A Small Exotic Bird Show:
O.C. Hooymeijer

Helmut Winzeler, a retrospective in photographs

We as well had to get used to it: Café Bern at the temporary location at Nieuwe Hoogstraat. All the more reason for a retrospective in some 50 photographs of the life of Helmut Winzeler (1928-2001), the man who started Cafe Bern in 1978 and made it into what it still is today.

All photographs are from private collections. Unlike normal exhibitions in Café Bern, none of these photographs are for sale.

Cutting and tearing: Flip Jansen

June 6 – July 19, 2015 at Café Bern

Raymonde Rettich

Juli 19 – November 14, 2015 in Café Bern

A small selection of the paintings exhibited in Café Bern

Bruno Filho

May 7 – June 17, 2016 at Café Bern

“It’s in Holland and in Amsterdam, it’s behind the branches and the woods, behind the pots and the flowers…… .“

Until June 10, 2016 a lovely selection of Bruno Filho’s work is being exhibited 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.

Anne Marie Spijker 

August 20 – October 10, 2016 at Café Bern

Until the 1st of October, 2016 a lovely selection of paintings by Anne Marie Spijker (Zwijndrecht, 1963) is being exhibited 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.

For more information on Anne Marie Spijker: http://www.annemariespijker.nl

Mohbra

October 12 – November 26, 2016 in Café Bern

Mohbra (Algiers,1956) is a multi talented artist. He creates pictures, sculptures and wonderful fabric collages.

Until the 26th of November, 2016 a lovely selection of his work is being exhibited 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.

Mohamed Brahimi’s world

In his early years, he had already planned with his little brother Rabah to take over the laundry of his mother and to make a workshop out of it. They gave it the name LEBUITA which means the little corner in arabic.

After having attended many different schools in Algiers, they were gradually pushed by their ambition to leave Algeria to go and settle down in Europe.  The idea is naturally to increase their knowledge. His little brother Rabah was the first one to make the move and to go to Paris. After graduating the academic school of art in Algiers. Shortly after that, Mohamed on his turn made his move and went to Andalucia, Spain for a short period of time. After that he decided to follow his brother’s itinerary and headed to Paris.

Not long after that Mohamed had another itinerary this time England was the next country. It was in London where he has attended different studies such as fashion and industrial design.

In 1985 he met his Dutch girlfriend and a year later he decided once more to extend borders and to depart to Holland. His dream came true in 1997, when he opened his own workshop with the help of his girlfriend: workshop LEBUITA was born. Since then Brahimi has been living and working in Maasbommel (Land van West Maas & Waal) in the Dutch countryside.

In the year 2001 came his first assignment. The department of justice Den bosch had a new act of law called Plukze wet and to promote the idea, they wanted him to design and to make a national trophy. With luck he succeeded to create and make the sculpture that got the name De kale kip, which means the bare chicken in the dutch language.

Brahimi is a versatile artist. From watercolour, oil & acrylic paint, to collage, sculpture and even writing. The materials used are diverse from paper, wood, fabric, plaster and lead.

His latest creation is recycling the used paint tubes to create those amazing miniture  sculptures. Aware of the daily life and those real facts, he gave those tubes a second life and added in the same time a soul to them. With full motions. the tiny details in his work reflects an achievement of real fine arts. For each sculpture, a poetical text is added to finally leave a strong message behind in the minds of  the viewer whom hopefully appreciates and accepts the result earned by his work.

Address workshop:

• Atelier Mohbra
  Korte Verspronckweg 7-9
  2023 BS  Haarlem

For more information on Mohbra, check:
http://mohbra.eu/index.html

Liesbeth Kaemingk

January 21 – March 4, 2017 at Café Bern

Liesbeth Kaemingk’s work includes oil paitings, drawings and “relics”.

In this exhibition she shows recent work, mainly from 2016, which she considers to be more compemplative than her previous work.

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.

Liesbeth Kaemingk

oil paintings, drawings and “relics”

The paintings showing human creatures are no portraits but depict a potential reality.

The drawings are made on treated paper and on existing images, in mixed media (ink and paint)

The creation is a quest, generating something new in the course of the creative process. All options are open. Drawings can result in paintings

The relics: three dimensional work, framed in a case.

Check: www.lisak.nl

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Ka Createur

March 4 – April 15, 2017 in Café Bern

Over the years, Ka Createur (1965) has developed her artistic skills in various fields. Her projects feature all kinds of design. Currently her focus is on abstract painting. It allows her to free herself from her pursuit of perfection.

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.

Ka Createur

Ka createur heeft zich door de jaren heen op verschillende vakgebieden ontwikkeld. Haar projecten lopen qua vormgeving nogal uiteen. Momenteel ligt haar focus op het schilderen van abstracte werken. Hierbij kan zij zich losweken van haar perfectionisme.

