Roots
Still lifes
Large size paintings
Medium size paintings
Small size paintings
Portraits
Works on paper
Biography
Dutch painter Joachim van der Vlugt lives in Luxembourg. He is the epitome of a contemporary artist and yet gets all his inspiration from the classic Dutch masters. He takes the two traditional registers of landscape and portrait and mixes them around.
Joachim van der Vlugt trained at the academy of fine arts in Maastricht. After briefly dabbling with stylisme he turned his hand to painting and has never looked back. He is passionate about the great masters of Flemish painting. Consequently has no qualms about their influence on him. Armed with a paint palette purposely short on colour and somewhat sombre, black and white, brown, beige and blue, Joachim van der Vlugt superposes the layers of paint which enables him to bring the nuances and intensity of light to the fore, and also allowing images and vaporous shapes to slowly appear. He doesn’t stop there. He composes his paintings, all the while adding the layers, by accentuating certain parts but also by integrating geometric shapes or virtually transparent smears which bring together his compositions forming what he calls “an orchestrated chaos.”
There is a somewhat esoteric and spiritual dimension to this cultivated painting with its myriad references. The artist amuses himself by subliminally including images into the underlying layers of his paintings. These therefore become works to be continually discovered, in front of which the spectator finds himself constantly changing his impression.
For twenty odd years Joachim van der Vlugt has been exhibiting largely in Europe, in different galleries in Luxembourg, Holland and Germany, as well as in various contemporary art fairs.
The artist in front of two of his works at the exhibition
The artist at work in his studio
The artist at work in his studio
The artist at work in his studio
The artist’s studio
The artist with his brother Wouter van der Vlugt, the sculptor, in the studio
The artist’s studio
The artist’s studio
Details in the artist’s studio
The artist’s studio
Details in the artist’s studio
CV
Education
- 2001 : Founding member of the artistic group “Sixthfloor”, Koerich, Luxembourg
- 1988-1993 : Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Netherlands
- 1993 : Painter in Luxembourg
Solo exhibitions
- 2026: “Von Wellen Und Teilchen”, Schëfflenger Konschthaus gallery, (Luxembourg)
- 2024: Fellner contemporary, (Luxembourg)
- 2022: “Les Balcons du Ciel”, House Seventeen, (Luxembourg)
- 2019: Anette Mueller Gallery, Düsseldorf, (Germany)
- 2018: Gallery Cyril Guernieri, P/CAS by YIA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, (France)
- 2018: H2O, Differdange, (Luxembourg)
- 2018: Gallery Cyril Guernieri, Paris, (France)
- 2018: Exposition House 17, Luxembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 2015: Galerie Art Container 9, “Eternal return“, Echternach, (Luxembourg)
- 2015: Galerie 21 Artstreet, Kehlen, (Luxembourg)
- 2015: Caves Bentz, Rémich, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: Galerie Kjub, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: Galerie Closedart, Anvers, (Belgium)
- 2014: Galerie Espace Paragon, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: Galerie Op der Cap, Capellen, (Luxembourg)
- 2013: Galerie Kjub, “Recall“, (Luxembourg)
- 2010: Galerie van Reizungen, Eindhoven, (Netherlands)
- 2010: Galerie Clairefontaine, “Fernweh“, (Luxembourg)
- 2008: Galerie Clairefontaine, “Schlachtplan B“, (Luxembourg)
- 2008: Galerie Clairefontaine, “Portraits“, (Luxembourg)
- 2008: Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, solo show with Galerie Hubertus, (Melsheimer)
- 2006: Bischöfliches Dom und Diözesan Museum, Trêves, (Germany)
- 2006: Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, (Luxembourg)
- 2005: Galerie BC/2, Bettembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 2004: Galerie BC/2, Bettembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 2003: Galerie Espace Paragon, (Luxembourg)
- 2003: Cultural Center “Jacques Brel“, Thionville, (France)
- 2002: Galerie beim Engel, (Luxembourg)
- 1998: Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, (Luxembourg)
- 1997: Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, (Luxembourg)
- 1996: Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, (Luxembourg)
Group exhibitions
- 2018: Luxembourg Art Week, ateliers Sixthfloor, Limpertsberg, (Luxembourg)
- 2018: Salon d’automne of the Cercle Artistique of Luxembourg, Tramschapp, (Luxembourg.)
