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Coosje van Bruggen and Claes Oldenburg    




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Biography

Van Bruggen’s first collaboration with Claes Oldenburg was in 1976, when Trowel I, originally shown at Sonsbeek 71, was rebuilt and relocated in the sculpture garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. In 1978 van Bruggen moved to New York, where she continued to work with Oldenburg to establish direct contact with a wider audience by creating large-scale, site-specific works in urban settings.

Their collaboration has extended to smaller-scale park and garden sculptures as well as to indoor installations. The couple, married in 1977, has executed over forty Large-Scale Projects, which have been inserted into various urban surroundings in Europe, Asia, and the United States.


Exhibitions
2008 - 2009 Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
2004 “Marfa,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, February 20 - April 3, 2004.
2002 “10th Anniversary of the Lifetime Achievment in Contemporary Sculpture Award” International Sculpture Center, December 2002.
2002 “30 Years of Landfall Press,” Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, TX (July/August 2002)
2002 “Drawings, 1959-62,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2/14-3/23/02)
2002 “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (11/3/02 – 2/3/03)
2002 “Claes Oldenburg Coosje van Bruggen,” PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York (5/3 – 6/28/02)
2002 “Sculpture,” Mitchell-Innes-Nash, (4/19-5/02).
2001 Dropped Cone, Cologne Germany
2001 “Down Liquidambar Lane: Sculpture in the Park” Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal. Permanent installation opening May 2001.
2000 Ago, Filo e Nodo (Needle, Thread and Knot), Milan
2000 Flying pins, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1999 Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Including new works like the Lion’s Tail and Corridor Pin.
1996 Saw Sawing, Tokyo
1996 Torn Notebook, Lincoln, Nebraska
1994 Inverted Collar and Tie, Frankfurt
1994 Shuttlecocks, Kansas City
1992 Mistos (Match Cover), Barcelona
Currently creating large-scale projects for Denver, San Francisco and Berlin.
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