A early spring salon with prints; colouretchings and aquatints 45 years old.

'GRAPHICS' is the fifth in a series of five booklets about Peter van der Heijden’s body of work. The previously published booklets 'Hearsay', 'Q.E.D.', 'Title, Year, Technique, Size' and ‘Biotopes’ gave a concise insight in the essence of his two-dimensional works, objects and installations. 'Graphics' highlights a selection of colour-etchings and auquatints made some 45 years ago.
Historian Pim Hoff has written the accompanying essay in which he contemplates the premises and motives underlying the works.

'GRAPHICS' A Selection of 37 etchings 1976 - 1987
24 x 17 cm. 72 pages
Text: Pim Hoff, Peter van der Heijden
photografie: Peter van der Heijden
design: Frank Beekers
Edition: 300 x:  -10 euro
50 x numbered as a special edition incl. signed print: - 25 euro

Order: pete.heijden@planet.nl

The age-old and very actual X-MAS-story told as an animal epic in a showcase at the Baltimore square in Almere Buiten.

An installation with a line-up of curious animals, some well-dressed, waiting to welcome the newborn homeless child.

With gifts of gold and silver they intend to bring prosperity and happiness.

HEARSAY
A selection of 31 collages 2006-2014

24 x 17 cm.
Text and photography: Peter van der Heijden
Design: Frank Beekers
Edition: 300 x :      10 euro
50 x numbered as a special edition incl. signed print:      25 euro

Order: pete.heijden@planet.n

Peter van der Heijden / recent works. Spring-salon with prints of digital collages and leporello's.
Presentation of the book HEARSAY with a selection of  collages from 2005-2014 

Exhibition: March 21 t/m May 3

The exhibition is a tribute to the artist-members of Arti at Amicitiae with 70 works of 70 artists from the past 65 years.

An exhibition of artist-members of the Nederlandse Academie voor ’Patafysica (NAP). With among others: Roel van Timmeren, Atte Jongstra, Theo Kley, Mark Manders, Peter van der Heijden, Erik Fens en Meinbert Gozewijn van Soest.

Spring Accrochage: Jikke van Loon, Peter van der Heijden, Harald Schole, Harold Schouten, Roel van Timmeren, Paul Vendel, Marc Volger.

On April 18, Marres opens the exhibition THINKING (out of) THE BOX: a selection of Vedute-manuscripts, three dimensional objects as visualized thoughts that make the concept of space accessible and tangible. Vedute invites artists, designers, architects and others active in different disciplines, to visualise their fascination with space in a work measuring 44 x 32 x 7 cm in closed form. Unlike books, 3D-manuscripts reveal their content as visual statements. Some are directly accessible, others disclose themselves literally step by step; the variety is proving to be endless. Among others: Peter Struycken, Marina Abramović, JCJ VanderHeyden, Paul Panhuysen, Peter van der Heijden, Marlies Dekkers en Krijn de Koning.

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vimeo opening Vedute Marres 

‘Anything Anytime Anywhere For No Reason At All’ is my favorite Zappa acroniem; a motto for my fascinations as an artist and collector. Being the curator and organizer of the Collection Exhibitions in the Berlage Room of Arti for three years, I now hand the concept over to Harald Schole and end my contributions by an exhibition of my own work, based on my collections.

Collections
Among others: Rhein leporello’s, postcards of Eiffeltowers, postcards of dolmen and menhirs, Vinylcovers of Zappa, reli-cards, girlstickers, naturalia, trachtenfeder, gaslighters, heroes and crystals.

On Friday May 31, I open a POP-UP STORE at the Rokin.

A weekendsalon with collages, mixed media, and digital prints.
Supporting act: Inge van Gils, ceramics.

Automnsalon with prints of digital collages and montages.

PAINTING ON WHEELS
Peter van der Heijden, Inge van Gils and Roberto Rizzo.
March 26th – April 4  showcase My Home
Opening: March 26, 15.00 hrs

Exhibited is the account of a temporary project in the Rosmolenbuurt in Zaandam;
The presentation of a filmed performance of the roller-skaters of the Zaanse Roller Club ZRC, skating on Frank Zappa’s music. Inspired by liveprojections of micro organisms, the young ladies paint a number of grand action-paintings.
Starring: Thyrsa Vogel ,Ylona Bergers, Daisy Bosma, Esther Tromp, Sharon Bosvelt and Sanne van Nugteren.

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A group-exhibition about man and meat.

With a.o. Martin uit den Boogaard, Phil Bloom, Tinkebell, Zeger Reijers, Hester Scheurwater, Tineke Schuurmans, Marc Volger, Lidy Jacobs, Paul de Reus and Peter van der Heijden.

Exhibition: Peter van der Heijden / recent works
collages / mixed media
ceramics i.s.m. Inge van Gils
May 7 – June 16
Opening: Friday May 7, 17.00 – 19.00 hrs

A spring fair with small two-dimensional collages, montages and multiples
and a first proof of my cooperation with Inge van Gils. Beautifull unique ceramic bowls of Inge, decorated with images of my own amphibians. Among others the Mexican albino axolotl and the trituris vulgaris, the common or smooth newt

New museum for Zaandam

‘I am a little space’ May 29 till June26

On Friday 29 th of May an extraordinary exhibition opens in the Museum der Unerhörten Dinge in Berlin. In continuation of they’re cooperation in Amsterdam at the Natuurlijk Museum (2007) Peter van der Heijden, Erik Fens and Marc Volger now exhibit in the Berlin Museum of Roland Albrecht. To realise a broad and monumental group exhibition in this tiny museum they invited Els Bannenberg, Frank Halmans and Paul Vendel to join the project. The six artists will show objects, that are made especially for this exhibition. They invite the visitor to zoom in and focus in order to appreciate and experience the full size and value of the shown objects.
In “I am a little space” the minuscule is magnified and the “cosmic large” is been presented in a comprehensible size, alongside the works of Roland Albrecht.
Notions of scale, size and proportion are being thrown in space and land safely; “Scale sucks”

Invited by de Stichting Kunst in Kolderveen (KIK), I am, for a period of 7 weeks, working as an artist in residence in a former cheese factory in the rural village, Kolderveen, in the Dutch province of Drente.
I am working on a installation and presentation in direct relation with the
natural life forms in the waters and fields surrounding the village. I have been
fishing in the ditches and ponds for algae’s, small organisms and snails.
I determined and scanned them and created a databank of the many different
species that were emerging in these last explosive springtime weeks.
Some of the organisms will be magnified in life projections and print sequences.
The choreographic qualities of the water flies and the mosquito larvae is
magnificent, but snails eggs and worms also play they’re part in a performance.
The process of searching, collecting and registering the species forms a
part of the presentation.