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Elma Alkema
Website: www.elmaalkema.com
Tel: +31 6 47444746
E-mail: elmaalkema@gmail.com


education
2001 – 2006    Academy of Fine Arts ‘Academie Minerva’, Groningen, The Netherlands
2006               National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland

nominations
2006    Klaas Dijkstra Academieprijs
2006    Kunstbeeld ArtOlive Award
 
exhibitions now
Sept. 13, 2013 - Feb.28, 2016    Fries Museum, 'Horizonnen', Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
 Jan. 31, 2016 - Feb. 21, 2016    Jan van Hoof galerie, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
                                                'oe oe oe minnen wezens' Manu Baeyens /
                                                'dartelende zoeterds' Elma Alkema, Simone van Bakel,
                                                Keetje Mans, Fang Mij
 
exhibitions future
March 20, 2016 - May 1, 2016    Melklokaal, Heerenveen, The Netherlands
                                               'Drawing Front' (Kunstvereniging Diepenheim)

group exhibitions
2006    Museum Bevédère, 'Friezen om utens', Heerenveen, The Netherlands
2007    EM Galerie, Kollum, The Netherlands
2007    Pictura, Groningen, The Netherlands
2008    RC de Ruimte, 'Quantumvis IV', IJmuiden, The Netherlands
2008    BBK, Oldenburg, Germany
2011    EM Galerie, Drachten, The Netherlands
2011    WG Kunst, 'Innerlijk Behang', Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011    Bornse Synagoge, Borne, The Netherlands
2013    Fries Museum, 'Horizonnen', Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2015    Melklokaal, 'Milkshake 1', Heerenveen, The Netherlands
2015    Atelier M. de Jong, 'Nat', De Hoeve, The Netherlands

solo exhibitions
2007    Bornse Synagoge, Borne, The Netherlands
2008    Galerie Eewal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009    Gershwin Hotel, New York
2014    Fries Museum, 'Open Atelier', Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2015    Galerie Hoogenbosch, Gorredijk, The Netherlands

artist in residence

2009    Gershwin Hotel, New York

reviews

2006    Leeuwarder Courant, Susan van den Berg, July 29
2006    Leeuwarder Courant, November 23
2006    Friesch Dagblad, November 29
2006    Leeuwarder Courant, Sytse Singelsma, November 30
2006    Friesch Dagblad, December 6
2007    Leeuwarder Courant, January 27
2008    Nordwest Zeitung, August 19
2012    Friesch Dagblad, December 8
2015    Leeuwarder Courant, Grytsje Klijnstra, Februari 20
2015    Friesch Dagblad, Marije Bouman, September 2 

books

2006    'Scriptie Scrofuleus' – Elma Alkema
2006    'Friezen om utens', Museum Belvédère – Susan van den Berg, Ernst Bruinsma,
            Rudy Hodel, Thom Mercuur en Froninque Oosterhof
2008    '14 Painters from the Belvédère' – Marita de Jong and with photographs of Reyer
            Boxem (Published in English, German, Frisian and Dutch language)

2011    'Uit de Kunst', De Bornse Synagoge
  © 2016 Elma Alkema