
– ‘Art on Paper NY’ art fair, NL=US Art (USA)
2023
– ‘Mono Spaces’, GALLERY2, Seoul, South Korea (KOR) (cat.)
– ‘Art on Paper Amsterdam’ art fair, (with Willem Besselink), NL=US Art
2022
– ‘Common Ground’, NL=US Art, Rotterdam
2020
– ‘Two Tone’, GALLERY2, Joongsun Nongwon, Jeju Island, South Korea (KOR)
2019
– ‘Sensing Traces’, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
– ‘Art on Paper New York’ art fair, NL=US Art (USA)
– ‘Recent works’, (with Bart Kelholt), Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Art on Paper’ art fair, (with Liesbeth Piena), Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2018
– ‘Two Fold’, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea (KOR) (cat.)
– ‘Volta New York’ art fair, NL=US Art (USA)
– ‘Art on Paper Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2017
– ‘Grey Matter(s)’, GALLERY2, Seoul (KOR)
– ‘Pulse Miami’ art fair, (with Pim Palsgraaf), NL=US Art (USA)
– ‘Flows and interruptions’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2016
– ‘Axis’, Plaatsmaken, Arnhem
– ‘Currents’, (with Christiane Conrad), Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2014
– ‘Tweening’, IK-Pavilion, Vlissingen, Binnenland atelier Mondriaan Fund (cat.)
2013
– ‘Between’, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst
– ‘(Re)move’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘About Two’, (with Bas van Beek), NL=US Art, Rotterdam
2012
– ‘1:15’, Hudson Museum, Rotterdam
2011
– ‘Amidst a Surface’, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst
– ‘Wire’, commissioned by the municipality of Barendrecht, 50 meters of neon sculpture in the public space.
2010
– ‘Ruis/Noise’, Lokaal 01, Breda (cat.)
– ‘Recent works’, (with Henrik Eiben and Iris Bouwmeester), Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst
– ‘Frame’, artist-run initiative Skybox, Amsterdam
2009
– ‘Give plenty looks’, (with Johan Meijerink), Galerie Wilms, Venlo
– ‘Formeel 09’, (with Herman Scholten), Museum Waterland, Purmerend
2008
– ‘Recent works’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, (with Joachim Bandau), Galerie Phoebus
2007
– ‘Recent works’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam (cat.)
2005
– ‘Recent works’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘Quasar’, Meulensteen Art Center, Eindhoven (cat.)

