Thom Vink is from Leiden, The Netherlands, b. 1965. Lives and works in Dehradun, India and The Hague.
Member and curator at Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, NL.
Education:
1983 Graphic Technical School, Leiden.
1984 MTS Graphic Technical School, Amsterdam.
1985-1990 Royal Academy of Art, KABK, The Hague, NL.
Thom Vink is a Dutch artist. His installations are compriced of drawings, photographs, miniature models, and large-scale installations, where he juxtaposes the subconscious layers of urban architecture, information graphics, as well as natural formations.
Vink makes art in response to the urban spaces he moves around, and to the objects he finds. In his large-scale installations, he draws attention to the physicality of the site, integrating the building’s actual space into the work.
For his drawings, he turns his attention to antiquated ways of obtaining and dispersing information; he is intrigued by images, graphs and narratives, found on the pages of dusty books rather than in the space-less environment of the internet's information highways.
Selecting and rearranging such images, and combining them with video and slide projections, Vink’s works stir up memories of dreams, stories and experiences that feel connected to the body and are remembered in the bones.
Vink maintains a studio at Quartair Contemporary Art Initiatives, The Hague, and spends a major part of the year in India.
Solo and group exhibitions include “Moth House”, Stroom Center for Visual Art and Architecture, The Hague (2010), “Silhouettes and Shadows”, Sinkka Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland (2020), “Wild/Schon”, Emden Kunsthalle,
Germany (2021), and taking part in the exhibition “Jump into the Unknown” during the 56 Biennale of Venice, Italy (2015).
He has participated in group exhibitions, collaborations and artist residencies in many different countries, and most
recently the video installation work “Fields of Dissonance”, has been presented at the Manifesta 12 in Palermo,
Italy (2018) and in the solo exhibition “Up& Down/High& Low” At NIV Art Center, New Delhi,
India (2020).
Vink has received numerous grants since 1995 and his work can be found in the collections of several museums and
galleries in Finland, The Netherlands and India.
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
De Lakenhal, Leiden, NL
Army Museum, Delft, NL
Helsinki City Art Museum, FIN
Finnish Art Union, FIN
Finnish State Collection, FIN
Turku Art Museum, FIN
Heden, The Hague, NL
Private collections
GRANTS
Mondriaan Fund. Working Grant (Basisstipendium) 2013-2017
Premium Grant, Stroom, The Hague, 2010
Research Grant, Stroom, The Hague, 2009
Mondriaan Fund. Working Grant (Basisstipendium) 2001-2005
Project Grants, City of The Hague, 1999-2006
Mondriaan Fund. Working Grant (Basisstipendium) 1998-2000
Project Grant, City of Leiden, 1997
Mondriaan Fund. Working Grant (Basisstipendium) 1995-1997
PRESS AND WEB
Helsinki Sanaomat, Silhouettes and Shadows, Sinkka Art Museum, September 2019
Jegens en Tevens, Do Not Disturb, Maart 2018
Chmkoome’s blog, 25 years Quartair, Juli 2017
New Dream-New Future, Schema Art Museum, Juni 2016
Chmkoome’s blog, Now, and After, Mei 2015
Villa Repubblica, Slow Art, Mei 2015
5 uur!! Now, and After, Mei 2015
Moth House, Stroom Premium publication, April 2012
Patterns of the Mind, Intellectual play, Ars Nova Museum, June 2011
From threshold to threshold, Art Papers, interview with John Gayer, May 2010
Geobsedeerd door plattegronden en patronen, Haagse Courant, E. van Faasen, Jan. 2010
April Cream, Wicked Lady, Smooth Rose, Kunstbeeld, Roos van Put, Jan. 2010
Diversiteit in objecten van Thom Vink bij Stroom, Digezine, Jan. 2010
Flykt från samtiden/Escape from the present, HBL, Leena Kuumola, June 2009
Saara Ekström & Thom Vink open studio at Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo Art Beat, April 2009
Changers, artist talk and show at Youkobo Art Space, Air Japan today, April 2009
Condensed lines on circulation paper, Ama gallery, Turun Sanomat, Nina Suni, Jan. 2009
Tube’s extra, Tubelight, Lynne van Rhijn, Sept. 2008
Wild, Fantasy and Architecture, W. Aaltonen Museum. 2007
Husa, Arto Korhonen & Thom Vink, Tampere Sanomat. 2006
Het ondergewone, 55 Haagse kunstenaars, Stroom Den Haag, Maurits van de Laar, 2005
ARTIST IN RESIDENCIES
Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
ACAC, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan, 2006
NIV Art Center, New Delhi, India, 2019