Previous exhibitions 2018 – 2021
Fredie Beckmans
Cor van Rijn
René Windig
Harm Mouw
Ap Esenbrink
Ishan
Fenneke Voorsluis
Paul Husner
Jeroen Blankert
Cil Laurens
Crispijn
Geert-Jan Kuijpers
Anita Prins
O.C. Hooymeijer
Luitzen Zandbergen
Fredie Beckmans: Cut from round sausage
January 21 – March 10, 2018 at Café Bern
During the opening ceremony guests will have the opportunity to sample some Swiss sausages that Fredie brought back from Swiztserland and some new membership cards of the Sausage Club will be issued.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Fredie Beckmans
– Chairman of the Sausage Club
Na 4 jaar Zwitserland, schildert en schrijft hij afwisselend in Amsterdam en Brighton aan zijn grote Vogel en Worsten oeuvre.
Ap Esenbrink: Masks
March 10 maart – May 19, 2018 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Ap Esenbrink
He has been decorating various well known restaurants, pubs and bars. Meanwhile he has continued to create movies, collages and objects.
Jeroen Blankert: Paintings
May 19 – July 14, 2018 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Jeroen Blankert
It seemed inevitable that Jeroen, as offspring of this illustrious family, would also do something in the visual arts. So of course he didn’t. He decided to become a drummer and enrolled at Amsterdam’s Sweelinck conservatory. But he couldn’t deny his roots – or his talent. Long before he graduated as a musician, he had taken up painting.
And so he entered adulthood with a drumstick in one hand, and a paintbrush in the other. A free spirit with a lust for life, albeit not a nine to five one, he became a man of many ventures. He painted scenery, played the drums for Ellen ten Damme, Joop van den Ende and Bettie Serveert , briefly ran his own gallery, and is the owner of one of Amsterdam’s most revered clubs-slash-cultural spaces ‘De nieuwe Anita’.
It remains unclear what Jeroen Blankert grew up to be. Drummer? Artist? Bar owner? Gallerist? Culture vulture? One thing’s for sure though: Jeroen Blankert is interested in the visual arts – as a real Blankert should be. In the result of his handiwork, right there on the canvas. Not in the stories behind the image. He has enough of those already.
Anita Prins: Emotion and man
July 14 – September 14, 2018 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Anita Prins
She feels an urge to paint emotions and states-of-mind that are not easily expressed in words. In seclusion, listening to the right kind of music, she experiences the enchantment of separate colours that evolve into images., grateful for her gifted talent. Painting comes first, the reasoning only in hindsight.
Meestal gebruikt ze daarvoor de afbeelding van een vrouw, in al haar kwetsbaarheid en haar bijna religieuze binding met de natuur.
Cor van Rijn (1929-2018)
September 14 – November 16, 2018 at Café Bern
Cor was so much more than merely an actor. He painted, wrote poetry and made graphical work. To pay tribute to Cor, Café Bern will exhibit a selection of his work from September 14 until November 16, 2018.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern. Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Cor van Rijn
(1929- 2018)
actor, painter, poet
Cor was not just a gifted actor. In the 80-ies he took up painting, like his wife had been doing already for many years. He had an exposition in Café Bern, the opening night of which turned out to be legendary with a crowd of actors, directors and other artists joining the party.
His work was very well received and appraised but no other exhibitions followed. Cor much more preferred the secluded privacy of his life with Joyce: painting together, writing poems and playing the grand piano.
To commemorate Cor we have organised an tribute exhibition of a small selection of his work in Café Bern. The opening night will be on September 14 with a speech by Ursul de Geer. The exhibition will last until October 26, 2018.
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Ishan Mohiddin – Novemeber 17, 2018 until January 11, 2019 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Ishan Mohiddin
In 2000 he started in stage productions. Ishan is director, artistic leader and actor at “Stichting Kelderlicht (theater and film) that was founded by him.
Cil: The Wondering Road
February 9 – April 12, 2019 in Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Cil Laurens
In her work she is attempts to create a mixture of female intrigue, darkness and wonder while remaining precise in her style of art. she loves the duality in people’s characters. this leads her to create whimsical yet clear representations of her elusive world.
Clients:
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Absolut Vodca, Tedx Amsterdam, Southern Comfort, H&M Conscious Line, Gategroup, Ue Roll / Ultimate Ears, Cortina bikes, Grolsch.
For more information: WWW.CILLAURENS.NL
O.C. Hooymeijer: Spiritu videt plura avium
4th of May – 15th of June 2019 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
O.C. Hooymeijer
His remarkable series of paintings and drawings, such as “Red Light District”, “Indian Portraits” and “Contemporary 17th Century Portraits” brought Hooymeijer national acclaim. His work “O.C. Hooymeijer’s Panorama of Amsterdam” was exhibited in 2002 in the Amsterdam Museum as part of the exhibition “Love for Sale”. Between 2009 and 2012 he created the impressive and touching series “Abuse”, “Catholic Abuse” and “Worship”.
So far man was the focus of his work. In this book “A small guide to the non-existent birds of Europe” and his exhibitions “The Great Exotic Bird Show” and “O.C. Hooymeijer’s Wondrous World of Birds” (Natuurmuseum Friesland, 2016), man has been replaced by the bird.
By adding scent and sound his exhibtions are evolving into a “Total Experience”. At the occasion of Leeuwarden-Fryslan 2018 Hooymeijer created a “Bird hide for the non-existent birds of the Rottige Meenthe’ near the village of Spanga.