Ka verwoordt deze abstractie als volgt: “Als ik mezelf niet in de weg zit en eruit kan laten komen wat er op dát moment in me leeft, dan is een goed schilderij in één sessie klaar. Deze zogenaamde oer-werken ontstaan vanuit van alles: frustratie, liefde, angst, onmacht en vreugde, er moet in ieder geval onrust van binnen aanwezig zijn.

De beste creaties ontstaan als het denken en alle oordelen stop gezet kunnen worden. Als ik mezelf verwonder over de compositie en in het doek terug kan lezen wat mij bezig hield, dan krijgt het schilderij bestaansrecht. Soms vraagt een schilderij om wat meer gelaagdheid en ook een ander beoordelingsvermogen, dan kan het proces maanden duren. Maar of je nu lang of kort bezig bent met een schilderij, een creatie raakt je of raakt je niet. Zo simpel is het dan ook weer”.

Voor meer info: www.ka-createur.nl

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Boudijn Uythof – Rokjesdag

April 15 – 22, 2017 at Café Bern

In this exhibition, Amsterdam based photographer Boudijn Uythof addresses the typical spring event of “Rokjesdag” (meaning ‘Skirts Day’). It’s the first day of the year when the skirt reveals the naked leg.

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.

Boudijn Uythof

Street photografy: the photografical registration of encounters

Boudijn Uythof is a photographer, who specalizes in street photography. He has been living in Amsterdam for over 55 years.

The lively unpredictability of people in public space of Amsterdam and other metropoles has been challenging Boudijn to record the images of encounters during his travel adventures

For an overview of Boudijn’s work, check: www.boudyn.com

Henk Langeveld – drawings

Flip Jansen – the Aprilfeest paper bags

April 25 – April 30, 2017 in Café Bern

Henk Langeveld – drawings

Henk Langeveld, who died in 2010, was known for his pen drawings of the Amsterdam music scene. In 2007, he made a series of drawings at the Aprilfeesten, that has been exhibited at Café Bern. Below you find a small selection.

Flip Jansen – the Aprilfeest paper bags

The legendary festivities on Amsterdam’s Nieuwmarkt, during one week at the end of Aprll (in Dutch: ‘Aprilfeesten’), are a tradition that has been carried on for already 30 years. Or is it 31 years? Nobody knows for sure.

During the first years, posters were being printed to announce the ‘Aprilfeesten’. But 1996 was the first year of the intriguing ‘Aprilfeest paper bags’. They have been around ever since and have become true collector’s items. Every year Flip Jansen creates a new linocut

Please find below an overview of the complete collection of ‘Aprilfeest paper bags’.

Anneke Hietbrink – Still to blossom

June 3 – July 15, 2017 at Café Bern

At Café Bern, Anneke Hietbrink is exhibiting paintings that can be best described as natural shapes, full of expression, in images of familiar fantasy.  The clarity and limitless space and opportunities materialize on the canvas. Inspiration, energy and mainly cheerful colours create a vivid landscape, incessantly longing to be discovered.

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.

Anneke Hietbrink

Paint your colourful you!

Anneke Hietbrink has been drawing
-initially working with oil pastel on paper- since she was 20 years old. People and animals were her subjects, in colours that appealed to her taste. Later on she changed to gouache and has been painting for several years, her approach becoming increasingly intuitive: in colours and movement she expressed her inner feelings, inspired by natural shapes.

Since about a year ago, she has made a switch to acrylic on canvas. Anneke takes her pleasure and focus from the imagination and the choice of colours, that serve as a great source of energy.

Her life with colour, paint, with (increasingly larger) canvasses and imagination continues to be a source of opportunities, energy and joy.

Anneke aims to offer people a soft force, light-heartedness and an impulse to follow their instincts and vitalize their life.

For further information:
www.annekehietbrink.nl

Pjotr van Agtmaal – Wild at Heart

October 7 – November 24, 2017 at Café Bern

Yes, Pjotr van Agtmaal, a.k.a. DJ Pjotr from Hell, showing his pictures at Café Bern. Wild at Heart is the perfect title for this exhibition. An interpretion of his universe, rocked onto the canvas, packed with energy. Rhythm, structure, dark-light, expression-imagination, whatever you would like to see. Interactive, what you see is what you see, he is merely giving you directions, work it out for yourself. One might describe his work as abstract ‘expressionisme moderne‘, but what’s in a name?

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 one of the works exhibited at Café Bern

Pjotr van Agtmaal

The work of Pjotr van Agtmaal, a.k.a. DJ Pjotr from Hell, might be described as abstract ‘expressionisme moderne‘, but what’s in a name?

But one thing´s for sure: Rock ’n Roll is his primary source of inspiration.

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Bill Bodewes – graphics

November 25, 2017 – Januari 19, 2018 at Café Bern

From November 25 until January 5, 2018 graphical work by Bill Bodewes is exhibited 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 one of the works exhibited at Café Bern.