- 2018: Gallery Ronald Feldmann, Art2Cure, New-York, (USA)
- 2018: First Art fair, Gallery Sille, Amsterdam airport, (Netherlands)
- 2017: “Artlab Munich”, Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, (Germany)
- 2017: Salon d’automne of the Cercle artistique of Luxembourg, Tramschapp, (Luxembourg)
- 2017: Luxembourg Art week, Sixthfloor, Limpertsberg, (Luxembourg)
- 2017: “End of year”, group show, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2017: “Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam”, Amsterdam, (Netherlands)
- 2017: Gallery Sille, preview, Oudewater, Utrecht, (Netherlands)
- 2017: Art2cure, group show at the international Bank of Luxembourg, Gallery of independence, (Luxembourg)
- 2017: Trustmoore, Luxembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 2017: “All about identity”, Carrérotondes, Cercle artistique of Luxembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 2016: Luxembourg Artweek, Selection by the artistic circle of Luxembourg
- 2016: “End of year”, group show, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2016: “Art2cure“, Gallery of independence, International Bank of Luxembourg, group show (profit for the benefice of research on Alzheimer ‘s disease), (Luxembourg)
- 2015: “End of year”, group show, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2015: Tuchfabrik, Trêves, Annual exhibition of Trierer Kunstverein, (Germany)
- 2015: Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette, group show “Art2cure” (profit for the benefice of research on Alzheimer ‘s disease)
- 2015: Gallery Art Container 9, Echternach, inauguration show, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: “End of year”, group show, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: Two days Artfair, Kirchberg, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: “Auf den Hund gekommen”, Tuchfabrik, Trêves, (Germany)
- 2014: Gallery beim Engel, (Luxembourg)
- 2014: Two days Artfair, Kirchberg, (Luxembourg)
- 2013: “End of year”, group show, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2013: Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2013: Cultural Center of Tétange, (Luxembourg)
- 2012: Gallery A Spiren, Strassen, (Luxembourg)
- 2012: Garage Muzzolini, Esch-sur-Alzette, (Luxembourg)
- 2012: Gallery Kjub, (Luxembourg)
- 2011: “Odyssey 2011″, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2010: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2010: Casino 2000, Mondorf les Bains, (Luxembourg)
- 2009: Villa Goethe, (Luxembourg)
- 2009: Gallery Clairefontaine, (Luxembourg)
- 2009: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2008: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2008: Gallery Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne, (Germany)
- 2007: Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2007: Gallery A Spiren, Strassen, (Luxembourg)
- 2006: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2004: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2004: Gallery Recto-verso, Rodange, (Luxembourg)
- 2004: “Petits formats“, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, (Luxembourg)
- 2003: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2002: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, (Luxembourg)
- 2002: Art à Beaufort, Beaufort, Luxembourg
- 2002: Art Metz, Metz, (France)
- 2002: Galerie 2000, (Luxembourg)
- 2001: Gallery Espace Paragon, (Luxembourg)
- 2001: Gallery a Spiren, Strassen, (Luxembourg)
- 2001: Limes, Reichstags Präsidentenpalais, Berlin, (Germany)
- 2001: “Petits Formats”, Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, , Gallery beim Engel, (Luxembourg)
- 2001: Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, (Luxembourg)
- 2000: Art Limes Competition, (Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg)
- 1999: Esch sur Alzette Theater, (Luxembourg)
- 1999: Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Villa Vauban, (Luxembourg)
- 1999: Tuchfabrik, Trêves, (Germany)
- 1999: Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Young Artists Fair, Esch sur Alzette, (Luxembourg)
- 1999: Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, (Luxembourg)
- 1998: Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Autumn Fair, Luxembourg and Metz, (France)
- 1998: Cercle artistique de Lunéville, Lunéville, (France)
- 1998: Art Limes Competition, Wittlich, (Germany)
- 1997: Contemporary Artfair, Pirmasens, (Germany)
- 1997: Cercle artistique de Lunéville, Lunéville, (France)
- 1997: Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, (Luxembourg)
- 1997: Art Limes, Wittlich, (Germany)
- 1997: Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, (Luxembourg)
- 1996: Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, (Luxembourg)
- 1996: Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, (Luxembourg)
- 1996: Summer exhibitions, Longwy, (France)
- 1995: Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, (Luxembourg)
- 1995: Aktion “Kunst und Handel”, Trêves, (Germany)
Awards & Residencies
- October 2003 : Price of Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg, Autumn Fair, Price for Young Paintings
