Wieteke Heldens’ practice involves the creation of rule-based systems specific to each work or series. She combines the concept and rule of the algorithm and executes it through forms and compositions that are organic, self generating, and have the unmistakable mark of the human hand. A seemingly chaotic world is met with distinctive order in works that formulate their own ontology.

Wieteke Heldens graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 2007. Heldens’ work has been shown internationally, including the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, South Korea, Japan, and the United States. She has also worked as an artist-in-residence in Chongqing, China and Turin, Italy. In 2013 Heldens won the Royal Award for Modern Painting in the Netherlands. She is a recipient of a Stipend for Established Artists of the Mondriaan Fund. Wieteke Heldens lives and works in Long Island City, NY.

EDUCATION

2007-09 DNA, post graduate, The Hague, The Netherlands
2003-07 Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Drawing Online, galleryviewer, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 “ ”(quote, unquote), Flux Factory, New York, USA
2017 With Colored Content , Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Bringing the Content Back, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2016 With Colored Content, Fusion Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2016 Once upon a line, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2015 Painting, Painthing and Paintthing (the verbs), Fluxfactory, New York, USA
2014 Wieteke Heldens, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Paintings, Painthings and Paintthings, Flux Factory New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Order of Operations, Lydian Stater, Queens, NY

2022
In Good Company, Lydian Stater gallery, New York
A something in a summer’s day, O-68 gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
Chronic Stillness, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York
A Room of One's Own, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Connection Collection, Bos Fine Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Open Studio’s, ISCP, New York
Open Studio’s, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands

2021

Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Plaxall gallery, New York
In Between, Crossing Art Gallery, New York.
De Tekening, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Intuition, Echo Ann Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Who Are Thy Ancestors?, O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
Structures on Mars, Gallery Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Robe Blue, Fond Rouge, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Boundary & Dislocation, Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea

2020

ISCP, The Sky is Blue Like an Orange, New York
How the land lies, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
The Drawing Lesson, Museo Moli Paperer de Capellades, Capellades, Spain
Ontgrendeld, O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands.
Touch, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York
Pick Me, De Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2019

London Art Fair, O-68 gallery, London, UK
Art Rotterdam, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Rotterdam
Haagse Heritage, Heden, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Talk Back, Flux Factory, New York, USA
The great longing, Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden

2018

Accidents Never Happen, Hans & Fritz, Clui-Napoca, Romania
Cross Over Sense, Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft, Bornem, Belgium
Talking With Hands, Fusion Gallery, Turin, Italy
See What You Know, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
Summer exhibition, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Scope Art Basel, O-68 gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Unfolding Landscape, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, The Netherlands
Do Not Disturb, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
KunstRai, O-68 gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017

Things only I know about Tim Breukers/ Things only I know about Wieteke Heldens, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona, Spain
De finalisten, Art gallery O-68, Velp, The Netherlands
Permanent Repetition, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Code Art Fair, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
Schilderkunst 3, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, The Netherlands
I Am A Painter, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, The Netherlands
We like Art, Editions & Multiples, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Art Rotterdam, Borzo gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2016

Amsterdam Drawing, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Coup De Ville, Sint Niklaas, Belgium
Andy Warhol, Wieteke Heldens, Ikawa Seiryo, Cang Xin and Gao Yansong, Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
New Dream, New Future, Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
Re-Juvenation, Thornwillow Press Inc. Newburgh, NY, USA
Art Cologne, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Drawing Front (and back), Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
Art Rotterdam, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2015

Een Blauwe Kamer, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
Trial and Triumph, Royal academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Amsterdam Drawing, Art Fair Amsterdam, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Blind Date, Alabama, sir, Leipzig, Germany

2014

THERE IS NO I in W139, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Your engagement has consequences, Billytown, The Hague, The Netherlands
Raw, Art Fair,Rotterdam, Borzo modern & contemporary art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2013

Koninklijke prijs voor vrije schilderkunst, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
DRAWn to beTEKENis, Gemak, The Hague, The Netherlands
Gallery Artist + Guest, C&H Art Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Capriccio, JCA DE KOK centrum voor actuele kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands

2012

Prune in the sky, Toves gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Infamous and Only Somewhat Ambassadorial Outpost of the Semi-Legitimate Nation of Flux, Spanien19C, Aarhus, Denmark

2011

Dots and Dashes, Myrtle Windows Gallery, New York, USA
Sounds like Architecture, Maria Aalter, Belgium
Status!Status!Status!, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA

2009

DNA, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands

2008

Fast Feed Forward Control, Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France

2007

7-UP, Kunst Museum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Thun le paradis, Wilfried Von Gunten Projektraum fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Thun, Switzerland

RESIDENCIES

2020-2022 ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
2017-2019 Flux Factory, Queens, New York
2016 Fusion Art gallery, Torino, Italy
2011 Flux Factory, Queens, New York
2010 Coup De Ville, Artist village, St Niklaas, Belgium
2009 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

GRANTS & AWARDS

2022 Wynn Newhouse award, winner
2021 New York City Artist Corps
2019-2022 Mondriaan Fund, Stipend for Established Artist
2018 Mondriaan Fund, Project Subsidy
2017 O-68 Award, winner
2016 Strabag Art award International, nomination
2013 Royal Award for Painting, Winner
2009-2010 Grant Mondriaan Fund (former Fund BKVB)

COLLECTIONS

Flux Factory, New York
Heden, The Hague, The Netherlands
LAM Museum, Lisse, The Netherlands
Warp, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Henk Van Os, The Netherlands
Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
Royal King of the Netherlands

INTERVIEWS

Arranging Tangerines Episode 17 - A Conversation with Wieteke Heldens

Arranging Tangerines Episode 18 - A Conversation with Wieteke Heldens


WEBSITE: www.wietekeheldens.com