Photography: Marian van de Veen-van Rijk

Bill Bodewes

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Fredie Beckmans: Cut from round sausage

January 21 – March 10, 2018 at Café Bern

Starting January 21 until March 10, 2018 Fredie Beckmans is exhibiting some of his work at Café Bern. The exhibition is titled ‘Cut from round sausage‘. Fredie Beckmans, chairman of the Sausage Club, has been wandering all over Switzerland for 4 years in search of the true sausage. He has made contributions on the subject to various magazines, such as Bouillon! Magazine and Hollands Maandblad. So to exhibit a selection of sausage paintings at Café Bern is only a logical next step.

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

Fredie Beckmans (1956, Winterswijk), according to the Heilbronner Stimme a ‘spätgeborener Dadaïst’, formally a painter at the court of the Dutch Queen and once a world champion ´cooking performance´. He won a prize for best essay, titled ‘The philosopher and his sausage’.

Na 4 jaar Zwitserland, schildert en schrijft hij afwisselend in Amsterdam en Brighton aan zijn grote Vogel en Worsten oeuvre.

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Ap Esenbrink: Masks

March 10 maart – May 19, 2018 at Café Bern

From March 10 maart until May 19, 2018 Ap Esenbrink shows a selection of his illuminated masks at Café Bern. They are part of the collection of intriguing plastic objects that have helped to establish Ap Esenbrink´s reputation. Ap has been exhibiting at Café Bern previously: some years ago his (also illuminated) fish have embellished 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

In 1990 Ap Esenbrink finished his education at the AKI Art School of Enschede. He subsequently worked for various film productions and TV productions of VPRO Villa, doing the theatrical scenery.

He has been decorating various well known restaurants, pubs and bars. Meanwhile he has continued to create movies, collages and objects.

Also check: Ap Esenbrink

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Jeroen Blankert: Paintings

May 19 – July 14, 2018 at Café Bern

From May 19 until July 14, 2018 Jeroen Blankert exhibits at Café Bern. A natural talent, a great respect for technique and twenty years of practice have resulted in an imposing body of work.

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

Jeroen Blankert (1966) grew up among terpentine, easels and palettes: his father Barend Blankert and his mother Koos van Keulen are both renowned Dutch figurative painters. In fact, almost everyone in the Blankert family had dedicated his or her life to the arts, if not as a painter, then as a graphic artist of art historian. Even famous Dutch artist H.W. Mesdag (1831-1915) is in the family tree somewhere.

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’.

But the painting has always remained a constant. Natural talent, a great respect for technique and twenty years of practice have resulted in an imposing body of work. Landscapes in vivid colours, tronies , nudes, everyday objects, deeply realist but with a cartoonish edge; Blankert’s art is as diverse as his life has been.

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.

Also check: Jeroen Blankert – paintings

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Anita Prins: Emotion and man

July 14 – September 14, 2018 at Café Bern

Starting July 14 until September 14, 2018 Anita Prins is exhibiting some of her work at Café Bern. The exhibition is titled ‘Emotion and man‘ and features a number of very colourful portraits of brides from various cultures and of people in utter concentration.

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

From the moment she could hold a pencil, Anita Prins (Amsterdam, 1964) has never ceased drawing anything that catched her attention. Over the years she took up drawing portraits, using soft pastel and currently oil on canvas is her main medium. Anita is a true autodidact.

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.

See also: Anita Prins

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Cor van Rijn (1929-2018)

September 14 – November 16, 2018 at Café Bern

From the early ’50-ies to the beginning of the ’90-ies Cor van Rijn performed in numerous plays and he appeared in no less than 40 movies and many TV plays and series. But to Café Bern he was, first and foremost, ‘Cor, our upstairs neighbour’. Moreover, he had been living there already for 15 years, when Café Bern opened for the first time, forty years ago, in August 1978. And he has been living there ever since, together with his beloved Joyce.

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

A few weeks ago our upstairs neighbour Cor van Rijn passed away. He would have given anything to be able to stay as long as he could with Joyce, the love of his life, but it was not to meant be.

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.

We can rightly describe Cor as ‘the pioneer of Café Bern’.  In the early days our upstairs neighbour was one of the rare regulars and through him his wide and colourful circle of artistic friends gradually found their way to our café.

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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There
am I

Ishan Mohiddin – Novemeber 17, 2018 until January 11, 2019 at Café Bern

From November 17, 2018 until January 11, 2019 Ishan Mohiddin is exhibiting a selection of his work, Title of the exhibition is “There, am I”.

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

Ishan Mohiddin is a multi-faceted artist. Born in Kirkuk, he came to Amsterdam to seek refuge from the atrocities of war in Kurdistan at the time of the Gulf War. He further developped his skills as a painter and as an actor and he appeared in Dutch movies, such as Nachtrit (2006) and Het spel van de wolf (2014) and on Dutch TV in Flikken Maastricht (2007).

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.

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