Liesbeth Doornbosch paints makes collages, and writes. She often starts by making an impression of a place, a feeling, or a relationship with people or things. As an infiltrator and observer, she looks for the small domesticity and frayed edges in our surroundings and modern architecture. She depicts the story of a failed (fictional) architect called A who plays an essential role as her grumbling and humorous alter ego. A sticks everything together and covers up mistakes layer by layer. Failure, human size and scale, and the so-called social malleability of life are recurring themes.
By creating scenery, one imagines a story and vice versa; a sight or scene appears by telling a story. Liesbeth Doornbosch wants to gain insight into this question she calls the nature of the place: who and where am I?
Her work is mainly exhibited in the Netherlands and Germany and is included in numerous public and private collections.
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LIESBETH DOORNBOSCH, RHEDEN, NL, 1970. STUDIO BRUNINGWEG 19 C, 6827 BM, ARNHEM KvK 53958063 EDUCATION1993- 1994 M.A. ATELIERS ARNHEM, ARTEZ UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS1988- 1993 HOGESCHOOL VOOR DE KUNSTEN CONSTANTIJN HUYGENS,KAMPEN
GRANTS/ SCHOLARSCHIPS 2023 PPO GRANT 013 LONGLISTED 2013 AESTHETICA ART PRIZE 2005 PROJECT GRANT, PROVINCIE GELDERLAND 2005 NOMINATION ARTEUREGIO AWARD 2004 NOMINATION VAN BOMMEL VAN DAM AWARD 2001 BASIC STIPEND FONDS BKVB 2001 PROJECT GRANT, PROVINCIE GELDERLAND 2000 PROJECT GRANT, PROVINCIE GELDERLAND 1998 NOMINATION SYBREN HELLINGA AWARD FOR THE ARTS 1997 BASIC STIPEND FONDS BKVB 1995 STARTER STIPEND FONDS BKVB
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