Contact

Bart Lunenburg (Utrecht, 1995)
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

bjmlunenburg[at]gmail.com

Represented by Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam, NL) and RAVNIKAR (Ljubljana, SI).

Interview podcasts: Kunst is Lang (Mister Motley), Nooit Meer Slapen (Radio 1), Springvossen (AmsterdamFM)


In my multidisciplinary artistic practice, I work with architecture, the memory of buildings, architectural history, and heritage. I mainly work with scale models, which can lead to creating sculptures, photographs, drawings, and textiles, often coming together in installations and books.

In my projects, I try to ‘excavate’ the memory of buildings by researching archival materials combined with my observations and translating these into scale models.

I like to approach a new project by staying in a building or site for a longer period. By doing so, I try to listen, study, and translate the building’s life, materials, and memory into objects that often come together in multidisciplinary installations and autonomous objects.

In my work, I combine architectural history and heritage with my own observations and experiences to create new narratives on our fundamental, yet difficult relationship with our built environment. I have a strong interest in how buildings absorb ideas and ideologies, fears and desires, memories and flaws; both those of the architect as well as those of the resident. Therefore, I always try to approach materials, buildings, and cities as if they have a memory of their own.


              
The Mondriaan Fund and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts generously support my work.


Photo: Wouter le Duc


Collections
                         
Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana (MGML)

Collection Rijksoverheid (Ministry of the Internal and Kingdom Relations of The Netherlands)

Collection AMC (Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre)

Art Collection Het Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

BPD Art Collection (Bouwfonds Property Development)

The Ekard Collection

Stichting StrandLinks

NewGround Law

Various other corporate and private collections



Books

2021        
                          
This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below
Graphic design: Hans Gremmen. Texts: Taco Hidde Bakker. Published by: Fw:Books

2019        
                       
Tohu wa-Bohu, Collaborative riso-printed artist publication (curated by: Taco Hidde Bakker & Daniëlle Lemaire, EXTRAPOOL, Nijmegen (NL)




Artwork in public space

2025

Donder (2025), Landgoed Vrederijk, Loenen a/d Vecht, NL

2019               

Levende Linies (2019) artwork for the tunnel under the A12 highway, Waterliniemuseum Fort bij Vechten, Vechten (NL). Commissioned by: Province of Utrecht, QKunst.


Prizes / Grants

2025

Harrie Tillie Award, Museum Cuypershuis, Roermond (nomination)

Amsterdam Fund for the Arts Stipend (AFK)

Mondriaan Fund, Artist Project (collaboration with curator Lieneke Hulshof)

2024

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Slovenia, project support for solo exhibition Plečnik House, Ljubljana, SI

Mondriaan Fund, Art Presentation International, solo exhibition Plečnik House, Ljubljana (SI)

2023

Mondriaan Fund, Kunstenaar Basis (Art Basic grant)

Stichting Stokroos, Hoeders van het Land, Kunstenlab

Amarte Fonds, Hoeders van het Land, Kunstenlab

2022
             
Mondriaan Fonds Grant International Presentations, solo exhibition, Ashes | Ashes, R SPACE, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2021     
         
Stichting Stokroos, project investment Brick Weaving Tapestry, Buitenplaats Doornburgh / Kunsthal KAdE

Mondriaan Fund, Corona-overbrugging kunstenaar, curator en beschouwer

Foam, Paul Huf Award (nomination)

2020  
             
Grant for Artistic Research, Centraal Museum / Universiteit Utrecht / ZonMW,
Prize ‘Artistic research on the remembrance of the COVID-19 crisis’

Mondriaan Fund Bijdrage Publicaties, for This Creaking Floor and all the Ceilings Below (Fw:Books), NL

2019    
           
Mondriaan Fund Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, NL

Harry Penningsprize, Eindhoven, NL (longlist)

2018    
           
K.F. Hein Stipend 2018, K.F. Hein Fonds, Utrecht, NL (nomination)

Latent Call, Matèria Gallery & D.O.O.R., Rome, IT (nomination)

K.F. Heinfonds kunstparticipatieproject, Utrecht, NL (nomination)


Artist talks / lectures (selection)

2025

Museum Cuypershuis, Roermond, NL

Guest tutor and lecturer, Photography, University of the Arts Utrecht, NL

Guest tutor and lecturer, Fine Arts, University of the Arts Utrecht, NL

2024

Guest lecturer University of Ghent - research seminar ‘Ecologies of Architecture and Dance’ - Faculty of Art History / Architecture and Urban Planning, BE

Plečnik House, Ljubljana, SI

Performative lecture / guided tour - Drawing Centre Diepenheim, NL

Springvossen, AmsterdamFM, NL

Kunstenlab, Deventer, NL

2023

Nooit Meer Slapen, Radio 1, interview with Lotje IJzermans (podcast)

