biography

Gert van Oortmerssen (1963) lives and works in Groningen (NL)

[I] = individual exhibition / installation   [G] = group exhibition   [L] = lecture / workshop

2025

  • Context is everything is key [L], ReCreative ARTs: Adaptation, Retelling, Reframing, Reconstruction, Translation. An interdisciplinary symposium on 3-4 June 2025 at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen

 

  • Letters to Giotto [I], Portiersloge, Groningen

 

  • Wintersalon [G], Pictura, Groningen

2020

  • 5 Kunstenaars uit Groningen Stad [G], Bart Art Box Foundation, Thesinge

2019

  • Tekenkabinet VII [G], Amsterdam

 

  • Tekenkabinet pop-up [G], Amsterdam

2018

  • Reflections of Origin (Orange Water III) [G], Archeologisch Museum, Paros / Santorini Art Factory (SAF), Santorini (GR)

 

  • Every time that you touch it, it’ll turn against you [I], Portiersloge, Groningen

2017

  • Reflections of Origin (Orange Water III) [G], Archaeological Museum, Paros / Santorini Art Factory (SAF), Santorini (GR)

 

  • Masterpiece [G], Pictura, Groningen (NL)

 

  • KunstIngang [I], Ten Kate, Ter Apelkanaal (NL)

 

  • Zomerexpo: WATER [G], Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle (NL)

2016

  • Fata Morgana (Orange Water II) [G], The Loft, Athens / Archaeological Museum, Patras /
    Santorini Art Factory (SAF), Santorini / Archaeological Museum, Chania / St. Athanasios,
    Naousa, Paros / Municipal Gallery Paros / Municipal Gallery, Korinthe (GR)

2015

  • Memory landscape (Orange Water I) [G], The Loft, Athene / Municipal Gallery (Basilica St. Marco), Heraklion, Kreta (GR)

 

  • Zomerexpo: WOEST [G], Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL)

 

  • Triniteit [I], Portiersloge, Groningen (NL)

2013

  • Nieuwe Aanwinsten [G], Municipal Arts Centre (CBK), Groningen (NL)

2012

  • Project 0.0 [G], T.A.S. temporary art space, Groningen (NL)

2009

  • De gebogen werkelijkheid [I], Gagal gallery, Wildervank (NL)

2005

  • Frontaal Forever [G], Frontaal, Appingedam (NL)

 

  • Wintergasten [G], Frontaal, Appingedam (NL)

2003

  • Buiten de Perken 3, Borg Rusthoven, Wirdum [G] (organised by Frontaal, Appingedam) (NL)

2001

  • Buunk!, Pictura, Groningen [I], with Hermen Grasman (NL)

2000

  • Lemma, Frontaal, Appingedam [I] (NL)

1999

  • de Salon, Kunsthal, Rotterdam [G] (NL)

1997

  • Galerie Kuiper, Nieuw Roden [I], with Janke de Vries (NL)

 

  • Five ways to look at your lover, Amusetheater , Amsterdam [G] (NL)

 

  • Aankooptentoonstelling, Municipal Arts Centre (CBK), Groningen [G] (NL)

 

  • 100 jonge schilders op Ameland, different locations on the island, Ameland [G] (NL)

 

  • Explositie, a choice from five years of De Voorruit, De Voorruit gallery, Groningen [G] (NL)

1995

  • Virtual Illusion, Stijl gallery, Arnhem [I] (NL)

 

  • The Art of History, Niggendijker, Groningen [I] (NL)

1994

  • Virtual Illusion, De Voorruit gallery, Groningen [I] (NL)

 

  • Wijzerplaat, De Voorruit gallery, Groningen [G] (NL)

 

  • Stijl gallery, Arnhem [G] (NL)

 

  • Je bent in Groningen, maar….., Municipal Arts Centre (CBK), Groningen [G] (NL)

1993

  • Stijl gallery, Arnhem [I] (NL)

 

  • Suggested Reconstructions, Municipal Arts Centre (CBK), Groningen [I] (NL)

 

  • Stijl gallery, Arnhem [G] (NL)

1992

  • De Schilders, Niggendijker, Groningen [G] (NL)

 

  • AkT buiten haar boekje, vijf jaar kunstenaarspagina’s, University of Groningen, Institute of Art History, Groningen [G] (NL)

1991

  • Noordkunst 6, central exhibition, Prins Bernardhoeve, Zuidlaren [G] (NL)

1990

  • Stijl gallery, Arnhem [I] (NL)

 

  • Noordkunst 5, Prins Bernardhoeve, Zuidlaren [G] (NL)

 

  • Stijl gallery, Arnhem [G] (NL)

1988

  • Wandbeelden, University of Groningen, Institute of Art History, Groningen [I] (NL)