On the 4th of May, 2019 O.C. Hooymeijer will present his “New Guide to the non-existing Birds of Europe” at Café Bern In this illustrious dinner café at the Nieuwmarkt, where Hooymeijer prepared many-a-steak in his younger days, a selection of the new birds can be admired.
or follow O.C. Hooymeijer on Facebook.
René Windig: draughtsman & illustrator
June 15 – September 13, 2019 at Café Bern
From June 15 juni until September 13, 2019 René Windig shows a selection of his amazing, colourful prints at Café Bern.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
René Windig
Op de middelbare school leerde hij Eddie de Jong kennen, met wie hij ruim veertig jaar lang diverse strips zou tekenen. Hun bekendste strip Heinz stond in de jaren tachtig en negentig in zo’n zestig Nederlandstalige dagbladen. Er verschenen 24 albums van en vijf kloeke geschiedenisboeken.
Naast stripboeken tekende Windig ook vele schetsboeken vol. De laatste jaren doet hij dat met hernieuwde energie. Hij laat zich hierbij inspireren door alles wat er op zijn pad komt: fotoboeken, kunststromingen (COBRA, Impressionisme), uitheemse culturen (Afrika, Japan, Oceanië), de vrije natuur en natuurboeken, de stad, de straat. Het resultaat is een veelheid van impressies en stijlen.
Fenneke Voorsluis:
‘The Poetry of the Casual Encounter’
September 14 – October 25, 2019 at Café Bern
– “I investigate the emotional half-life of my parental home: Kalkmarkt 8. A house full of memories, a house in motion, a house like stagnant water. I bend over my legacy, record it, cross over and rewrite my own history. Looking for a new simplicity. Piece by piece I break down and build up until a new order is created that becomes fuel for the future.”
From September 14 until October 25, 2019 Fenneke Voorsluis shows a selection of her work at Café Bern.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a first impression of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Dear visitors to Café Bern
Share a piece of thought, conversation or an idea. Everything is allowed. Write it on a notepad. Four rules are sufficient. I collect them and add them to my own history. I will work with integrity and care. I won’t mention names or background. Just a piece of poetry from a casual encounter, here in Café Bern.
In January 2019 my father passed away quite unexpectedly. He was a very socially involved kind of person, both professionally and in his private life. He turned Kalkmarkt 8 into a refuge where people of various backgrounds and reference frameworks could meet. It was an exciting place to grow up, a place where all sorts of initiatives, people and ideas could thrive. I have always admired and cherished my parents’ open-mindedness.
Crispijn: Waterlooplein
2nd of November – 27th of December 2019 at Café Bern
Yet the market manifested itself nevertheless, once it returned to its old place in 1988. But now, 32 years later, it’s as if the market is back to square one: threatened to be restricted by the prestigious plans of the city council to embellish the failed design of the city hall with a profitable shopping mall, which will undoubtedly be at the expense of the market.
The city council thinks along straight lines, an approach totally unsuitable for a flea market. Through his pictures Crispijn makes an attempt to show that this fringe of Amsterdam should never be smoothed out, as it brings together so many people from some many different cultural and social backgrounds.
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Crispijn
If only I could have captured the moment
From the very start I had a photo camera lying in my car. But in 2015 I suddenly realized that I had to wear the camera at all times.
A regular customer in a small invalid vehicle wanted to inspect a spare wheel at our stall; he kept one feet inside his car but forgot to take it off the gas. The small vehicle rode out at quite a speed, ending up against a lamp post, that instantaneously lost its top. The regular, although infirm, could suddenly run fast and rode out of there. It was a magnificent spectacle and I said to myself: “If only I could have captured the moment”.
I have been wearing my camera ever since.
Luitzen Zandbergen:
4 januari – 13 maart 2020 in Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Luitzen Zandbergen
Appelscha, 1951
Luitzen has always found the recycle aspect, today so widely accepted, sympathetic.
Also check: www.lzandbergen.nl/
Harm Mouw:
March 14 – July 31, 2020 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Harm Mouw
Rotterdam Hillegersberg, 1958
In 2016 Sipke Huismans, former professor at the Rijksakademie voor Beeldende Kunst, wrote about his work: “Harm Mouw introduces us to his astonishment and respect for the seemingly ordinary.
His work is immediately accessible and secretive at the same time, easy to read and an enigma. This means that you can always keep looking at it and see it again and again, that it will never be boring, no matter how unadorned and modest it is.”
More info: www.harmmouw.nl/
Paul Husner: Drawings in Corona Time
24th August – 23rd October 2020 at Café Bern
Please feel free to drop by. From 4:00-6:00 p.m. you can come and see the exhibition at your ease. Or late at night, after 11:00 p.m., when the rather busy dinner time has finished and a lovely relaxed “after hours” atmosphere has descended on Café Bern.
Below you can already have a preview of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
Paul Husner
Basel, 1942
From 1980 to 1986, Paul was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and, in addition to many others, accompanied Harm Mouw, who performed the previous exhibition in Café Bern. Paul won several prizes, such as the Uriot Prize (1969), the Willink of Collenprijs (1971), the Jeanne Oosting Prize (1974) and the Arti Medal (1987).
Café Bern is proud of to have Paul Husner as a regular and loyal guest since many years, but also to be able to exhibit a large selection of these drawings.
GJ Kuijpers: Portraits and Landscapes!
3 October 2020 – 1 October 2021 (extended during lockdown)
Below you can have an imprerssion of some of the works exhibited at Café Bern.
About Geert-Jan Kuijpers
Oeffelt, 1963
For further information: www.geertjankuijpers.nl/
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