RIB Rotterdam, (conversation with Steven Maybury), Rotterdam, NL

Dom Hans van der Laan Foundation, Abdij van Roosenberg, Waasmunster, NL

2022      
        
Buitenplaats Doornburgh, One to seven, grey to red, three to four, tread to thread, (conversation with Lieneke Hulshof)

Kunst is Lang (podcast with Luuk Heezen), Mister Motley, NL

TU Delft, faculty of architecture, Delft, NL

ULAY Foundation, Ljubljana, SLO

2021

Noorderlicht Fotosalon (artist talk with Awoiska van der Molen), Groningen, NL

2020     
          
Architectuurcentrum FASadE, Amesfoort, NL

2019        
       
Art Meat #9, FOTODOK & Casco Art Institute, Utrecht, NL

2018        
       
De Donkere Kamer #38, Atelier Neérlandais, Paris, FR

Garage Café #7, Garage Rotterdam, NL

2017                

De Mus, Torpedotheater, Amsterdam, NL


Press (selection)

2025

De Architect, interview on artistic practice, Van der Laan Stichting

2024

Metropolis M - zachtjes de grenzen opzoeken - Unfair 24

Het atelier van Bart Lunenburg, Gallery Viewer, interview by Wouter van den Eijkel

De Volkskrant, Tijdens sculptuurtentoonstelling Lustwarande smelten kunst en natuur samen

Springvossen, interview with Robert van Altena, AmsterdamFM

2023

Nooit Meer Slapen, NPO Radio 1, interview with Lotje IJzermans (live radio interview + podcast)

De Groene Amsterdammer, Schilderen als teken van bezit, by: Joke de Wolf

Bart Lunenburg luistert naar wat gebouwen zeggen, interview by: Maarten Buser, De Lage Landen

2022
                               

Volkskrant, Pijlsnelle carriere in de kunst: Bart Lunenburgs werk is ineens overal te zien, interview by: Karolien Knols
Mister Motley - Tussen de bakstenen - met Koen Mulder naar Kunsthal KAdE

Een gebouw als weefgetouw - Bart Lunenburg in Buitenplaats Doornburgh, text by: Anna van Suchtelen (ArtUtrecht)

C4 Journal, Bart Lunenburg - This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below, review by Alexander Mourant

2021                               

NRC Handelsblad, Noorderlicht International Fotofestival 2021: The Makeable Mind

Dagblad van het Noorden - Installatie (Un)earth Noorderlicht in Groningen

De Architect, Stutten van Groningen als aanleiding tot verandering

Metropolis M - Prospects - Een veelbelovend vooruitzicht                          
   
2020   

Lucy in de Lucht, Geschiedenis en losse draadjes, - Bart Lunenburg bij WEEF, by: Marjolein Sponselee   
                                             
DOC! Magazine #46, Migration + Collective Memory, BLOW UP PRESS, by: Grzegorz Kosmala & Daria Tuminas                                      
Het Raam, Werner Mantz & Bart Lunenburg, Nederlands Fotomuseum, by: Iris Sikking

Urbanautica, interview with Steve Bisson

2019                               

Nep, of toch niet nep, Schone Schijn, Galerie Pouloeuff, Gooi- en Eemlander

Metropolis M - A Short Ride in a Fast Machine - een tentoonstelling van ‘The Artist’, by: Domeniek Ruyters                                       

2018                                

Camera Austria International #143, with text by: Taco Hidde Bakker

Simulacrum jrg. 26 #4, (T)huis, Over licht, vensters en de Nederlandse doorzonwoning
Education

2013-2017       

Photography, Bachelor of Arts, graduated with honours, University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU)  
                             
2016-2018      

Art History, University of Amsterdam (UvA)


CV (selection)

Solo Exhibitions 

2026 (upcoming)

UGM (Umetnosta Galerija Maribor, Maribor Art Gallery), Maribor, SI

Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, NL

2025

The Carpenter, Galerie de Schans (Bonnesuits), Warmoesstraat 67, Amsterdam, NL

The Carpenter, Bonnesuits, F/W’25 Paris Fashion Week, Paris, FR

2024

To Decide Where the Shadow Falls, Plečnik House, Ljubljana, SI

2024

Dwellers on the Threshold, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, NL

2023    

Circulations, Brummelkamp Galerie, Amsterdam University Medical Centres (AMC), Amsterdam, NL

2022      
                        
One to seven, grey to red, three to four, tread to thread, Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen, NL

The Healer, Museum Catharijneconvent, Kunstroute Care Full, Utrecht, NL

Ashes | Ashes, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana, SI

2020       
                       
This Creaking Floor and All the Ceilings Below, FOTODOK / Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, NL



Duo/group exhibitions

2026 (upcoming)

Stairway to? - stairs and ladders, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL

2025

ArtZuid Amsterdam Sculpture Biennal, Amsterdam, NL

Harrie Tillie Award, Museum Cuypershuis, Roermond, NL

Intersections, Art Rotterdam, NL

Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Rotterdam, NL

2024

Not what it seems, Platform-A Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK

