Large size paintings
Medium size paintings
Small size paintings
Portraits
Still lifes
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.
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
Exhibitions
- 2024 : Fellner contemporary, Luxembourg
- 2022 : “Les Balcons du Ciel”, House Seventeen, Luxembourg
- January 2019 : Anette Mueller Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
- November 2018: Luxembourg Art Week, ateliers Sixthfloor, limpertsberg, Luxembourg
- November 2018: Salon d’automne of the Cercle Artistique of Luxembourg, Tramschapp, Luxembourg.
- October 2018 : Gallery Cyril Guernieri, group show P/CAS by YIA INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
- June 2018: H2O, Differdange, Luxembourg
- May 2018: Gallery Ronald Feldmann, New-York, USA, Art2Cure
- April 2018: Gallery Cyril Guernieri, Paris, France
- March 2018: Exposition House 17, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- January 2018: First Art fair, Gallery Sille, Amsterdam airport, Netherlands
- December 2017: “Artlab Munich”, Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
- Novembre 2017: Salon d’automne of the Cercle artistique of Luxembourg, Tramschapp, Luxembourg
- Novembre 2017: Luxembourg Art week, Sixthfloor, Limpertsberg, Luxembourg
- Novembre 2017 : group show “End of year”, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- Novembre 2017 : “Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Septembre 2017: Gallery Sille, preview, Oudewater, Utrecht, Pays-bas
- Juin 2017: Art2cure, group show at the international Bank of Luxembourg, Galerie de l’indépendence
- Juin 2017: Trustmoore, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Mai 2017: All about identity, Carrérotondes, Luxembourg. Cercle artistique of Luxembourg
- November 2016 : Luxembourg Artweek. Selection by the artistic circle of Luxembourg
- November 2016 : group show “End of year”, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- June 2016 : Galerie de l’indépendance, International Bank of Luxembourg, group show “Art2cure” (profit for the benefice of research on Alzheimer ‘s disease)
- November 2015 : group show “End of year”, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- October 2015 : Galerie Art Container 9, “Eternal return”, Echternach, Luxembourg
- September 2015 : Tuchfabrik, Trêves, Germany. Annual exhibition of Trierer Kunstverein.
- June 2015 : Kulturfabrik, Esch-sur-Alzette, group show “Art2cure” (profit for the benefice of research on Alzheimer ‘s disease)
- May 2015 : Galerie 21 Artstreet, Kehlen, Luxembourg
- May 2015 : Galerie Art Container 9, Echternach, Luxembourg, inauguration show
- April 2015 : Caves Bentz, Rémich, Luxembourg
- November 2014 : group show “End of year”, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- November 2014 : Two days Artfair, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
- September 2014 : Galerie Kjub, Luxembourg
- September 2014 : Galerie Closedart, Anvers, Belgium
- July 2014 : Tuchfabrik, “Auf den Hund gekommen”, Trêves, Germany
- July 2014 : Galerie beim Engel, Luxembourg
- May 2014 : Galerie Espace Paragon, Luxembourg
- March 2014 : Two days Artfair, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
- January 2014 : Galerie Op der Cap, Capellen, Luxembourg
- December 2013 : group show “End of year”, Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- November 2013 : Galerie Kjub, “Recall”, Luxembourg
- May 2013 : Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- January 2013 : Cultural Center of Tétange, Luxembourg
- November 2012 : Galerie A Spiren, Strassen, Luxembourg
- July 2012 : Garage Muzzolini, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
- June 2012 : Galerie Kjub, Luxembourg
- June 2011 : “Odyssey 2011”, Koerich, Luxembourg
- November 2010 : Galerie van Reizungen, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- November 2010 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- October 2010 : Casino 2000, Mondorf les Bains, Luxembourg
- June 2010 : Galerie Clairefontaine, “Fernweh”, Luxembourg
- December 2009 : Villa Goethe, Luxembourg
- December 2009 : Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
- November 2009 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- November 2008 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- November 2008 : Galerie Clairefontaine, “Schlachtplan B”, Luxembourg
- June 2008 : Galerie Clairefontaine, “Portraits”, Luxembourg
- February 2008 : Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. Solo show with Galerie Hubertus, Melsheimer
- January 2008 : Galerie Hubertus Melsheimer, Cologne, Germany
- June 2007 : Sixthfloor workshops, Koerich, Luxembourg
- January 2007 : Galerie A Spiren, Strassen, Luxembourg
- December 2006 : Bischöfliches Dom und Diözesan Museum, Trêves, Germany
- October 2006 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- March 2006 : Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, Luxembourg
- October 2005 : Galerie BC/2, Bettembourg, Luxembourg
- October 2004 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- June 2004 : Galerie Recto-verso, Rodange, Luxembourg
- May 2004 : Sixthfloor workshops “Petits formats”, Koerich, Luxembourg
- February 2004 : Galerie BC/2, Bettembourg, Luxembourg
- December 2003 : Galerie Espace Paragon, Luxembourg
- October 2003 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- May 2003 : Cultural Center “Jacques Brel”, Thionville, France
- September 2002 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg
- July 2002 : Art à Beaufort, Beaufort, Luxembourg
- May 2002 : Art Metz, Metz, France
- March 2002 : Galerie 2000, Luxembourg
- February 2002 : Galerie beim Engel, Luxembourg
- December 2001 : Galerie Espace Paragon, Luxembourg
- May 2001 : Galerie a Spiren, Strassen, Luxembourg
- March 2001 : Limes, Reichstags Präsidentenpalais, Berlin, Germany
- February 2001 : Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, “Petits Formats”, Galerie beim Engel, Luxembourg
- January 2001 : Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
- May 2000 : Art Limes Competition, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg
- October 1999 : Esch sur Alzette Theater, Luxembourg
- September 1999 : Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Villa Vauban
- May 1999 : Tuchfabrik, Trêves, Germany
- April 1999 : Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Young Artists Fair, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
- February 1999 : Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
- December 1998 : Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, Luxembourg
- October 1998 : Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Autumn Fair, Luxembourg and Metz, France
- October 1998 : Cercle artistique de Lunéville, Lunéville, France
- May 1998 : Art Limes Competition, Wittlich, Germany
- December 1997 : Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, Luxembourg
- November 1997 : Contemporary Artfair, Pirmasens, Germany
- October 1997 : Cercle artistique de Lunéville, Lunéville, France
- September 1997 : Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, Luxembourg
- August 1997 : Art Limes, Wittlich, Germany
- March 1997 : Young Artists Biennale, Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
- October 1996 : Autumn Fair of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- September 1996 : Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, Luxembourg
- August 1996 : Summer exhibitions, Longwy, France
- January 1996 : Galerie Armand Gaasch, Dudelange, Luxembourg
- September 1995 : Art a Beaufort, Beaufort, Luxembourg
- May 1995 : Aktion “Kunst und Handel”, Trêves, Germany
Awards & Residencies
- October 2003 : Price of Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg, Autumn Fair, Price for Young Paintings