Beatrijs van Rheeden

Beatrijs van Rheeden is a Dutch ceramic artist known for her innovative work with porcelain. Born in 1965, she has developed a unique artistic voice that blends minimalism, abstraction, and a fascination with repetitive patterns and structures. She began her formal education in ceramics at the Art Academy Minerva in Groningen, the Netherlands, and continued her studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest, Hungary, where she earned a master’s degree in 1991.

Her artistic process is highly intuitive, with her porcelain works often reflecting the purity of form and rhythm. Recently, she has explored combining porcelain with crochet. Beatrijs’ pieces are known for their abstract nature, where the forms do not reference anything beyond themselves, embodying a minimalist ethos rooted in twentieth-century Dutch traditions.

Beatrijs has received several prestigious awards, including the European Ceramics Prize in 2009 and the Neue Keramik Prize in 2017. She has exhibited extensively, with notable exhibitions at the Icheon Ceramics Museum in Korea, the Fibre Art Textile Biennale in Australia, and multiple shows across Europe. Her work is part of several international collections.

In addition to her artistic practice, Beatrijs is an educator, regularly teaching ceramics and conducting workshops. She is also a member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

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