Group exhibitions

2024
– ‘Art on Paper’, Coppejans Gallery, Antwerpen (BE)
– ‘VOLTA Basel’ art fair, NL=US Art (CH)
– ‘Weltraum’, Galerie Wilms, Venlo
– Upcoming: ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2023
– ‘Be my Guest’, Coppejans Gallery, Antwerpen (BE)
–  ‘Leaving to the world of light’ – “빛의 세계로 떠나다”, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (KOR)
–  ‘The Big Draw’, ACEC Apeldoorn
– ‘New Acquisitions’ Collection European Parliament, Brussels (BE)
– ‘VOLTA Basel’ art fair, NL=US Art (CH)
– ‘Constructed Choices’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Personal Choices’, 20 Years Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2022
– ‘Future Memory’, Konsortium, Kaunas (LT)
– ‘ART Rotterdam’ art fair, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Spring’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ’15 Year anniversary’, Galerie Wilms, Venlo
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2021
– ‘Meeting Art and Technology’, Gallery Pakyoung, South Korea (KOR)
– ‘Diskothek Konkret’, Bo Biennal, Bochum (DE)
– ‘ART Rotterdam / Treasure Cellar’, NL=US Art, Rotterdam
– ‘VOLTA Basel’ art fair, NL=US Art (CH)
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2020
– ‘ART Rotterdam’ art fair, NL=US Art
– ‘20 Years Youngeun Program’, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea (KOR)
– ‘Winter show’ with artist of the gallery, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
2019
– ‘New Acquisitions‘, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
– ‘It’s a small world after all’, Sebastian Fath Contemporary (DE)
– Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam, with Ives Ensemble and Willem Boogman
– ‘ART on Paper NY’, Curated booth by Phil Sanders (USA)
– ‘Summer show’ with artist of the gallery, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Drawing Online’, Gallery Viewer, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2018
– ‘Tireless Lines’, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
– ‘The eye is the centre / Magnify me’, De Ketelfactory Schiedam
– ‘De poëzie van het mechanische’, Zaal Zuid, Hengelo
– ‘Abstract Wall Paintings Retrospect’, ACEC, Apeldoorn
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2017
– ‘Animal Man Machine’, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke (BE)
– ‘Inner Nature’, Hilde VanDaele Gallery, Watou, (BE)
– ‘Witteveen Drawing’, Loods 6, Amsterdam
– ‘Order is half of life’, Vishal, Haarlem
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2016
– ‘Fundamental’, Culture bunker, Cologne (DE)
– ‘Parelgoud’, Plaatsmaken in collaboration with MMKA, Museum Arnhem
– ‘Door het oog van’, Appendix in collaboration with Museum Dordrecht
– ‘Save the Earth’, UN Headquarters New York (USA)
– ‘Art in the residency’, IK-Pavilion, Vlissingen (cat.)
– ‘Grind the Gap’, Plaatsmaken Arnhem
– ‘Ritme & Regelmaat’, Witteveen Visual Art Centre, Amsterdam.
– ‘Vanishing Point’, Studio Omstand Arnhem in cooperation with Drawing Centre Diepenheim
– ‘For Study and Delight’ – Drawings and Prints from leiden University, Leiden
– ‘Grafiek zonder grenzen’, WTC Art Foundation, Rotterdam
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2015
– ‘Round About’, Van Abbehuis, Eindhoven
– ‘Night & Day’, PIT / Studio van Dusseldorp, Tilburg
– ‘Veldwerk’, Drawing Centre Diepenheim
– ‘Wall Drawings’, WTC Art Foundation, Rotterdam
– ‘Blind date 2’, DAK, Utrecht
– ‘Cityscapes’, NL=US Art, Rotterdam
– ‘Abstract Wall Painting’, ACEC, Apeldoorn
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2014
– ‘Behind Images’, De Garage Rotterdam.
– ‘Formeel 14’, Museum Waterland, Purmerend
– ‘To the point’, IS-Projects, Leiden
– ‘Het landschap en de romantische verleiding’, Drawing Centre Diepenheim (cat.)
– ‘Blind date 1’, DAK, Utrecht
– ‘I am not doing anything until I feel the need’, Nederlandse Bank Amsterdam
– ‘RAW Rotterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink
– ‘Pan Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Wilms
2013
– ‘Manoeuvres’, Voorkamer, Lier (BE)
– ‘Black & White’, Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem (cat.)
– ‘Once more, unto the braoch, dear friends, once more’, Lokaal 01, Breda (cat.)
– WTC Art Foundation, Rotterdam
– ‘RAW Rotterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink
– ‘Art at the Warehouse Rotterdam’ art fair, Galerie Roger Katwijk
– ‘RE-Rotterdam’ art fair, artist-run initiative
2012
– ‘All About Drawing’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (cat.)
– ‘ON/OF #2’, Kunstruimte 09, Groningen (cat.)
– ‘RAW Rotterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink
2011
– ‘Patterns’, CODA Museum/ACEC, Apeldoorn
– ‘Graphic Art Biennial NB7’, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk (RUS) (cat.)
– ‘Drawing Now’. Galerie Hein Elferink
– ‘Graphosbiennale’, Kruithuis, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
– art fair ‘Drawing Now Paris’, Salon du Dessin Contemporain, Galerie Hein Elferink, Paris (FR)
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
– ‘Art Karlsruhe’ art fair, Galerie Hein Elferink (DE)
2010
– ’25-25′, ISNO62, Contemporary Art Projects, Sidney (AUS)
– ‘Big Black’, IS-Projects, Leiden
– ‘Zusam’, Alte Post, Neuss, Duitsland (cat.)
– ‘Pour faire simple’, Paris Concret Paris (FR)
– ‘Colour Matters #5’, Kunstruimte 09, Groningen (cat.)
– ‘Hot Plate’, International Printmaking Exhibition, Brighton (GB)
– ‘Rotterdam Grafiek’, WTC Art Foundation, Rotterdam
– ‘Contemporary Graphics’, WTC Art Foundation, Rotterdam
2009
– ‘Formeel 09’, Museum Waterland, Purmerend
– ‘Silencio’, St. Jeroenskerk, Noordwijk (cat.)
– ‘White’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Graphic Art Biennial NB6’, State Art Museum, Novosibirsk (RUS) (cat.)
– ‘1200×1600 mm’, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam
– ‘Dutch Dimension’, Manhattan Graphic Centre, New York (USA) (cat.)
– ‘Apendix’, De Twee Wezen, Enkhuizen
– ‘Art Amsterdam’ art fair, Galerie Phoebus
2008
– ‘Minimentaal’, Galerie Roger Katwijk, Amsterdam
– ‘Art&Design of Distinction’, Villa Maarheeze, Wassenaar (cat.)
– ‘Quantum vis’, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden
– ‘Properties’, IS-Projects, Leiden
2007
– ‘Palimpsest’, Museum Waterland
– ‘Springbalsemien’, Pictura, Dordrecht
– ‘Nieuwe Aanwinsten’, art collection Erasmus MC Rotterdam
– ‘Face Sur Face’, Christine De Ketelaere Gallery, Tielt (BE)
2006
– ‘Handle with care!’, Drawings Cabinet / Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘Sweet little sixteen’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘M.A.C. #2’, Beeldenstorm/Daglicht, MU, Eindhoven (cat.)
– ‘M.A.C. #1’, Beeldenstorm/Daglicht, Galerie Jan Colle, Gent (BE) (cat.)
– ‘Graphics’, Peninsula, Eindhoven
– ‘Orde en Chaos’, Artstore, Rotterdam (cat.)
– ‘Maas’, Pand Paulus, Schiedam (cat.)
– ‘Graphics #1’, RAAF, Breda
2005
– ‘Des Pudels Kern’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘Innerbeat’, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam (cat.)
– ‘Raamwerk’, RC de Ruimte, IJmuiden
– ‘Perfors’, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam
– ‘Stash’, Tent, Rotterdam

Exhibitions before 2005 – selection

Tent, Rotterdam – Museum De Beyerd, Breda – Galerie Van Den Berge, Goes – De Nederlandsche Cacao Fabriek – Galerie Van Wijngaarden, Amsterdam – Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam – The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (NO) – Kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag – De Fabriek, Eindhoven – Institut Néerlandais, Paris (FR) – Artist initiative ROSA, Breda – Zeche Zollverein, Essen (DE) – ROOM