UNFAIR, Gashouder, Amsterdam, NL

Annotations, RAVNIKAR, (duo with Meta Drčar), Ljubljana, SI

BUILD!, Paviljoen Waterwerken, Utrecht, NL

Arbos, Lustwarande - Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, NL

De Verbonden Stad, Museum IJsselstein, IJsselstein, NL

The sketch, its realisation and her lovers, Drawing Centre Diepenheim, NL

Art Brussels, RAVNIKAR, Brussels, BE

City Stuctures, VHDG, Leeuwarden, NL

2023

Hoeders van het Land, Kunstenlab, Deventer, NL

+1 group show, Woonhuis, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

At the farthest edge: Re-building photography, Atelier NŌUA, Bodø, NO

Enter Art Fair, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Kopenhagen, DK

Vice Versa, St. Bavokerk, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL

Because, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL

Novo, new, nouveau, now, RAVNIKAR, Ljubljana, SI

Art Island, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Forteiland IJmuiden, NL

2022            
                  
Baksteen | Brick, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL

Art Verona, RAVNIKAR, Verona, IT

A line, a grid, a knot, Galerie Caroline O’Breen (duo with Chaïm Dijkstra), Amsterdam, NL

Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens, GR

Art Rotterdam, Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Rotterdam, NL

Young Collectors Circle Festival, Hazenstraat 18, Amsterdam, NL

2021

(Un)earth, Noorderlicht, (duo with Awoiska van der Molen), Groningen, NL

(Un)earth, BPD Cultuurfonds, Burgerweeshuis, (duo with Awoiska van der Molen), Amsterdam, NL

Open Studio, Het Pompgemaal (duo with Maaike Kramer), Den Helder, NL

Vice Versa, De Vishal, St. Bavokerk, Haarlem, NL

Prospects, Art Rotterdam 2021, VanNellefabriek, Rotterdam, NL

The Crossing of the First Threshold, Batterij aan de Sloterweg, GinDS, Hoofddorp, NL

2020      
                        
Fish and guests smell at three days old, P/////AKT, Amsterdam, NL

WEEF, Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, NL

ENFOLDED/UNFOLDED (w/ Maaike Kramer), Circle Gallery, Amsterdam, NL

UtrechtDownUnder, former public library Oudegracht, Utrecht, NL

ArtUtrecht x FOTODOK, former Broese Oudegracht, Utrecht, NL

2019

Tohu wa-Bohu, EXTRAPOOL, Nijmegen, NL

Kunst op de Koffie, Spijkerkwartier, Arnhem, NL

Schone Schijn, Galerie Pouloeuff, Naarden-Vesting, NL

A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Moira, Utrecht, NL

2018

This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL

Salon ‘18 Utrecht-Amersfoort, Rietveldpaviljoen, Museum Flehite, Amersfoort, NL

UNSEEN Photo Fair, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, NL

A Short Ride in a Fast Machine - The Window Show, Moira, Utrecht, NL

On my way to the Galactic Supermarket, need anything?, Garage Rotterdam, NL

TorenkamerEXPO, VondelCS, Amsterdam, NL

Creme Fresh - De Belofte 13, Kunstliefde, Utrecht, NL

Installations, Gallery Josilda da Conceicao, Amsterdam, NL

2017

This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL

Arty Party, Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL

Oogst, Ministry of Education, Culture & Science, The Hague, NL

Graduation Exhibition University of the Arts Utrecht (HKU), NL



Artist-in-residences

2026 (upcoming)

VanGogh House, London, UK

2025

Weilermattes, Brohl, DE

2024

International Centre of Graphic Arts MGLC Švicerija (organised by RAVNIKAR)
Residency in preparation for solo exhibition at Plečnik House, Ljubljana, SI

2022       
         
Buitenplaats Doornburgh, Maarssen, NL

2021     
     
Pompgemaal (binnenlandatelier Mondriaan Fund), Den Helder, NL

GinDS, Batterij aan de Sloterweg, Hoofddorp, NL

2019      
         
EXTRAPOOL, Nijmegen, NL

2018    
           
De Torenkamer, VondelCS, Amsterdam, NL




Artist texts/essays

2024

Essay
Passage - a stay in the house of architect Jože Plečnik (1872 - 1957) 
Published by: Plečnik House (ENG / SI), Mister Motley (NL)

Essay
A Pocket Full of Posies - het takje salie als voorloper van hedendaagse kunst binnen het ziekenhuis (gastbijdrage publicatie Sabrina Kamstra - Waarom kunst in een ziekenhuis?)
Published by: Uitgeverij HetMoet

2023

Essay
Wakers op de drempel - over bezit en bescherming in historische landelijke architectuur Published by: Mister Motley)

2022

Essay
Correcties, een meandering langs baksteen, hout en textiel in de Bossche School,
Self-published